AL-AHLI MAKES KESSIE'S ARRIVAL OFFICIAL
Franck Kessié, received with honors in Arabia for his signing with Al-Ahli
FC Barcelona made official the sale of midfielder Franck Kessié to Al-Ahli for 12.5 million. The Ivorian was greeted with sweets, flowers and a scarf for the player, who was happy upon his arrival at his new club.
Franck Kessie arrive yesterday to Saudi Arabia where was received by the To the-Ahli with honours. The club arabe pay him to the Barça 12,5 million euros by his signing. Sweet, flowers and a scarf for the midfield player marfileño, happy to his arrival to his new club in the first images that have trascended. In spite of that the two clubs already agreed from did days, and the footballer completed yesterday the medical review in Paris, the To the-Ahli asked to delay some days his announcement to have all prepared of face to be able to announce it well.
Yesterday afternoon the Barça issued a communiqué explaining that "The FC Barcelona and the To the-Ahli SC have arrived to an agreement for the traspaso of Franck Kessie by 12,5 millions. The FC Barcelona expresses publicly his gratitude to Franck Kessie by his commitment and his dedication and wishes him a lot of luck and successes in the future". Simultaneously, the Saudi club also has made public the contracting of the marfileño, that will sign by the three next seasons.
The Tuesday in the morning the player marfileño return to Barcelona to sack of his mates and of the staff technical. It flew to first hour of the late course to Yedda, the one who will be his new city. The footballer, that in December will fulfil 27 years, faces a new challenge futbolístico in a lower league, after doing a name in the Series To and in the Barça. Kessie Will see increased notably his index card in the To the-Ahli and the club blaugrana closes an operation with countable profits.
The sale of Kessie will allow to inscribe to the new signings
The exit of the marfileño with destination to Saudi Arabia, and still not to treating economically of a traspaso very high, if has an important return for the Barcelona club to be able to reutilizar in the future to inscribe one of the players that are slopes in the Barcelona staff. It expects that with this sale can inscribe Gündoğan and Oriol Romeu so that they can play this weekend in front of the Getafe. Iñigo Martinez when being lesionado could expect some days but.
It is the money that the Football Club Barcelona will be able to employ to be able to desatascar this list that is slope. Some quantities that desgranan of the following way. On the one hand it is 50% of the cost that has up to now the player for the Barcelona club. Since the index card of Kessié signed does a year was of 13 million gross euros by season (6,5 net millions); precisely they are 6,5 millions those that "frees" the marfileño to be able to be used.
