Moroccan World Cup star Nordin Amrabat to play in Saudi Pro League
Moroccan
World Cup star Nordin Amrabat to play in Saudi Pro League
Reports
say Al-Nassr have paid Watford £4 million ($5.2 million) for Amrabat, 31, who
has spent the last season on loan at Leganes where his new Al-Nassr teammate
Yahya Al-Shehri also played last season on loan.
Amrabat arrives with a fine pedigree, having played for PSV,
Galatasaray, Malaga and Watford. He predominately plays on the right wing but
he prefers playing on the left so he can cut inside on his favored right foot
and have a crack at goal.
He is currently taking an extended holiday following his World Cup
exploits with Morocco, but when he joins up he will find a familiar face in the
dressing room in countryman Mohamed Fouzair and should form an exciting
attacking partnership with Al-Shehri and Mohammad Al-Sahlawi.
Amrabat was in many experts’ team of the tournament after the World Cup
group phase, his all-action performances against Iran, Spain and Portugal
catching the eye and putting him in the shop window. He was always going to be
surplus to requirements at Watford after they signed Spain international winger
Gerard Deulofeu, and Trabzonspor were thought to be leading the race for his
signature. But Al-Nassr have won the race to land him and he becomes the second
ex-Watford player to have agreed to move to the Saudi Pro League, following on
from Jose Manuel Jurado’s move to Al-Ahli earlier this summer.
Amrabat has enjoyed a fine career, playing nearly 300 top-flight
appearances but he came from very humble beginnings and needed to wash plates
and make desserts at a Michelin-starred restaurant before his career took off.
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