Saudi Arabia preparing a ‘dizzying’ offer for €25 million-rated Barcelona midfielder

Saudi Arabia have been completely dominating the transfer market this summer, having already roped in several top stars like N’Golo Kante, Kalidou Koulibaly, Ruben Neves, and Karim Benzema.

More big names such as Hakim Ziyech and Edouard Mendy are set to move to the Middle Eastern nation while Barcelona target Marcelo Brozovic is also a target for Saudi Arabian giants Al Nassr.

Now, though, according to a fresh report from Mundo Deportivo’s Roger Torello and Ferran Martinez, an unnamed club from Saudi Arabia is preparing a ‘dizzying’ offer to sign Barcelona midfielder Franck Kessie this summer.

The 26-year-old midfielder joined the Blaugrana only last summer but had a mixed debut campaign as he could not become a regular in Xavi’s plans.

As such, with Barça needing to make cuts to their squad and the arrival of Ilkay Gundogan, they are open to selling the former AC Milan midfielder in the summer.

Inter Milan have been strongly linked with the Ivory Coast international, whose market value stands at €25 million.

Now, a club from Saudi Arabia have also entered the race for his signing. While they are yet to send in the offer to Kessie, they are working on it and the midfielder is expected to receive it in the coming days.

Gianluigi Longari has provided an update on the matter, stating that Al Ahli are the club interested in the Barcelona ace.

Kessie, for his part, has shown no indication of wanting to leave the club and wishes to stay and succeed in Catalonia. But, if the club do push him to leave, he would be open to an exit, with the Bundesliga and the Premier League said to appeal to him.

And even though the Saudi Arabian club does not entirely appeal to him, the midfielder will study the offer from the oil-rich nation without closing the door on it completely.

Player valuation in title obtained from transfermarkt.com on date of publication.