En-Nesyri to Monchi: “I’m not leaving Sevilla, just so you know”

“I’m not leaving, so now you know.” This was the phrase, also publicly published in the club’s media, with which Youssef resigned in August last year a joke by Monchi on the songs of the sirens which had been produced by the Moroccan striker. Among other offers, one from England’s West Ham in January 2021, a year after Sevilla signed the striker from Fez and on his way to the 24 official goals he scored that season. The hammers reached 35 million euros, a figure that neither the club nor the footballer considered at the time.

That magical year gave way to doubts about Youssef, to which a nagging muscle that kept him in dry dock for many months last season, coupled with the African Cup of Nations dispute, broke progression in Seville. This season, in the midst of the terrible moment of a whole team still anchored to the lower places of the table, things have gone worse for the North African. En-Nesyri has scored the most goals for his national team since September (three, including two at the World Cup) and with Sevilla (two, both in the Champions League).

That’s why Sevilla were willing to put him on the market. From August, when no big offers arrived for him, until today in January. But the World Cup turned the tables, at least in what the Nervión team will ask transfer to his striker. At 25, En-Nesyri has the ability and time to evolve and that, having shone before the whole world, it also means loading your cache.

Walid Regragui, coach of Morocco, will once again line up the Nervionense player as a starter in the semi-final duel against France. The CIES Observatory, specialized in transfers, these days the price of En-Nesyri is back “up to 25 million of Euro”. A quote that, if it shines again against the French, will skyrocket again although who knows with Youssef. The same goes back to tell Monchi that he is not moving from Sevilla.