Chelsea’s Ziyech Linked with Sevilla Move Amid Disappointing Season

The London club paid 40 million for the transfer of Hakim Ziyech, but the Moroccan international has failed to meet expectations. He has only one goal in the Premier League and three in the other competitions. The Moroccan has even not totaled 1,000 minutes of play, a performance well below what he was proposing at Ajax in previous seasons.

With Tuchel’s arrival to replace Frank Lampard, he has been less selected for matches. Since January, he has not played a single minute in five matches played. During the match against Porto on Tuesday, where the English club obtained its qualification for the semi-finals of the Champions League after seven years of failures, he only played four minutes.

According to the Daily Mail, the Moroccan international could leave the London club next summer in favor of Jules Koundé. In 2019, Hakim Ziyech was on Sevilla’s radar as they were looking to replace Pablo Sarabia. But Ziyech was not interested in Seville where four of his compatriots play. "Sevilla was a good club, but their sporting director, Monchi, had already wanted to take me to AS Roma a year earlier. So everything was going well, until I didn’t hear from him anymore... Then he contacted me again and said he had to join his new club. Listen, things don’t work that way," he said in an interview in the Netherlands.