Ilian Hadidi Rejects Standard, Europe Competes for Moroccan Talent

Ilian Hadidi’s future will be written far from Sclessin. Back from the U17 Africa Cup of Nations, where he lost the third-place playoff against Egypt, the 17-year-old player had to seal his fate. After requesting a thinking period until the end of last weekend, his entourage decided on Saturday: the young talent is leaving matricule 16, which he had joined from Seraing in 2016. This inevitable departure is explained by the offensive from numerous European clubs. Dortmund, Monaco, Lille, Feyenoord, Ajax and PSV Eindhoven are ready to offer him salary conditions far above what the Belgian club was proposing.

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The Liège management had nevertheless hoped to retain him with strictly sporting arguments. Author of a full season with the U18s and seven appearances with the U23s, the central midfielder was presented with a concrete career plan by sports director Marc Wilmots. He was to directly integrate Vincent Euvrard’s professional squad for summer preparation. Expected for physical tests on June 25 and on the pitch on June 27, he would have had a real chance to play for playing time this year, particularly benefiting from the opportunity left by Teddy Teuma’s departure.

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Faced with the Hadidi clan’s demands, the management refused to engage in a financial battle. As reported by Sudinfo, the club is learning from the past and assumes a strict salary policy focused on meritocracy. Gone are the lucrative contracts offered too early to academy prospects: young players now benefit from evolving contracts conditioned by their performances. An admirer of Mehdi Carcela, the playmaker thus turns his back on the first team. He takes an early path abroad, like Diego Moreira before him, unless there is a possible return home in a few years as Nicolas Raskin had done.