Struggling Ziyech Eyes Qatar Move as Galatasaray Stint Falters

Is Hakim Ziyech’s Turkish adventure coming to an end? Absent from official competitions for eight matches in the Turkish league and the continental competition, due to an injury sustained during the match against Lesotho (1-0) on September 9, which kept him off the field for a long period, he returned to participate in the match against Antalyaspor as part of the ninth round of the championship last week. He only played for twenty minutes. The Moroccan attacking midfielder did not participate in the match against the Swedish club Elfsborg in the third round of the Europa League, which ended in a victory for the Istanbulites (4-3).

The Galatasaray coach has modified the team’s playing style, preferring a strategy including three defenders, five midfielders and two forwards, without calling on Ziyech. A way for him to sideline the 31-year-old player. The Galatasaray management had decided on the future of the Moroccan international, following the tensions with Okan Buruk, who would have expressed his dissatisfaction with the Moroccan player and would have excluded him from his plans for the Europa League matches, had reported Turkish media sources. The relationship between Ziyech and the club’s management has completely deteriorated, and the club is considering parting ways with the player during the next winter transfer window, with the coach insisting on excluding him from the team in order to push him to leave, revealed the Turkish newspaper NTV spor.

Aware of the Moroccan player’s possible departure, Al Arabi is interested in his profile. The Moroccan player’s relationship with Galatasaray is over, and his departure during the next transfer window is already recorded, f5haber knows, which also confirmed the Qatari club’s interest in the services of the Atlas Lion and its intention to finalize the details of the integration of the Moroccan star into the Qatari league as early as next January, with a principle agreement already given by the player. "No club can refuse a player of Hakim Ziyech’s stature," the Al Arabi coach declared to the same site.