Luiz Felipe He is about to terminate his contract with Al-Ittihad of Saudi Arabia and will be free to sign with any club in the January 2025 market. The Italian international center back of Brazilian origin is in the final phase of negotiating his separation with the Saudi club after just over a year playing for the team in which Ramón Planes is sports director. It should be remembered that in September 2023 Al-Ittihad paid 22 million euros to the Betis to hire this 27-year-old center back. The center-back had arrived free a year before in Heliópolis after ending his contract with Lazio.
The departure of Luiz Felipe, announced by Matteo Moretto, from Relevo, occurs when the center-back has only played one game this season in the Saudi Pro League, the first in August. Since then he has not been able to participate and the parties are about to reach an agreement for his departure despite the fact that his contract was valid until June 2026.
Luiz Felipe is negotiating the final details of the termination of the contract with Al-Ittihad Club.
The official announcement is expected to come in the coming days.
The Brazilian defender will be free on the market. pic.twitter.com/xyHdn3vYPo
— Matteo Moretto (@MatteMoretto) October 22, 2024
This movement and the fact that the Betis sports management has the central position as one of the locations in which possible improvements are being considered for the January market make Luiz Felipe available for a possible return to the green and white club. , which currently has Diego Llorente, Natan, Bartra and Mendy on the payroll for that position.
In the green and white club they raise the option of a possible departure of Mendy on loan to make room for a central defender with greater weight and Luiz Felipe may have a place there now that his contractual conditions are more accessible after being free at Al-Ittihad.
At Betis, as Alfinaldelapalmera.com and ABC de Sevilla already reported, they are exploring different reinforcement options for the January market with the focus on the central positions (mainly waiting for the performance of Bartra, who has once again been positive, and the evolution of Mendy, who returned with the reserve team last weekend), midfielder (due to the loss of William Carvalho) and right winger (to give him an alternative to Fornals and Aitor).
Now it remains to be seen if there are other clubs interested in acquiring the services of Luiz Felipe, who had a lot of market before leaving for the Saudi club and who has lost his continuity in the Italian team after this move. Luiz Felipe already declared on his departure from Betis that “This is not goodbye, but see you later” and always left the door open to a possible return. In this summer’s friendly at Villamarín between Betis and Al-Ittihad he was very affectionate with all the members of the club and during some vacation periods he returned to Seville to be with his friends.
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