Stade Rennais wants Nabil Fekir to return to France

From France An unexpected suitor arises for Nabil Fekir. According to Foot Mercato, Stade Rennais is interested in repatriating the green-and-white attacker the next season. The idea would come from two ex-Olympique de Lyon, a team from which Fekir came to Seville, who know the footballer well: sports director Florian Maurice and coach Bruno Genesio, currently at the Breton club.

Fekir, who will turn 28 in July, shines in Heliópolis in this beginning of 2021 after a season and a half of many ups and downs since arriving in Heliópolis in summer 2019 in exchange for about 20 million euros for 70 percent of his pass. Lyon have 20 percent and the player another 10.

The Transfermarkt website numbers in 25 million euros the market price of the French, which is the approximate figure with which Betis would not lose money in the operation. The CIES Observatory, specialized in soccer player appraisal and Big Data, places its starting price at between 15 and 20 million. Fekir, who arrived at Betis Together with his brother Yassin, he receives by far the highest salary of the Verdiblanca squad.

According to Onze Mondial magazine, the Stade Rennais could not reach those figures not even if he sold the promising midfielder Eduardo Camavinga next summer, for which several greats of Europe have been interested in recent times. Especially since Rennes, currently seventh in Ligue 1, it is almost impossible to enter the Champions League next season.