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Rabat – Moroccan football player Noussair Mazraoui has completed his transfer process and will join the German club Bayern Munich on July 1, according to the German news outlet Kicker.
With his contract with the Dutch Club Ajax having come to an end this season, the 24-year-old footballer will be playing for the Bavarian club next season, under a four-year contract (2022 to 2026) and for a yearly salary of roughly 8 million euros (MAD 84 million).
Mazraoui played 33 games for Ajax Amsterdam in the 2021-2022 season, scoring five goals and delivering four assists.
With Bayern Munich, Mazraoui is expected to maintain his preferred position as right-back, with Kicker speculating that Bayern’s current right-back, the French world champion Benjamin Pavard, will more likely be playing as a center-back.
The Moroccan international, who has already won the Dutch Championship and Cup twice, in 2019 and 2021, as well as the Dutch SuperCup in 2019, is expected to play a part in Bayern’s quest to secure an 11th consecutive German league title and a 7th Champions League title next season.
Mazraoui successfully completed his medical check last week.
He is the second Moroccan player to join Bayern Munich after former Atlas Lion capitain Medhi Benatia, who played with the German club between 2014 to 2016.
Despite being one of the most exciting players in his position worldwide, a feud with Atlas Lions coach Vahid Halilhodzic has seen the impressive Moroccan right-back be excluded from Morocco’s national team for over a year.
But as Morocco prepares for this year’s FIFA World Cup in Qatar, many observers expect the in-form right-back to be recalled to the national team.
In recent weeks, Fouzi Lekjaa, the head of Morocco’s Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF), has repeatedly expressed his readiness to resolve end the months-long tensions between Halilhozdic and world-class Moroccan players like Hakim Ziyech and Noussair Mazraoui.
Last month, Mazraoui made hints at a potential comeback to the national team by deleting one of his Instagram posts where he had announced his decision not to represent Morocco in upcoming competitions.
But with Halilhodzic appearing to be in a defiant mood, it remains to be seen whether Moroccans will witness the long-awaited return of Mazraoui and Ziyech during the World Cup in Qatar.
