Al-Riyadiah<\/a>“, Al-Ittihad and Germany’s Eintracht Frankfurt have agreed terms on the transfer of Japan’s Ritsu Doan to “the Dean”, bringing the player closer to a fresh chapter in the Roshn League after his time on European pitches.<\/p>\nDoan’s arrival follows the departure of France’s Moussa Diaby, who left for Bayer Leverkusen. That exit sent “the Dean” hunting for a new attacker capable of filling those roles and offering more solutions in the final third.<\/p>\n
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Versatile across several attacking positions, Doan also brings plenty of European experience. That makes him a natural fit for Al-Ittihad as they rebuild the squad and move on from many of the names that defined the previous project.<\/p>\n
The Saudi newspaper reports that the deal between Al-Ittihad and Eintracht Frankfurt is already done. Both parties are now waiting on a handful of contractual formalities before the player officially joins the Jeddah club, so the announcement is only a matter of time.<\/p>\n
Doan’s signing forms part of a wider Al-Ittihad recruitment drive after a summer of major upheaval. The management want to hand the coach a set of options capable of applying his ideas and giving “the Dean” a different identity this season.<\/p>\n
Ritsu Doan is therefore close to succeeding Diaby in the Al-Ittihad squad, a move that could hand the team a significant attacking boost. Fans of “the Dean” now await the official confirmation and the Japanese player’s arrival into the club’s new project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Al-Ittihad are edging towards wrapping up one of their key targets of the current transfer window. The Saudi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[92077,40114,85,46,270846,270847,24484,105],"class_list":["post-598929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-al-ittihad","tag-eintracht-frankfurt","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-m-diaby","tag-r-doan","tag-saudi-pro-league","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}