{"id":10880,"date":"2023-06-25T05:12:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T05:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/edouard-mendy-saudi-arabian-side-al-ahli-close-to-signing-chelsea-goalkeeper\/"},"modified":"2023-06-25T05:12:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T05:12:51","slug":"edouard-mendy-saudi-arabian-side-al-ahli-close-to-signing-chelsea-goalkeeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/edouard-mendy-saudi-arabian-side-al-ahli-close-to-signing-chelsea-goalkeeper\/","title":{"rendered":"Edouard Mendy: Saudi Arabian side Al Ahli close to signing Chelsea goalkeeper"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Mendy has kept 31 clean sheets in 75 Premier League appearances for Chelsea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chelsea goalkeeper Edouard Mendy is close to signing for Saudi Pro League side Al Ahli.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Talks are ongoing but Mendy is expected to join the big-name players moving to the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Senegal international, 31, <\/span>joined Chelsea in 2020<\/span><\/a> from Rennes, providing competition for Kepa Arrizabalaga.<\/span><\/p>\n

He became first choice, winning the 2020-21 Champions League, and was named <\/span>Uefa’s goalkeeper of the season<\/span>external-link<\/title><\/svg><\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Best Fifa men’s keeper<\/span><\/a> for 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

A move to Al Ahli would see Mendy join the growing ranks of elite players persuaded to join a Saudi Arabian club.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chelsea team-mate <\/span>N’Golo Kante recently agreed to sign for league champions Al-Ittihad<\/span><\/a> and will be joined there by Ballon d’Or winner <\/span>Karim Benzema.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Blues centre-back Kalidou Koulibaly and winger Hakim Ziyech are also reportedly the subject of interest from teams in the league.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"How<\/span><\/span>\"Chelsea<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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Mendy has kept 31 clean sheets in 75 Premier League appearances for Chelsea Chelsea goalkeeper Edouard Mendy is close to signing for Saudi Pro League side Al Ahli. Talks are ongoing but Mendy is expected to join the big-name players moving to the country. The Senegal international, 31, joined Chelsea in 2020 from Rennes, providing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10882,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10880\/revisions\/10882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}