Article by Dragoș Petrescu – published on Sunday, July 20, 2025, 19:04 / updated on Sunday, July 20, 2025 19:09
After the appointment of Jorge Jesus on the Technical Bank, Aymeric Laporte (31 Al-Nassr For the next season, and the player's agents have already started negotiations with another team, the priority of the Spanish being the return to Europe.
Aymeric Laporte became the player of Al-Nassr in the summer of 2023, the club in Riad paying Manchester City 27.5 million euros in exchange.
However, despite the fact that the understanding between the Spanish footballer and the Saudi group is valid until 2026, it seems that their roads will break up this summer, announces Fabrizio Romano.
Aymeric Laporte is courted by Athletic Bilbao, his former team
The famous Italian journalist announced on his Instagram page that the club officials in the Basque Country have already contacted both the representatives of Al-Nassr and the player's agents, and Laporte's return to “San Mames” has extremely high chances of being achieved, as all negotiations are very good.
Also, Romano also stated that the return to Europe is the main priority of the Spanish footballer and that he would have given the green wave to the return to Bilbao, the team that launched in “Great Football”.
Aymeric Laporte (left), evolving for Athletic Bilbao against Barcelona (season 2017/2018) // Photo: Getty Images
Aymeric Laporte spent eight years in Athletic's yard. He performed the last two years of the junior on “San Mames” (2010-2012), after which he evolved for the first team of the Basque until 2018, when Manchester City paid for him no less than 65 million euros.
Aymeric Laporte has an impressive CV
Also during the time he evolved for Bilbao, the defender also won the first major trophy of his career – Super Cupa (2015).
However, the most important titles obtained them as a player from Manchester City, respectively with the “La Roja” band.
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Manchester City:
– 1x UEFA Champions League (2022/2023);– 5X Premier League (2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2020/2021, 2021/2022, 2022/2023);
– 2x FA Cup (2018/2019, 2022/2023);
– 3x Cup of the England League (2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2020/2021);
– 1x the Super Cup of England (2018);
– 1X Super Cup of Europe (2023);
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The national of Spain:
– UEFA Euro 2024;
– UEFA Nations League (2022/2023).
