Manchester City have accepted a €61 million offer from Al Qadsiah for Tijjani Reijnders, and Reijnders has said yes. Fabrizio Romano reports the written offer arrived on Thursday morning and was accepted, and that the midfielder did not train with City that day. Documents are now being exchanged between the clubs, with signatures and the official announcement expected within hours.
The fee is partly an accounting exercise. City paid around €55 million for Reijnders last summer, so €61 million lets them book a small profit rather than a loss on a player they are moving on after a single season. It is less tidy than that sounds. Goal.com report that selling him before 2030 triggers the full €14 million of bonuses City still owe AC Milan from the deal that brought him to England, money that would otherwise have been conditional on Champions League qualification, trophies and individual awards. Milan cash in whether those boxes were ticked or not.
Reijnders arrived from Milan in June 2025 as Pep Guardiola’s first signing of that window, made his debut at the Club World Cup and started well before drifting towards the bench. He scored seven goals across his one season at the club and was under contract until 2030. At Al Qadsiah he would work under Brendan Rodgers, the former Liverpool manager now in charge there, according to TEAMtalk.
He had options in Europe and turned them down. Nottingham Forest had been pushing for weeks without lodging a fresh bid, Galatasaray held talks and Juventus were interested. Romano’s framing of the club-to-club side was a verbal agreement in principle at €61 million that depended on the player’s decision, and that decision has now been made.