Tijjani Reijnders has completed a move to Saudi Pro League club Al Qadsiah from Manchester City, a year after signing for City from AC Milan for an initial €55m (£47m). The fee for the 28-year-old Netherlands international is £52m ($70m).
Reijnders arrived at City last summer as Serie A's reigning Player of the Season and made an immediate impact, scoring and setting up a goal on his Premier League debut in the opening-weekend win at Wolves. But his game time fell away as the season went on: he made 19 Premier League starts in total, only two of them from February onward, though he still finished the campaign with seven goals in all competitions as City won the FA Cup and the Carabao Cup under Pep Guardiola. New manager Enzo Maresca, who succeeded Guardiola this summer, left Reijnders out of the squad for City's 3-0 Community Shield defeat by Arsenal shortly before the deal went through. He is the latest departure from a City midfield also losing Rodri, who moved to Barcelona, and Bernardo Silva, who left for Real Madrid as a free agent.
Al Qadsiah are managed by Brendan Rodgers, who left Celtic in October after winning back-to-back Scottish titles in his second spell there, and took charge in Saudi Arabia in December following earlier spells at Liverpool and Leicester. The Aramco-backed club finished fourth in the Saudi Pro League last season, their first back in the top flight after promotion, with Rodgers still chasing a first major trophy for Al Qadsiah since 1984. Reijnders has signed a reported five-year contract.
Reijnders started three of the Netherlands' group games at this summer's World Cup, against Japan, Sweden and Tunisia, before watching from the bench as the Dutch lost to Morocco on penalties in the last 32.