M’Baye Niang, new Serie A farewell: will play in Morocco

Here comes the third farewell to the Italian championship.

M'Baye Niang is once again leaving Serie A. The striker, a Frenchman but with Senegalese citizenship, had been released in June by Empoli after contributing to the Tuscans’ salvation by scoring six goals in 14 appearances accumulated from January 2024 to the end of the season. His next adventure will take him to Wydad Casablanca, in the top Moroccan league.

Announcing his signing è was the Maghrebi club itself, in a post on Instagram in which it gave official status to the 1994 class striker's signing. "Ladies and gentlemen! Niang is here", reads the post from Wydad Casablanca, accompanied by the face of the team’s new reinforcement.

Niang, who made his professional debut in 2010-2011 in Ligue 1 with Caen, experienced his first Serie A adventure in 2012-2013, when he was bought by AC Milan. Owned by the Rossoneri until 2017, he netted 8 league goals in 67 appearances, interspersed with loans to Montpellier, Genoa and Watford.

In 2017-2018 he switched to Torino, then returned to his homeland and wore the jerseys of Rennes (which also sold him on loan to Al-Ahli), Bordeaux and Auxerre. After a spell in Turkey at Adana Demirspor, 2024 è was the year of his return to Italy and Serie A at Empoli. Then the contract termination and the new adventure in Morocco.