Sevilla legend Jesús Navas to leave the club at the end of the season | OneFootball

Some major news coming out of Sevilla FC this afternoon as the club have announced that club legend and current captain Jesús Navas is to leave at the end of the current season.

The match against Barcelona on Saturday May 25th will be Navas’ last for the club, with Sevilla also having announced that they will hold a farewell event on the evening of Sunday 26th, giving fans a chance to give Navas a proper send-off.

Jesús Navas wraps up his Sevilla career as both the club’s most decorated player with eight major honours and the player with most appearances for the club having worn Sevilla’s jersey a total of 688 times.

Despite being 38 years of age, the right-back still played a pivotal role for Sevilla, having appeared 28 times in the league and four times in the Champions League this season.

Jesús Navas played his first stint for the club from youth level to the first team between 2000 and 2013, before having a four-year stint at Manchester City between 2013 and 2017, then finally returning to his boyhood club for a seven-year stint from 2017 until now.

According to Fabrizio Romano, Navas leaving is due to not being offered a new contract by the club, and he is not retiring, but rather beginning a new chapter as a free agent at the age of 38.

GSFN | Ciaran Currie