Saudi Arabia is serious

When Cristiano Ronaldo they followed Karim Benzema either N’Golo Kantetop football players but in old age, gave the feeling that the Saudi Pro League of Arabia will become the new graveyard of football elephants.

A theory that their rich clubs manage to disprove by signing the players they want around the old continent and who, in some cases, are in their absolute prime.

This is the case of the Portuguese Ruben Nevesa 26-year-old international midfielder who is on the agenda of FC Barcelona and that he signed for him al hilal leaving a record transfer: 55 million euros received to those in need wolves of Julen Lopetegui for your pass.

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15 more than 40 cost himself al hilal the serbian Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, made official this week. In a lightning operation, a team like laziowho will play in the Champions League next season, was left without one of his best men.

“If you want to go to Arabia, your only stimulus is money. I tried to make him stay, he was willing to renew his contract and increase it”, lamented the president ‘laziale’, claudio lotitowho said he did not regret rejecting an offer of 140 million euros from Milan in 2018: “There are 60 and another 80 to pay in five years in the Champions League.”

Some figures that speak about the dimension of the player we are talking about. Author of 69 goals and 59 assists in 341 games including lazio, Milinkovic-Savic he will change the eternal city for Riyadh, where he will complete a double pivot to Ruben Neves signed by many of the best teams in Europe.

The attacking duo they will form in Al Ittihad of Kante and Benzema the ex of real Madrid and Joao Pedro Neves Filipe ‘Jota’a young striker with a past in our football -he played for Valladolid in the 2020/21 season- who just broke it in glasgow celtic. The 24-year-old from Lisbon ignored the siren songs of the English Premier League to put himself in charge of his countrymen Nuno Espírito Santo, proving that Saudi Arabia is no longer content to recruit veterans on the brink of golden retirement. Saudi Arabia is serious.