Saudi Arabia’s ‘boom’ is between becoming a reality or being a mirage. Despite the real fear of European clubs last summer, seeing how good players were convinced based on million-dollar contracts to move, now it seems that not everything is as it seems.
After players like Karim Benzema either Roberto Firmino regretted the move and wanted to leave the Saudi Pro League, apparently he joined them too Jordan Hendersonof Al-Ettifaqas the Daily Mail said.
The English midfielder, until a few months ago captain of Liverpool, has conveyed his feeling of wanting to ‘escape’ from his current club and now the reasons have been revealed. The first and main thing is the high temperature of at least 30 degrees to play in every game, which certainly contributed to the fact that there was not much presence. Or not as much as expected.
Furthermore, added to this is the poor performance of Al-Ettifaqeighth in the classification table, 28 points behind the leader, Al-Hilal, adding that in the stands they went from gathering more than 50,000 people at Anfield to now playing in front of 2: 00 pm in the majority, while normality is less than 1,000.
In such a case, the only thing that can keep Jordan Henderson in Saudi Arabia is money. But even then not anymore. There was speculation that the Englishman had offers from Premier League clubs to return and he would agree. But all that remains is for Al-Ettifaq to give the go-ahead, something that at the moment looks unlikely to happen.
Source: La Verdad
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