Koulibaly, Kanté, Cristiano, Benzema and Firmino, the main stars of the Arab league

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The stars of Europe that Saudi Arabia has taken this summer

Published:15/07/2023 - 17:48h

Updated:15/07/2023 - 17:48h

The arrival of Cristiano Ronaldo at Al Nassr marked the beginning of a new era in Saudi football. Arab clubs have convinced several European soccer stars in the summer market, showing that their millions can convince anyone

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The Arab league has attained to add, to base of chequebook, to several 'cracks' of the European football in the market veraniego. The signing of Cristiano Ronaldo by the To the Nassr in January opened the door no only to players that encaran the straight final of his careers, but also to footballers those who, in his best moment, have yielded to the million a league that pretends to turn into a new potential world-wide, with the negative precedent of the failure of the Superliga Chinese.

At all more finalise the season 2022/23, the To the-Ittihad gave the first hit carrying free to Karim Benzema when the Real Madrid seemed to have all agreed with his captain to renew him by a year more. The group 'atigrado' also convinced to N'Golo Kanté, another of the 'bargains' that offered the European market. Another that opted for leaving to Arabia like free agent was Roberto Firmino (To the Ahli), one of the alternatives that the FC Barcelona sondeó for the market regarding forwards.

No only 'free agents' land in Arabia

However, other players also decanted by the Arab league in spite of having valid agreements with his clubs and offers deportivamente much more attractive on the table. That was the case of Rúben Neves, one of the mediocentros that sounded with strength to arrive to the Barça in summer. The luso left 55 million euros in the arks of the Wolverhampton to the fichar by the To the Hilal.

The last runner-up of the World-wide of Clubs also spent 40 'kilos' in Sergej Milinkovic-Savic (Lazio) and other 22M in Kalidou Koulibaly (Chelsea). The group 'blue' also did box with the traspaso of the goalkeeper Edouard Mendy to the To the Ahli by 18 million euros, whereas the To the Nassr of Cristiano looked for to reinforce with Marcelo Brozovic (Inter), an operation that is about to to fall definitively by a financial sanction to the yellow group.

A serious threat for the European supremacy

The absurd montos salariales that offer the Arab clubs and the inagotable capacity of the Saudi State to credit clauses of rescission suppose a serious threat for the European football. While the UEFA and the domestic leagues insist in sanear the economy of the clubs with the Fair Play financial, in Arabia any team spends 100 'kilos' to the year in the wage of a player without any fiscalización. For the time being, any 'crack' can yield to a millionaire agreement. The new was of the world-wide football goes through an increasingly uneven market, where the prestige of the elite futbolística seems to have remained sideways.

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