The millions paid by Saudi Arabian clubs in their frenzied rush to polish the country’s league have become a compelling lure for the great stars of European soccer. The proposals follow one another and in the last weeks Modric, Busquets, Saúl or Morataamong many others, are being tempted with dizzying figures, although not at the level of those that in their day seduced Cristiano Ronaldo about Benzema.
In their attempt to spark interest in soccer and to raise the level of the sport in a country that aspires to host the 2030 World Cup, Saudi teams have embarked on a multi-million dollar outlay to bolster their squads with world stars. . Transfer fever is contagious because the clubs in the lower divisions have also embarked on the search for foreign talent, offering attractive conditions to anonymous foreign footballers who are willing to embark on the Arab adventure.
The offers come not only to play in teams of the highest category of Saudi Arabia, also to join clubs of more modest categories, such as the Third Division of that country. How much can a kit like that offer players who decide to join your squad?
The rain of petrodollars reaches the day laborers of the ball and teams from the Saudi Third Division are tempting Spanish soccer players with salaries of between 3,000 and 4,000 dollars to join their projects. Contracts that also include a house, as can be seen in an advertisement published by FutbolJobs, a leading employment portal in the soccer industry.
These amounts are light years away from the dizzying numbers that elite clubs put on the table to attract world stars, but they are very attractive for modest players, according to what they assure ABC José María Risueño and Aitor Ramírezsoccer players’ agents who know the Spanish market in detail in the lower categories.
David Copito, another well-known agent, is more skeptical. «There are players who for 4,000 dollars would go to Saudi Arabia or China because in Spain, in Third Division football (which in our country is the fifth rung of this sport), you find people charging between 300 and 2,000 euros. Surely those who receive 2,000 euros in a top team in the Spanish Third Division will not go to Saudi Arabia for a thousand more euros, but the kids who receive 500 and offer them 4,000, yes, “he says.
Raúl Canedaone of the pioneering Spanish coaches in that country, explains to this newspaper that the level of the Saudi Third Division “is not much”, but he is not surprised by the offers from the teams that play in it “because it is obvious that the money is there , but serious money ».
2023-06-21 02:28:18
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