He al hilal saudi The signing will close this week for 60 million eurofrom s del exbarcelon Malcomthe star of Zenit St. Petersburgas reported by Brazilian journalist Fabio Aleixo, an expert on Latin American soccer players in Russian soccer.
“On Monday the transfer of Malcom to Al Hilal will take place,” said Aleixo. That was the reason -something that was confirmed by the coach himself ZenitSergei Semak- for which the Brazilian was left on the bench in his team’s match on Saturday in the first matchday of the Russian league.
The Brazilian left-hander, best player and top scorer in the Russian league, is an express request of the coach of the Saudi team, the Portuguese Jorge Jesus. “He asked the board for an effort to sign the Brazilian,” Aleixo explained about the footballer who came to Russia after paying 40 million to his old team, Barcelona.
Malcomwho recently returned to the Brazilian team after missing the World Cup in Qatar, has a market value of 30 million, a figure that has not stopped growing in recent months.
“The Saudi press assures that he will earn about 18 million per seasonalmost triple what it is now,” said the Brazilian journalist, who has a popular Telegram channel among the Russian sports press.
It matters little that he Zenit is sponsored by one of the largest consortiums in the world, the gas company Gazprom, and the fact is that the war has greatly limited the arrival of foreign soccer players in Russia, in addition to considerably reducing their income by not being able to play European competitions.
If it becomes a reality, the transfer of Malcom It will be the most expensive in the history of Russian football after the sale of the also Brazilian Hulk by Zenit to the Chinese Shanghai SIPG for 56 million euros in 2016.
Malcom will meet at the Saudi club with renowned stars such as the Senegalese Kalidou Koulibaly, the Serbian Milinkovic-Savic and the Portuguese Rúben Neves.
In addition, in recent days the press has reported on the possible interest in the star of PSG and French football, Kylian Mbappé, who has not traveled with his team on the tour of Japan.
The ex-Barcelonista, who scored 26 goals with Zenit last season, was already on the verge of heading to PSG in the winter market.
His career began at Corinthians; he signed in 2016 for Girondins, who paid 5 million for hiring him; He ended up at Barcelona after paying 40 million (2018), the same figure that Zenit paid in 2019
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