Neymar will also play in Saudi Arabia in the future: the most expensive player in the world is leaving Paris St. Germain and moving to Al-Hilal in Saudi Arabia. The club officially announced this in a 70-second video on Tuesday.
There you can see Neymar in his new club’s shirt: “I’m here in Saudi Arabia. I’m Hilali.”
The 31-year-old Brazilian previously successfully completed the medical check. The transfer fee for Neymar is said to be less than 100 million euros, he once cost the world record transfer fee of 222 million euros when he transferred from FC Barcelona to PSG in 2017. Neymar is set to sign a two-year deal at Al-Hilal and wears the number 10 shirt.
The South American could not live up to the high expectations on the Seine. The list of stars in Saudi Arabia’s professional league SPL is more than impressive. Cristiano Ronaldo (38), ex-Munich Sadio Mane (32/both Al-Nassr), Karim Benzema (35), N’Golo Kante (32/both Al-Ittihad), Jordan Henderson (33/Al- Ettifaq) or Riyad Mahrez (32) at Al-Ahli, coached by German Matthias Jaissle (recruited from RB Salzburg).
PSG gave their superstar a warm farewell to Saudi Arabia despite the circumstances surrounding the move. “6 seasons, 173 appearances, 70 assists, 118 goals,” wrote the French on Twitter and added: “A PSG legend.” A two-minute video followed with highlights of the Brazilian in the Paris jersey. It ended with the words “Obrigado Neymar” (“Thank you, Neymar”).
Al-Hilal had already tried in vain to get Neymar’s club-mate Kylian Mbappé for a fee of 300 million euros and an alleged annual salary of 700 million euros. Mbappé and Neymar had recently fallen out of favor at PSG, both of whom were not part of new coach Luis Enrique’s squad at the start of the season against FC Lorient (0-0) on Saturday.
At least Mbappé was pardoned back to the champions’ first team on Sunday and reintegrated into the first team.
Neymar is the second PSG world star to leave the French subscription champions, after Lionel Messi (to Inter Miami). However, the troika Messi, Neymar and Mbappé could not secure the targeted Champions League triumph for PSG.
2023-08-15 17:30:49
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