Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, and N’Golo Kanté Move to Saudi Arabia: Will Robert Lewandowski Follow Suit?

Cristiano Ronaldo moved to Saudi Arabia in the winter, Benzema did the same six months later as his former Real team-mate and the 2018 French world champion, N’Golo Kanté, will probably continue his career in the desert state.

With Robert Lewandowski, another star with an “astronomical” offer, like the Sports world wrote to be lured to the Saudi Professional League.

But the 34-year-old has now publicly rejected it: “I’m not thinking about the Saudi application because there’s nothing I have to think about,” said the Pole at a national team press conference on Monday.

He looks at what’s happening there, but it doesn’t affect him. He referred much more to having “other priorities”. One of them is certainly the better performance with Barca in the Champions League. There, the attacker was eliminated in the group stage in his debut season with the Catalans, right behind Bayern and finalists Inter.

Despite criticism of himself in the meantime, he led Barcelona to the championship with 23 goals and was crowned La Liga top scorer at the same time. Incidentally, in front of Benzema, who can no longer stand up to him in the coming season due to the move to Al-Ittihad.