Escape from Ronaldo: Why Messi chose the American League over the Saudi League

Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, captain of the Al-Nasr team, was signing a number of shirts in the Spanish capital, Madrid, when he launched his own brand for a water bottle product, as a journalist asked him about Lionel Messi and his coming to Saudi Arabia, to make it clear that the conversation today is far from football before adding « Of course, everyone is welcome in Saudi Arabia.”

The Saudi Professional League is still the focus of attention of many international stars around the world, but it seems that the Argentine star, Lionel Messi, has chosen a different destination from the country that catches the eye around him (Saudi Arabia), and has turned to a less intense, club and exciting experience in the American League via Inter Miami.

There are many names at the table of the Saudi club negotiators. The first to attend here was the Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo, captain of the Al-Nasr team, who was the first in the project to attract top football stars as part of a huge project aimed at promoting the league to bring it to the top ten leagues in the world.

This summer seems very hot, even in terms of the transformations of mass aspirations, which are now being proposed and circulated by many resonant names in club giants around the world, which is actually reflected in the Saudi offers that reach them successively.

Even the Argentine star, Lionel Messi, made it clear that he needs to live differently after winning the World Cup. Which means that he decided to stay away from the noise and return to the competition against Cristiano Ronaldo, who competes with him in the stardom of the past two decades, choosing to withdraw with himself in a league that lives in his own world without any influence in Europe, as is happening in the Saudi League, which has become an event in the international press since the advent of Ronaldo and Benzema.

Ronaldo and Messi have been in a great struggle for stardom for more than 15 years, and endless competition between them. that does not accept defeat.

Messi told the Spanish newspapers Diario Sport and Mundo Deportivo: After winning the World Cup and not being able to go to Barcelona, ​​it is time to go to MLS to live football in a different way and enjoy my daily life more, and he added: It is clear that I am going with the same Responsibility and the desire to win, to do things well, but with more calmness.

The next few days will be full of surprises that will accompany the clubs’ announcement of a number of contracts with international stars, with the aim of establishing a competitive league that attracts the attention of the world.

Croatian playmaker Luka Modric and French goalkeeper Hugo Lloris lead a list of more than ten first-class stars that Saudi clubs are negotiating with, according to the source of the French Press Agency.

After Karim Benzema joined the ranks of Al-Ittihad club, a Saudi official revealed to the French Press Agency that there were negotiations with the Spaniard Sergio Ramos (37), the Argentine Angel Di Maria (35), the Croatian Luka Modric (37), and the French Hugo Lloris (36). Ngolo Kante (32), the Brazilian Roberto Firmino (31), the Spaniards Jordi Alba (34), and Sergio Busquets (34).

Saudi sports entered a new era with great support, after Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, announced the launch of the project to privatize and invest sports clubs.

The first of this project was the announcement of the acquisition by the State’s Public Investment Fund of Al-Hilal, Al-Ittihad, Al-Nasr and Al-Ahly clubs, while the acquisition of “Aramco”, “NEOM”, “Diriyah Gate Development Authority” and “Royal Commission for Al-Ula” announced the acquisition of Al-Qadisiyah, Falcon and Diriyah clubs. And Ola.

These Saudi moves come at a high level in order to support sports, specifically the football side, to create a competitive league, and it is a serious project to advance the league to become one of the ten best leagues in the world.

And the channel “CBS Sports” had revealed new moves to target the inclusion of stars in the Saudi League, as it said that Walid Moaz, president of the Saudi Al-Ahly Club, is currently in England in order to negotiate to include the Manchester City wing, the Algerian international, Riyad Mahrez, to his club, and that A few days after the official announcement of the inclusion of French stars Karim Benzema and N’Golo Kante to Al-Ittihad Club, and the approaching inclusion of Ivorian star Wilfried Zaha, the Crystal Palace player, to Al-Nasr Club.

Not only is Mahrez on the radar of Al-Ahly Jeddah, there is also Luka Modric, the veteran Croatian midfielder, who recently decided to extend his contract for an additional year with Real Madrid, but the Saudi temptations do not stop, as he received an offer of 150 million euros that may change his destination to play in Jeddah. , which seems to have approached it so much that it has started printing T-shirts for Al-Ahly club bearing the name Modric and the number 10.

Another player who may be targeted soon by the Saudi League officials is Manchester United’s Spanish goalkeeper David De Gea, whom TalkSport said he had expressed his willingness to stay for two additional seasons with Man U, although coach Eric Ten Hag did not provide any guarantees that he would He will continue to be a key player, but the player may change his decision in the coming days and become a good deal to guard the goal of a Saudi club.