Cristiano Ronaldo moved to Al-Nassr within the Saudi Professional League firstly of 2023, paving the best way for a number of the recreation’s greatest stars to doubtlessly be part of him within the Center East within the coming years.
Lionel Messi is amongst them, having been linked with a bumper €400 million a yr transfer to Al-Nassr’s rivals, Al-Hilal when his contract with PSG expires in the summertime.
Messi’s PSG performed an exhibition recreation in opposition to a Saudi Professional League XI comprised of gamers from Al-Nassr and Al-Hilal, Ronaldo amongst them, in January. PSG gained the entertaining recreation 5-4, giving the individuals of the Center East a glimpse at what it could be like if the Argentine ever decides to maneuver there.
It is actually one thing everybody in Saudi Arabia desires, too.
“Messi can be the dream,” sports activities journalist Khaled Al-Arafah defined to FourFourTwo.
“It was an incredible second to have each gamers on the pitch in Saudi Arabia in January – hopefully in the future they’ll face one another formally in our home league.
“However even when it’s not Messi, I’m 99 per cent positive you’ll see extra excellent stars within the Saudi Professional League at the beginning of subsequent season.”
Kaku is a Paraguyan worldwide who presently performs within the Saudi Professional League with Al-Taawoun. For the 28-year-old, the potential of extra high-profile gamers becoming a member of Ronaldo is an thrilling prospect, one he believes may have the dual good thing about enhancing requirements ever extra and making a extra seen store window for the expertise already competing within the Saudi League.
“We heard the speak about Luka Modric, Karim Benzema and Lionel Messi,” Kaku informed FFT. “The league is rising by leaps and bounds, and that makes it extra enticing.
“Bringing in big-name gamers is a vital element that can solely enhance issues, and I really feel it might probably push me on to grow to be probably the greatest within the league, too. It’s my want to achieve Europe – now, by taking part in properly right here, I believe I can have my likelihood.”
