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We usually aw some old players like Ronaldo join the Saudi League to end their career and they will choose to play for these Arabian teams because of the more money they can get in these teams while now it seems some young players are also interested in playing for these teams.
Ângelo Gabriel is a former player of Chelsea and he is a 19 player who plays as a winger and now he is going to play for Al Nassr in Saudi Arabia.

I think the reason why most Saudi Pro League clubs started with signing veteran players in the past was because these players were big names in football and were globally recognized so in their attempt to make the league popular among football fans across the globe, they were going for these veteran and popular footballers instead of signing young talents that will not attract global audience to the league. To an extent, they've been able to achieve their aim of attracting global attention to football in the Middle East country which is why they are now signing young talents.
Signing Ângelo Gabriel was a good transfer deal for Al Nassr even when I think they needed to sign quality defender instead of a winger. Hopefully for the Brazilian winger, he succeeds in his new club.

The Arabs were smart in this marketing aspect when they brought famous players from Europe. But they make the mistake of not being able to hire famous coaches so that they can also have a good quality league. If the Saudi Arabian teams focused on hiring good foreign coaches, then we would see a league with good quality and they wouldn't need to constantly be hiring famous players. Because honestly, what's the point of hiring famous players when they have great coaches in most of the teams in the league?

Quote from: https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1831757380335628437

Steven Bergwijn, presented and unveiled as new Al Ittihad player from Ajax.

Number 3️⃣4️⃣ for Bergwijn.

source: https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1831757380335628437

How many more foreign players do they need? And what about the native players? Because I don't see anyone speaking well of any native player. Al Nassr only talks about Ronaldo, it seems like Al Nassr's native players are non-existent. Al Ittihad has now signed Bergwijn, and I haven't seen anyone speak well of any native Al Ittihad player either.

Talking about Al Nassr and the player they want to hire, it seems they are targeting another player and we are going to see soon another top European player joining this team. I remember when I said Ronaldo is more than just a player in Al Nassr and he makes the player to join this team some people rejected this theory but now it seems he puts the team under pressure to hire another from Manchester City.
Mateo Kovačić is currently linked to Al Nassr and Ronaldo is the main reason, they were teammates in Real Madrid.
They are ready for Mateo Kovačić salary six times more than what he gets in Manchester City.