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I may be wrong, but because the Saudis are making very high offers, the player market has started to increase the prices of players when they realize that a Saudi club is interested in that player. For example, if a team has player X who costs 30 million dollars, all it takes is for a Saudi team to make an offer of 60 million dollars for the team that has player X to increase the price to 70 million, so any team in Europe that wants player X will have to negotiate that high amount. This is putting players who are not even worth a high price as if they deserve that high value.
The reason why any player would consider playing at Saudi league is money, nothing more. Most of them make more money in a single year than they can make all their life in Europe. That is the biggest difference and while Retegui could decide to cut his Europe adventure short and go to Arabia, he could also make a huge amount of money from it and that would mean that he would be able to actually profit from it at the same time. I can't say if that is a smart move or not, but I can say that he would be financially doing better.
We have seen some players who went to Saudi league and then made a comeback too, so that is already proven to be possible for many players, and if he wants to, he can play for 1-2 seasons and make all the money in the world and come back and play wherever he wants.
It is true, the main attraction is money, clubs and players are often tempted by Saudi proposals. In Europe it is actually the same, players who feel they are stars will demand high salaries. AC Milan is reportedly very interested in recruiting Retegui, but is constrained by the high transfer fee, Atalanta is only willing to release Retegui if there is an offer above 50 million.
Al Qadisiyah seems very serious about building squad depth, they want to be title contenders next season. In my opinion, if Retegui joins Al Qadisiyah, their chances of winning the trophy will be higher. Retegui future is still full of speculation, but I think the possibility of him moving to Saudi is very low.