Quote from: Uruhara on July 12, 2025, 08:42:56 PM

Quote from: Pandorak on July 11, 2025, 11:55:35 PM

I agree with you, it is too early for Mateo Retegui to accept an offer to move to the Saudi League, even though we know that the offer could be very lucrative, like a guarantee for future savings, plus he is still relatively young. Money can buy anything, but compared to sacrificing his career in Europe, this is a decision made too hastily, with too many things to sacrifice.

I hope Mateo Retegui does not regret the decision he has made and can enjoy his time playing for Al-Qadsiah.

Well, everyone was quite surprised by Mateo Retegui's decision to join the SPL club, Al-Qadisiyah. Besides being at the peak of his career, he was also the top scorer in Serie A last season. So his decision to leave Atalanta was completely unexpected. The club seems to have agreed to this. And Fabrizio Romano also mentioned this. So it seems this transfer is indeed real.¹ Well, I hope he can maintain his quality there. Because that way, he will remain reliable for the Italian national team. However, if he declines after joining the SPL club, his position as the main striker of the Italian national team will be slightly threatened.² So I hope Mateo Retegui can continue to prove that he will not weaken and will even show his best after joining Al-Qadisiyah.

I'm Italian and I'm not that surprised by Retegui's choice, and for sure I can't blame him, his decision totally makes sense: Roberto Mancini, former Italy's National team manager, found him in a mediocre Argentinian team and called him up, after that Genoa bought him and the following year he became the Serie A topscorer with Atalanta: in little over two years his life changed completely because before he was making little money, then with Atalanta he was making 1.5 mln per year and now they offered him 10-12 times more. I'm sure that he would have never thought that some day he would have earned all that money per year, it's a ridiculous amount of money for a player like him which is good but he's no star so, again, he made the right choice, it's was too much money to be turned down.