Brazilian icon Neymar Junior is next in the line of elite players who have set out for an adventure in the Saudi Pro League, the new centre of global football. Neymar has been reported to join Saudi club Al Hilal after they have agreed to pay about a sum of 90 million euros (USD98 million) worth of transfer fees.
Neymar joins Saudi Pro League club Al Hilal
The transfer fee for one the most elite players during the Messi–Ronaldo era, being paid to Paris Saint-Germain by Al Hilal is all set to a huge record for the Saudi league who are dripping with the ‘oil money’.
Al Hilal are hoping to finally match their rivals, Al Nassr with this signature signing of Neymar. Al Nassr had previously signed the legendary Cristiano Ronaldo, which had begun the spree of Saudi transfers in the football world.
Al Hilal had earlier made offers to sign Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi, with equally ridiculous amount of transfer fee; however, they were not accepted.
According to the reports, Neymar will be offered a contract of two years , which will be paying the 31-year-old Brazil international a good USD100 million annually. Neymar’s salary is being to be half of what Ronaldo receives from Al Nassr at the age of 38.
Neymar leaves Paris Saint-Germain for Al Hilal
Despite having preferred to be returning to his former club Barcelona, Neymar and Paris Saint-Germain have agreed the previous week on leaving for Saudi.
However, Barcelona’s financial troubles with the Financial Fair Pay have prevented them from resigning of both the club legends who intended a return, Neymar and Lionel Messi, who ended up signing for the Major League Soccer club Inter Miami instead of joining the Saudi League.
Al Hilal is one of the four clubs of the Saudi Pro League, who have been nationalized by their sovereign wealth Public Investment Fund (PIF), who have under them assets worth about a mammoth USD700 billion.
