Window in Saudi Arabia closes; see spent amounts and new stars

After experiencing a historic transfer window, Saudi Arabia’s elite clubs can no longer sign at the start of the season. Despite this, the balance is a lot of money spent, more than R$ 5 billion, and several new stars to lead their respective teams in the search for titles in the country.

For the first time, a Saudi club was so close to the leadership in amounts spent worldwide. O Al Hilal was the second team that spent the most on transfers (353 million euros), second only to chelsea, which invested 464 million euros to qualify the squad. In addition to the new team Neymartwo other Saudis were in the top-10.

Six months after Cristiano Ronaldo heading to the country, the wave of arrivals from Europe was stronger, and it started right away with the current winner of the Ballon d’Or, Karim Benzema. He surprised everyone and accepted an offer from Al Ittihad for millionaire values, being followed shortly after by the steering wheel N’Golo Kante.

After that, signings never stopped, and European giants lost players every week. Fruits of the money of its leaders, the four main clubs, Al Hilal, Al Nassr, Al Ahli It is Al Ittihad divided up in this mission, and successfully accomplished it, since they managed to take stars that were previously unimaginable.

The main Brazilians were Fabinho It is Neymarwho were in the last World Cup, but besides them, players like Mané, Mahrez, laporte, Wijnaldum, Milinkovic-Savic, mendy, among others are in the package. Now it’s up to sports what was promised to see if the plan to show the country more to the world will work.