The Saudi Arabian official urges the big-spending nation to ‘start working’ on a deal to bring Liverpool’s Mo Salah to the Middle East, as they also try to add Man City’s Bernardo Silva to their wealth of talent.
By Tum Balogun for Mailonline
June 22, 2023 at 1:42 PM, updated at 1:50 PM on June 22, 2023
Mohamed Salah could be the next high-profile player to move to the Middle East after a Saudi Arabian official urged clubs to go after him. Liverpool star.
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which owns an 80% stake in Newcastle United, has caused quite a stir since announcing that they had taken control of four leading clubs in the country earlier this month.
Notable names join Cristiano Ronaldo, who joined the project in December following his acrimonious divorce from manchester unitedThey have been Karim Benzema and N’Golo Kante.
While Rubén Neves and Bernardo Silva are approaching agreements and rumors persist about interest in a series of Chelsea castaways like Kalidou Koulibaly, Hakim Ziyech and Edouard Mendy.
Elite level acquisitions have led to calls from Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher for the Premier League to investigate the unprecedented binge so Salah could be the last target.
Hafez Al-Medlej, who has held various positions within the Asian Football Confederation and the Saudi Pro League, jumped to the defense of the league’s bold transfer plan, calling on clubs to work on a package that could tempt the three. golden times of the Premier League. boot winner.
“We are only living the beginning,” he told Koura, quoted by AS. “All transferable footballers will from now on be targets of Saudi clubs.
‘China’s experience has nothing to do with us, theirs was purely marketing. Soccer is not the most popular.
“In Arabia we have a State project and it is not going to be limited to four big teams, but to all of them. Because the Saudis’ passion for football knows no bounds.
“Let’s hope that Bernardo Silva, from Manchester City, arrives. We also have to start working on the signing of Mohamed Salah since he is overwhelmingly popular in the Arab world and in Europe.
“I think Salah still has records to break with Liverpool so hopefully if he doesn’t come now he will in the future.”
Signing the Egyptian international would be a huge coup, possibly second only to Ronaldo’s arrival in the league last year.
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