2023-06-19 16:37:41
With the Saudi League clubs storming the global player transfer market, and the competition to include the most prominent stars, major clubs in Europe are afraid for their players from Saudi clubs, while others are waiting for offers to solve their financial crises, led by Barcelona.
The Saudi League succeeded in attracting the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo at the beginning of this year to join Al-Nasr club, then the Al-Ittihad team, the league champion, signed a contract with Karim Benzema, the former Real Madrid striker, and negotiations are underway with a large number of world stars currently to join the former “Merengue” duo.
Barcelona crisis
Barcelona is currently suffering from a severe financial crisis that forced it to allow some players to leave, and to search for offers for other players in order to reduce the annual spending bill.
Barcelona’s salaries swelled to more than 650 million euros per season, which put the club in a real financial dilemma, which forced it to give up players with huge salaries.
Barcelona’s financial crisis prevented him from recovering Lionel Messi after his contract with Paris Saint-Germain expired, just as it prevented him from renewing his contract before leaving for the French capital.
Edward Romero, Barcelona’s deputy financial director, commented on the crisis, saying: “We need two seasons to adjust the players’ wages in a manageable manner, and we will not be able to reduce the burden of salaries in general before the contracts of a number of players expire.”
Barcelona is linked to contracts that force him to pay huge salaries to the senior players in the team, but they gradually end, as Gerard Pique retired, and Busquets’ contract expired, as the two receive huge salaries, if the Catalan club provides them, part of his crisis will be resolved.
The Saudi solution
While Barcelona is awaiting the end of Jordi Alba’s contract with the team, reports have come confirming the existence of Saudi interest in contracting with the veteran Spaniard this summer, a year before the player’s contract with his Spanish team expires.
Barcelona is eagerly awaiting the arrival of a Saudi offer in order to first save him from Alba’s huge salary, in addition to obtaining a fee to help him manage the salaries of the new season without a financial deficit.
The same applies to Samuel Umetti, who was loaned to Lecce, as several reports confirmed the interest of a Saudi club in contracting with him.
Barcelona also hopes to obtain about 20 million euros in exchange for selling Umtiti, while he did not receive an offer commensurate with his financial ambition in order to abandon his player so far, to rely on Saudi offers.
And other reports stated that the Polish Robert Lewandowski has become very wanted in the Saudi League, but the Spanish team will think a lot before giving up the top scorer in the Spanish League, unless it obtains a huge financial offer that helps it finance other deals to strengthen its ranks.
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