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In his exclusive column for CaughtOffside, former Aston Villa attacker Stan Collymore discusses some of football’s biggest talking points, including why the Todd Boehly has been a disaster at Chelsea, why Man City are still favourites for the Premier League, why Erik ten Hag is the manager that’s already most under pressure and much more.
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Saudi’s €350m per season offer to Vini Jr is ridiculous
Vinicius Junior has been linked with a move to the Saudi Pro League
It’s hard to wrap your head around the numbers coming out of the Saudi Pro League. I mean, €350m a year to effectively buy yourself a poster boy for potentially the 2034 World Cup is ridiculous.
They could be putting that €350m into Saudi grassroots football and infrastructure, but maybe this is the way that they’re going to go if they want to create a football environment and a football culture in Saudi Arabia.
I just think that top players can earn top money in Europe, plus win the Champions League, the Premier League, La Liga… and they know that they could still go to Saudi aged 32/33 and pick up the kind of money that Ronaldo, who is no spring chicken and whose output isn’t as good as it was, is getting at the moment.
If the Saudi’s had offered five or six of the best young, up and coming players a contract, and spread their hires over the top few clubs in the Pro League, they wouldn’t have had to go to Ronaldo and offer him a ridiculous amount.
Why don’t the Saudis just spend their money on fast tracking young talent? Saudi success in a World Cup to be determined by revolutionising their youth system with pathways for players and coaches. Get U17, U18 and U19 coaches working with their young talents, because if Saudi were to get to a semi final or final, that will have 10 times the impact as is any marquee player going there now.
Inward investment in their own football for that kind of money will get them some sort of success with the Saudi national team.
I’m not even…
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Author : Stan Collymore
Publish date : 2024-08-15 10:15:55
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