in Saudi Arabia there are those who do not pay – Corriere.it

Not all that glitters is gold in Saudi Arabia. Many champions, not only those at the end of their careers (see Cristiano Ronaldo and Benzema), but also champions who can still give a lot in Europe (Milinkovic or Koulibaly, just to name two), are deciding to move to Saudi soil, with clubs ready to pay very high salaries. So much so that even Zaniolo, today in Turkey at Galatasaray, has been offered a mega contract worth 120 million euros over four years. This is not always the case. Fifa, in fact, has sanctioned Al-Nassr, the team of Cristiano Ronaldo (and Brozovic), due to a problem involving Ahmed Musa, ex Leicester. The world’s top football body has prohibited for Al-Nassr to register further new signings.

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The reason? The club did not pay the Foxes bonuses for Musa’s move to Saudi Arabia, which took place in 2018 for 16.5 million euros. The dispute of 460 thousand euros and Al-Nassr has never paid, despite the ruling of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Tas). Hence the intervention of Fifa.

And can not but come to mind the situation in which he is involved Sapphire Taider, born in Algeria in 1992 and with a French passport, who played for Inter, Bologna and Sassuolo in Italy. On 14 October 2020, he accepted the offer from Al Ain FC. But here the troubles started because the club did not pay the players’ salaries. And this prompted Taider to quit in August 2021, almost a year after his arrival. From that moment began a long legal battle with the Fifa court which agreed with him, but the Saudi team still has to pay him six million euros.
In short, the offers are essential, as long as the money really arrives.