Some will honestly just never learn.
N'Golo Kante
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Some will honestly just never learn.
It’s sad his future wasn’t decided by the end of the season and he didn’t get the send off he deserves. Been one of the best PL midfielders of the past decade.
100M per year 
Had you ever heard of a single Saudi team before Ronaldo went there?
Appeals to the YouTube generation, my kids included.
They are more interested in single players than clubs as sad as it is it's the truth.
Al-hilal is the most decorated club in Asia, if you ever participated in a pub quiz you’d be foolish not to know them.
But that’s just to say Saudis had a decent league (perhaps the best in the region) and a solid national team, featuring at the World Cups, even before becoming the retirement home for the former superstars. Their current model doesn’t make sense IMO, it’s a large country with significant population, if they were serious about becoming anyhow relevant in global football they’d try capitalize on that, hire the best coaches, get some state of the art training facilities, poach young foreign talent building academies in Africa, like Qatar does. The fact that the fans are fine with them spending majority of money of foreign, past it players, IMO shows some inferiority complex still and for me their investment is shortsighted.
I dont get the Kante signing because frankly speaking he isnt a big commercial player like that. But Benzema and Ronaldo, I get. Benzema is the current Balon Dor, and he will be playing in that league and doing a lot of advertising/marketign for them.
High profile Muslim player still at his powers and only slowly falling off the peak - I get the allure and why the Saudi billionaires decided to pay him whatever he wants. It might be a commercial breakthrough for them to have a few big names, but again - is it really the most sustainable model and the best way to invest your money if you wanted to improve your league and your nation’s standing in football? Looks more of a vanity project doomed to fail, like China.
Of course. And I still don’t give a feck about them now.
Also… I’m talking about Kante. It’s daft. Makes no sense.
€100 million a season for Kante confirms the world of football has reached peak madness.
€100m over five seasons would have said the same.
They’re a League ran by inept dickheads.
How happy is he in Saudi? Saw some headlines the other day linking him to Real, Barca, and United, which at 33 playing in Saudi is a bit of a stretch. But he'd do a job squad wise for a year and a half.
Let's not go down that road.
You're right. I won't.
IDK about playing time, but personal life i suspect he's probably fine. He's a practicing Muslim so i doubt he's missing the party lifestyle.
Yeah, I also saw it was a long contract on 20m a year..