Brozovic joins Al Nassr and Steven Gerrard heads to Al Ettifaq: the Croatian midfielder will be Ronaldo’s teammate, the Englishman will coach a club, for now, without stars.
The transfer of Brozovic represents a value of 18 million euros for the midfielder to leave Inter Milan and become the reinforcement of the Portuguese coach Luís Castro until 2026.
On the other hand, Gerrard, 43, has been without a club since he left the technical command of Aston Villa. The former English international has coached Aston Villa but also Rangers, in Glasgow, where he was proclaimed champion of Scotland.
The football commentator TSFTomás da Cunha, understands that even with this investment “there will not be so much curiosity to understand what is being done in this League, because soccer fans essentially like the clubs, and not specifically the players and rivals, and it is not because they have two or three figures, who really are on another level -like Ronaldo-, but nobody stops to watch or listen to these games, or what is happening in Saudi Arabia”, explains Tomás da Wedge.
Regarding the choice of players and coaches who accepted these proposals from the Saudi clubs, the commentator of TSF He says that for a coach, for example, “a championship that doesn’t have so much media and immediate pressure allows training as a coach, but these projects are under construction to win immediately in Saudi Arabia, and it won’t be easy. Because we have four or five teams there with very strong squads and that investment, by itself, does not guarantee victories”.
An investment of many millions of euros, but one that seems different from what China has done in the past, as Tomás da Cunha explains: “The investment in Saudi Arabia is being made in infrastructure, in stadiums, in player training… And so Saudi Arabia is a country that likes soccer, with a great participation in World Cups, so it’s not exactly a country that parachuted into soccer, it already has a certain connection and a tradition and that too it makes it easier”, says the football commentator TSF.
We find the problem “in clubs with very unbalanced squads, because they have four or five stars, but then the other players are very, very far from the level of those teammates. Then it’s difficult to put together a team with a certain amount of harmony.” and play football according to what is intended”.
Source: TSF
