Many sources in Europe claim that Messi is getting closer to Al Hilal club after receiving a huge offer of up to 300 million euros a year.
“All roads lead Messi to Al Hilal” – that is the headline featured in today’s Marca newspaper. According to the leading Spanish sports daily, Messi’s next destination is gradually revealed. It’s not Barcelona, it’s Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal club.
Messi is hard to resist the super offer from Al Hilal (Image: Getty).
Despite being the top team in Saudi Arabia, Al Hilal is not very famous in the world. The only advantage of West Asia Club in this deal is money. To be more precise, that’s a lot of money. This makes Messi hard to resist.
Sources from Marca said that the negotiations between Messi and the Saudi club took place many months ago. In particular, the first brick to “build the road” to bring El Pulga to Al Hilal is the promotion contract signed with the Ministry of Information and Tourism of Saudi Arabia.
Also because of this agreement, Messi is ready to oppose PSG’s order to go to Saudi Arabia. It led to the 30th superstar being suspended internally by the Paris team for two weeks. But for El Pulga, the mountains of money in Saudi Arabia mattered more.
AFP news agency revealed that Messi had reached a verbal agreement with Al Hilal club in early May, despite the fact that El Pulga’s side repeatedly denied that he was going to Saudi Arabia.
Many newspapers in Europe believe that Messi joining Al Hilal is only a matter of time.
According to Marca, Al Hilal is ready to make an offer with a salary of 300 million euros per year (within two years) for Messi. Of course, this money is paid not only in terms of sports alone, but also related to promotional activities.
Like C.Ronaldo, Messi will become an important character in the advertising campaign for Saudi Arabia. In Riyadh, they see football as a fundamental part of political and social change. With superstars like C.Ronaldo or Messi, Saudi Arabia wants to introduce to the world a different image of this country.
According to expert Fabrizio Romano, Messi will finalize his future in the next few days. Mr.
Footmercato reported that Jorge Messi (father and agent of Lionel Messi) was almost convinced by the super offer from Saudi Arabia. Therefore, it is believed that it is only a matter of time before El Pulga reaches Al Hilal. If this deal is successful, Mr. Jorge Messi will break the record to become the broker with the highest commission in football history.
The ambition of the Middle Eastern country does not stop there. They want to turn Riyadh into a destination for a series of top stars in the world such as Di Maria, Busquets and Jordi Alba.
The Saudi government has set up a financial support system for clubs so that they can attract stars. One big name that they would love to bring in in Saudi Arabia’s football revolution is Karim Benzema (Muslim).