https://open.substack.com/pub/aaronrupar/p/trump-hand-bandages-discolored

Yeah maybe, but also multiple state owned SA clubs are supposedly for sale with talk that they wish to curb the copious football spending. Ronaldo's salary is twice the commercial revenue for Al-Nassr, so no matter the players popularity there's still a huge amount of money being burned in bringing them to the Saudi league.   He was unstoppable first half of last season but has been pedestrian since then. No doubt he would still carve up the Saudi League but it's only if there's multiple clubs there that start a bidding war for him that he should go for super amounts of money. He's not a Ronaldo level star, only Messi is. He's the same age as Son Heung-Min and a similar level player in his prime, though admittedly Salah's prime was both better and more recent, but he was also in a stronger team. Son went for £20m to MLS as there are no Asian teams with money to burn like there is in Saudi Arabia so there would not have been many options with huge wages for him.