Al-Shabab will win a Ballon d'Or

It is not Lionel Messi, Luka Modrić, or Rodri, but a Ballon d'Or a little further away who will in turn invest Saudi Arabia. In search of a new general director, Al-Shabab will indeed hire the services of Czech legend Pavel Nedvěd in January. As explained by Corriere dello Sportthe 2003 Ballon d'Or was preparing his return to business, two years after his departure from Juventus.

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As a reminder, Nedved had been suspended for 8 months by the FIGC (the Italian Football Federation) in the context of the affair of artificially inflated capital gains at Juventus, while the former sporting director Fabio Paratici, then moved to Tottenham , was sentenced to two and a half years of suspension, and ex-president Andrea Agnelli, to two years. At Al-Shabab, Nedved's field of action should extend to the sporting aspect, including decision-making power over the transfer window. There he will find several well-known names in European football, such as Fatih Terim, the club's new coach, as well as Yannick Carrasco, Wesley Hoedt, Giacomo Bonaventura, and Daniel Podence. Al-Shabab is currently 6th in the Saudi Pro League.