The Saudi summer mercato ignites the competition in the professional league

          Al-Hilal strengthens its ranks with a veto ... and victory dismisses Ahmed Musa ... and Hegazy leads the defense of the Union            
           
As it is customary for clubs to hasten to close many deals before the end of any available registration period (summer or winter), the last hours of the summer transfer market in Saudi Arabia witnessed the day before yesterday, a great movement in terms of ending the deals of foreign or Saudi professional players. 

The registration period was closed at the end of October 25, after it opened early on August 15, and the curtain will fall on the registration period for Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s first-class league for professional clubs on the 31st. This October, and on the sixth of November, the registration period for the rest of the football competitions in Saudi Arabia will be closed.

Al Hilal, the holder of the last edition of the Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Professional Cup League, strengthened its ranks with Argentine striker Luciano Vito from Lisbon, Portugal, to replace Brazilian Carlos Eduardo, who left the ranks of the UAE youth Al-Ahly Dubai, where this was the only change in the Al Hilal list on The level of foreign professionals, but it was classified by the distinctive polarization of observers in the country.

While the Al-Asmi team succeeded in buying the contract of the striker Saleh Al-Shehri, who was representing Al Hilal through a loan from Al-Raed, Al-Hilal also strengthened its ranks with the goalkeeper Abdullah Al-Jadaani from Al-Wehda, and goalkeeper Habib Al-Wattian from the ranks of Al-Fateh team, and the midfield player Fawaz Al-Tarees is coming from the agreement team.

The current registration period witnessed a great movement by the Al-Nasr team, which seemed confused in making its decision regarding its foreign options until the last hours of the summer transfer market, which witnessed a rapid development by deporting the Nigerian international Ahmed Moussa, who costs the club huge financial salaries estimated at tens of millions of riyals annually. And, the club management returned to its satisfaction with the demands of the Brazilian fans, Petros, who missed the participation in the first and second rounds, after the technical compass tended to remove him before returning quickly.

Al-Nasr strengthened its ranks with Argentine Betty Martinez and South Korean Sue Kim, while his movement was the most prominent at the level of local players, as he contracted with Abdel-Fattah Asiri, Abdel-Majid Al-Salih, Ali Al-Hassan, Ali La Jami, Osama Al-Khalaf, Abdulaziz Allawi and Abdullah Al-Shanqeeti, in addition to the deal that took place in the moments. The last, where Abdel Fattah Adam, the team’s striker, Raed Al-Ghamdi, the striker of Al-Raed team, was exchanged for a two-party loan system until the end of the current season.

The youth team appeared to be one of the best clubs in conducting many qualitative deals completed by the club’s management in search of the team’s return to the competition avenue, and the most prominent deal of Argentine star Ever Pangea came this summer after he presented the capitalist team from Seville with a free transfer deal.

Al-Leith Al-Shababi also strengthened his ranks with Lithuanian goalkeeper Areola Skais, Chilean international defender Igor Lishnovsky and Portuguese Fabio Martinez, as for local players, Al-Shabab succeeded in joining Nawaf Al-Abed from Al-Hilal and Jamal Bajandouh from his foreign professional experience in Croatia, in addition to Khaled Al-Ghamdi The coming from Al-Faisali team, before suffering a cut injury in the cruciate ligament after his second match with the Al-Asimi team, and the team strengthened its ranks with goalkeeper Zaid Al-Bawardi and defender Fawaz Al-Suqour.

As for the Al-Ahly team, it turned its compass towards the players who had previously gone through a local experience, as the team completed its contract with Moroccan Idris Fotouhi from Al-Hazm team, in addition to Ghanaian international Samuel Oso from Al-Fayhaa team, and the club’s management contracted with Romanian Alexandru Mertita, in addition to the player Serbian midfielder Vijsa, and at the level of local players, the club signed Hassan Al-Qassid from the youth on a loan system for a sports season.

At the other pole from Jeddah, where Al-Ittihad is looking forward to a perfect return this season, after the successive frustrations in recent years, as Al-Ittihad brought a number of its late players back to its ranks again, most notably the Serbian striker Bergovic and Cape Verdean player Gary Rodriguez, and he succeeded in the last moments From the summer transfer market in settling the deal of Egyptian international Ahmed Hegazy from West Brom, in addition to his previous contract with Brazilian midfielder Henrique.

As for local names, Al-Ittihad signed Al-Nasr trio Omar Hawsawi, Hamad Al Mansour and Abdel Aziz Al-Jibreen, and the young striker Abdul Rahman Al-Yami, in addition to midfielder Abdul Majeed Al-Swat.

The Unity team strengthened its ranks with many local and foreign names, led by Hernani Santos, who came from Levante, Spain, in addition to Australian Dmitri Petratus. On the local level, he contracted with Abdul Karim Al-Qahtani from Al-Fayhaa, Abdullah Al-Hafiz from Al-Hilal, Abdullah Al-Oweisheer from Al-Nasr, Basem Al-Atallah from Al-Ahly, and Hussein Al-Issa from the justice team.

As for the Ettifaq team, it began to live with great stability in terms of its foreign and domestic options, as it returned its Moroccan player Walid Azaro in exchange for making a number of simple local deals, such as contracting with Hussein Halawani from Al-Ittihad, Al-Senussi Hawsawi from the two mountains, and Hussein Al-Slis from the Esperance team.

The cooperation team carried out many deals on the level of the foreign component, as it contracted with the Australian Mitchell Duke and the Senegalese Abdullah Sani, in exchange for the return of his Cameroonian scorer Leander Tawamba, the Brazilian Iago Santos and the Angolan Ari Babel, and at the level of local names, the last moments witnessed his contract with Ali Al-Nimr and Abdul Karim Al-Muzayel, in addition to defender Nawaf Al-Subhi.

The team of the traditional rivals of the pioneer for cooperation strengthened its ranks with many deals in search of strengthening the team, in order to compete seriously for an advanced position. On the level of foreign names, the pioneer contracted with Moroccan Karim El Berkaoui and Hungarian Nimana Nikolic, in addition to Awad Khamis and Abdel Fattah Adam from Al Nasr, and Mohamed Al Dossary from Al-Hilal and Abdul-Rahman Al-Ghamdi from Al-Ittihad, Aqeel Belghith from Al-Faisaly, and Muhammad Al-Subaie from Al-Ittihad.

As for Al-Faisali, it lacked many of the names that left at the local and foreign levels, but on the other hand it completed similar deals to the late names. On the level of foreign professional players, Al-Faisali contracted with Julio Tavares, the French Dijon striker, in addition to his colleague in the same team, the midfielder. Roman Amalvitano, Dutch Hisham Fayek and Kazakh midfielder Alexander Merkel.

In terms of local names, Al-Faisali completed his contract with Ahmed Ashraf and Walid Al-Ahmad from Al-Hilal, Ismail Omar from Jeddah club, and Abdulaziz Al Sherid from the Al-Batin team.

Al-Fateh team, from which a number of its most prominent local stars moved this summer, made only a few deals. On the level of foreign professional names, Al-Modelhari contracted with Moroccan Mourad Patna, in exchange for the stability of the rest of the names in the team ranks. As for the local players, Ammar attended the team. Adhim from Al-Ittihad, and the good-lover of the firm.

The Abha team strengthened its ranks with the Swedish striker Carlos Strandberg from the Al-Hazm team, in addition to the Australian player Goodwin from the Al-Wehda team, as for local names, the team contracted with Za’ar Al-Otaibi from Al-Hilal, Fahd Al-Jama’a and Saud Zidan from Al-Nasr, and Saleh Al-Omari from Al-Ettifaq.

For its part, Damak’s team strengthened its ranks with Argentine Christian Lima from Benfica, in addition to Mohammed Attia from the youth, Abdel Rahman Al-Asthma from Al-Wehda, Ibrahim Al-Baraka from Al-Bukayriyah, Mansour Al-Mawlid from Al-Taawon, Muhannad Fallata from Al-Fayhaa, Ramzi Solan and Mansour Hamzi from Al-Faisaly.

As for the newly promoted Al-Batin team in the Saudi Professional League, it has strengthened its ranks with Al-Faisali duo Yusef Al-Jabali and Khalim Hyland, in addition to Uruguayan goalkeeper Martin Kompania, Brazilian Chavez from Al-Wehda, Dutch defender Chink and Angolan striker Fabio Abreu, in addition to local names such as Saleh Al Abbas and Rakan Al Shamlan Nayef Almas.

Al-Qadisiyah team followed the same path that Al-Batin followed by contracting with foreign names with a previous local experience, as Al-Qadisiyah completed its contract with Malagasy Carlos Andrea and Colombian Ispria, where they had previously experienced in Saudi Arabia, in addition to the contract with Serbian Vitas and Brazilian midfielder Da Cruz. Regarding local names, the most prominent name comes, Ahmed Al-Faridi, who moved to the Qadisiyah team.

The rising Al Ain team signed for the first time in its professional league history with Angolan Jacinto coming from Italian Lazio, Nigerian Amadou Mutari, Algerian Ambassador Tider, Croatian Philippe Bradaric and Brazilian striker Jeterson, in addition to the continuation of a number of foreign names in the team’s ranks. Rabih Sufyani, Nawaf Al-Farshan, Amin Bukhari and Saleh Al-Wahimid attended.