2023-09-11 11:27:14
Luciano Vietto In recent weeks he has been exploring the possibility of returning to the Villarreal CF, a team in which he already played during the 2014-15 season. The 29-year-old Argentine forward has very good memories of his brief time with the ‘groguet’ team and, sportingly, he was seduced by the idea of returning to European football. But at the last minute things took a considerable turn and what seemed like it could happen, he didn’t.
Vietto, in Saudi Arabia since 2020, has recently been in contact with Villarreal trying to explore the possibility of taking the step but finally a series of circumstances occurred, one could say extra-sports, that prevented the transfer of the former Atlético de Madrid, Sevilla and Valencia.
Vietto has been convinced, among other things, by the explosion that Saudi football is experiencing since Cristiano Ronaldo landed at Al-Nassr in 2022 and that it has been done not only with players who are facing the end of their careers but also others who are in its sporting fullness. And it seems the growth of the Saudi league has only just begun.
Furthermore, the footballer, who has changed Al-Ittihad for the more modest Al-Qadsiah of the second division, he liked the idea of sharing a dressing room with two former LaLiga players such as the former Betis goalkeeper Joel Robles and the former Villarreal center back Alvaro Gonzalez. Both are also new to the team. The first came from Leeds United and the second, from Al-Nassr.
Al-Qadsiah is, yes, a modest team, but rich in possibilities. And the proposal of 7 million euros per campaign was difficult to reject.
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