Saudi Pro League clubs could be pumping the brakes on their free-spending ways after its CEO Omar Mugharbel said new safeguards have been put in place to make the league financially stable ahead of the new season. SPL clubs have spent more than $1.5 billion since its 2023 boom, which included the prized capture of Cristiano Ronaldo that paved the way for players to move to Saudi Arabia on wages European clubs could not compete with. Ronaldo has since topped Forbes' list of the world's highest-paid athletes three years in a row since his move to Al-Nassr. But sky-rocketing transfer fees and eye-watering salary packages, which once sounded the death knell for the Chinese Super League, may be a thing...
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