Saudi Pro League team Al Hilah recently announced a contract with former PSG player Neymar. Playing in Saudi Arabia, the Brazilian player will earn $174 million during the 2-year contract.
Neymar also had the opportunity to meet NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo here. The NBA player joked that he would also make another billion-dollar deal to move to the Saudi Pro League with Neymar during their photo shoot. In the photo posted by Giannis, who held the NBA MVP title in 2019 and 2020, on the social network Instagram, this player titled that he and Neymar are a great duo. best in Saudi Pro League.
Giannis’ Instagram post
Giannis is currently playing for the Milwaukee Bucks. He grew up in Greece and also shared that not basketball but soccer was his greatest childhood passion.
“If I didn’t have to play basketball, I would definitely become a professional soccer player,” Giannis shared.
“The team I admire most is Arsenal, and my favorite player is Thierry Henry,” he continued. “However, I also really liked PSG at the time when Zlatan Ibrahimovic moved. But Arsenal is still the team I love the most.”
Neymar is one of the famous names moving to the Saudi Pro League to play with huge benefits since Cristiano Ronaldo moved to Al-Nassr earlier this year. Teams in this tournament even had the ambition to bring in one of the best young talents in football today, Kylian Mbappe, but failed. They even offered Mbappe $776 million for one year of playing here but still did not receive Mbappe’s nod.
On social network X, the NBA star joked that Al Hilah could recruit him because he looked a lot like Mbappe.
Faced with this situation, Giannis joked that he would be very happy to move to Saudi Arabia to play and receive that money. The NBA star joked that people wouldn’t recognize him if he replaced Mbappe and moved to the Saudi Pro League because they both look very similar.
