been a big rise in the number of top footballers joining clubs in the Middle East following the likes of Neymar and Ronaldo who made the move to Saudi Arabia the signing of such star names and the big pay packets that come with them is encouraging upand cominging players to follow suit Sky Sadia chadre has been investigating Brad doesn't live in Dubai but hopping over to this playground popular among Premier League footballers is no big deal he's 21 and lives and plays professional football in Saudi Arabia all the big players are starting to come here and
the League's growing and obviously it's all good for me um getting learning experience off experienced players it's not like the Welsh League or League 2 that are played in know even Academy football these players are all experienced and they know this stuff that's because Brad plays in a league which includes names like Ronaldo Benzema and Neymar the money side is good but if you look at the standard of the league and the players of the league it's probably better than probably top five leagues if you look at that in example so I didn't just do
it for the money I done it for the experience living abroad I done it for it will better my career playing with these players and I establish myself in this league I can establish myself anywhere around the world these two football agents say there is a growing Trend as younger footballers now head to the Middle East it's going to be everybody's dream and aspiration to say like we want to go somewhere where we're going to be looked after um not only looked after on a personal level but financially and the financial rules are they're immense
which is going to be very difficult for anybody to compete with and that's what we're seeing right now they' now got the 2034 World Cup um in Saudi Arabia and I think we'll just continue to see the investment and the you know the the major uplift of of of influx of of both players and the development of younger players as well I'm 22 years old and I'm a striker for p United in League 1 Ricky J Jones has been playing football since he was nine he says footballers in the top leagues need to have options
you've always got to think that you you can never think for one second that you've made it because everything can change just like that so it's always about having a plan be something to fall back on after football so obviously you've got football is your main priority but anything can happen there's still just a handful of UK players in the Middle East but if this win-win setup really works
