Al-Hilal need a replacement for Neymar and targeted this $90 million Man Utd star

This summer Saudi Arabian clubs spent a fortune to sign top players from Europe to help them improve to compete with Al-Nassr, who in December 2022 signed Cristiano Ronaldo. Thus, Al-Ittihad convinced Karim Benzema and N'Golo Kanté, Al-Ahli signed Roberto Firmino and Riyad Mahrez and Al-Ettifaq added Jordan Henderson.

Al-Hilal were not far behind. In addition to signing stars such as Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, Kalidou Koulibaly, Yassine Bounou, Ruben Neves, Malcom and Aleksandar Mitrovic, they paid almost $100 million to Paris Saint-Germain to take Neymar Junior. But things didn't go as expected, as he was barely able to play a few games before suffering a tough knee injury while playing against Uruguay with the Brazilian National Team.

This was terrible news for the Saudi team, who were left without their main star. That is why they now intend to hire another top forward to replace him. And according to reports, the chosen one is Jadon Sancho. The Manchester United player has been out of the field for almost 3 months due to a quarrel with Erik Ten Hag and everything indicates that he will not play again with the Red Devils as long as the Dutch coach is still there.

But the English side will not let him go easily, as they paid $90 million for him in 2021 and now want to recoup at least part of that investment. Al-Hilal will have to make a tempting offer that beats those of other clubs that, according to rumors, also targeted him, such as Juventus and Borussia Dortmund.

They had a plan B

In addition to Sancho, Al-Hilal were also interested in Richarlison. But the Tottenham striker suffered a groin injury that prevented him from playing and training normally, so he decided to togo undergo surgery and will therefore be out of the field for a long time.