Leonardo, a Brazilian foreign player for Shandong Taishan, will not play for Chinese Super League side Zhejiang next season and will not return to Shandong Taishan, and it is reported that his next stop is the deep-pocketed Saudi league.
Leonardo was obviously unaccustomed to the introduction of Taishan, and was loaned to Changchun Yatai and Zhejiang by Taishan, and in Yatai and Zhejiang Leonardo was full of firepower, scoring 19 goals at the end of the game and winning the top scorer of the Chinese Super League, many teams in the Super League showed great interest in Leonardo, including the FA Cup champion Shenhua and other strong teams interested in introducing the Golden Boot player, and Leonardo received an invitation from the Saudi league giants to play in the Saudi league next season.
As for the news from Saudi Arabia, some Middle Eastern tycoon teams have made contact with the Chinese Super League Golden Boot. This team is the Riyadh youth team of the Saudi League. In the past two years, the Saudi league has recruited many world-class stars, such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar, Benzema, Kante, Mahrez, Mane, Milinkovic, Bounou, Port, Ruben Neves, Fabinho, Koulibaly, etc., and the Saudi league has become famous in the world.
According to this **, the transfer fee given by the Riyadh youth team is $10 million, while Leonardo was only $2.5 million when he transferred from Urawa Red Diamonds to Shandong Taishan.