After playing together at Paris Saint-Germain for two seasons, can Kylian Mbappé and Lionel Messi meet again in the near future?
If Qatar and Saudi Arabia compete in their logic of soft power, the two Gulf countries can agree on certain points of their strategy. For a long time, QSI defined its project through its galactic players to assert its power on the football planet. A star policy which reached its climax in the last two years, when three of the best players of the decade were gathered in the capital: Kylian Mbappé, Lionel Messi and Neymar.
Saudi Arabia, for its part, has managed to attract a multitude of big names to revolutionize its league this summer. Neymar was one of the leaders, like Cristiano Ronaldo before him, or Karim Benzema then Sadio Mané. Transferred to Al-Hilal from Paris Saint-Germain, the Brazilian international was to embody the success of the Riyadh-based club. But Ney’s serious knee injury completely changes the plans of the Saudi team.
Mbappé-Messi, the incredible project
If Al-Hilal should receive financial compensation from FIFA as compensation, this tile could also encourage the team from the Saudi capital to replace Neymar, in the short or medium term. And according to information from the Saudi media Al-Riyad this Friday, Al-Hilal would be ready to pull out all the stops since the club would have simply ticked off the names of Kylian Mbappé and Lionel Messi! The two superstars were already approached last summer, but the Frenchman continued his adventure in Paris, while the Argentinian crossed the Atlantic to join Inter Miami.
