Ex-Tremendous Eagles striker Odion Ighalo has claimed Cristiano Ronaldo and different high footballers moved to Saudi Arabia for cash.
Ighalo left mainstream Europe for Chang Chung Yatai in 2017 after taking part in for Lyn, Udinese, Granada, Cesena, and Watford.
At Yatai, he earned a reported €200,000 weekly wage, earlier than shifting to Chinese language membership Shanghai Shenhua the place he additionally commanded an analogous wage.
Ighalo spent one 12 months in Shanghai earlier than shifting to Manchester United on a six-month mortgage deal.
After that, the 34-year-old joined Al Shabbab, the place he began incomes €170,000.
Two years later, Ronaldo moved to Saudi Arabian membership Al Nassr in a surprising three-year deal that may see him earn €210.704 million in whole.
“See individuals which might be going to Saudi Arabia, massive gamers. Is Ronaldo nonetheless taking part in for ardour? He has made greater than 100 occasions what I’ve in my life, however he nonetheless went to Saudi. You need to inform me that’s ardour? No, it’s for cash.
“It’s solely once we Africans say it they’ll say we like cash. However these individuals don’t care, a few of them need to be highest paid and all that,” Ighalo outdated Oma TV.
