Oppose! Saudi derby reverses! The Crescent Board of Directors is trying hard to beat Capital: We don t want Ronaldo

According to Saudi reporters, Riyadh victory has rejected Ronaldo's request for change of coaches and signings, and the Portuguese may be forced to leave the team this summer. "This seemingly ordinary transfer rumor has become intriguing because of another clue - Ronaldo's potential next Riyadh Crescent's board of directors publicly opposed the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) recommendation proposal: "We don't need him." "When the world focuses on Saudi Arabia's "gold-yuan football" frenzy, the board's cold rejection of superstars unexpectedly broke the deep contradictions in the Saudi football ecology.

Although Riyadh, a mortal enemy in the same city, signed Ronaldo with a high profile, Riyadh Crescent dominated the Saudi league in the past two seasons in the past two seasons: 22 unbeaten games (19 wins and 3 draws), and 2025 AFC Elite League beat South Korea's strong team 7-0. Its core logic is "a big system Individually. In contrast, Ronaldo won Riyadh, where he was in Riyadh, and he had no championship for three consecutive years. He was even out of the AFC semi-finals by the Japanese civilian team Kawasaki Ford. The board of directors clearly realized that although Ronaldo can bring traffic, it may break the existing chemical reaction. Ronaldo, 39, is still eager to renew his contract until the 2026 World Cup, but the Saudi team has realized that the commercial value of the elderly superstars decreases over time, and the risk of injury increases. Neymar's negative case of "making 150 million while lying down" has made Saudi Arabia "retirement The contract is becoming more and more cautious. PIF suggests the introduction of Cristiano Ronaldo, which is essentially an extension of Saudi Arabia's "Vision 2030" - to enhance the country's soft power through the superstar effect. However, the opposition of the Riyadh Crescent Board of Directors exposed the conflict between capital will and club autonomy. Similar contradictions have long been revealed: After the 2025 AFC Champions League reform, the Saudi team won three seats in the semi-finals, but was questioned that "the competition system is tailored for West Asia." The choice of the Crescent Board of Directors may be the "national worker" "The counterattack of excessive intervention in competition. Riyadh's New Moon's decision seems to rebel against the will of capital, but it is actually a sign of Saudi football's maturity. When the era of crazy money spending ends, how to defeat superstars with a system and restrain desires with rationality is the real test for the host of the 2034 World Cup.

Perhaps just as the counterattack of the Japanese team in the AFC Champions League shows: football will eventually return to its essence, money can buy stars, but cannot buy the gene for victory.