Monaco director hopes Saudi Pro League doesn't follow Chinese model
Monaco Sporting Director Thiago Scuro hopes the Saudi Pro League can become a well-established league in world football, but hopes it does not follow the Chinese Super League model.
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00:00 It's very new, it's very recent, it's very hard to make a deep analysis on this.
00:07 I think that so far it's much more about money and not having taxes than anything else.
00:15 But I hope that they have a plan to make this stable, to make this a long life process and
00:24 to make the operation more healthy.
00:27 I think that investing only in players will limit you as a league, as a performance, as
00:34 an environment.
00:35 I hope that this can become a new market, a new strong league for the world football.
00:40 I just hope that it's not something similar to what the Chinese league did years ago,
00:45 which was also a lot about money, low quality on the technical side, low quality on the
00:51 development of the sportive matters.
00:54 And then in less than 10 years they were not able to sustain this level of investment.