Saudi Pro League to become 'one of the best in the world': Mitrovic tells Euronews
Fresh from scoring a hat-trick against Al-Ittihad, Serbia and Al Hilal striker Aleksandar Mitrovic tells Euronews why the best from the Saudi Pro league is still yet to come.
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00:00 The transfer market in Europe has closed on Friday but the wealthy Saudi league
00:04 can still sign players until September 7th. After scoring a memorable hat-trick
00:09 in the Saudi Classico, Al-Hilal striker Alexander Mitrovic tells Euronews about
00:13 his experience and the fascination with the Saudi league.
00:17 On nights like this the world will sit up and take notice I presume of the Saudi Pro League
00:22 because a quite brilliant game, a brilliant performance from yourselves as
00:26 well. What would you say to maybe players that are considering joining you out here?
00:30 I move myself here from one of the best Premier League and I think this
00:37 league have all things in the future, next few years to become
00:43 one of the best league in the world and I think they have facilities, they have
00:48 fun, they have people who love football and I think the players will more and
00:52 more be open to come to this league especially when you watch a game like
00:56 this and I think maybe this is the future of football in this country.
01:04 The champions Al-Itiad, carrying Benzema's new team, tried last week to get
01:09 Mohamed Salah for £150 million but Liverpool rejected the bid. The
01:15 Saudis though still have some days to get the deal done.
01:19 Tell me about the atmosphere, what was it like to play in nights like this?
01:23 This is the night, this is the game that you love to see. I never experienced this
01:29 in any other league and atmosphere for both teams. Our supporters as well, beginning of the game I
01:37 think that this is an amazing game and yeah this is for sure one of the reasons
01:41 why I move here. The reception I get from the fans, from my teammates is
01:46 amazing. I'm really happy that three games so far, three wins and still
01:54 beginning of the season but I think we are playing good football, we create a
01:59 lot of chances and we play football that everybody wants to see.