Jota The last hours before the winter transfer window closed carried a dramatic change in the future of Portuguese Saudi FA star Jota, who was just around the corner from leaving the Tigers “den towards a Premier League adventure.
In the context of the future of Joao Pedro Neves, known abbreviated as Jota, Italian journalist Rudy Galletti, who specializes in player transfer news, wrote on his official account on the “X” platform: “There is no room for a player to move outside the Saudi League. will remain in al-itthad.
Explaining Jota ‘s future with Dean, Galiti continued: “As previously revealed. The club (Etihad) has registered Jota as a foreign player in the Saudi League. ”
Why has the Union’s position on Jota changed so abruptly?
This abrupt change in the Etihad administration’s attitude towards the “Dean Star” Jota follows the latter’s agreement with the West Ham United English club on the personal terms of his accession contract, although negotiations with Etihad were in the right direction, but this new scenario turned things upside down.
According to the source, the Portuguese Federation added Jota and Egyptian defender Ahmed Hijazi to the list of the team’s professionals, in exchange for delisting the other duo, made up of Brazilians, Romarinho and guard Marcelo Grohi, who were close to saying goodbye to the Tigers towards a new experience.
Jota’s problems with FA began due to the lack of reliance on him in games in the light of the regulations of the Saudi Roshen League, which prohibits the registration of more than 8 professional players (i.e. non-Saudis),
and the fact that “Dean” owns 10 players, forcing the player to stay out of his team’s accounts for most of the time, in a tight competition among his stars.
Jota Pedro Neves (24) had joined the ranks of the Saudi Federation at the last summer Mercato, coming from Celtic for about 30 million euros, and did not participate with “The Brigadier” only accounted for 11 matches in all competitions,
5 of which were in the league, where he managed only two goals, which are meagre statistics compared to what he gave to Celtic last season (he scored 15 goals and provided 12 assists in 43 games).
It is worth mentioning that the regulations of the Saudi Federation for the league “Roshen” will see a significant transformation from next season 2024-2025, after it was officially made
