At Al Hilal, unfortunately, I had people who didn't tell me the truth. They told me they were going to register me on the Saudi league list, and then, when the day came, they didn't,
A few years ago, it would be the Rossoneri listening to nine-figure offers after seasons of continued output. But instead, his chapter at San Siro is likely to end due to a lack of output figures, something which he has never really got to the next level with.
Al-Hilal restored their seven-point advantage at the top of the Saudi Pro League with a come-from-behind 4-1 success against Al-Fayha. Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, Mohamed Kanno and Marcos Leonardo were on target for the defending champions, while visiting goalkeeper Orlando Mosquera put through his own net, as they responded to victories for Al-Nassr and Al-Ahli earlier this week. Simone Inzaghi's men got off to a poor start as Fashion Sakala capitalised on a weak punch from Mohammed Al Yami to tap into an unguarded net, 14 minutes in.
It was a heavy thing. When scoops and gossip come out, there's always someone who tells them, but you never know if it's fictionalised, amplified... So people know this version, not the version of who was really there at the time. When you have a lot of money, you're always surrounded by these kinds of situations where they always try to put you in difficulty. When this event, this thing, happened, it was heavy. But the problems were already there before on the pitch.