Mateo Retegui: The most expensive Italian moves to Saudi Arabia for 65 million!

Mateo Retegui: The most expensive Italian moves to Saudi Arabia for 65 million!

Al-Qadsiah, Saudi-Arabien - Italian football is located in an exciting period, because the top scorer of Serie A, Mateo Retegui, has made a move to Saudi Arabia. On Monday evening, Atalanta Bergamo announced that the 26-year-old center forward to Al-Qadsiah FC. The transfer fee for the player is 65 million euros, with which Retegui has become the most expensive Italian player ever. Last season he shone with 25 goals and eight assists and led his team to success in Serie A.

Retegui signs a highly doped three-year contract with Al-Qadsiah, where he succeeds Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who left the club after one year. It is noteworthy that Retegui only switched from Genoa to Atalanta last summer, which further underlines the dimension of this transfer.

a remarkable career course

The Mateo Retegui career started in training at River Plate and Boca Juniors, two of the most famous clubs of Argentina. He finally made his breakthrough at Club Tigre, where he played in the hearts of fans. With 20 missions for the Italian national team, Retegui has not only left an impression on the club but also on an international level.

The transfer landscape of Serie A this season is quite dynamic. The current figures show that a total of 291 players have left the league, which corresponds to a transfer balance from -22,954,500 euros. This is a clear sign of active activities on the transfer market, which also includes the change of Retegui.

transfer overview and developments in the league

In the current season, the clubs have recorded 98 entrances with transfer expenditure of a total of 612,355,000 euros. The overall market value of the new obligations is 103.50 million euros. The average expenditure per club is 30,617,750 euros, while the income from exits reach 589,400,500 euros, which each team has on average 29,470,025 euros.

On the other hand, there are some remarkable departures that show that the league is in transition. Players like the 24-year-old central defender, whose market value is 9 million euros, switched to Betis Seville for a transfer fee of 9 million euros.

Overall, it can be said that Serie A is in an exciting phase. With the change of Mateo Retegui and the many other transfers, Italian football shows how alive and dynamic it is. For further details on the transfers and their effects on the league, see also the Transfer market page.