{"id":438255,"date":"2023-06-21T13:05:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T17:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438255"},"modified":"2023-06-21T13:05:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T17:05:38","slug":"pl-should-stop-transfers-to-saudi-arabia-says-gary-neville","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/pl-should-stop-transfers-to-saudi-arabia-says-gary-neville\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;PL should stop transfers to Saudi Arabia&#8217; says Gary Neville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Neville has expressed his skepticism towards the Saudi Arabia&#8217;s transfer moves and says they can be detrimental to the competition in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Many high-profile stars, like Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, N&#8217;Golo Kante have joined the Saudi Pro League, raising suspicion about their credibility.<\/p>\n<p>Neville, however, is among those, who firmly believe that the transfers should stop if soccer as sport wants to protect its integrity.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Do you agree with Gary Neville? \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k8t1T4yU9w\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/k8t1T4yU9w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESPN UK (@ESPNUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNUK\/status\/1671537209084706819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Premier League should put an instant embargo on transfers to Saudi Arabia to ensure the integrity of the game isn&#8217;t being damaged,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Checks should be made on the appropriateness of the transactions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it comes through that process, obviously transfers could open up again. But I do believe, at this moment in time, transfers should be halted until you look into the ownership structure at Chelsea and whether there are beneficial transfer dealings that are improper.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Neville has expressed his skepticism towards the Saudi Arabia&#8217;s transfer moves and says they can be detrimental to the competition in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":438256,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20026],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[20027],"acf":{"announce":"The former Man United defender is adamant that Saudi Arabia's multi-million deals are detrimental to the sport","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438255"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438255"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}