Cristiano Ronaldo said the Saudi Arabian Pro League could become one of the leading leagues in the world as the curtain came down on his first season in the country.
It seemed a bold statement and one dismissed as positive PR for a player perhaps past his best in a league trying to break new ground.
If Kylian Mbappe arrives, fresh from a Golden Boot in the World Cup, a hat-trick in the final and one of the finest players of his generation, then perhaps we'll need to revisit Ronaldo's comments.
Saudi Pro League club Al Hilal have submitted a world record 300 million euro (£259m) bid for the Paris St Germain forward with the 24-year-old strongly linked with a move to Real Madrid next summer, when his contract in France expires.
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