Ian Cathro reckons there's not much difference between football in Europe and Saudi Arabia - and warned Jota he'll need to work hard to earn his meteoric wages.
The Portuguese winger sealed a £25m move from Celtic on Monday and is set to take home £10m a year at Al-Ittihad. He teams up with Karim Benzema and N'Golo Kante at the Saudi Pro League champs and will go toe to toe with a growing cast of top talent which includes Cristiano Ronaldo, Ruben Neves and Roberto Firmino while in the Middle East.
But former Hearts boss Cathro, who is Nuno Espirito Santo's right hand man in Jeddah, says it's not just the bulging list of superstars who will make it challenging. He says the intense schedule and travelling will take some getting used to and warned the forward he cannot take his foot off the gas and expect to thrive.