The growth of the Saudi Pro League and its extensive transfer spending in Europe this summer are “making a lot of people realise that football is becoming too much about money”, according to a senior figure in the European Club Association.
The ECA is the largest club membership body in Europe and holds great influence within Uefa. Its critics attack the organisation as acting in the interests of the biggest clubs but the ECA vice-chair Dariusz Mioduski, of Legia Warsaw, says the Saudi football boom has changed the landscape.
