It has become a common theme in recent months for footballers to swap the comfort of European football with the sportswashed riches of the Middle East.
Rightly or wrongly, the football landscape is changing, and whether the Premier League likes it or not, they finally have a rival league with even more money to spend than themselves.
Things have certainly turned up a notch over the past two years with the rise of the Saudi League, the PIF takeover of Newcastle, and the recent World Cup in Qatar.
It's not a new concept, though. You only have to ask former Man City striker Eka Basunga Lokonda Mpenza, or Emile, as he is better known to those of a sky-blue persuasion. ALSO READ: Premier League fixtures give City an obvious Arsenal opportunity He himself was accused of chasing the money with a move to the Middle East in his playing career after a highly controversial move to play for Qatari side Al-Rayyan nearly two decades ago.