Portuguese Enrique Raposo, Expresso columnist and former editor of Atlantico magazine, shared his opinion on Cristiano Ronaldo's transfer to Al Nasr.
Cristiano Ronaldo. Photo: gettyimages.com"The problem starts with Ronaldo becoming a useful idiot for one of the world's worst dictatorships and opening the door for other players to become useful idiots for a dictatorship trying to legitimise itself.
There's someone like Mohammed bin Salman al-Saud (Saudi Prime Minister - Tribuna.com) taking powers away from local authorities and turning Saudi Arabia into a kind of centralised European-type dictatorship. In exchange he has given some rights to women, but he has given them now and may take them back in a few years if he wants to.
And it's a bit sad to see footballers - stars, symbols, an example to children around the world - turn into useful idiots for a dictatorship. There are players who earn a net worth of 5, 6, 10 million euros in Europe, and there they are offered 50, 60, 70...
Look at what is happening to young people in Europe - they are desperate. The working class has no jobs. Just look at the desperation of people in France. And it's a bit surreal to discuss a footballer earning 60 million against the backdrop of millions of young people in desperate situations," said Raposo.
