As early as the fall, the Saudi Arabian Football Federation signed an agreement with the Spanish La Liga, according to which some players claiming to travel to the 2018 World Cup in January will go on loan to Spanish clubs.

According to Marca, scouts of clubs for six months studied football players, which the federation of Saudi Arabia added to the list.

About the transfers of the newcomers, almost simultaneously announced the following teams: Villarreal (Salem Al-Dausari), Villarreal B (Jaber Issa), Leganes (Yahia Al-Shehri), Leganes B (Marwan Otmenan), Levante (Fahad Al-Mualad), Valladolid (Noo Al-Musa), Rayo Vallecano (Abdulmajid Al-Sulaihim), Numancia (Ali Al-Namer) and Sporting Gijon (Abdul Alhamdan).