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IT'S SHUT: Every foreigner in Saudi Pro League with transfer window closed

The Saudi Arabian transfer deadline fell on Thursday with the Saudi Pro League welcoming at least five more major names to the trailblazing competition.

The SPL has shaken the world with their spending this summer with the League flooded by top class foreign imports from all corners of the globe.

Luiz Felipe (Al Ittihad), Demarai Gray (Al Ettifaq), Abdelhamid Sabiri (Al Fayha), Djaniny (Al Fateh) and Joao Pedro (Al Taawoun) were all brought in on Thursday as the local window was closing.

With eight imports allowed per team, here's the final list of foreigners for each SPL club:


SPL FOREIGNERS:

ABHA

Saad Natiq (Iraq)

Tayeb Meziani (Algeria)

Devis Epassy (Cameroon)

Saad Bguir (Tunisia)

Ciprian Tatarusanu (Romania)

Gregorsz Krychowiak (Poland)

Francois Kamano (Mali)

Uros Matic (Serbia)

Karl Toko Camp (Cameroon)


AL-AHLI (two to be discarded)

Egzjan Alioski (North Macedonia)

Ryad Boudebouz (Algeria)

Edouard Mendy (Senegal)

Roberto Firmino (Brazil)

Allan Saint-Maximin (France)

Riyad Mahrez (Algeria)

Franck Kessie (Ivory Coast)

Roger Ibanez (Brazil)

Merih Demiral (Turkey)

Gabri Veiga (Spain)


AL-ETTIFAQ

Robin Quaison (Sweden)

Paulo Victor (Brazil)

Marcel Tisserand (Rep. Dem. Congo)

Vitinho (Brazil)

Moussa Dembele (France)

Jack Hendry (Scotland)

Jordan Henderson (England)

Georginio Wijnaldum (Netherlands)


AL-FATEH (one to discard)

Marwane Saadane (Morocco)

Sofiane Bendebka (Algeria)

Petros (Brazil)

Jacob Rinne (Sweden)

Fran Vélez (Spain)

Mourad Batna (Morocco)

Cristian Tello (Spain)

Jason Denayer (Belgium)

Lucas Zelarayan ( Armenia)

Djanini (Cape Verde)


AL-FAYHA

Vladimir Stojkovic (Serbia)

Gojko Cimirot (Bosnia)

Ricardo Ryller (Brazil)

Victor Ruiz (Spain)

Henry Onyekuru (Nigeria)

Anthony Nwakaeme (Nigeria)

Fashion Sakala (Zambia)

Milan Pavkov (Serbia)

Ghislain Konan (Cote d'Ivoire)

Abdelhamid Sabiri (Morocco)


AL-HAZEM

Paulo Ricardo (Brazil)

Aymen Dahmen (Tunisia)

Faiz Selemani (Comoros)

Ben Traoré (Cote d'Ivoire)

Tozé (Portugal)

Bruno Viana (Brazil)


AL-HILAL (one to discard)

Jang Hyun-Soo (South Korea)

Michael (Brazil)

Kalidou Koulibaly (Senegal)

Ruben Neves (Portugal)

Sergej Milinkovic-Savic (Serbia)

Malcom (Brazil)

Neymar (Brazil)

Aleksandar Mitrovic (Serbia) )

Yassine Bounou (Morocco)


AL-ITTIHAD (one to discard)

Romarinho (Brazil)

Ahmed Hegazy (Egypt)

Marcelo Grohe (Brazil)

Abderrazak Hamdallah (Morocco)

Igor Coronado (Brazil)

Karim Benzema (France)

N'Golo Kanté (France)

Jota (Portugal)

Fabinho ( Brazil)

Demarai Gray (Jamaica)

Luiz Felipe (Italy)


AL-KHALEEJ

Fabio Martins (Portugal)

Pedro Amaral (Portugal)

Khaled Narey (Togo)

Ivo Rodrigues (Portugal)

Lisandro Lopez (Argentina)

Jung Woo-Young (South Korea)

Ibrahim Sehic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Mohamed Sherif (Egypt)


AL-NASSR (one to be discarded)

Talisca (Brazil)

David Ospina (Colombia)

Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)

Marcelo Brozovic (Croatia)

Alex Telles (Brazil)

Seko Fofana (Ivory Coast)

Sadio Mané (Senegal)

Otavio (Portugal)

Aymeric Laporte (Spain)


AL-OKHDOOD

Paulo Vitor (Brazil)

Sebastian Pedroza (Colombia)

Andrei Burca (Romania)

Solomon Kvirkvelia (Georgia)

Leandre Tawamba (Cameroon)

Alex Collado (Spain)

Florin Tanase (Romania)


AL-RAED (one to be discarded)

Mohamed Fouzair (Morocco)

Karim El Berkaoui (Morocco)

Julio Tavares (Capo Verde)

Pablo Santos (Brazil)

Amir Sayoud (Algeria)

Mathias Normann (Norway)

Oumar Gonzalez (Cameroon)

Mamadou Loum (Senegal)

André Moreira (Portugal)


AL-RIYADH

Martin Campana (Uruguay)

Knowledge Musona (Zimbabwe)

Alin Tosca (Romania)

Birama Toure (Mali)

Juanmi (Spain)

Dino Arslanagic (Bosnia)

Didier Ndong (Gabon)


AL-SHABAB (one to be discarded)

Ever Banega (Argentina)

Carlos (Brazil)

Kim Seung-Gyu (South Korea)

Iago Santos (Brazil)

Gustavo Cuellar (Colombia)

Mo Adams (England)

Habib Diallo (Senegal)

Romain Saiss (Morocco )

Yannick Carrasco (Belgium)


AL-TAAWOUN

Aschraf El Mahdioui (Netherlands)

Alvaro Medran (Spain)

Flavio (Brazil)

Malison (Brazil)

Mateus (Brazil)

Andrei Girotto (Brazil)

Joao Pedro (Brazil)

Musa Barrow (Gambia)


AL-TAI

Victor Braga (Brazil)

Alfa Semedo (Guinea-Bissau)

Bernard Mensah (Ghana)

Robert Bauer (Germany)

Virgil Misidjan (Netherlands)

Enzo Roco (Chile)

Andrei Cordea (Romania)

Marco Dugandzic (Croatia)


AL-WEHDA

Anselmo (Brazil)

Oscar Duarte (Costa Rica)

Jean-David Beauguel (France)

Fayçal Fajr (Morocco)

Munir Mohamedi (Morocco)

Odion Ighalo (Nigeria)

Jawad El Yamiq (Morocco)


DAMAC

Moustapha Zeghba (Algeria)

Farouk Chafai (Algeria)

Domagoj Antolic (Croatia)

Adam Maher (Netherlands)

Abdelkader Bedrane (Algeria)

Tarek Hamed (Egypt)

Assan Ceesay (Gambia)

Georges-Kevin N'Koudou (Cameroon)

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