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After the 2022 World Cup, Cristiano Ronaldo, who had become a substitute in the Portuguese national team, terminated his contract with Manchester United and joined Saudi Arabian League team Riyadh Victory as a free agent. The sensational effect was no less than Neymar's departure from Barcelona to Paris in the summer of 2017, and Messi's departure from Barcelona to Paris as a free agent in the summer of 2021, and even greater than Cristiano Ronaldo's departure from Real Madrid to Juventus in the summer of 2018.

What caused such a sensation, besides Ronaldo's annual salary of 200 million euros, was that the greatest striker in football history left the mainstream European league and came to the Saudi Arabian League, which is a low-level league.

With Ronaldo's level, coming to the Saudi Arabian League is naturally a "dimensionality reduction strike", but apart from getting good goal data, he cannot help the team win any official competition championship. It is simply like "Kane's soul possession".

In the summer of 2023, Kane left Tottenham, where he had played throughout his career, and joined the Bundesliga champion Bayern. In the 2023-24 season, Kane won the Bundesliga Golden Boot and the European Golden Boot with 36 goals, and tied with Mbappe for the Champions League top scorer with 8 goals, but Bayern, where he played, failed to win any of the four major titles for the first time in more than a decade.

In the 2023-24 season, Ronaldo played 44 games for Riyadh Victory in all competitions, scored 44 goals, and had 13 assists. He won the Saudi League Golden Boot with a record-breaking 35 goals, but he did not win any championship trophies in the Saudi League, Saudi Crown, Saudi Super Cup, AFC Champions League and other competitions.