After spending a total of £700 million on new players in the summer of 2023, teams from the Middle Eastern country have had a quieter time this time.
Aston Villa's Moussa Diaby is the only big player from the Premier League to have moved to the Saudi Pro League. It cost £50 million.
Last summer, N'Golo Kante and Edouard Mendy left Chelsea to play in Saudi Arabia, while Fabinho and Jordan Henderson left Liverpool to play in the new league.
Even though Karim Benzema joined Al-Ittihad last summer, Al-Hilal won the Pro League last season, ending 14 points ahead of Al-Nassr in second place.
The Sun says that the Saudi Pro League is still adding big names, even though the summer transfer window has been quiet so far.
The story says that offers could still be made for De Bruyne of Manchester City and Salah of Liverpool, two of the best players in the Premier League.
People know the Saudi Pro League is ready to wait as they try to get more of the biggest names in European football to move to the Middle East.
Some people think that Salah and De Bruyne might leave Liverpool and Manchester City when their present contracts are up.
It is thought that Pro League sides signing world-class players could be important if the league wants to get lucrative TV deals and rights.
The Premier League would miss Salah and De Bruyne a lot.
The Premier League has been dominated by the competition between Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp lately, but Salah and De Bruyne have been the best players from that time.
Salah, the Egyptian king, has been at Anfield for seven years, coming from Roma in 2017 and hitting an amazing 211 goals in 349 games.
De Bruyne's game is more about setting up other players. For the past nine years, the Belgian has been the team's primary playmaker.
Guardiola has helped the player win six Premier League titles and one Champions League since he moved from Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga.
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