Choice is greater than effort, take the right path, Premier League gamblers turn into Santony, the Arabian Peninsula in seconds

In the just-concluded 2025 AFC Champions League, although the champion team Jeddah national foreign aid Firmino is the MVP of the game, another former Premier League striker Ivan Tony, who is not so revealing, has also started his own legendary life. It was a wise choice that allowed him to still play in the Arabian Peninsula.

If you want to describe the 29-year-old powerful center Tony's ups and downs, you can only use one word "extreme". Five years ago, he could only play football in the third-level England team Petersburg United. At the age of 26, he just gained some popularity. In just two years, he has become a hot striker in Europe.

2021/22 season, he played in 33 Premier League games and scored 12 goals, and also played in 33 games and scored 20 goals in 2022/23 season, winning the Premier League Bronze Boot Award, second only to Haaland and Kane, beating Salah. With his outstanding state, he was summoned by the Three Lions Army, participated in the UEFA Nations League, and was even expected to participate in the 2024 European Cup with the team. At the club level, many giants including Tottenham, Arsenal and Manchester United have expressed interest in this black and hard local scorer. However, the sudden exposure of the betting incident disrupted all plans because between 2017 and 2018, Tony had bet his team 13 times in seven games, violating the FA Gambling Ordinance and was punished to be prohibited from participating in football for 8 months.

8 months later, Tony, who returned to the second half of the 2023/24 season, dropped sharply, scoring only 4 goals in 17 Premier League games. Despite this, Tony, who lost the attention of local giants, still received an olive branch from the Saudi League. Transfer to Jeddah National for 42 million euros. Not only did Brentford stop loss to the maximum, Tony also received a top weekly salary of over 400,000 pounds.

At present, Teacher Tony's life in the Saudi League is not too comfortable. Not only has he scored 19 goals in 25 league games, he also helped the team win the AFC Champions League and won his first important event trophy. It can only be said that Tony's agent is considerate quite well.

The most obvious counterexample is that local center Solank, who also became famous in the young team Bournemouth, joined Tottenham from Cherry City last summer. He was a mistake and lost all the game. Not only did he perform poorly, but the team also plummeted. He couldn't even get a qualification for a European match, so he could only join the poor Manchester United.

At the same time, Solank's profits are definitely not as good as those in the Saudi league, and he has been ridiculed by fans a lot, saying that the team tried to fill the vacancy left by Kane with him, which is simply like to imitate him. In this sense, no matter how much attention the Premier League and Tottenham are, as small individuals who make money to support their families, it may not be more cost-effective than going to small league teams to make gold and take fewer detours.