Jhon Durán was right to swap Aston Villa for Al-Nassr, as there’s no guarantee you’ll receive similar amounts in future.
That’s according to former striker Oscar Córdoba, who has backed the former Aston Villa man in a conversation with Gol Caracol.
Durán was the big mover of the January transfer window, joining the Saudi Arabian side in a €77m deal on deadline day of the window.
The move was very much done thanks to the finances, with Aston Villa receiving a sum they simply could not turn down for a player who cost them €29.5m in January 2023 and wasn’t first choice because of Ollie Watkins.
Durán similarly earned big from the move, with some reports having him earning €392,500m per week at the club, a significant increase on what he was on at Villa Park.
The striker has insisted money was not the motivating factor when questioned by Al-Nassr’s media channels, but he has been accused of giving up on footballing ambition to instead take the big money offered in Saudi Arabia and the Saudi Pro League.
Córdoba thinks that is unfair, though, and instead backed the former Asto Villa man, insisting he would have made the same choice if presented with it during his own career.
“It is a personal decision. I would have taken it too,” he said.
“It is uncertain that today you are fine, tomorrow not. The economic part plays an important piece in that development and that great contract was presented and took advantage of it. Now, it only remains to continue shining.”
