Saudi Club Al Ittihad Announces Portuguese Star Jota With Bizarre Video

• Portuguese star, Jota recently completed his transfer to Saudi club Al-Ittihad
• The Saudi league champions took to social media to welcome the former Celtic star
• The surreal announcement video has raised lots of eyebrows across social media

Saudi Pro League side Al-Ittihad have welcomed former Celtic star, Jota to the club with a bizarre announcement video posted on their social media channels.

The Saudi Arabian side secured the Portuguese winger’s services with a reported £25m deal that was confirmed on Monday night.

Jota’s announcement video

As posted on the club’s official Twitter page, the surreal Grand Theft Auto-style announcement video caught the attention of many football lovers.

It starts with a computerised version of manager, Nuno Espirito Santo watching last season’s League Cup semi-final between Celtic and Rangers on his TV as Jota heads home the winner.

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The winger’s trademark song ‘Jota on the Wing’ then plays in the background as the former Wolves boss jumps in his car and speeds through the streets towards a card shop.

In the shop, he is shown a pack of Celtic cards, although most of the players depicted, including Giorgos Giakoumakis and Odsonne Edouard, have left the club. Nuno picks out the card with Jota’s picture printed on it before giving a mischievous smile.

He subsequently puts the Jota card beside similar cards of the other Al-Ittihad signings of Karim Benzema and N’Golo Kante as he starts to imagine several trophies, including the FIFA Club World Cup, which begin to whirl around his head.

Nuno is depicted telling a shopkeeper “We want to rule the world” as a lightning strike flashes down upon the King Abdullah Sports City stadium.

Since it was posted late on Monday night, the video has been liked over 197 thousand times on Twitter and has been retweeted over 30,000 times.

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According to reports from ESPN, the Saudi Pro League are on the prowl for more European stars.

Saudi’s pull of Europe’s elite

Sports Brief previously reported on the Saudi Pro League’s sudden pull of Europe’s elite football stars.

Skeptics have labelled this move as 'sports washing' and likened it to a replica of the failed Chinese player pull of the 2010s.

It remains to be seen if the Saudi ambition with these marquee signings will be achieved.