I'm saying the amount of money the Saudis are paying makes this a completely different level to what was done in China, could you imagine the ballon d'or winner having gone to China? Or cristiano ronaldo (no matter his level of ability, he wouldn't have gone to Saudi for the wages China offered)? Plus China was private individuals mostly and the government pulled the plug, this is the Saudi government pushing this so its not likely to go the same way as china
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I'm saying the amount of money the Saudis are paying makes this a completely different level to what was done in China, could you imagine the ballon d'or winner having gone to China? Or cristiano ronaldo (no matter his level of ability, he wouldn't have gone to Saudi for the wages China offered)? Plus China was private individuals mostly and the government pulled the plug, this is the Saudi government pushing this so its not likely to go the same way as china
They're doing the same thing just with more money, and the Ballon D'or winner back when Tevez went to China was prime Cristiano Ronaldo, not a 38 year old Benzema at the end of his last contract at Madrid.
You think a 30 year old Ronaldo or Messi joins Al Nassar for the same money? These lads got similar offers when China were doing the same and chose to stay in Europe.
The Saudis haven't bought a player yet anyway, they're just sweeping up the 30+ out of contract players. When someone at the top of their game in their mid 20's goes there for a big transfer it will be a different story.
A country is signing players and assigning them to clubs. This shit is fecked up and should be resisted.
So sassy
Mate, it was the third message I got saying that the Chinese league situation was nothing like the Saudi one because £4m a week. What the feck??Free market capitalism. Can’t wait until they get around to doing this for developers.
Al-Hilal, Al-Nassr and Al-Ittihad are all state owned clubs. The Saudi state investment fund is paying Ronaldo, Benzema and Kante. The Chinese Superleague clubs was not state owned like this. These players also have contracts that pays them for doing commercial stuff, promoting Saudi Arabia and help them in their quest for WC 2030.
btw. Benzema is 35 and will be on 5-10 x the highest earners in the top clubs in the world (same as 38 year old Ronaldo)
There are some similarities between the Chinese Super League and the Saudi Pro League, but this is sportswashing directed directly by the Saudi state on a totally new level. They needed only a year to bend professional golf to their will.
It's good times for the rich human rights violators out there. People seem to care less and less about where their money comes from....
Well people love to pretend they’re morally superior but the levels of money being thrown around proves that morals can be bought at a certain price, and that goes for everyone.
They’re going to spend this money anyway, it’s not like it will vanish and end up in the hands of anyone that’s suffered abuse in these countries if people like Benzema don’t take it and bring it back to Spain/France.
Whether people want to accept it or not, European economies just simply will not grow at a pace that affords most people the comfortable midlife mediocracy they enjoy today without Middle Eastern investment. European citizens do not invest anywhere near what the likes of Americans do in their own systems so growth is minimal to none here without the whopping 30%-40% investment that comes from the oil funded ‘human rights abusers’.
If you’re ever in doubt, just remember that we’re all their bitch and yet they like to keep that information to themselves and keep paying us massive amounts of money, and I turn we spend it on human rights and anti discrimination campaigns. The circle is complete.
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Whats going on at Chelsea? First they recieve a large investment from a Saudi company and now half their squad seem to be moving to the Saudi league
Must be mental to be a coach at one of these clubs. One minute you’re coaching a group of local lads, next season all these champions league winners rock up for training
Saudi PIF (the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, owner of Newcastle United and new owners of the four biggest clubs in Saudi Arabia) are major investors in Clearlake Capital (Chelsea's owner)...
They can’t sign 100 players. They have a limit of 8 foreign players/squad. And PIF owns majority stake in 4 clubs. That works out to exactly 32 places... So maybe closer to 1,2 billion a year. That‘s not too far from the money Abu Dhabi has been spending on 115 charges fc… which seems to be sustainable.
Football is much bigger than Cricket and Golf… Thye can’t just buy their way into UEFA. And the ESL is basically dead. They are stuck with their shit league, playing in shit Asian competitions…
Not sure if I put it here but in 24 months, my prediction is the Saudi teams will buy their way into the Europa Conference, then the Europa League and finally joining the UCL.
With the news about Chelsea and their huge push in sports (LIV, F1, Ownership of Football teams) to effectively bribe players to join their league, (Modric 600m ffs!), they will buy their way into the top echelon of sports, including football.
Nothing will stop them because everything and everyone is up for sale and they have the money.
With the news about Chelsea and their huge push in sports (LIV, F1, Ownership of Football teams) to effectively bribe players to join their league, (Modric 600m ffs!), they will buy their way into the top echelon of sports, including football.
Nothing will stop them because everything and everyone is up for sale and they have the money.
Helping Chelsea get around FFP.
Not if the club's world cup consisting of 32 teams goes ahead in 2025.
Chelsea will under Boehly clearly bend the rules within what is the rules as they did with the long term amortisations/contracts
It's not even like this is illegal on paper I guess (for now). Boehly can just pay Saudi Arabia something in private or just strike a deal with them to do this and no one will ever find out as they'll of course deny anything with this.
The people who couldnt give two fecks about human rights on here will sooner or later have to defend worse and worse things too. But of course our own beloved new Qatari-overlord would never resort to anything like this or to the lengths City have gone. They'll just sit quietly in their corner and be all Oki-doke with being outcheated and outcompeted by their middle-eastern rivals.
If israel and israeli clubs can play in european competition, then surely the saudis will argue why cant they?
Someone at Utd should be on the blower right away and inform the Saudi’s that we’ve got plenty of players available.
Buy one get one free.
The Saudis will be the last ones to use this argument.
Two teams in the same league should have no connection whatsoever, no matter how small.
Arab teams boycotting Israel (the same we are boycotting Russia now or how African teams boycotted South Africa during the Apartheid era // which among other things made african nations boycott FIFA until it excluded South Africa) was the reason behind admitting Israel into UEFA. The AFC couldn’t manage that situation anymore…
If Saudi have money to burn then why not bring the players to them instead of investing the money in the UK...then they get to watch them live instead of silly o'clock.
Astana in Kazakstan as well.
Geographically, I think parts of Kazakhstan are European.
If Sir Jim and Ineos are somehow successful with their takeover there will then be 3 teams in the Premier League who's owners have links to the Saudi's.
We've offered Maguire, they just haven't returned the fax message.
This Chelsea connection stinks
Israel football got boycotted by most arab states, they indirectly got kicked out of Asia, not that they chose to join UEFA for no reason at all.
Anyways Saudi Arabia has the money to bribe enough UEFA suits that will have no issue receiving oil money in some Cayman Islands banks, so saudi teams can play the UCL and probably even move their national team to play the UEFA Euro.
Sure but money doesn't respect geography and I can see it happening.
Or they could just form inter-continental super league, where their teams are the only ones featuring from outside Europe anyway.
They will get 2030 World Cup (may even get all the World Cups between 2030 and 2050 given how corrupt FIFA are) and I expect many European competition finals to be played in Riyadh as well.
Damning indictment of how shite our squad is the fact even the Saudis aren’t interested in any of them!
They need to help Chelsea's FFP, not United's.
Someone should tell them he doesn’t play for Chelsea anymore
How the feck are none of our players being targeted? I'd be on the phone none stop pitching all kinds of shite from our books.
This is great.
Chelsea take out a huge loan, spend it on stupid 8 year contracts for rubbish players.
1 year later.
Sell half their squad to clubs owned by PIF, who own half the teams in their league, but are also heavily invested with Chelsea's owners Clearlake.
Nothing to see here.
Chelsea take out a huge loan, spend it on stupid 8 year contracts for rubbish players.
1 year later.
Sell half their squad to clubs owned by PIF, who own half the teams in their league, but are also heavily invested with Chelsea's owners Clearlake.
Nothing to see here.
Once the deal was done it is €100m over the length of the contract. Still a great deal for Kante, but not as fanciful as first reported.