I agree with them on the criticism about human rights violations but at the end of the day I, and millions of others, have a Man Utd shirt laying in the closet made by a Cambodian woman (or child) earning 45 cents an hour.
As long as it wasn't the absolute twat prince that butchered Khashoggi, I'm open to the idea since American owners are overall quite shit at running a succesful football club.
I think people lose the plot somehow and forget that we live in different worlds. Take for example, Qatar's stance on gay rights - do people know how much support they got from Africans, how most Africans are seriously conservative and how they wear their homophobia with pride? I often run into Twitter fights for expressing my nonchalant attitude towards gays, I don't really use one's sexuaity as a barometer for friendship or business but I am in a small minority.
Then there is the issue of the sweat shops, go there and see what having that low paying job in awful conditions does for those people's lives and how their lives would be if they didn't have that job. People will be so desperate for such a job that they offer sexual favors, bribes etc. I know this because casual laborers at my workplace go through the same for slightly more than 45c per hour. I once helped a young lady get a job, her sister having begged me to intervene and up to this day no one believes that I did it out of the goodness of my heart.
Drawing on personal experience, I spent my youth thinking that things will improve if Mugabe just died because no one could realistically be worse. Boy he not only lost power and he did die but what came after that! So you see these Saudis, Qataris are absolute filth but it can always get worse and it usually does see Lybia, Iraq or Egypt that elected the Brotherhood soon after ousting Mubarak and ended up with a coup government.
People are right to condemn what is wrong like what happened with Kashoggi but I find it hypocritical that the same people elect governments that enrich these thugs and protect them. Some are indirect beneficiaries of slavery, colonialism and blatant interference by their states in affairs of other states but draw the line at an Arab owning United.
I know I will get pelters for this opinion but we surely must have a Rhodes Scholar or two. Do they know how Rhodes got rich in Southern Africa? Or the history of dispossession, to the extent of taking skulls of our Spirit Mediums and transporting them to London for display in Museums? When Lobengula lost the Matebele War in circa 1896, Rhodes and Jameson created a Loot Committee to share the bounty of his kingdom's cattle estimated to be 300k.
That wealth including Slavery and over 500 years of colonization of America, Asia and Africa formed the bedrock on which the Western society of today casting judgments on others was built. The reality is that without the West's appetite for cheap oil the likes of MBS would be irrelevant nutters but every five years people on here vote to maintain a status quo where you buy oil from them, TVs from the Chinese etc and they buy arms from you then complain that they are using the benefits of your greed to satisfy their nefarious urges.
MBS is welcome to buy guns but not my football club, sorry but I will never get it.