MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
Jesus Christ that gave me a belly laugh.
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Newcastle Utd (and Viz)
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Jesus Christ that gave me a belly laugh.
I suspect from a combination of make up and photo-shopping. Sorry Mikey, she's more likely a Guatemala swamp donkey and you won't convince me otherwise.
Yarrgh
Player Valuation: £70m
I dare you to be horrible!
PaulPowersTash
Player Valuation: £15m
What I don't get is that Godolphin does it with horse racing and it's absolutely fine.
The main man gets to ride in the coach next to the Queen at Ascot - more than legitimate.
Why does this never get called out?
Also, all of the so called 'journalists' who are screaming from the roof tops will be going to Qatar to cover the World Cup.
They go the F1 Grand Prix in Abu Dhabi. They go and cover the golf. If they are so up in arms against it - then why not boycott it?
Justin Rose, Sergio Garcia, Henrik Stenson and Ian Poulter etc all play in the Saudi Invitation golf tournament for mega bucks. They never
seemed to get called out for it? That's more than fine then?
It seems if it's Football it's 'sportswashing' if its anything else then it's OK?
Hmmmm....
PaulPowersTash
Player Valuation: £15m
Its currrently valued at £3,74 billion. The total purchase price and all investment has been circa £1 billion
Not a shabby return on investment in 12 years.
If you literally Google these sports you've brought up with sportswashing next to it, you'll see coverage.
F1:
Baku’s grand prix is being used to ‘sportswash’ corruption | Emin Huseynov
Sport for Rights activist Emin Huseynov laments the stars who will visit his home country and ignore abuses
‘Beneath the glamour of the F1, there is a far more sinister side to Bahrain’
‘Beneath the glamour of the F1, there is a far more sinister side to Bahrain’
Golf:
Golfers, Beware the Saudi Sportswashing Trap
Barring some of the world's most prominent players suddenly coming to their senses, it looks like the European Tour will go to Saudi Arabia next month. It's a travesty.
www.newsweek.com
Saudi Arabia, sportswashing and golf’s daring sortie into enemy coffers | Marina Hyde
The European Tour breaks new and controversial ground in the Middle East this week, with Justin Rose among the players being paid up to $1m to compete in the Saudi International
Meghan Maclaren withdraws from Saudi Ladies Championship due to 'sportswashing' concerns
Maclaren's stand could shine a light on male counterparts who receive lavish appearance fees to tee it up in the Kingdom
www.telegraph.co.uk
World Cup:
Sportswashing and the tangled web of Europe's biggest clubs
Governments wield power over many Champions League clubs and the ties that bind owners, sponsors and Uefa are striking
Philippe Nassif: Qatar is Using the World Cup to "Sportswash" Human Rights Abuses
Philippe Nassif, Middle East and North Africa Advocacy Director for Amnesty International, spoke to Middle East Forum Radio host Gregg Roman on March 4 about human rights abuses in Qatar related to its hosting of the World Cup in 2022. Nassif, who briefs
‘Sportswashing’ is the grim game of our times
There is a new word for an old business now plied by tyrannical states such as Saudi Arabia
Personally think you are way off with the 1billion investment :
Sheikh Mansour put a further £58m into City; his total since 2008 is now £1.3bn
Then theres the 400m every few years for Eithad, New York City cost them 100m alone just to join the league.
Not a chance they turn a profit, now granted the level of investment across the board means that they will defo get a massive chunk back if they sold, but I fail to see how they turn a profit.
LEONARD
Player Valuation: £60m
If you literally Google these sports you've brought up with sportswashing next to it, you'll see coverage.
F1:
Baku’s grand prix is being used to ‘sportswash’ corruption | Emin Huseynov
Sport for Rights activist Emin Huseynov laments the stars who will visit his home country and ignore abuseswww.theguardian.com
‘Beneath the glamour of the F1, there is a far more sinister side to Bahrain’
‘Beneath the glamour of the F1, there is a far more sinister side to Bahrain’www.amnesty.org.uk
Golf:
Golfers, Beware the Saudi Sportswashing Trap
Barring some of the world's most prominent players suddenly coming to their senses, it looks like the European Tour will go to Saudi Arabia next month. It's a travesty.Saudi Arabia, sportswashing and golf’s daring sortie into enemy coffers | Marina Hyde
The European Tour breaks new and controversial ground in the Middle East this week, with Justin Rose among the players being paid up to $1m to compete in the Saudi InternationalMeghan Maclaren withdraws from Saudi Ladies Championship due to 'sportswashing' concerns
Maclaren's stand could shine a light on male counterparts who receive lavish appearance fees to tee it up in the Kingdom
World Cup:
Sportswashing and the tangled web of Europe's biggest clubs
Governments wield power over many Champions League clubs and the ties that bind owners, sponsors and Uefa are strikingPhilippe Nassif: Qatar is Using the World Cup to "Sportswash" Human Rights Abuses
Philippe Nassif, Middle East and North Africa Advocacy Director for Amnesty International, spoke to Middle East Forum Radio host Gregg Roman on March 4 about human rights abuses in Qatar related to its hosting of the World Cup in 2022. Nassif, who briefswww.meforum.org
‘Sportswashing’ is the grim game of our times
There is a new word for an old business now plied by tyrannical states such as Saudi Arabiawww.irishtimes.com
Not to mention that even WWE gets scorned for the Saudi deal in some circles (Not the ones that matter sadly)
JimmyJeffers
Player Valuation: £70m
Greggs
That, my friend, is a hole we don't want to go down – until their next show there
Let's face it, they're lucky the mainstream media doesn't give a squirrels nut about pro wrasslin', otherwise they'd be under WAY more scrutiny for those shows than they currently are
Yarrgh
Player Valuation: £70m
It'll be a stottie.
Not until she puts on at least 5 stone...