coollino
Player Valuation: £80m
Oh yeah good point lol
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Where are all these Saudi clubs getting their money from?
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Oh yeah good point lol
mmmmsnouts
Player Valuation: £40m
It's amazing what you can get done when you can simply jail or behead anyone who tries to get in your way
twoblue
Player Valuation: £35m
Never said it was fair or the best… just the direction of travel
Martin Alvito
Player Valuation: £50m
We will be a relative loser from an across-the-board external cash injection like this, because our squad quality has deteriorated under Moshiri.
On the OP's "Why?" question, I came up with two rational options. They may have some sort of plan to export cultural values using the advertising vehicles attached to the ventures. I can't see the how. I don't know if the problem there is that I'm not as smart as a billionaire sheikh's advisors, or if I'm smarter.
It could equally be self-indulgence crossed with asset diversification. Sure, they lose money on the deal. If they think green energy breaks or may break their business, though, it makes sense to hedge and position a smaller fortune to survive the headwind.
Hinchcliffe's Corner
Player Valuation: £40m
Pretty much what the British did when they were the most powerful empire in the world too, victors write history etc.
AdamEFC
Player Valuation: £35m
Every time we put fuel in our cars, we’re backing this … and Newcastle
* burns out car immediately
GoldenToffee
Player Valuation: £60m
One thing I don't get: Why are players being offered 10/20 times their current salary to move there? Surely most would accept double, or if they were undecided three or four times. Mad how little money means to these Saudis and how much of it they've got to throw around.
YoboCopter
Player Valuation: £50m
If i had a job id deffo leave for double wages
GoldenToffee
Player Valuation: £60m
Exactly! lol
There's no justifiable reason for immediately throwing 20x their salary at them other than the money means nothing to the Saudis and they are desperate for the attention that such a move brings with it.
Yes, many of these players have tens of millions in the bank already so don't need the money at all, so I could see how a simple doubling of the salary might not tempt them, but once you get to 3/4/4/5 times an already obscene wage... it's hard for anybody to turn down.
GoldenToffee
Player Valuation: £60m
Let's also not forget that the Saudis were brazen enough to kidnap, murder and dismember a US citizen in EU territory, and completely got away with it despite more or less admitting it to.
I mean, just wow how the Premier League waved these people through their Fit & Proper Persons test to own a football team here.
Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi - Wikipedia
The new Imperialism
I wonder how hard America will fight not to pass on the baton, and then who will replace the Saudi's in the future when it's time
I wonder how hard America will fight not to pass on the baton, and then who will replace the Saudi's in the future when it's time
kenada_blue
Welcome to Barcelonaton FC
They've been legitimised now by swallowing up every major sport.
GoldenToffee
Player Valuation: £60m
Incredibly sad, isn't it? Seeing Formula One sell themselves to Saudi was galling, but football, as most of our favourite sports, going the same way is gutting. Money - it destroys everything!
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