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How big will the Saudi League be?
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 Spiderman  Horsham 19 Jun 23 7.16am |
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Originally posted by Spiderman
Neves going to Saudi in his prime is a worrying turn of events. Helps Wolves with ffp, any bets on him being loaned to Newcastle and parent club paying his wages? Helps Newcastle navigate FFP. Edited by Spiderman (19 Jun 2023 6.59am) PIF are big investors in Clearlake, the company through which Boehly bought Chelsea
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| YT Oxford 19 Jun 23 10.02am |
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How I yearn for the good old days when Man Utd had all the money.
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| Pete53 Hassocks 21 Jun 23 3.08pm |
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I can see little attraction for players still in their prime to move off to Saudi to play in partly empty stadiums where the atmosphere will probably be muted and where there is no his footballing heritage. Whilst we bemoan the fact that the modern pro seems to be a greedy money grabbing so and so, there surely must still be an appeal to them to be playing cut and thrust games in front of passionate crowds and in games that have real meaning and have a history of rivalry. Well, I would hope so anyway!
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ASCPFC  Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 21 Jun 23 8.00pm |
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Originally posted by YT
How I yearn for the good old days when Man Utd had all the money. You can have those days back soon when they get taken over by not an Arab state.
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| samprior Hamburg 21 Jun 23 8.22pm |
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UEFA are currently taking a stance against this Saudi emergence but I give it a couple of seasons before the Saudi league begin to throw big money at UEFA to allow "guest spots" in their European competitions. The league will know this is the only way they'll be able to get any credibility and we all know UEFA will take the money.
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Nicholas91  The Democratic Republic of Kent 26 Jun 23 2.52pm |
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Seems like there are a host of players now being linked with a move there - Gray, Firmino, Ziyech amongst others and additionally to those already left. Saw a rumour too that Neves might be loaned back to a bigger team (Newcastle I think... and logically) which really is nefarious and disconcerting. May be moving from a laughable sideshow to a real spanner in the works now.
Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!! |
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eagleman13  On The Road To Hell & Alicante 26 Jun 23 4.21pm |
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Originally posted by samprior
UEFA are currently taking a stance against this Saudi emergence but I give it a couple of seasons before the Saudi league begin to throw big money at UEFA to allow "guest spots" in their European competitions. The league will know this is the only way they'll be able to get any credibility and we all know UEFA will take the money. Although that hasn't happened yet, tho won't be long, the Saudi's & Quatar's have already got themselves involved with CONCOCAF's 'Gold Cup'. UEFA next?
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 becky over the moon 26 Jun 23 5.51pm |
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Originally posted by eagleman13
Although that hasn't happened yet, tho won't be long, the Saudi's & Quatar's have already got themselves involved with CONCOCAF's 'Gold Cup'. UEFA next? Jeddah has just been named to host the 2023 Club World Cup.
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| m/k mick milton keynes 26 Jun 23 7.13pm |
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Personally I think it’s being built on sand, boom boom
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| ASCPFC Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 22 Jul 23 1.11pm |
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Every player in the world being offered ludicrous money by sh1t sides. I presume there's no FFP or anything like that. Just a Subbuteo/ Fantasy league. Obviously PSG reckon Mbappe will go there, I'm not sure he will.
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| dreamwaverider London 22 Jul 23 1.28pm |
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If they want to play in front of a few thousand people with no atmosphere for very big bucks then hot tail it to Saudi.
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| Badger11 Beckenham 22 Jul 23 1.30pm |
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Originally posted by samprior
UEFA are currently taking a stance against this Saudi emergence but I give it a couple of seasons before the Saudi league begin to throw big money at UEFA to allow "guest spots" in their European competitions. The league will know this is the only way they'll be able to get any credibility and we all know UEFA will take the money. This makes sense (to UEFA) not me I can see them throwing in a couple of South American club teams as well. Eventually this will become a World Club Championship it's going to be a race between FIFA and UEFA as to who gets their first and controls the money.
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