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Transfer fred.
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Luka Modric
^^^
What my favourite buttplug it all is eh? "dealmakers are still prepared to switch the club, which is often fluid and allocated late in the process. Previous interest from Al-Shabab and Al-Ettifaq prior to Al-Hilal's offer."
Al-Shabab/Ettifaq/Hilal/Shearer/Whatever/NobodyCares
Imagine getting a transfer to Italy but nobody knows if it is Juve or Empoli or Milan or Udinese
What my favourite buttplug it all is eh? "dealmakers are still prepared to switch the club, which is often fluid and allocated late in the process. Previous interest from Al-Shabab and Al-Ettifaq prior to Al-Hilal's offer."
Al-Shabab/Ettifaq/Hilal/Shearer/Whatever/NobodyCares
Imagine getting a transfer to Italy but nobody knows if it is Juve or Empoli or Milan or Udinese
Dicko
Michael Carrick
I said a while back that it was a bit weird that none of the Saudi clubs happened to be competing to sign the same players. Now it seems to be open knowledge that the league is just collecting stars and assigning them to teams.
metalgear
Nayim
If he is good he should improve their defence by some margin.
Mr Gogolak
Noé Pamarot
Certainly not trying to defend them but didn't MLS have a similar system in its early days? I think players signed a contract with the MLS itself and were then loaned to the various clubs/franchises. I could be wrong though as I never had much interest in it.
superspurs
Justin Edinburgh
We were linked with him earlier in the window I think, was all agreed with Napoli on Friday and medical booked Saturday and Saudi's must have offered both him and Celta the moon to gazump.
21, what a waste.
Bedfordspurs
Arthur Rowe
Mental
Will have no idea how good he is playing in a pub league
Don't understand his thinking. Ok yes it's money. But if he improves and makes a name for himself in europe the saudis would offer him even more in the future.
Hotspur75
Danny Murphy
Decent player, but a tier below some of the other names mentioned.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
The bubble won't last 2 years. He'll be in the fire sale soon.
Gazza Dazzla
Chris Perry
Saudi Sportswashing Machine will take their pick, like a Geordie feeder league. I predict transfer fees wouldn’t be an issue
This is the saudis. They are not going to run out of funds. They want the 2030 world cup. Which means until it's over they will keep buying.
It's relative though, China has a population 100 times greater than Saudi yet attendance is only just over double. I was making the point that Saudi have at least some tradition in football e.g. they've reached multiple world cups and it is hugely popular over there. There's no other sports to take the focus away and that's not the case in China and the US. Lets see what the attendances are like over the next 2-3 years.
Wow never heard of him but only 21, got player of the money last season, Spain U21 international. Talk about throwing a career away.
The point is that even if it is the most popular sport in saudi, it is not going to generate the money that it can in the us or china. Therefore it won't be sustainable. It will need continuous funding.
Yiddo
Ian Walker
But as Assou Ekotto a lot of players may not have a lot of love for the game but they have a lot of love for money.
It isn't or won't be sustainable in any of those countries. Look at Beckham, was given rights to buy a franchise for peanuts as part of his deal. Messi is being subsidised by MLS sponsors. In China they banned personal investment or something like that and it all tanked.
No doubt it will be the same in Saudi as well but is any league really sustainable, most PL clubs are heavily subsidised and running with huge losses or only continuing because of owner investment.
Push and run
Kazuyuki Toda
I'm not sure sustainability has any relevance in Saudi. They are seeking to buy up all the world's leading sportspeople: they started with golf, with tennis reputedly next, while hoovering up footballers at the same time. Money is literally no object; they can pay for football with the interest they make on their oil money. Not sure what the end game is, but I suspect it has something to do with insuring themselves against a world that can't burn any more fossil fuels.
Push and run
Kazuyuki Toda
Agree. But it will receive continuous funding. At least that's what I have heard. Circumstances change etc. but don't be surprised if this is longer lasting than the Chinese experiment.