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Just read in an article about all this that this week the Saudi Public Investment Fund, which is the entity that owns 80% of Newcastle United, purchased 75% stakes in four Saudi clubs including the one Ronaldo plays for (Al-Nassr), the one Benzema just signed for and who are also trying to sign Kante (Al-Ittihad), the one pursuing Messi and Aubameyang (Al-Hilal), and the fourth one that's also pursuing Aubameyang (Al-Shabab). Just in case anybody needed more evidence that this is all just for show, that's the state buying four football clubs at the same time and then working hard to arrange it so each one has an aging star brought in from overseas to make nine-figure wages.
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vyelkin posted:Just read in an article about all this that this week the Saudi Public Investment Fund, which is the entity that owns 80% of Newcastle United, purchased 75% stakes in four Saudi clubs including the one Ronaldo plays for (Al-Nassr), the one Benzema just signed for and who are also trying to sign Kante (Al-Ittihad), the one pursuing Messi and Aubameyang (Al-Hilal), and the fourth one that's also pursuing Aubameyang (Al-Shabab). This kind of thinking took MLS from A Terrible Standard of Football to A Very Bad Standard of Football in only 25 years
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Jun 7, 2023 14:37
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Shrapnig posted:This kind of thinking took MLS from A Terrible Standard of Football to A Very Bad Standard of Football in only 25 years yeah but just look at what it's done for the standard of the USMNT!
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Jun 7, 2023 14:50
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vyelkin posted:Just read in an article about all this that this week the Saudi Public Investment Fund, which is the entity that owns 80% of Newcastle United, purchased 75% stakes in four Saudi clubs including the one Ronaldo plays for (Al-Nassr), the one Benzema just signed for and who are also trying to sign Kante (Al-Ittihad), the one pursuing Messi and Aubameyang (Al-Hilal), and the fourth one that's also pursuing Aubameyang (Al-Shabab). I wonder if they'll try and pull a LIV and buy the champions league to get their poo poo teams in.
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Jun 7, 2023 15:54
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:I wonder if they'll try and pull a LIV and buy the champions league to get their poo poo teams in. Don’t give them more ideas! Also sex ghost please update TRP Rules to state that MBS is not allowed to post or lurk here
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Jun 7, 2023 17:06
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:I wonder if they'll try and pull a LIV and buy the champions league to get their poo poo teams in. Maybe, but the expanded Club World Cup is already coming
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Jun 7, 2023 17:13
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:I wonder if they'll try and pull a LIV and buy the champions league to get their poo poo teams in. they're readying the briefcase of money that says Saudi Arabia is actually in Europe
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Jun 7, 2023 17:43
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sticksy posted:Don’t give them more ideas! i don't think sex ghost wants to end up in a briefcase
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Akbar posted:they're readying the briefcase of money that says Saudi Arabia is actually in Europe If Israeli teams are allowed in why not Saudi?
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Jun 7, 2023 20:45
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let them in mashallah
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Jun 7, 2023 22:07
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Much like the Champions League some of Saudi Arabia’s best known moments have happened in Istanbul
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Jun 7, 2023 23:31
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Akbar posted:they're readying the briefcase of money that says Saudi Arabia is actually in Europe I wonder how much more rigged the games would be than pep era Barcelona
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Jun 8, 2023 04:38
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Al-Hillal just lost the two-legged AFC Champs League final to Urawa Reds, which is nice that they didn't win but man Urawa are going to be annoying about it.
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harperdc posted:Al-Hillal just lost the two-legged AFC Champs League final to Urawa Reds, which is nice that they didn't win but man Urawa are going to be annoying about it. Well, it was the third time we won it.
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Jun 8, 2023 14:02
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Adun posted:Much like the Champions League some of Saudi Arabia’s best known moments have happened in Istanbul 
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https://twitter.com/centregoals/status/1667241186673696800
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Jun 9, 2023 22:49
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lmao
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lol hes so washed
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Jun 9, 2023 23:43
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Nice to see a former Manchester United forward in the team of the season.
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Jun 10, 2023 00:27
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lmao
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Jun 10, 2023 01:51
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Saudi Pro League Team of the Season, featuring a former Manchester United forward! no, not that one
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Jun 10, 2023 03:55
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lol
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This is incredibly funny
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Jun 10, 2023 13:46
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It owns because he 100% cares about this and will be fuming lol
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Jun 10, 2023 15:11
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Good news for our administrator, The Phantom Fucker and hearty lols all around for the rest of us: https://twitter.com/talkSPORT/status/1668283948810620928
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Jun 12, 2023 18:47
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Sad, just sad.
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Jun 12, 2023 19:26
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drat Saudi Arabia is cool now
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Jun 12, 2023 20:04
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They've offered Lukaku £20m a season which is a loving ton of money but also very funny when Zaha rejected £30m, Kante is going to get £80m, and Ronaldo is getting like £400m
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Shrapnig posted:They've offered Lukaku £20m a season which is a loving ton of money but also very funny when Zaha rejected £30m, Kante is going to get £80m, and Ronaldo is getting like £400m lmao
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Jun 13, 2023 20:43
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for comparison, that's about the same wages De Gea is on at Man U
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Jun 13, 2023 20:44
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This was the best part of the Athletic article on the Saudi deluge of cash:quote:Another potential impact, heavily briefed by competition organisers, are potential public health benefits. The government is keen to improve the statistic that some 60 per cent of the population are overweight or obese. One aim, given by Yasser Al-Misehal, the president of the Saudi Arabian Football Federation, is to increase the number of registered male players from 21,000 to more than 200,000. He did not mention a target for female players. MBS spending billions on a presidential fitness test
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Jun 13, 2023 23:58
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Saudis are usually pretty successful with weight loss schemes.
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Jun 14, 2023 00:40
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Spreading it around a bit doesn’t take any weight off
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Jun 14, 2023 00:41
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How much does a human head weigh
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Gigi Galli posted:How much does a human head weigh a regular one or a steve bruce one?
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Holy poo poo this is a lot of copium: https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/38026181/cristiano-ronaldo-says-saudi-pro-league-better-mlsquote:"I opened the way to the Saudi league, and now all the players are coming here." I can think of about a half billion other reasons players are going to Saudi Arabia now...
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He's no longer the best but he'll always be first, unless you count all the other guys going back to the 70s who got mega money to play in Saudi for a minute, which we do not
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the sex ghost posted:He's no longer the best but he'll always be first, unless you count all the other guys going back to the 70s who got mega money to play in Saudi for a minute, which we do not Like this bloke https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47258619
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I think actually Saudi league will be interesting this year just cause they actually signed some non washed up players like Savic, Neves, Kante.
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which saudi teams should we all become plastics for
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