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42 minutes ago, Wolfcastle said:

Similar has happened before (Japan, MLS) and were curiosities more than anything.

The English league was probably the most or second most watched in the world courtesy of the Scandinavian/Benelux/Asian markets before the Premier League without having the worlds best players. Whilst selling its best players to Italy, France and Germany.

Its not about the world best players. The established league's themselves are a bigger draw. 

 

 

 

 

 

Can't believe you think this is comparable to China and the MLS.

 

We'll see. We're all going to be here watching it all transpire.

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1 minute ago, The Fountain said:

For players that play for one of the teams in Jeddah, by the Red Sea it's 1,300 miles to Dubai.

There are other cities than Dubai. Afaik, most foreign players playing in Riyadh live in Bahrain.

 

 

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They were ready to offer 700m to Mbappe for a year. If Al-Ittihad are serious Liverpool will struggle to turn it down. Say they offer 150m, that's a transformative sum for a player that's 31-year-old. If they can poach Benzema you better believe they can poach Salah.

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5 minutes ago, The Fountain said:

For players that play for one of the teams in Jeddah, by the Red Sea it's 1,300 miles to Dubai.


Jeddah’s nicer than Dubai tbf (in my completely unbiased opinion). Less Russian escorts though, I guess. 

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55 minutes ago, Wolfcastle said:

Similar has happened before (Japan, MLS) and were curiosities more than anything.

The English league was probably the most or second most watched in the world courtesy of the Scandinavian/Benelux/Asian markets before the Premier League without having the worlds best players. Whilst selling its best players to Italy, France and Germany.

Its not about the world best players. The established league's themselves are a bigger draw. 

 

 

 

 

 

We're in a vastly different time now in marketing and broadcasting. People staying up all night and paying money to watch YouTubers box is a thing now FFS.

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57 minutes ago, Viana said:

They were ready to offer 700m to Mbappe for a year. If Al-Ittihad are serious Liverpool will struggle to turn it down. Say they offer 150m, that's a transformative sum for a player that's 31-year-old. If they can poach Benzema you better believe they can poach Salah.

The fees haven’t been super crazy. They bank on turning the players head. I think he goes for less than £120m. 

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2 hours ago, KaKa said:

 

Can't believe you think this is comparable to China and the MLS.

 

We'll see. We're all going to be here watching it all transpire.


Just to clarify though, what do you think is going to transpire?

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The money (and power) machine behind the Saudi league is a completely different animal than that of China or the MLS.. those two leagues are incomparable to what’s going on here. Look at the names that have moved to Saudi in their first big transfer window, it’s different worlds man. 
 

Anything could happen but I get the feeling that they will become serious players in world football within 5 years. They will stop at nothing to build and enhance the Saudi ‘brand’, fair play to them.

 

 

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I've just been reading that the Saudi transfer window closes a week after ours, so that's a lot of managers and players getting unsettled over the next couple of weeks, with know hope of signing a replacement 

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9 hours ago, Ben said:

He was homesick at Arsenal  !!

 

Merino went to Real Sociedad when he was homesick and he's taken his game to new levels.

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Are we potentially one of the very few clubs that are going to be untouchable for any Saudi transfer? Was just thinking of the possibility of Bruno disappearing any time soon. Guessing it would be on our terms, right?

 

 

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2 minutes ago, enthusiast said:

The fee we got for Maxi didn't do that much to suggest "our terms" to me

 

Not sure like. Was enough to allow us to buy 2 players and get a loan deal in without being above market value.

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3 minutes ago, enthusiast said:

The fee we got for Maxi didn't do that much to suggest "our terms" to me

Haven't checked but was it a state club? Don't even know where he went to be honest. I wasn't very invested in the steak bake years so he's been mostly injured when I watch

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