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For a gay person it probably is hell on earth but if you’re moneyed up and straight you’re buffered from the nastier side of Saudi life. Big salary, big house, servants, socialising with the ex patriot community, and the option to fly out to Dubai regularly.

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14 minutes ago, jack j said:

Is there a limit on foreign players per team out there

Is that why they are wanting to move that Jota on?

Allowed eight in the squad, I believe.

 

As for the chat about living in Saudi Arabia, I'll admit to being grimly curious as to what'll happen the first time one of these players gets into trouble with the police in any of the ways that many modern footballers are wont to do.

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1 minute ago, enthusiast said:

Allowed eight in the squad, I believe.

 

As for the chat about living in Saudi Arabia, I'll admit to being grimly curious as to what'll happen the first time one of these players gets into trouble with the police in any of the ways that many modern footballers are wont to do.

They'll probably spend their leisure and entertainment time in Dubai and only be in Saudi for training and matches.

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It’s taken our own game here in GB over 150 years to reach the pinnacle of world football. The Saudis can spend as much as they want right now and their league will never be of the standard of our league or game. They don’t have a pyramid system and the structure from youth, women’s and coaching and even scouting, nor the audience or marketing reach  of a world-wide audience to worry our game. They will worry certain clubs as their money can now buy them talent from the likes of Italy, Spain, Germany, England and France etc. The PL will always be the dominant league, however, due to how universal it is. No top or elite player in their prime will go to Saudi Arabia and any young talent that does go there, especially European players, they won’t commit their entire careers to that league. 

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36 minutes ago, XLVIII said:

It’s taken our own game here in GB over 150 years to reach the pinnacle of world football. The Saudis can spend as much as they want right now and their league will never be of the standard of our league or game. They don’t have a pyramid system and the structure from youth, women’s and coaching and even scouting, nor the audience or marketing reach  of a world-wide audience to worry our game. They will worry certain clubs as their money can now buy them talent from the likes of Italy, Spain, Germany, England and France etc. The PL will always be the dominant league, however, due to how universal it is. No top or elite player in their prime will go to Saudi Arabia and any young talent that does go there, especially European players, they won’t commit their entire careers to that league. 

 

Nobody outside of England cares about all of this.

 

They just want to see the most talented footballers on the planet go up against each other. 

 

On top of that a number of these players will be from their countries and so they will want to support them.

 

The things happening this summer have been shocking. Never expected them to already attract the players they have been able to.

 

I'm even hearing that Osimhen has been approached and it isn't a move that is out of the question for him. If he and the likes of Kudus are open to it this is an almighty blow for European football.

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The Saudi league will never hold similar prestige because they don’t play in European competitions, and even if they did buy their way in, how would they meet FFP obligations? All signs point to them making themselves part of the super league IMO, it’s the only way any of this becomes sustainable long term.

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2 minutes ago, Kimbo said:

The Saudi league will never hold similar prestige because they don’t play in European competitions, and even if they did buy their way in, how would they meet FFP obligations? All signs point to them making themselves part of the super league IMO, it’s the only way any of this becomes sustainable long term.

 

You guys have such tunnel vision with all this talk of prestige and European competitions.

 

If they attract a ton of top tier talent, people are going to want to watch those players go up against each other with or without prestigious competitions.

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6 hours ago, Yorkie said:

I think the Saudi Pro-League stands a chance of gaining a meaningful European audience if some of their teams start competing in UEFA competitions. I'd wager that, as it stands, none of the teams mean anything to the vast majority of people - certainly in terms of the British audience. As long as that's the case, it'll never gain sustainable interest, regardless of which players turn up there. I'd even argue that the casual observer would have difficulty telling teams apart given most of them start 'Al-' and all of the squads seem to have the same mix; i.e. predominantly Saudi with a few South American unknowns and a few household names doing the payday thing.

 

My assumption is that UEFA would resist any attempts from Saudi to enter the UCL or Europa competitions, but - then again - they could consider an 'enemies closer' approach. Rather than keep them at arms length whilst there's a growing perception that the Saudi Pro League is on the up; let them in, have them get routinely battered by Croatian sides and Swedish sides, thereby emphasising the hierarchy. 

 

Should be interesting over the next few years, whatever happens, but there definitely needs to be more to their strategy then just player recruitment. If it wasn't Saudi I'd be wishing them all the luck in the world; a proper agitator to get UEFA sweating could breed some positive outcomes, who knows?

If they did let the clubs in the CL where does that leave Newcastle?

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39 minutes ago, KaKa said:

 

You guys have such tunnel vision with all this talk of prestige and European competitions.

 

If they attract a ton of top tier talent, people are going to want to watch those players go up against each other with or without prestigious competitions.

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. 

 

 

 

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2 hours ago, SAK said:

 

Hope this is the beginning of the end of FFP, Saudi clubs not signing cast offs but prime targets of European clubs. If European teams want to stay at the top they’ll push for FFP restrictions to be lifted.

 

 

 

 

Been thinking this. Saudi league is going to end ffp so the Saudi owned nufc can spend what they want.

 

Well that's one way to get round ffp. Fair player to them thinking outside the box. 

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