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Cpt. Mahatma Gandhi posted:Ah, so Saudi Arabia truly has replaced China as the "throw a ton of money at old footballers to have them come play in our poo poo league" country. saudi arabia actually has money tho
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Saudi and China feel like they have/had totally different end goals in mind though. China had said they wanted to be a global force with a strong national team etc etc, and one way to do that was bring in top foreign players, coaches and administrators to Chinese clubs, who can help in developing local talent and thus improving the league’s quality, and therefore the national side too. Saudi just seems to be throwing squillions at aging superstars like Ronaldo, Benzema, probably Messi and Neymar too so that I dunno, people spend money to watch? The world’s best over-35s league? Be impressed by the glorious House of Saud? It’s not really clear to me.
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webmeister posted:Saudi and China feel like they have/had totally different end goals in mind though. China had said they wanted to be a global force with a strong national team etc etc, and one way to do that was bring in top foreign players, coaches and administrators to Chinese clubs, who can help in developing local talent and thus improving the league’s quality, and therefore the national side too. It's sports washing. They are paying for celebrities people respect and listen to to tell them Saudi Arabia is a futuristic cool metropolis and neom definitely isn't a crime against humanity
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https://theathletic.com/4587862/2023/06/06/lionel-messi-inter-miami-barcelona/ Tl;Dr or don't have a subscription, Saudi Arabia not in contention. Its between Barcelona and Inter Miami. MLS, Apple, and Adidas throwing everything in to convince him to come stateside. Apple offering him a percentage of all MLS subscriber money that join if he comes. MLS offering him ownership stake in a team. Adidas not said, but something?
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webmeister posted:Saudi just seems to be throwing squillions at aging superstars like Ronaldo, Benzema, probably Messi and Neymar too so that I dunno, people spend money to watch? The world’s best over-35s league? Be impressed by the glorious House of Saud? It’s not really clear to me. MBS is playing Pro Evo in real life. Also talking bad about the Saudi league on Twitter is a good way to get a whole lot of Arabic thrown back at you, they don’t like people pointing out they’ve got a Mickey Mouse league that somehow produces teams that go deep in the AFC Champions League.
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harperdc posted:MBS is playing Pro Evo in real life. Lost to good ol’ Urawa though!
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Bea Nanner posted:a bit lacking on the bread, however Bread knives though, especially if a journalist has stepped out of line, are plentiful
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cagliostr0 posted:It's sports washing. They are paying for celebrities people respect and listen to to tell them Saudi Arabia is a futuristic cool metropolis and neom definitely isn't a crime against humanity I think it's a combo of this and this: harperdc posted:MBS is playing Pro Evo in real life. Saudi Arabia has unlimited money and a bad reputation and they're into football now so of course they're going to spend billions bringing 40-year-old superstars to play in their Mickey Mouse league and cut promos about how much they love it, that's just what new money does in the world of football.
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vyelkin posted:Saudi Arabia has unlimited money and a bad reputation and they're into football now so of course they're going to spend billions bringing 40-year-old superstars to play in their Mickey Mouse league and cut promos about how much they love it, that's just what new money does in the world of football. KSA is a surprisingly young country for average age of the population, and MBS and the others in charge are all millennials/young Gen-Xers in Western parlance. Saudi Arabian business has I think fully subsumed SNK-Playmore (MBS owns it through his own foundation apparently? wtf) and invested in Nintendo and some other games companies, tl;dr oil country being run by goddamned nerds who think purchasing Ronald and Messi now means they get their re-gens in a few years.
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TheRat posted:A day or two ago Barcelona fans were very smugly celebrating him coming back lmao it would have been very funny
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TheRat posted:This is much funnier. David Beckham is now Lionel Messi's boss, the Galacticos win again
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vyelkin posted:David Beckham is now Lionel Messi's boss, the Galacticos win again We missed Phil Neville being his boss by mere weeks.
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TheRat posted:We missed Phil Neville being his boss by mere weeks. this is what I mean when I say that Americans spoil all humour just imagine Big Phil telling Lionel Messi how to be good at football, moving the salt shakers around while eating egg and beans
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I'm not sure if it's more funny that Messi got offered twice as much money as Ronaldo to play in the same league or that he rejected it because he'd rather give up $1.2bn than live in Saudi Arabia. Don't think he'll do badly regardless https://twitter.com/DeadlineDayLive/status/1666520610309021698?t=vvtq5DPmlE93qYExbx5VHg&s=19
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TheRat posted:Dude could have gone back to Barcelona and been a legend/hero, instead he chose american money. Lol he's literally a legend/ hero there already, probably their greatest ever. Anyone would snap up that money in a heartbeat. Tbh 90% of people would probably take the bigger Saudi payout in the same situation. Just Chamber fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Jun 7, 2023 |
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Just Chamber posted:Anyone would snap up that money in a heartbeat. Anyone who needs money, yes. Dude's already got more money than he and his children can ever spend.
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TheRat posted:Anyone who needs money, yes. Dude's already got more money than he and his children can ever spend. You'd turn down hundreds of millions of dollars even if you already had half a billion to play a bit of footy for a couple of years? No one is doing that.
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Plenty of people are doing that. For instance, Lionel Messi just did that.
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TheRat posted:Plenty of people are doing that. For instance, Lionel Messi just did that. Turning down the Saudi money to still get hundreds of millions from America isn't quite the same thing. Somehow don't think his legacy or hero status at Barca is affected either. Just Chamber fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Jun 7, 2023 |
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