Yep. Jimmy's call about inviting them into the Champions League is bang on. However, and I think this is where it might be way more damaging than LIV could have been for golf, that won't stop Saudi Arabia eventually hoovering up all of the best players in the World, effectively killing the other top flight leagues. It just needs one player in their prime to go (say Vinicius Junior) and the floodgates will open.Originally Posted by Gray Fox
You'd imagine they'll be throwing billions at Mbappe next summer.
Yep, Mbappe would be the motherload and it's absolutely game over if he goes.
Representing your own country in the World Cup in Qatar when you had no say over it being held there is definitely different to going and representing a Saudi club and being paid millions to do so.
It is, but if football in general was saying it was fine to hold a World Cup there, why is it not fine to play for a club side there? Is it the money? Are people jealous?
Hardly, he's already playing for a made up team in a nothing league funded by the sand people.
This existential threat extends as far as the FIFA Ultimate Team Pack twat fan market. Beyond that no one is going to give a fuck about this thing, regardless of how much 'talent' they manage to hoover up.
it's also, as has been pointed out, massively unsustainable and they don't actually have unlimited money.
I'm not sure the narrative was ever that it was "fine".
Mbappe won't go yet because he is wanting out of PSG for the exact reason he won't go to the desert: he knows his legacy will be tainted unless he does it in a top league.
The rest of the world will lol at English cries of the game going though since they thing that happened in 1992 when the PL formed and starting doing the same thing Saudi are doing now.
I was surprised he was as old as that when I saw it in a story a while back, either thought Liverpool had signed him younger or he's been there longer than I thought, but yeah, not exactly following the Fernandinho path of still being a don at 35 or whatever. Hopefully, if he stays, that's down to exhaustion/being overworked rather than permanent decline. He's never seemed the sort to become useless overnight for traditional Brazilian reasons.
Well we did it, so I think it's safe to say from all available evidence that no one was that bothered about it.
I bet Steven Gerrard is right-wing as fuck. He's practically the only prominent scouser who doesn't constantly drone on about the city and hating the Conservative Party, as all of the others feel obligated to do. It probably comes from carrying the club for ten years.
Kyle Walker to Bayern Munich.
Has Hazard not buggered off to Saudi Arabia yet [is he still without a club]?
54 appearance and 4 goals in his time at Madrid [4 years!]. Definitely value for the hundreds of millions that must have cost them.
Those were clean respectable white man's currency though.
If I was being offered 700k a week I'd be doing the abuse myself tbf and I fucking love me some femboys
Inter Miami I think
I've just caught a glimpse of Henderson's physique. Wouldn't sell for £100m.
Henderson has travelled to the Germany pre-season camp, but Fabinho hasn't. Seems ominous.
£40mil bid in place
No Caicedo to replace Fab but rather Lavia, Amrabat, Kalvin Fucking Phillips or Gravenberch? Fuck me, at least the latter has the physical profile but if it's any of the others, those fucking Sunni cunts have fucked us right up.
This whole Arsenal spending money and buying players that they want is very odd as a man who lived through Mark Shwarzer at 1.5m pounds is a bit too pricey to replace Manuel Almunia.
Lukaku managing to piss Inter off for them to pull out of signing him is hilarious. Will suit Juventus down to a tee
This is what's annoying. Bad News Pearce was trying to have it on that our business was done already, when 4 midfielders have left and 2 have come in. I bet they don't even think of trying for Caicedo, who looks a perfect fit for our type of midfield player and can cover right back in emergencies.
You'll get a half hearted Lavia bid or something, it'll fall through and then Klopp will be shoved out in the press conference to defend the financial situation.
£100m, which is what Brighton want, for Caicedo is mad money, particularly if you plan to use him as some sort of midfield shitkicker. He's a good player and all but come on.
I assume he's gone to Chelsea anyway, though it would be nice to at least try. For what it's worth I'd be having him as part of that base two in the formation I put in here I cant remember when. I wouldn't want him as the defined 'number 6' but he'd be great in the press and taking the ball forwards.
Any of the Portuguese football watchers know anything of Florentino Luis? I've seen a few people mentioning him. I hope he's better than people on the supposed list, because said list looks fucking terrible.
He's decent enough. Only had one proper breakthrough season last year though.
He’s a better footballer than anyone in Liverpool’s current midfield lol (including MacAlistair).
From the training clips coming out, this Arda Guler lad looks like Mesut's regen. Buzzing to see him in action.
No idea who’s advising him but they seem wise. Move to Barca for mega money and get loaned back to a joke league, or stay in and around the Madrid first team. Madrid all day everyday.
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£100m for Caicedo is wild. Tony Bloom must must be pissing himself.
As always, it's the English shite that's driven the market. £105 Fucking Million for Declan Bloody Rice.
Can only assume you're seething there's no Irish version of Rice on the menu there.
declan spaghetti is some man for one man
Not really. When you hear him, they don't make people much more English.
Oriol Romeu back at Barca is a nice story.
We (Leeds) seem to be on the verge of signing Ethan Ampadu from Chelsea. Anyone with any insight on if he's any good or not feel free to enlighten me.
Depends if he’s played in midfield or defence. Hopefully the latter for your sake.
I imagine they have signed him to cover both. We're incredibly frail at the back though so hopefully he fills in more there. I imagine a lot of it hinges on whether Tyler Adams leaves or not.
I just read that he has been relegated three consecutive times in three consecutive loan spells over the last three seasons. I mean I don't hold that against the lad personally but it's not a great stat.
Seen some talk that Klopp has personally called Colwill to try and get him on board. Chelsea are rightly SEETHING about this and are insisting he is not for sale full stop.
Saudis in for Luis Diaz now.
No.
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Onana done for United. Looks like Hojlund will be next.
Heaton to Luton?#fpl
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Please. The lad's prenatal drug exposed skin and bones aren't cut out for EPL.
Jonny Evans signing for Eggman's boys passed me by. Between him and Varane's part-time statuses, that should ensure they have at least 1 respectable CB during the season.
Apparently we've scammed £10m out of Saudi for Alex Telles
That might as well be a tenner to them ... and United.
Chelsea bid £70m for Caicedo and Brighton laughed it off.
I’m hoping Chelsea are just delaying the inevitable and sign him in the next few days before they play Brighton at the weekend.
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