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Especially for less than £25m, that's madness.0
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Maybe they did and he wants the money, but have to agree that £24m for a player like Laporte who's still only 29 would have been a bargain for a European club.Chris_from_Sidcup said:Aymeric Laporte has left Manchester City to join Saudi Pro League side Al Nassr in a deal worth £23.6m.
I'm amazed that no top European clubs made a move for him.
West Ham bid £30m for Maguire FFS.0 -
Bono GKMendy GKDenayer CBDemiral CBLaporte CBIbanez CBKoulibaly CBTelles LBKessie DMFabinho DMBrozovic DMFofana DMKante DMHenderson CMMilinkovic-Savic CMNeves CMOtavio RWJota RWMahrez RWNeymar LWMane LWSaint Maximan LWFirminho STMalcom STRonaldo STBenzema STDembele ST
Quite a decent Saudi All Stars squad they can put together now.
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Would love to know what the collective weekly wage is across that lot. GDP of a small country!sam3110 said:Bono GKMendy GKDenayer CBDemiral CBLaporte CBIbanez CBKoulibaly CBTelles LBKessie DMFabinho DMBrozovic DMFofana DMKante DMHenderson CMMilinkovic-Savic CMNeves CMOtavio RWJota RWMahrez RWNeymar LWMane LWSaint Maximan LWFirminho STMalcom STRonaldo STBenzema STDembele ST
Quite a decent Saudi All Stars squad they can put together now.
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A Saudi tv channel has reported that Mo Salah has told Liverpool he wants to leave and join Al Ittihad and will fly out for a medical after todays game.
Apparently offering him more money than Ronaldo, 300m over 3 years.0 -
All that will do is get Ronny to throw his toys out the pram until they renegotiate his deal, or he'll find a different third rate league to pay stupid money to take him on.Chris_from_Sidcup said:A Saudi tv channel has reported that Mo Salah has told Liverpool he wants to leave and join Al Ittihad and will fly out for a medical after todays game.
Apparently offering him more money than Ronaldo, 300m over 3 years.0 -
Is Henderson the only British player to have gone out there so far?0
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Only Englishman, Jack Hendry has gone to the same club.killerandflash said:Is Henderson the only British player to have gone out there so far?So they’ve got a mackam, a scouser and a Scot, I’m sure the rest will pick up English in no time.1 -
Al Ittihad have apparently offered a world record £215m for Salah. Saudi transfer window closes on Thursday.
If you were Liverpool would you sell, knowing you can't replace him for 5 months?0 -
Even in January, everyone will know they have £215m to spend so prices will go through the roof for them.Chris_from_Sidcup said:Al Ittihad have apparently offered a world record £215m for Salah. Saudi transfer window closes on Thursday.
If you were Liverpool would you sell, knowing you can't replace him for 5 months?
That said, yeah I probably would, £215m for a 31 year old whose big asset has been pace....
They've got decent depth in Diaz, Gakpo, Jota etc too - they're not as good as Salah but they'd do until January and then you can look for 2, 3 younger players to develop with that amount of money.0 - Sponsored links:
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You've got to take it. They can go out and a buy a quality centre-back and a Salah replacement with that money. The window closing creates a complication as the fans will go mad. Ultimately I think they'll take it if Salah pushes for it, and hang on if he doesn't.Chris_from_Sidcup said:Al Ittihad have apparently offered a world record £215m for Salah. Saudi transfer window closes on Thursday.
If you were Liverpool would you sell, knowing you can't replace him for 5 months?1 -
If I were Liverpool I wouldn't take it and not just for the lunacy of being unable to replace him for half the seasonChris_from_Sidcup said:Al Ittihad have apparently offered a world record £215m for Salah. Saudi transfer window closes on Thursday.
If you were Liverpool would you sell, knowing you can't replace him for 5 months?
Liverpool FC is owned by american businessmen who were bang up for forming the european super league
they are devoted to making money for money's sake - £200+M will be very hard for them to resist
their amorality will have them weighing £200+M in the hand today v the probable cost of missing out on european football next season added to the risk and cost of replacing Salah in January
Henderson's bleating about the pain of the criticism is either the weasel words of a hypocrite defending his brand (FFS) or he's a deluded halfwit - what the AF did he expect?
even if stories of £37M p.a. salary (tax free by the way) are wide of the mark, the shameless whore ain't earning any less now than when he was at Liverpool is he?
if it was really about "playing time" he had his pick of sides that would happily have him in their matchday squad and in countries that don't actively persecute 50+% of their population and routinely murder dissidents3 -
Everyone knows they have money anyway, they're Liverpool. Last month they bid 100m for Caicedo before he chose Chelsea.North Lower Neil said:
Even in January, everyone will know they have £215m to spend so prices will go through the roof for them.Chris_from_Sidcup said:Al Ittihad have apparently offered a world record £215m for Salah. Saudi transfer window closes on Thursday.
If you were Liverpool would you sell, knowing you can't replace him for 5 months?
That said, yeah I probably would, £215m for a 31 year old whose big asset has been pace....
They've got decent depth in Diaz, Gakpo, Jota etc too - they're not as good as Salah but they'd do until January and then you can look for 2, 3 younger players to develop with that amount of money.
But if you shop sensibly, then with 215m you can easily buy 3 top level players for around 70m each.
Also a key point is that Salah is likely to go anyway, if not now then surely next summer, so they might as well take the stupid money on offer now and get planning for the rebuild.1 -
Henderson took up two pages of the Mirror today. He seems to think that him going to Saudi has shone a light on the issues of a repressive state and that it can only be a positive thing.Billy_Mix said:
If I were Liverpool I wouldn't take it and not just for the lunacy of being unable to replace him for half the seasonChris_from_Sidcup said:Al Ittihad have apparently offered a world record £215m for Salah. Saudi transfer window closes on Thursday.
If you were Liverpool would you sell, knowing you can't replace him for 5 months?
Liverpool FC is owned by american businessmen who were bang up for forming the european super league
they are devoted to making money for money's sake - £200+M will be very hard for them to resist
their amorality will have them weighing £200+M in the hand today v the probable cost of missing out on european football next season added to the risk and cost of replacing Salah in January
Henderson's bleating about the pain of the criticism is either the weasel words of a hypocrite defending his brand (FFS) or he's a deluded halfwit - what the AF did he expect?
even if stories of £37M p.a. salary (tax free by the way) are wide of the mark, the shameless whore ain't earning any less now than when he was at Liverpool is he?
if it was really about "playing time" he had his pick of sides that would happily have him in their matchday squad and in countries that don't actively persecute 50+% of their population and routinely murder dissidents
Do me a favour mate! it is only a positive thing for the regime that has just sentenced a man to death for tweeting dissent against the top brass to his 10 followers, a regime that executed 81 people on one day last year and a regime who murdered a journalist in one of their embassies, a regime whose record against human rights is atrocious.
The only effect elite athletes who go there have on the Saudis is to embolden them. The Mirror concludes that there is not a chance that Henderson will bring up his supposed views and values in Saudi - primarily because they have bought them.
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No no, don't you understand, it was an exciting new challenge!!Billy_Mix said:
If I were Liverpool I wouldn't take it and not just for the lunacy of being unable to replace him for half the seasonChris_from_Sidcup said:Al Ittihad have apparently offered a world record £215m for Salah. Saudi transfer window closes on Thursday.
If you were Liverpool would you sell, knowing you can't replace him for 5 months?
Liverpool FC is owned by american businessmen who were bang up for forming the european super league
they are devoted to making money for money's sake - £200+M will be very hard for them to resist
their amorality will have them weighing £200+M in the hand today v the probable cost of missing out on european football next season added to the risk and cost of replacing Salah in January
Henderson's bleating about the pain of the criticism is either the weasel words of a hypocrite defending his brand (FFS) or he's a deluded halfwit - what the AF did he expect?
even if stories of £37M p.a. salary (tax free by the way) are wide of the mark, the shameless whore ain't earning any less now than when he was at Liverpool is he?
if it was really about "playing time" he had his pick of sides that would happily have him in their matchday squad and in countries that don't actively persecute 50+% of their population and routinely murder dissidents
You can't possibly get an exiting new challenge anywhere but the place that also happens to be trebling your salary.
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As a country they are definitely on the hunt for foreign workers in general. They’re making a big play in banking and can offer more money than a lot of the European Banks. It’s whether or not you can adapt to the lifestyle.2
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cabbles said:As a country they are definitely on the hunt for foreign workers in general. They’re making a big play in banking and can offer more money than a lot of the European Banks. It’s whether or not you can adapt to the lifestyle. And whether you are morally bankrupt
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why do you have to be morally bankrupt to work in Saudi ?Billy_Mix said:cabbles said:As a country they are definitely on the hunt for foreign workers in general. They’re making a big play in banking and can offer more money than a lot of the European Banks. It’s whether or not you can adapt to the lifestyle. And whether you are morally bankrupt
Any different to working in the US with their archaic rules on women's rights over their own body ?2 -
It’s the same for foreign based teachers too, I was approached twice over summer by international schools in Saudi and the money on offer is insane.cabbles said:As a country they are definitely on the hunt for foreign workers in general. They’re making a big play in banking and can offer more money than a lot of the European Banks. It’s whether or not you can adapt to the lifestyle.0 -
They've been allowed to drive and vote in the US for more than 15 minutes thoughMrOneLung said:
why do you have to be morally bankrupt to work in Saudi ?Billy_Mix said:cabbles said:As a country they are definitely on the hunt for foreign workers in general. They’re making a big play in banking and can offer more money than a lot of the European Banks. It’s whether or not you can adapt to the lifestyle. And whether you are morally bankrupt
Any different to working in the US with their archaic rules on women's rights over their own body ?0 - Sponsored links:
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Ok so we can overlook other stuff then ?sam3110 said:
They've been allowed to drive and vote in the US for more than 15 minutes thoughMrOneLung said:
why do you have to be morally bankrupt to work in Saudi ?Billy_Mix said:cabbles said:As a country they are definitely on the hunt for foreign workers in general. They’re making a big play in banking and can offer more money than a lot of the European Banks. It’s whether or not you can adapt to the lifestyle. And whether you are morally bankrupt
Any different to working in the US with their archaic rules on women's rights over their own body ?
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No but in the league table of morally bankrupt nations Saudi Arabia is in the playoff positions, whilst America is a mid table team with aspirations of joining the elite1
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Enough to tempt you?Stu_of_Kunming said:
It’s the same for foreign based teachers too, I was approached twice over summer by international schools in Saudi and the money on offer is insane.cabbles said:As a country they are definitely on the hunt for foreign workers in general. They’re making a big play in banking and can offer more money than a lot of the European Banks. It’s whether or not you can adapt to the lifestyle.0 -
Expats have worked in Saudi for years, I remember a recruitment consultant raising an accounting vacancy out there to me 20 years agoStu_of_Kunming said:
It’s the same for foreign based teachers too, I was approached twice over summer by international schools in Saudi and the money on offer is insane.cabbles said:As a country they are definitely on the hunt for foreign workers in general. They’re making a big play in banking and can offer more money than a lot of the European Banks. It’s whether or not you can adapt to the lifestyle.0 -
Few more names going there in the past few days, most notably Carrasco and Luiz Felipe from La Liga, both playing regularly for their clubs before switching, Wijnaldum from PSG and Demarai Gray from Everton0
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If I didn’t have a half Chinese 5 year old, definitely.Chris_from_Sidcup said:
Enough to tempt you?Stu_of_Kunming said:
It’s the same for foreign based teachers too, I was approached twice over summer by international schools in Saudi and the money on offer is insane.cabbles said:As a country they are definitely on the hunt for foreign workers in general. They’re making a big play in banking and can offer more money than a lot of the European Banks. It’s whether or not you can adapt to the lifestyle.1 -
Fair play to you mate. You put the mercenaries like Henderson to shame.Stu_of_Kunming said:
If I didn’t have a half Chinese 5 year old, definitely.Chris_from_Sidcup said:
Enough to tempt you?Stu_of_Kunming said:
It’s the same for foreign based teachers too, I was approached twice over summer by international schools in Saudi and the money on offer is insane.cabbles said:As a country they are definitely on the hunt for foreign workers in general. They’re making a big play in banking and can offer more money than a lot of the European Banks. It’s whether or not you can adapt to the lifestyle.0 -
Paraphrased from today's Mirror.
Clubs in Saudi Arabia spent £701 million pounds on big name players last summer.
According to Michael Emenalo (Saudi Pro League director of football) the focus will now switch to players in their prime. However, it's not all plain sailing as the average attendance to a pro league game is just 8470 with some games attracting less than a 1000.
One can only hope that their money doesn't ruin the game we all love.
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And those figures are distorted by a couple of big crowds that Al Hilal and Al Ittihad got for games against the other 'big 4'.Raith_C_Chattonell said:Paraphrased from today's Mirror.
Clubs in Saudi Arabia spent £701 million pounds on big name players last summer.
According to Michael Emenalo (Saudi Pro League director of football) the focus will now switch to players in their prime. However, it's not all plain sailing as the average attendance to a pro league game is just 8470 with some games attracting less than a 1000.
One can only hope that their money doesn't ruin the game we all love.
13 of the 18 teams in the league have an average attendance less than 9k.
11 of the teams recorded an attendance of less than 2k.
1 team (Al Riyadh) got a crowd of 133 for a game.
Of the 13 game weeks so far, in 11 of them the total for all games combined that week was less than Dortmund get for each home game.2
