Its called sportswashing. Foremost they are dictators and want to keep power by establishing good relations with the west. Investment in the west is the best for this. most recently we have seen gulf states invest in sport, spending big money to get the F1 to Saudi Arabia, competing with the PGA tour by having an alternate tour where the money is better.
Sure they will hang homosexuals in their home country and whip women who leave the house with their knees showing. But they will gladly invest in women's football and allow the vessel club to promote LGBTQ rights, even if it is disingenuous.
Money goes a long way in having someone forfeit their moral conviction. Although after City and Newcastle accepted got taken over by Arabian dictatorships, its pretty much cut the grass for other premier league clubs to have their own dictator.
As for me, never will I surrender to the taliban. Arsenal & British till I die. No shit 350m for Neymar would ever cause me to forget who I am.
If you believe in that by reading news papers from western media/ journalists, Kindly read for yourself about the various investments made by Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, China etc in UK and US. Be surprised that most of the big businesses, buildings, ports, airports etc which we know are all owned by them.
Investments are done by people who have money on assets which they deem worth its value or for entertainment.
I dont think anyone with right perspective will believe that F1, PGA are brought to SA for western approval to keep power, sportwashing etc
Other than the argument that big spending by rich owners will make the competitiveness in sport as redundant hence needs curtailing, everything else like sportwashing, the laws in their own countries etc are clutching at straws.
