adexkola
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Worth taking a look at what Michael Emenalo (Saudi league DOF) and others are saying
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...-it-will-soon-be-for-exceptional-players-only
“I would love to have Kylian Mbappé here,” he said. “I would love to have Harry Kane here. The league would like to have all the top players. And I think it is something that will be at the heart of this strategy. In a couple of years, in a few short years, this will become a league for exceptional players only.
Carlo Nohra, the chief operating officer of the Saudi Pro League, said the target was for football to become a “net contributor to GDP and not costing the country money”. He also said the long-term strategy involved teams from the league playing competitive matches against the biggest clubs from the rest of the world.
Won't be long that there's a tipping point and it will become the place to be. We've already seen how quickly you can transform clubs like city and PSG so I don't think the names, history and prestige hold much water compared to money and increasingly where the best players are.
Makes you wonder how good an investment is paying £6bn for United. Perhaps we can be part of a very lucrative world comp or Euro Asia comp or will clubs not in European capitals or even Europe as a whole struggle. A Euro Super league could come in but I just don't see it being that attractive or be able to generate enough to compete money wise. It's tax free money in Saudi as well.
Had no idea Emenalo was over in Saudi Arabia, IIRC he was Chelsea's DoF for a good while.