The money is not drying up. this reported FIFA ban is based on some transfer they did five years ago way before PIF got involved.
Yeah it's £390k to Leicester which they were ordered to pay by CAS. Probably just being difficult.
Looking forward to him releasing a video like Gerrard.
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Like most footballers/people he doesn't put his "values" over money, it was all for show.
That is an idiotic take honestly.
Presume the same group have denounced Gerrard too?
Probably yeah, loads of Liverpool fans have criticised Gerrard for it.
No he won't
Is it? An absolutely shot Ronaldo, Kante, and Koulibaly who ran from the top level with his tail between his legs. A past it Henderson is similar to the Fellaini we got rid years ago.
You don’t reckon?
Oh, I don't think it'll be successful in the long term but they are trying a bit harder than the Chinese to make it work.
It's players taking an early retirement and playing casual, irrelevant football on the side. I'm just surprised so many big names are willingly moving them and their families to a desert tbh.
No, Jordan fecking Henderson will not play a role in Saudi Arabia's so called quest to purify their mission (to do what exactly, no one can say)
Maybe not directly, but indirectly stuff like increase in followers for the club and league, views on clips, getting an avid LGBT-spokesperson to maybe speak of progress etc.
Can one not still be an ally whilst living in Saudi Arabia?
Do you think their project is simply to establish the Saudi League? If so, then yeah I can say this moves the needle a bit.
You can't even connect in Riyadh or Dubai. That would "legitimize the regimes there" and spoil all the hard work one does at home.
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I’ve thought about it some more and I think I’ve been a bit tone deaf to the topic.
In what world some homophobic sheiks will stop being homophobic just cause some footballers move to their country to play football.
I've thought similar.
If you are pro-LGBT, and you move to Saudi Arabia, and receive shiton of money directly from the people who enforces anti-LGBT laws...sorry, you can post whatever you want on Instagram to make up for it, still you lost the plot.
Where have I even insinuated they will? I said, that a player like Henderson going there might be able to convince some people, that the conditions for LGBT-people is rapidly improving. Not once have I entertained the thought that a mere footballer could or would be allowed to opportunity to influence an evil monarchy and its century-old values and traditions.
Why? It’s a very fair take. Would be disgusting from Henderson.
Yes. Obviously.
No, I was genuinely asking.
I absolutely would say no to a job offer from Saudi quadrupling my salary. I understand and respect that might not be the case for people earning significantly less than me but I do think it's problematic for footballers (who have already earned more than enough) to help sportswash autocracies.
