I’ve always said - it’s the clubs that make a league, not the players. The Saudi league’ll never be as good as even the Spanish, German or Italian leagues, never mind ours.
To be fair I was expecting them to push on from what China done and the PIF would focus more on their league than us.. But with crowds dropping to below 700 in the last few weeks you have to question what is going on..
A few of the players who went there are regretting it, a few want to leave..
I still think it will become a decent league with some top players but again this is down to money only.. the weather may be class but you can't enjoy it with a nice bottle of Brown Ale
It'll be interesting to watch the moves to and from over there in January to see where they are at and how serious they are with regards to player ages and fees
I’ve always said - it’s the clubs that make a league, not the players. The Saudi league’ll never be as good as even the Spanish, German or Italian leagues, never mind ours.
aye, the money is good but the players will miss the crowds and buzz of the game thats comes with match day.
Neves will probably come to us on loan in January and i can see this being the start of a wave of players returning on loan.
The players will get hit with a heafty tax bill if they return permanently within 2 years so loans will be the way forward.
If we loan from PIF owned clubs, there will be some serious toys thrown out of the pram from Klopp, Levy and the rest of them,
although it would be funny if we just took the plss and got Benzema, Mahrez, Milicovic Savic, Veiga etc with PIF paying their wages.
Not that i think this will ever happen, but id love to see the fallout of anger from the greedy 6
Yeah the other clubs won't allow us to loan players from Saudi, despite being fine for Man City to loan Frank Lampard from New York City FC & Watford playing tennis with Italian partner club owned by the same family.
Only when it's us!
In a few seasons of us being in the Champions League no rule changes will ever stop us. They'll have to ban money to stop us taking a permanent seat at the top table alongside Man City.
Delightful to see the hatred.
On the Saudi league - Saudi, like Qatar the people have many other interests and Football just isn't a major one.