Saudi Arabian club Football

[Footballwipe]

4 minutes ago, filbertway said:

No danger of you going there then Brendan, despite you whoring yourself out to them already

 

Don't you worry, he'll manage to grift himself a job out there in the coming years.

[kingkisnorbo]

31 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66732863

 

 

Hoooray, another reason to call Rodgers a cvnt 

Posturing because he knows he'll be there eventually. 

[Corky]

No surprise one of the biggest mercenaries in football is defending this.

[Samilktray]

Rodgers looks like an Ettifaq manager in the making to me 

Edited 6 September 2023 by Samilktray

[LCFCJohn]

4 hours ago, filbertway said:

No danger of you going there then Brendan, despite you whoring yourself out to them already

 

Was going to post this but it’s already here! Rodgers batting his eyelids at Saudi there 

[ParkerPen]

Rodgers literally asking for a job pushing sand uphill, a truly shameless cretin

[KingsX]

On 06/09/2023 at 15:47, Samilktray said:

Rodgers looks like an Ettifaq manager in the making to me 

 

They've already outfitted the technical area for him

 

custom-made for pint sized legs and a planet sized ego.

[KingsX]

Actually I came here to share an interesting take from espn.com...

 

Essentially, what we have right now is four super-charged clubs, all majority owned by the same entity, spending like European heavyweights, two more spending like Big 5 league minnows and the rest pretty much at subsistence. This really shouldn't be that surprising -- for all of Saudi Arabia's wealth, we're still talking about the 17th biggest economy in the world.

 

We have a pretty good idea of what Saudi football would look like without the PIF subsidy because that's what it was a year ago. Al Nassr -- yes, Cristiano Ronaldo's club -- had unpaid transfer debts to the point that FIFA banned them from registering new players. (PIF took care of that swiftly.) It was the sort of league that averaged just under 10,000 a game, which is roughly the same as Poland, a country whose population and love of football is comparable. (Five games into the season, it's actually even lower, at 8,795 per game, though that may have to do with the fact that it's still very hot there.)

 

Perhaps the correct way to think about this: as one of a series of long-shot gambles the country is taking, not just in sports, but in everything from tourism to real estate to tech. Gambles that likely won't pay off, but will yield huge returns if they do.

[purpleronnie]

I really don't think they are doing this to make the saudi league one of the best, it will never happen, very few will watch games, but more of a power grab to influence and to get their teams in the champions league....which is much more likely.

[davieG]

Footy Accumulators 

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696 fans were in attendance as Jordan Henderson's Al-Ettifaq lost against Al-Riyadh.

Great work from Henderson in growing the very exciting Saudi League!

Next week he's looking to help break the 700 barrier