Saudi Pro League

[stonerblue]

Sportswashings only a problem when its not white.

So it would seem

 

[I'm With Stupid]

KSAs long term ambitions are amazing and they have leadership and finance to support it.

KSA is the coming phenomenon.

A vast land mass and unspoilt coast lines will result in Europeans holidaying there within a decade.

Let's hope so. I hope that the religious bigots are sidelined and made increasingly irrelevant as time goes on. But it not necessarily going to be that easy. They've spent decades exporting a toxic brand of Islam around the world, and those fundamentalists don't give up their influence easily. Having said that, having spoken to a couple of Saudi women, they definitely have high hopes for bin Salman's changes and saw him as a positive influence (admittedly, this was before he dismembered a journalist).

 

[MadchesterCity]

Brozovic and Savic are the two best midfielders in Serie A.. or were.

I was hoping Slavic would sign at City

 

[halfcenturyup]

KSAs long term ambitions are amazing and they have leadership and finance to support it.

KSA is the coming phenomenon.

A vast land mass and unspoilt coast lines will result in Europeans holidaying there within a decade.

That's the plan, of course. Not sure it will be such plain sailing for Saudi. You don't think there will be opposition from within the kingdom?

 

[TFC]

I only speak for myself, but I suspect a lot will feel the same. No matter who goes there, you couldn't pay me to watch a Saudi Pro league game.

 

[SebastianBlue]

Ronaldo's Al Nassr hit with FIFA registration ban

Cristiano Ronaldo's club, Al Nassr, are banned from registering new players until they settle a debt with Leicester City, FIFA said Thursday.

www.espn.com

 

[SamBlue]

Sportswashings only a problem when its not white.

Sportswashing --> we call it state P/R in the west
Financial doping --> investment ditto

 

[TinFoilHat]

OliVAR shows his true colours "volunteering" to ref some of their games.

Can we send him over permanently along with Attwell and Tierney?

 

[Gone for a Burton]

That's the plan, of course. Not sure it will be such plain sailing for Saudi. You don't think there will be opposition from within the kingdom?

Their most Certainly will be be some opposition from the fundamentalists,however most of the population want to improve their life prospects sustainably and a gradual westernisation will generate that.

The affluent Saudis pour across the border in to UEA at weekend and are very big consumer spenders !!

It's happening !!

 

[halfcenturyup]

Their most Certainly will be be some opposition from the fundamentalists,however most of the population want to improve their life prospects sustainably and a gradual westernisation will generate that.

The affluent Saudis pour across the border in to UEA at weekend and are very big consumer spenders !!

It's happening !!

I suppose it depends how much ordinary Saudis will be affected by modernists, on the one hand, and the religious, on the other. It's not as cut and dried as the UAE, Bahrain, even Qatar imho. There are generations of religious rhetoric and dogma to get through.

Will be interesting to see.