Saudi Pro League

[kippaxwarrior]

Destined to fail. Will never be able to support itself, because no matter who they buy no one wants to watch Al-Shassim v Al-Abdul. Time zones also represent an issue, when its day time in Saudi Arabia, its the early hours of the morning in Europe. No mass market western country is going to watch Saudi football. The Saudi League will also need to pay, double, triple, quadruple, the salaries the European clubs play. Add the two together and there is a massive black financial hole that needs to be filled, likely by the state.

Its such a fallacy and only a lunatic drunk on power would think it will be a major success. Reminds of the story were the old North Korean Kim wanted to host a kind of Olympic games in 1988 to 'draw attention away from the Seoul Olympics in 1988 to embarrass South Korea'. Of course no one gave a toss about some North Korean athletes competing enough to not watch the Seoul Olympics. Bin Salman is a wally for thinking this will have a happy ending. This is why governments and states that dont have a meritocracy are forever in the bin.

All this does is represent a time for European clubs to milk some naive Saudi's and hustle them for their money.

Time difference will have little effect.

Saudi Arabia is 2/3 ahead in the UK and 1/2 ahead in central Europe. So if a game kicks off at 9pm it'll be 6/7pm here or 7/8 in Europe

 

[city2]

It’s just a whim for these guys, just something else to throw money at after the World Cup.probably last 2/3 years.

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

It’s embarrassing watching the media, Talksport etc do a 180 u turn
Now the dippers are taking the blood money and captain hendo is filling his bank account it’s all about shining a light and implementing change
So in short
Qatar - bad
Abu Dhabi- bad
Saudi - ba……..not so bad

Tony Cascarino on Talk shite this morning was positioning “Hendo” As a missionary type figure bringing light to Saudi

He lap said sayid is very much moving in the right direction human rights wise….because women can now go to coffee shops

 

[KS55]

Tony Cascarino on Talk shite this morning was positioning “Hendo” As a missionary type figure bringing light to Saudi

He lap said sayid is very much moving in the right direction human rights wise….because women can now go to coffee shops

Crikey, they’ll be voting next. The beginning of the end.

 

[Blue Til Death]

Tony Cascarino on Talk shite this morning was positioning “Hendo” As a missionary type figure bringing light to Saudi

He lap said sayid is very much moving in the right direction human rights wise….because women can now go to coffee shops

Fuckin ell really?? They will be letting em drive next ffs..!

 

[SambaStyle]

Which league is the biggest threat to the Prem? MLS or Saudi Pro League?

 

[BeerIsTheBest]

Tony Cascarino on Talk shite this morning was positioning “Hendo” As a missionary type figure bringing light to Saudi

well I guess he could take a lora lora candles with him

 

[SebastianBlue]

Time difference will have little effect.

Saudi Arabia is 2/3 ahead in the UK and 1/2 ahead in central Europe. So if a game kicks off at 9pm it'll be 6/7pm here or 7/8 in Europe

It will be an issue.

Because of the climate they can only really play during the Premier League and Champions League seasons, and during the same times as those competitions’ matches, so they will be competing directly with the most watched football leagues in the world (with usually the best attendances), with games that are nowhere near the same level of quality and have far fewer fans (sometimes far, far, far fewer), which only serves to further highlight it as an inferior entertainment product.

And that issue, among others, is only likely to get worse over the next few decades.

 

[SebastianBlue]

Which league is the biggest threat to the Prem? MLS or Saudi Pro League?

MLS is a far bigger threat to the PL than the Saudi Pro League.

And even it is at least decade or two away from having any chance of really competing.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Do you go to Turkey,Egypt,AMERICA etc ?

I've done my travelling for one lifetime, mostly for work, sometimes for pleasure, so no I won't be going to any of those countries again. But I assume you are trying to equate the levels of risk associated with societal change in those countries with Saudi? I don't think that is a fair comparison.