It will help attract better/younger players rather than it being seen as a lucrative dumping ground for Coulibaly, Kante etc. Probably ensures a proper TV deal too. Maybe not from the UK although for my Sky money I’d expect the odd game.
In theory if it was a normal country, sure. These ultra well paid players are going to be in little communities where they're allowed to do as they like. Outside of their world, Saudi will remain an ultra Conservative religious fundamentalist state. You're gonna set up an entire youth system and inject hundreds of young, wealthy, entitled foreign teens into your country? Who will want to party and live life? By the sum of averages, some of them will even be gay I'm very interested to see how any of this works, as they're essentially forcing tourism into a nation that is absolutely no designed for tourism at all.
This. These footballers are not going to experience anything like the true Saudi Arabia. They will come back full of beans, singing the countries praises, because all they will have experienced is their millionaire gated community, in which money can buy you everything and anything you want. SA is a Ultra conservative, religious fundamentalist state, unless you are loaded, then all the conservatism goes out the window and you can get anything you want. Living a pious, moral life, is for the peasants. Thats how they do.
I’ll set up an IPTV thing or something soon if they’re still about but don’t even have a TV at the moment. Got Now on my iPad.
I assume the sportswashing is part of a wider plan to make it into more of a Dubai type of place for tourism. Not saying it’s right.
Cant wait to see the tourism commercials..... "Come to Saudi Arabia.....unless you're gay....or Jewish....then stay away, or we kill you!"
Lol good luck. The difference between Saudi, Dubai and Qatar is the latter have a population of mostly foreign nationals. Foreign nationals who couldn't give a **** about religion Saudi Arabia is 90% Arab, raised in a fundamentalist religious monarchy. Now you say "lol, **** it all, let the tourists in!" There's a reason people predict Saudi Arabia wil explode in 10 years
Bet Lukaku would get fit if he knew there was noose at the end of the season for not banging in 20 goals.
The only downside for you though spurly is that weed is highly illegal there. You get a flogging and up to 5 years in prison, just for being caught in possession. If you get caught for intent to supply its the death penalty. You need a few million quid to live amongst the other rich europeans in a gated community, then you'd be okay.
I went in 98 the food was banging Saudis come across arrogant in general …the poor were nice and humble and anyone with a car and a few wives thought he was Boss man the foreign Arabs living there were good folk too as were the traditional Bedouin people
the house of saud is the arm of sabbatean frankism in the Middle East…satanists no more no less redemption through sin
Aye, our currency takes you a long way out there. Not as much as it used to though. Still its around 25-30 SAR for a good meal out, and that comes to about a fiver in GBP.
My youngest tried get me to take her to see Barbie the other day. I told her to go **** herself (well not in those words, cos she is 6). No way I am paying to watch some man hating trash that teaches women to be hoes.
