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Daz said:
The difference is there was already a huge interest in the league before Sky were involved. The money attracted better players which inevitably improved things but it was a high standard anyway. There were pros and cons to all the Sky money from the start, and that’s still the case now.

The Saudi league is like playing a game of football manager and signing these superstars for a couple of league 2 teams…but with no progression to more competitive leagues. Personally I don’t see any positives at all, they are gaming the system and transfers between Saudi based and Saudi owned clubs will go through the roof, despite what the FA say. This will have a negative on effect to all other “normal” clubs.

There’s not a chance I’ll watch the Saudi league, no matter who signs for them. They will try to form a breakaway league in the next couple of years anyway.
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Brainy Dose said:
The Saudis are repeating what Sky did with the Premier League in 1992, and some here are starting to feel as the other European leagues did then.....all their best players heading to England in pursuit of the money. Human life has this annoying habit of making things go around and come around.
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The more PL players who ' go Arab' the more anyone tempted will feel at home ...

... I hope they totally destroy the PL tbh.
 
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Smug in Boots said:
The more PL players who ' go Arab' the more anyone tempted will feel at home ...

... I hope they totally destroy the PL tbh.
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Agree, but I go one step further.

IF, Saudi Arabia end up attracting the Worlds best players, it seems likely that they will be the most attractive to watch, in terms of The World-Wide audience.
Nothing to stop The Saudi's, who have had long running problems with SKY in the recent past, setting up their own TV distribution companies and making themselves the 'go to ' site for Top Class Football.

In this wonderfull fantacy of mine, Skye ceases to conrol our UK Games because they can no longer afford pay the obscene amounts currently on offer, and we revert to something approaching Football, as it used to be.

Dreams cost nowt!!!!
 
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