| Saudi investment in sport/sportswashing 10:41 - Jul 2 with 1113 views | Tractorboy24 |
Where does it stop and was there not a lesson to learn from the whole Russia debacle?
Golf as a sport has sold its soul to them. If you’re LGBTQ+ professional golfer (or just are against the Saudi regime), where do you ply your trade?
Can see their investment in Newcastle being longish term (a la Man City) but can’t see the Saudi Pro League being anything more than a Chinese Super League spin off. What is the goal in bringing these big names somewhere that people won’t visit?
They host major events like Formula One & Boxing and there are rumours of main tour tennis tournaments heading there. None of these seem to draw tourism though, with small attendances & seemingly local attendees. Again, are they trying to angle for tourism market, but at the same time not compromising their beliefs (like Qatar & the alcohol selling).
All of the above (apart from the Golf investment) was done by Russia & Putin prior to them becoming a pariah state for their invasion into Ukraine. It just seems set for another issue were Saudi to invade say, Yemen where they already have a heavy military footprint, or Israel which would perhaps make more people sit up & take note. |  | | |  |
| Saudi investment in sport/sportswashing on 11:48 - Jul 2 with 1042 views | ElephantintheRoom |
One likely scenario is a global football league funded by oil/bloodmoney |  |
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| Saudi investment in sport/sportswashing on 11:57 - Jul 2 with 1037 views | Tractorboy24 |
| Saudi investment in sport/sportswashing on 11:48 - Jul 2 by ElephantintheRoom |
One likely scenario is a global football league funded by oil/bloodmoney |
Can’t see anyone accepting that, you’re effectively talking about a Super League, which was rejected in Europe.
The only way they could create something competitive like that is to organise something across the rest of the world. But that is me thinking there won’t be as much objection from South America/Asia/Africa | | | |
| Saudi investment in sport/sportswashing on 12:04 - Jul 2 with 1018 views | J2BLUE |
The incredible amount of greed is not helping. I don't understand why mega rich sports stars want to go there. It's like Fury vs Joshua. I lost all interest when I heard the first fight was going to take place there. Why? Both massive British stars. Why not Wembley? They knew it should be Wembley because there was all that noise about the rematch being in the UK.
I just do not understand the mega wealthy selling out for even more money. It's just numbers on a screen to people like the two above but they still go for it.
That suggests there is little hope. No doubt the sporting authorities will wake up when it's too late. |  |
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| Saudi investment in sport/sportswashing on 12:14 - Jul 2 with 1007 views | Tractorboy24 |
| Saudi investment in sport/sportswashing on 12:04 - Jul 2 by J2BLUE |
The incredible amount of greed is not helping. I don't understand why mega rich sports stars want to go there. It's like Fury vs Joshua. I lost all interest when I heard the first fight was going to take place there. Why? Both massive British stars. Why not Wembley? They knew it should be Wembley because there was all that noise about the rematch being in the UK.
I just do not understand the mega wealthy selling out for even more money. It's just numbers on a screen to people like the two above but they still go for it.
That suggests there is little hope. No doubt the sporting authorities will wake up when it's too late. |
This is where I am, boxing makes no sense, go & fight in front of 15,000 super rich Saudis or super rich influencers with no atmosphere or 90,000 partisan fans for the sake of an extra what? £10m on top of the £50m they will already be making? What is the point for the boxers?
Do people really not realise what they are doing either? Oh, maybe the Saudis don’t order hits on journalists because they host the F1. | | | |
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