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£1.5m per week!
What are these clowns doing? Trying to build a sporting empire for when oil runs out? There's not much money in football, definately not much when you pay such ludicrous sums.
Apparently they have a surplus of 9 million barrels of oil each day. At 85 dollars per barrel, that's worth 765 million EACH DAY. How the fuck is football and golf gonna fill that void?
 
They've seen what happened with Liv golf, & thought, "we'll do the same with football".

They can't keep massively overpaying for fees & wages. Eventually it will have to calm down to a more normal level.
 
They are diversifying their wealth as much as possible, they are buying into a shit ton of industries (have done for a while now) as they know the end of the oil isn’t a million miles off.

One of the things they are also doing is trying to make the area more appealing to western tourists, I believe this investment into the footballing side is part of that - make Saudi a more appealing destination to visit.

It’s a solid strategy, there will be missteps along the way but their approach is very diverse so it is likely to work in the end. Whether the football truly takes off is another thing.
 
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