Super League - Saudi style

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I can see them using their success in the Golf to take over other sports.

LIV Football invitational tournament first, teams from around the world playing a friendly tournament in SA.

Then the LIV League forms, threatening to pull out all the major clubs from the European Tournaments. Individual FA's threaten to remove breakaway clubs rights to compete in domestic competitions.

Few years of arguing then LIV becomes an official partner of UEFA
It’s already started. Guess where this years Club World Cup is going to take place! The winners of all the confederations plus the Saudi league champions
 
They're funding the African Super League which begins this year, which will no doubt buy their votes for their 2030 World Cup bid.

Quite how they approach taking over the sport at the elite level is still up in the air I think. They have a number of options:

1) They build their own league by keep buying superstars and grow the league to the point where they're attracting elite players in their prime.
2) They make Newcastle a super power and have "non affiliated" Saudi backers make similar investments in other clubs across Europe.
3) They create an Asian Super League with incredible prize money on offer. Saudi, UAE, Qatari money all invested in bringing the best players to their continent might lift the whole area to be a competitor to Europe.
4) They create a competition akin to the Club World Cup and expand it, where they're hand picking 8 elite European teams, plus a handful of Saudi ones, the African Super League champions etc. and have a "Super Cup" rather than a Super League.

Whatever they do, they won't stop here. It's just starting in my opinion.


These clubs are great institutions of this country that are embedded in our history and the history of football.

Any solution needs to be to protect them like listed buildings, prevent them from playing in any other competitions and prohibit huge cultural changes without stakeholder permissions. Eventually, we need to find a way to get to a German style ownership, where fans have a 51% vote. This kind of restrictions to ownership might prevent our game being corrupted by those who want to exploit.

"Owners" should only ever be custodians when it comes to sport.
Brilliant post
 
They would miss us (the rest of England) more than we would miss them. Of that I am sure.
I think so too. Move them along and put the guard rails in place to prevent a similar dominance of the new set up.

How many times have I heard “putting the cheating (of course they don’t call it that) to one side, how good are Man City?” feom sycophants in the media over the last few weeks. Put it aside? It’s the reason they are as good as they are, you can’t put it aside.

Get back to a more level playing field and introduce measures to keep it that way.
 
I think so too. Move them along and put the guard rails in place to prevent a similar dominance of the new set up.

How many times have I heard “putting the cheating (of course they don’t call it that) to one side, how good are Man City?” feom sycophants in the media over the last few weeks. Put it aside? It’s the reason they are as good as they are, you can’t put it aside.

Get back to a more level playing field and introduce measures to keep it that way.
This is a very important issue.

This drives me insane to be honest. I was listening to a podcast (can’t remember which), and the guy was basically saying that. “Well if we forget about that just for the minute… what a side they are”. Well, no. I won’t forget about that first point. There is no second point actually.
I don’t think that would bother them, none of the LIV golfers seemed bothered about any sanctions that were put their way, money talks.
Yeah I don’t think this is the threat that it was. In any case, they will own the World Cup so I am sure we would see some sort of “merger”. I see no constraints to be honest.
 
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