My Milksheik brings all the boys to the yard
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Player Age Season Nat. New club Fee
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Rúben Neves
Defensive Midfield
26 23/24
€55.00m2
Sergej Milinković-Savić
Central Midfield
28 23/24
€40.00m3
Jota
Left Winger
24 23/24
€29.10m4
Seko Fofana
Central Midfield
28 23/24
€25.00m5
Kalidou Koulibaly
Centre-Back
32 23/24
€23.00m6
Edouard Mendy
Goalkeeper
31 23/24
€18.50m7
Marcelo Brozovic
Defensive Midfield
30 23/24
€18.00mFabinho 40 mill and Mahrez 35 mill will soon follow. They dont have any problems paying transfer fees for the right players it seems.
It's entirely possible, I was just thinking about their football project in isolation, but given the involvement of the PIF it's hard not to see all of this, plus golf etc. as part of a grander scheme, whatever that scheme may be.
Maybe it's nothing to do with football, but game it out, I guess
Inside Saudi Arabia’s Global Push for Nuclear Power
Despite qualms in Washington, Saudi officials have pressed the United States to help them develop nuclear power. But they are also exploring other options, including China.
April 1, 2023
For years, Saudi Arabia has pressed the United States to help it develop a nuclear energy program, as Saudi leaders look beyond oil to power their country.
But talks about a nuclear partnership have dragged on, largely because the Saudi government refuses to agree to conditions that are intended to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons or helping other nations do so, according to officials with knowledge of the discussions.
Frustrated Saudi officials are now exploring options to work with other countries, including China, Russia or a U.S. ally.
At the same time, they are renewing a push with the United States — their preferred partner — by offering to try to normalize relations with Israel in exchange for U.S. cooperation on building nuclear reactors and other guarantees.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/01/us/politics/saudi-arabia-nuclear-biden-administration.html
Inside Saudi Arabia’s Global Push for Nuclear Power
Despite qualms in Washington, Saudi officials have pressed the United States to help them develop nuclear power. But they are also exploring other options, including China.
April 1, 2023
For years, Saudi Arabia has pressed the United States to help it develop a nuclear energy program, as Saudi leaders look beyond oil to power their country.
But talks about a nuclear partnership have dragged on, largely because the Saudi government refuses to agree to conditions that are intended to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons or helping other nations do so, according to officials with knowledge of the discussions.
Frustrated Saudi officials are now exploring options to work with other countries, including China, Russia or a U.S. ally.
At the same time, they are renewing a push with the United States — their preferred partner — by offering to try to normalize relations with Israel in exchange for U.S. cooperation on building nuclear reactors and other guarantees.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/01/us/politics/saudi-arabia-nuclear-biden-administration.html
This is fantastic news - do we get some money if this Sale goes through in terms of add-ons etc. ?
Except Ben Jacobs is the biggest chancer going, the guy posted "exclusively" that Hendo was NOT going to Saudi then deleted his tweet as soon as the Joyce's / Ornstein's of this world said the contrary.
Chancer of the highest order.
I really doubt Fabrizio has the slightest clue who Ben Jacobs is, in fact probably no one in the footballing world did until about 12 months ago......he's been doing this sort of stuff far longer than he has and has already long built a huge following and released a documentary with an insight on how exactly one that works in the industry that he does goes about his day to day journey.....
So with all that said, I'd say there's far less of a necessity to chance about where Fabrizio's concerned.
Not sure if there was a sell-on clause in that deal but they're normally only payable on any PROFIT on an onward sale. Given Bayern want rid, I'd expect they'll be taking a bit of a loss so there wouldn't be add-ons even if they'd been agreed in the sale contract.
In actual fact, we'll probably lose money because the add-ons in the original sale deal were based on appearance / achievement targets with Bayern which will probably fall away now.
NB - there's no set formula for sell-on fees, they can be based on gross sale price, but that's unusual.
Looks like the Saudis turned down the chance to offer Ox a contract. Shows how poor our squad management has been. We were relying on players no other PL club would touch. Even Arthur got a new club.
We paid him nearly 500k per game he was involved in last season.
Insanely poor squad management.
Thank god we paid him fuck all for the games he wasn’t involved in then!!!
Wow. Hard to see how he can turn this down – literally solves all of his problems. Except that he has to spend a year of his life playing in Saudi Arabia.
I read 35m euros which is a little more but notwithstanding I fully agree with you here.
If someone like Forest or Sheffield signed him for 30m, nothing would be said.......it's no doubt clubs like Chelsea Arsenal Spurs and Utd probs Villa who are threatened by the link between Newcastle and Ah Ahli.
Havertz and Rice for 170m. No concern, zero.
Off goes ASM for 30m AND SHIT, PUT THE WORLD ON LOCKDOWN. STOP TIME!!!
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