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PIF clubs are doing all the buying. Al Hilal, Ahli , Nassr , Ittifaq. Those squads will be completed at some point and the spending spree will end imo.Two things here:
1) The usual laundering of all sorts
2) Saudis want to get into PL fanboys homes, so they get players they're familiar with. And they overpay for effect.
Creating familiarity and noise at the same time is their best bet here. Let's see if it works.
I kinda hope it does
PIF clubs are doing all the buying. Al Hilal, Ahli , Nassr , Ittifaq. Those squads will be completed at some point and the spending spree will end imo.
They can always make deals with the saudi clubs, like they did for Mendy and Koulibaly, who went for much more than anyone else would pay. They also have some connections with Newcastle, as they are Saudi owned. Its nice when your owner has connections.Chelsea trying to play FFP is so stupid. I do hope other clubs ignore Chelsea and don't buy players from them
Inter used to have connection with jiangsu and eder.. we know how it ended.... hope saudi footbaling exploded like chinese... didnt like them.They can always make deals with the saudi clubs, like they did for Mendy and Koulibaly, who went for much more than anyone else would pay. They also have some connections with Newcastle, as they are Saudi owned. Its nice when your owner has connections.
It fell through because Gosens didn't want to move to Wolfsburg.35M + a big sell clause for this guy, while they didn't have 18M for Gosens. Go fuck yourselfs... This deal was done just cause Kovač is the coach.
And he'd be cheaper stillIt fell through because Gosens didn't want to move to Wolfsburg.