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    Saudi Pro League transfers: Jordan Henderson, Karim Benzema and now Sadio Mane?! 😱 | ESPN FC
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    Saudi Pro League transfers: Jordan Henderson, Karim Benzema and now Sadio Mane?! 😱 | ESPN FC



    The ESPN FC crew reacts to a large and growing list of footballers who are transferring to the Saudi Pro League.

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    2. @numanmuhammadali9350 on

      These so called pundits are forgetting that Saudi pro league is already producing top local talent, saudi arabia they literally destroyed argentina with not skill but best defensive performance derived from top coaching regarding offside and what not!
      They were just unlucky against poland otherwise they woulve gone up to quarter finals!

    3. @al3ndlib on

      How could you compare China and US who have no football culture or Qatar which has only 200k citizens to Saudi Arabia? Saudi people eat breath football everyday and it’s the only sport they care about. Japanese teams aren’t even at the same level as Saudi teams, Al Hilal literally just keep beating them home and Away and they have no chance of winning unless playing defensive and hoping for a lucky shot. That’s even before the current transfer market with mostly local players. East Asian teams had no chance against West Asian teams to the point that Asian football federation had to tweak the tournament and made East and West meat only at the finals to give them chance!!

    12. @GukeshKozo on

      Why are these gatekeepers shitting on players going to Saudi? I see bitter old white men, trying to discuss how to improve football. Old white narcissistic wealth

    13. @maamek230 on

      I’ve been saying this, it didn’t happened in America 🇺🇸 it didn’t happened in China 🇨🇳 it definitely not going to happen in Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦

    17. @dealz5197 on

      I thought football was for the world not Europe. Whether it's the money or not certain people with certain colour are not allowed to be successful. Its always an issue but hey who am I 😂😂
      Africa does something in football, it must be corruption like there's no corruption in Europe. Arab countries do football, they bring up the rainbow flag..

    18. @craig8638 on

      “Secure his family?” Stop saying this about players that were already earning obscene amounts of money. They should be very secure unless they’ve blown their money on Ferraris and mansions.

    22. @wernerkadhikwa6869 on

      Why is it a problem for Saudi pro league buying the players from Europe? Uefa is not complaining when they buy Africans for less only to sell them for more and why is it always the guess from Europe being placed at a higher value?
      Stop trying to undermine the project
      They (Saudi PL) got Ronaldo
      He is happy there, so it's invetable that the rest will follow
      New price new competition

    23. @youtubecensorship5544 on

      I don't agree with everything Saudi does, but why is the West critical about Saudi hiring these players? Do the Europeans want to maintain their domination forever? Football is a universal sport and Saudi has every right to flex its muscles to build its football clubs.

    25. @SaoodVidal1 on

      Spain and Europe clubs in general were stealing young boys from South America and Africa for decades and now they're talking about "the right way", clowns.

    28. @matembwerematembwere9207 on

      It's the change of the game of football, We cannot compare with USA, they have an established sports culture as you guy are saying, middle east not as much, that why football doesn't particularly take off in india , Pakistan and others because they have cricket as an established sport

    30. @sukishahi3671 on

      First the crazy deals were done by Barcalona and Real Madrid,than came sky and the premier league,all three are bankrupt.laporta and co stated
      No one knows any Saudi cities and was laughing that at most SAUDI Arabia and oil were the only thing the world would connect with this Country.WE ARE SAUDIA ARABIA THE RICHIST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD ARE SOVERGIEN FUND IS UNLIMITED WE ARE DOING WHAT PLeague was doing and have the capacity to put every city on the map eat your words Laporta,the fool who wanted a Saudi loan to save his club

    33. @xanjo772 on

      Espn is mad that Ronaldo started this wave. No one is joining Messi to the burger league. But now, high-level players are joining the Saudi league 😳. Espn is FORCED to cover that league now 😆😆😆😆

    34. @blackwhite2159 on

      Lol EPL 😂 EPL need to pay tax 45% and soudi tax free …. If some players earn 100k weekly he say 45k and get 65k only but in soudi it's 100k and big money I feel SPL now top 5 haha

    38. @AM-rp8xn on

      I think its funny how they're talking about how can you bring on quality players from outside your country when that has literally been happening in the european leagues forever. Also they aren't talking about how much investment saudi has been putting into developing the sport in thier own country

    41. @ettoetto3067 on

      Laporta says: You Saudis should not make your club attractive by buying players, television broadcasts, and sponsorship, but pay this money to us in Barcelona, and we will sell you the method of our successful experience, and the evidence of its success is the disasters that the Spanish League is going through. Please buy our failure so that we can cover our financial deficit 🤣 Did Laporta think he was talking? With stupid people, the Saudis manage 30% of the world’s energy economy, and this idiot and others still believe that the Saudis are stupid.

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