How Saudi Arabia Is Disrupting Football 

Europeans thinks they own everything

They think players outside Europe play in european clubs for love and not for the millions of euros they offer. I imagine the face of a Barcelona fan when he learns that Messi supports Newell's Old Boys and not Barcelona

The fact is that Europe already had a proper football culture

@@junaaaahhh6422 Saudi Arabia is working to create a football culture too

@@fabiospfc yeah but you need to work on the academies, train the little kids in order to raise the level of the league. You can't just buy randomly 3/2 stars per team and the rest of the team is mediocre. It doesn't work like that

If you’re from the west I wouldn’t doubt you hating lowkey but don’t want to say

It'll die after a season when everyone realises the quality is poor and noone is watching

it will be chinese league 2.0 , why do you think they have to pay people so much to move there lmao?

​@oriplaydirty I wouldn't call it "hating." We saw Xi Jinping do the same thing with soccer/football in China, and it had the opposite effect. If I were a 17, 18 year old player, I'd want to spend my time developing by competing with the best players and teams, and more likely than not, those teams and players are in Europe.

The cost of sustaining a league with players like Ronaldo for 10 years is as expensive as the most luxurious public healthcare program. It is sustainable, but it's not sensible.

Not true. There is a big difference between the clubs themselves buying players vs transfers being funded by a government directly. I hope Africa and North America where I live can have better talents playing here. But I want that money and investment to come from private citizens not the government.

These superstars that are moving are the ones I have seen while growing up. Even Messi moved to MLS. But that’s precisely what most people can’t separate when they say they’re afraid of the Saudi League taking big players. These big players are towards the end of their careers, and bright talent is taking center stage in Europe now. That’s how it always happens, players in their peak are still in the big leagues. The only sad part is there’s so many big names close to retirement age

Once the government moved their interest away from Football, the league will wither away. These oil countries are like the kids from the super rich, spending extravagantly on luxuries things.

Africa will never have a league that’s any good lol

@@Plupert Google el Generalisimo involvement in Spanish football

But Saudi is nothing like great nations of England and Brazil, they have no human rights there or freedom of expression, their culture should not be promoted

Players go to Saudi for money and there's weird clauses in their contracts, like them getting extra pay for mentioning Saudi Arabia positively in a social media post. The ones that went to Europe, did so to play on the highest level.

​@@MitternachtHeizerthey didnt go to europe for money ? now saudi arabia is just offering more money and so what if they need to promote saudi arabia

⁠​⁠​⁠@@Daggerwordano you said that wrong, England is nothing like the great nations of Brazil and Saudi Arabia. Their human rights record speaks for itself, also they don’t have a culture to promote.

I think there are similarities between the two, but the big difference is Europe buys young talented players to display top-tier matches. The middle east currently is buying players who pretty much already have names and are closer to the end of their careers than the beginning, which gives off the appearance of just trying to get attention even if that isn't the case.

Perfectly said. I agree

how long untill the saudis buy places in the UCL? They must be stopped

- someplace warm ?? You obviously don't know what it's like to live in that region...... Most of the year you have to stay indoors with A/C on full blast.....

@@panchopuskas1 I'm from Arizona in the US. Trust me, I know what it's like in the desert. I was partly joking, but it's true that athletes often prefer to go to warmer climates as they age, because cold winters are especially tough on their worn-out joints. Ronaldo to Saudi Arabia, Messi to Miami, Zlatan to Los Angeles, and so on.

@@victorsefanit’s more likely that they create their own super league

For real 😂😂😂

Can’t take these Europeans seriously, they’re so biased and they can’t even see it

European hypocrisy at its best

Not hypocrisy. It's fact. Get that chip off your back. European Leagues are the best in the world with or without South American or African players. How much TV revenue does the Nigerian League generate?

So hateful 😂vedio…dont talk to much just came to saudi see for yourself and i will host u

It's does not affect European football.

And they are really bitter 😅

It’s great for European football that this is happening actually

All these ageing players years off retirement have gone for a payday oh no how will europeon football cope

It makes no difference to European football. One or two bright players might ruin their careers for money like Oscar signing for Shanghai (Never played for Brazil again). But by in large spectators will flock to where the level of play is the highest (and that’s where the generation of wealth will be). The Saudi govt pouring in money to get retiring players to come to their league is most definitely not sustainable

Didn't like it back then either.

Nope. Unlike Saudi Europe already had some of the best leagues itw and their nations had been succesful in world cups. When you also add far better economical situation in Europe it just made sense for players to go there.

@@villek3722so ur saying saudi doesn’t have a good economical situation?

@@CelebRealTalk yes they have that but they dont have the tradition or the quality that already exists there without foreigners

Europe is the epicenter of football. This is where the sport grows and is developed. Your comparison is dogshit.

Ruben Neves isn't over the hill tho, twenty seven to twenty nine are generally considered to be a players prime

I agree with your assessment although I have to disagree on the MLS case. I can see the MLS is growing in terms of viewership as the US is an emerging market for football. Not to mention the US is also the largest economy in the World.

But there also signing young players too

@@leonthethird7494 You see saudi or MLs will never be able to attract top young players like Halland or Mbappe thats why their viewership wont be as high as Europe and money will eventually dry but Saudi will gain relevance in football and maybe rights to host the wc but the league will never rival any top 5 league

​@@concernedcitizens4110yeah because the MLS completely changed their business model.

Real talk

And africa maybe

Europe been fleecing South America since the 1960s

@@nazalmoideen Yeah the arabs love those africans. They still sell them as slaves to this day.

Yep, they are acting like MLS 1.0 and they should be copying MLS 3.0. Buy young talented prospects and flip them for profits, invest heavily in academies to bring up the local talent. Saudi just trying to short cut it. Didn't work in MLS, didnt work in China, wont work in Saudi.

Most Muslims players dont really practice the religion, they live in a wester way, they drink go to clubs etc, they just say these execused for their fans. They ate afraid they will lose theirt fanbase because fans what bring the players money

@@aliati8377 You're probably right about Benzenonce, but Kanté is apparently a very devout muslim.

@@aliati8377nah man players like Salah,Mané,Dembele,Kante,Mahrez and Pogba are all devoted Muslims I can’t speak for Benzema if u know u know.😅 Ofc there are other Muslims who are very influenced and moved by the western culture but I would say most Muslim players are devoted to their religion

​@@Glory-Compasssalah celebrates Christmas...

Messi is the brand ambassador of Saudi Arabia 👀

Cristiano bin Ronaldo 😅

Won’t help it to last…it would eventually die..

@@Yeaahh2Muslimo Ronaldo

yea except they wanted the World Cup. That was their ultimate goal but they were out bid by multiple countries. Which is should be like that anyway. No country can sustain the amount of ppl it takes and the pressure on the infrastructure and social tensions as a whole. Plus there are an exponential amount more ppl and ability to travel compared to before. Plus and I cant stress this enough, if you cannot have it in the summer, you shouldn't be hosting it. Screw you. Also no alcohol no bueno.

​@@LoightaFluwid😂😂😂

Norwegian sovereign wealth funded super league when?

multiple human rights violations LOL other nation has much bigger problems.

​@@yousufhossain9768believing in a God makes you a bot, my fellow Bangladeshi brother 😂😂

@@yousufhossain9768 what did lgbt people do to you? Did your father touch you? Why do you hate people that has done you no harm? Human right violation includes more than lgbt, like how women must have a legal guardian, they are not seen as humans.

​@@yousufhossain9768 It's that and the killing of apostates and "witches" and anti establishment reporters and journalists, you guys are still developing from a more authoritarian dictatorship style of ruling and running a country

Quality and prestige > money

no they can take all of the old players, I'd rather them go to the MLS but w/e. They are essentially (with the help of Chelsea) syphoning money into the EPL and the new era of players.

They don't need Europe to care. they just need to attract the arab world and Asia which have more eyes than europe.

@@Honorbound43 they can have any of the players. I rather watch my local plumber play for my club then watch that league. The majority of people I know are turning more and more towards grass roots football anyway, my self included. Not the best talent but it’s some of the best football you can watch.

@@soko3900 I doubt that I’ll stick with madrid especially with our new youth squad perfect transition from one generation to the next. And next to these oil clubs I feel like the underdog but also still the kings. Hala madrid y nada mas! Been watching since 2002. But yea I hope the smaller teams get a resurgence. Like I love that serie a is coming back. We need more of that. Bundesliga is broken imo

exactly and I don't see Ronaldo not leaving them once his contract is over and going to the MLS and getting a similar deal to messi. Messi is clearly the smarter one for long term gains here. He owns the freaking team. He had enough money in the first place, so did Ronaldo but you can't own anything in any of the Middle Eastern countries if you aren't from those countries. Defeats the point imo of wanting to start business there. Doing business, fine but building a business not a shot.

@@TWOMUFC trueee I did forget

It’s like most fans would still prefer MLS over Saudi league if they had to watch one, even if MLS is considered a banter league by most. It’s also the ‘familiarity’ between fans and organisations, west to west. UEFA considered adding MLS to the UCL after Messi signed even though Saudi league has far more superstars now. Neither country rests in the European sphere but its clear which one UEFA favours.

This is a multi year project. As the west continues to decline Saudi will grow and grow.

Saudi is doing this whole thing to cater to the west kiddo to ensure it's existence.

Ok

Hahahaha of course you hate the Arabs because you know they have the religion of truth with and your jealousy is killing you right now

Al hilal is already the club with most asian championships alongside Urawa red diamonds from japan and thats before all the superstars so it will be difficult to compete with the saudi's. Unlike china saudi arabia already has a good league with good local players that challenge for the champions league yearly without superstars.

الاندية السعوديه اقوى من جميع الاندية الاسيوية

You don't know much how the AFC Champions League works, do you?

National team and teams are winners in Asian competitions, now more to come 😅

Why the hate I'm confused? As a Saudi I just find it odd how people are falling for the false western probaganda

They even have a poundland Champions League too? Lmao

They can buy fans, man city, psg have done it etc

@@leonthethird7494 One of the most important reasons why Qatar bought PSG was the fact that it was the only professional club in a city of a population of 12 million. They didn't buy fans, they were already there.

They have 500 million people in the middle east

​@@ashtonalmond9024 yeah they will capture the middle east / islam market, as well as curious casuals, and people wanting to see what Ronaldo and whatnot are upto. But unlikely it will get close to the EPL. EPL gets viewers from over 190 countries, and numbers in the billions. Add all the Euro leagues together and it's even bigger. They won't have the CL either. The Euro leagues all work together in a way also, developing exciting youth players who feed into the various big leagues / top clubs across Europe. It's a giant network effect that goes on. Creating depth, competition and excitement. The KSA league won't have anything like that either.

Football culture is there and it’s not something new mate🤦🏽‍♂️. More the 80% of population plays/watches football in saudi. The least you can do is watch a game between Al-Hilal V Al-Ittihad or Al-Nassr and see how the fans go crazy

Lol, except it didn't for chinese players when their league got all the publicity when they signed big names back in 2016.....

@@killbot86 chinese league is different, lack of talent athough having massive population..at their peak, they didnt even win a match in world cup or having consistent winning score against asian team, saudi arabia already qualified for wc for 6th time.. and did have great reputation winning in asia, winning 3 asian cup title, only second to japan

​@@wokashraf5028no it doesn't matter. saudi teams don't play in uefa competitions. That's the greatest pull of all.

@@Micfri300 different continent, how on earth a team from asia to play in eufa?..saudi planning on better world cup appearance...this is one way as their player rarely playing outside their country. current local player did a good job in qatar wc. WC is the greatest, not eufa competition

@@wokashraf5028his hatred make him blind from facts

obviously that is the goal but you need publicity first, you cant get the youth to want to play in the league if there is no buzz

This is like fantasy land talk. They're not playing FIFA 23. They have trillions of dollars and are making real things happen right now.

@@samia.n2392 China tried it and didn’t work. Having infinite money in Arabia might do the trick but the real development starts from something as basic as promoting sports at schools.

@@TheThirdWorldCitizen ye tifo mentioned this when they said they want to increase the number of registered players from 21000 to 200000

@@samia.n2392 Sure plans are always in place, only time will tell if they work out as planned.

check my channel for some fire football and ronaldo content

I like your observation, but one more factor why the PL is most watched is due to the impact of its colonial history. Many countries around the world have a basic understanding of English and were once an English colony, giving English football an early and long headstart from way back. England don't even need to win any more World Cups to gain more following from non-World Cup countries. The Saudis could take the CSL's failure as a lesson, but I feel 2030 is too close to have any meaningful impact with grassroots football. If they can actually raise the base levels, then maybe I'd start watching. I still don't watch the MLS or women's football despite so much noise and exposure from the media.

What I think most westerners in here don't understand is that the target audience doesn't necessarily have to be from Europe and the US. Do you realise the arab world accounts for more than 400M people?! And though I'm also against some principles of the Saudi League, but it is actually attracting so many new viewers, portugese fans seem to also enjoy the signing of Neves, you got huge numbers in the Indonesians and Malaysians that follow the league too, and this is just today in 2023, people keep saying their investment is 'unsustainable' but what everyone keeps missing is that they have INFINITE money like literally with the oil prices and the increasing demand in upcoming years, so they won't have any issue in splashing money until 2030 where it might become a "standard" league that people occasionally watch, and that arabs fully or partialyl follow too. Chinese economy was always too sketchy while you have Qatar or even Kuwait that could be doing the same but haven't yet, and they're not collapsing anytime soon either. Also isn't it ironic that most of Africa and Asia watches the PL because they got colonised and divided by the British and then adopted their language, but that's normal right haha?

@@idrissbelmejdoub6632 I believe it's the very fact that these Westerners know, some burying it in the deepest depths of their subconsciousness, that they are where they are today because of colonisation and whatever washing their forefathers once did, that they are so afraid of others now doing exactly the same to compete with them today.

​@idrissbelmejdoub6632 the man wanted to improve his countries image so that he would get better deals with the democratic countries because dictators and many other coorupt governments can just do trade deals with him without worrying pver the public opinion of their people.

Man stfup, no one is watching burnley vs bournemouth

Well, i think football is the only sport in KSA and Saudi’s r crazy about football more than Japanese and Koreans and Chinese

@@anaspiranttrader8663 That’s not true it’s not the only sport in Saudi why would it be the only sport ? But it’s the most popular sport by far

​@@anaspiranttrader8663china and korea yes, japan no

@@h0ndesohn708 i mean you're right there, like there's couple of key points that can be taken here why Japan really loves football/soccer. Urawa Red Dragons is pretty much the AFC Champions, there are also multiple japanese players coming to Europe (Kaoru Mitoma, Hidetoshi Nakata, Wataru Endo, Shunsuke Nakamura, and couple more) compared to Korea (Son Heung min and Park Ji Sung is the only 2 I know of) or Chinese (none from what I know). Not to mention Japan's football Animes pretty much hyped it up even further.

@@mineshaft12 Zidane, Mbappe, Ronaldo, Messi, Kaka, Neymar, Iniesta, Torres and Aguero all said they were influenced by captain tsubasa 😭 japan also have their 100 year plan, the second most professional clubs itw, and a squad capable of beating anyone on a good day. Japan is worlds ahead of korea, china and saudi arabia

will never have global appeal regardless of the players

@@Ccccc-mi3tr couple more recession needed .. itll die out on its own.

This comment is actually so dumb I'm in shock 💀💀💀

Clearly as you are uneducated so I will happily explain as a Saudi NATIONAL. The Premier League has built itself to be the best league in world football over multiple decades whereas the Saudi league is trying to buy the success overnight. I’m happy that my country is investing in sports but there needs to be more investment in grassroots football and homegrown players like in the UK, Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Spain etc. If the Saudi league keeps on buying foreign superstars then we will just be like China a couple years ago. Once the players retire, the league will revert to how it was a pre Ronaldo. I’m sure if your car broke down tomorrow you’ll blame the West! Get a grip and look at things a different way. Go read a book and improve your critical thinking.

sports washing isnt just "throwing money around". its a way in which governments and other organisations can improve their image on the world stage. this is what saudi arabia wants at the end of the day - to be taken seriously by global governments and individuals around the world especially in the west, so it is trying to change public perception of the country through sportwashing.

Since when were premier clubs states. 😂

It isn't that they are buying players, it is they are using this to try to gloss over the terrible way they treat their citizens, and the rest of the world.

Don't forget PSG did the same with italian clubs (cavani, ibrahimovic, lavezzi)

Bro Arabs and Middle East are obsessed with football. Go into any Arab coffee shop when football match is on lol

You haven’t got a grassroots culture, tho. Just throwing money at players won’t keep the interest in the Saudi league for the long term.

​@nas84payne yes just like Messi, he was offered a very huge sum of money to play in the middle east but he refused

Whatever Saudi is doing, they are doing right. The monopoly over football by European clubs need to be destroyed. They can't tolerate any success of any other Nations.

@@GeorgeSupremuYou realise Messi is getting paid just as much by the MLS

Keep believing in that 😄

Exactly.. UCL is be all and end all of club football.. Asia cannot compete with that..

@@thetanvirulfarook I want Saudi to do well as I hate Europes continued dominance in football but unfortunately I feel like this will end up like the Chinese Super League bro

@@vb2388ont rule out Saudi buying their way to gaining Champions League spots, especially if the teams become competitive against the too European clubs

Its depends on if Saudi lose interest or if there are sanctions against them, neither of which are likely for the next 5 years

Whwt blood money?

I doubt that honestly 😂

Even more make sense they starter doing this no?

If you’re from South America, this is what MLS is hoping it can you, you jump to a club in the MLS, get some experience and exposure and then make the leap over to a European team. Look at Almiron and Newcastle

There’s fans outside of Europe who follow players more than they do teams. This league is for them.

@@PC-sq3zq chinese didn't follow their own league when they tried this, don't think they will start following the saudi league. also: the only way to become a superstar in football is to play for european top clubs, that won't change in the foreseeable future. it ight take decades to build a reputation like the top legues in europe have and i doubt oil money will be there long enough, one day they will need the money elsewhere and it's over. the markets that care for the saudi league are arab countries and possibly africa, economically that isn't sustainable. and they will realize that their sportswashing attempts are not really working that well, prior to qatar hosting the world cup barely anyone cared for human rights abuses in that country, people only started noticing when it was announced that they wold host the WC. and in case you think that is only a problem regarding their relations to the west: why would you even need sportswashing for countries that don't care anyway?

you don know that the western world only equates to 35% 0f the world population and since they have unlimited wealth in trillions not including the trillions of American debt they hold, once they throw enough money at it, they'll eventually succeed and remember 70% of the worlds population actually hates the west.

I will.

Fan travel in a highly polarized region is impossible due to visa restrictions and hostility against visiting teams would be so common because every country is basically on each others throats. If it could've been done, pretty sure balkans would've done it by now.

Also given that CR7 is in the twilight of his career now alongside others.

Making hundreds of millions

But prestige and heritage can't make you feel full, money can

But that didn't stop City from winning treble. With money you can write, erase and recreate history

​@@lemagnifique1573as if European football pays peanuts.

@@nightking8490 listen my friend, im a culé myself, and we all know that Barcelona as one of the greatest football team will longtime prestige and heritage is in a financial crisis right now. With a huge financial deficit and debt, Barcelona should cut the salary, lost Messi, and couldn't register some of new players, and they are ended up with underperformed and knocked in every group stage of CL by year to year. While on the other hand, club with financial stabilities like Real Madrid and Bayern München could keep their glorious day, with some newcomers like Man City, PSG, Chelsea, and Newcastle United are going better by acquire better player with proper and sustainable salary, with huge financial support from their ultra-rich owners. So yeah you can't deny the importance of money. If Saudi Arabia wants to build their football by this way, it's up to them. Either it will be successful or ended up with failure is their business, as Europe will always be the "birthplace" of modern football.

@@lemagnifique1573 Well,Barcelona did it to itself. People like Bartomeu will do the same to Madrid and Munich.

Why does it matter to you?

@@ashtonalmond9024 likely a man city fan

@@cutecat1764 ...or not... Bernardo is a player in his prime, and could possibly walk into any top European starting 11... if he were to choose the Saudi League over staying in Europe then it's a turning point. No longer can anyone say it's just players nearing retirement going to Saudi for one last big pay day. It'll mean oil money wins and football loses.

@@doml8959 Well, they didnt get Messi... How arguable is the biggest icon after winning the world cup/

@@majormononoke8958 you're missing the point, regardless of how big Messi is... he's coming to the end of his career, and if he had gone to Saudi Arabia it'll just be seen as an opportunity for a big pay day before retiring. Him and Bernardo are 2 completely different situations.

Ok

لانريدك تشاهد الدوري السعودية انقلع

Completely agree. They can buy all the big names they want but they can’t buy history or what made football what it is in the first place.

@mosaabtwice3999 cool story. I’m referring to the fact that football in Europe and particularly the uk where it was invented was built up over around 150 years, largely thanks to local supporters. This is what made football the special game it is. But in recent years we’ve had people from places like the Middle East watching it on tv and posting on social media calling themselves fans without any appreciation for any of this. They wouldn’t be following it at all if it weren’t for Europeans organically developing the game and its teams (and South Americans, though they don’t have the same kind of plastic international fanbase). So what these plastic fans are now doing is trying to buy what they see on tv and bring it to their own countries. But they will never be able to buy essence of what makes football the special game it is. They just don’t understand the kind of thing @deanrtaylor is saying, will never be able to truly understand a local derby, and largely only care about big names.

​@@PC-sq3zq Wikipedia ittihad FC and how it formed 95 years ago, Last year league winnner of Saudi league.

But that can change very quickly with funding like this and the players moving there. Saudi Arabia is the only government that can fund this and if they can do so for 5 years and make it commercially sustainable on its own through advertising during those 5 years, it will work

that's why MLS flopped

@@jakeclough8090 if u like watching it go watch, can't care much, non of them will ever win balon dor or UCL.

@@thunderapple5368 first of all I never said I wanted to watch it so stop with the passive aggressiveness. I’m just saying what they’re trying to do and that they do have the money to do it. And secondly many people will watch even if you don’t care mate. No player outside La liga has won the ballon dor in about 15 years so you saying serie a, the Orem, the budeslgia etc etc are bad as well? Likewise there are lots of clubs who are massive but haven’t won the ucl in decades if ever, so another irrelevant point. And plus if the Saudi league did become a big big deal the club World Cup or some super cup will just become as or nearly prestigious as the ucl anyway

@@jakeclough8090 i just said if u want, chill out. Why you mad

nobody is going to criticize some player they never heard of for going to saudi. But for world class players playing in the top 5 leagues and who are famous enough to get invited by saudi clubs, their wages aren't that low that they need to go to the middle east to survive. someone like neves, who is by no means a superstar is taking home like 4 mil per year, he's not starving in the streets, and him throwing a potentially stellar career for more money than he needs is something that, in my opinion, warrants criticism

@@dokjastopsimp2370 you just proved my point by being way off the mark on this - nobody ANYWHERE with big money wants a player nobody ever heard of. You think Chelsea or City are gonna pay the same amount for a player no one's heard of? So what if he had 4mil at Wolves? He decides that he wants to triple his wages at Saudi, so be it. If he can stretch that over 5 years, he's making 40mil more than at Wolves, potentially at lower taxes. He's only gonna be paid to kick a ball for another 10 years tops, and it's his career to decide what's important to his family and his life before he retires. Throw away? For all we know he could be planning to use that money to build businesses in Portugal that allows him to live comfortably past his 30s. Just admit that you don't like it not being a Western destination. Rather hypocritical that people shout about human rights so-and-so but they attack the rights of a player like Neves to choose wherever he pleases to go to.

@@sususegar I'm not attacking the right for him to do so. he has the right to go play wherever and I have the right to point out the the sportswashing of Saudi Arabia is reaching a worrying degree and to say my opinion that he's throwing away his potential as a player by moving to a less competitive league. Also, live comfortably? I don't think you have any idea how much 4 million dollars are. You can live in luxury and allow your children to do the same by playing for that wage for 3-4 years and doing a few average investments

​@@sususegarYou are completly delusional for comparing actual human rights violations with criticism of a players decision where he wants to play football. You know that Ruben Neves does not die or face any serious issues because some people in europe don't agree with his decision. I am obviously not saying that Saudi Arabia is the only place in the world with human rights violations, but it is a big problem and needs to be pointet out. The brain rot you must have experienced to put these to things in the same category is insane. "Yeah people die in Saudi Arabia but I don't like that you criticize a player for his decision." You know that Ruben Neves is just as free to go wherever as anybody is too criticize his move. Everybody can clearly see your hate for white people and europe in your comments. What a sad human being.

I agree with you on the "white man's moral high ground" accusation of the detractors of the Pro league about sports washing by throwing money at the thing and see what works. Many of the historic European teams grew and thrived because of money. The Premier League exists because of money. Chelsea was created because the original owner of Stamford bridge couldn't find a football team to play in it so he just made one. For Sports to succeed, it takes many factors to work out. Money is important but, it's not the end all be all of it as has been proven repeatedly. There's many unsaid factors that work behind the scenes. RB Leipzig probably had the winning formula in a vault in Saxony somewhere and they're not sharing. I disagree that human rights complaints should be ignored. They shouldn't. How the Saudi government and others Petrorich regimes treats women and dissenters and immigrants shouldn't be accepted or ignored and those of us that live in such countries where it isn't....all we have to deal with is a culture war. I prefer a culture war to that any day. Hipocrisy is no excuse for any of it. One just has their own mirror image to look at instead of just outsiders

Lies again? Marine Soldier Arabic Text

You act like "Europe" does not produce its own players. What a weird take.

Epl is one of the worst leagues in the world, feel like falling asleep after 5 minutes of play

That’s the unfortunate thing. It’s almost like Europe intentionally pushes other leagues down. Leagues outside of Europe never have a chance to shine properly. I hope Saudi can change this but I doubt it

@@ByddinRhyddidCymruyeah man that’s why it’s the wealthiest league in the world 😂😂I think you’re definitely alone on that one

​@@ByddinRhyddidCymruso you definitely has no idea about the sport.

@@ByddinRhyddidCymru Pep’s Man City plays boring Football? Mate even Brighton would destroy Saudi teams 😂

Unfortunately for everyone else, Europe figured out how to capitalize on young talent before everyone else did. They now have a deep and extensive culture of skilled football known for being the best. They have all of the glory every that generation of players want because of the history. Saudi Arabia won't obtain this by simply buying retiring super stars. This will be like a dim-lit fire waiting to burn out once these guys are done. They need to capitalize on young talent and build them into superstars to incentivize newer generations to play for their country's clubs instead of just hoping that the European contract arrives. A lot of clubs make money by selling young talent to Europe and probably don't get too invested in their players personally, it's just business unfortunately. However this is just the sad reality of getting there first, and now every other region of the world has to follow behind. I'm not sure that it will ever change at this point, simply by the nature of it.

@@zharth. I agree with everything you’ve said except how you’ve framed the first sentence: that Europe “figured it out”. That makes it seem as if it was due to their own competence when in reality it was due to global imbalances (which I hope I don’t need to explain) that meant they had/still have a monopoly on the money required to grow their sport beyond their competition. But yes I agree with everything else you’ve said following after their initial advantage.

@@Teezy561 Yeah I agree, I didn't really mean that as in Europe was the first to think of doing this. They just had the resources and took the advantage before others could. It's similar to how America dominates the internet. Other countries have their own versions of social media, but it's hardly ever going to compete with the American media.

La Liga model is not sustainable either lol Barcelona have had to sell off future revenue to stay afloat. I imagine they hoping to invest massively to scale it back overtime this is nothing new in capitalism Amazon, Sony PlayStation, Disney+, Uber all have done this run at a loss until you gain marketshare Tbh it's smarter to do 4 teams like Saudi are doing than like French league where u just have 1 team that outweighs all the other by a country mile. It's the competition across the board that made the Premier League the most watched League in the world.

They can't take over football when most of the players they're signing are retiring in about 2 or 3 years. Younger players will always want to play in Europe.

​@@david91lvbthey just signed Ruben Neves

@@haywoodjblome4768 If you're asked to name some of the best midfielders in the Premier league alone, nobody ever thinks of Ruben Neves. He's literally average 💀

@@david91lvb So average he was linked to Barcelona, they just couldn't match Saudis offer because they're broke

@haywoodjblome4768 Like you said, they're broke so Barca wanted him because he was a cheap alternative that would be available on the market. If they had money they wouldn't entertain the idea of signing him because there are so many other better players

The entitlement is what makes it funny, im alhilal fan btw from Saudi Arabia, i love my team because i grew up with it from childhood to age 33 now, visting the ground and attending their games, cannot imagine someone getting buthurt about a team they cheer for in another country

Didn't Iniesta go to Japan though and then as of late the UAE League

Feels more like eu taking all South American players

1. Won't happen 2. If it did the Saudi Clubs would get torn to shreds

@@truenoae8689soon Saudi clubs would be able to win. They just need into import foreign players like the English teams did

@@squidguard1 no chance. Right now the most they have is 2-3 foreign players all past their primes playing in a non competitive league against teams without foreign players. If they ever get enough foreign players (and top managers) to compete, there will be no Saudi players left

@@truenoae8689 isn’t that what the English teams did? How many English players are in top 6? Even mid table teams are filled with foreign players. Football is growing in Saudi, they have the funds. They beat the World Cup winners last World Cup. Saudi could probably win silverware before England ever does lol

@@squidguard1 all teams have foreign players but EPL teams still have lots of English players, La Liga teams have lots of spanish players, Bundesliga with German players and so on. Beating Argentina was a fluke it doesnt mean Saudi Arabia is better lol. The league will have to decide if it wants to be a league filled with foreign talent (probably close to retirement) or a league to develop Saudi players. But it won't be both

If Saudi Arabia focuses not only on improving their domestic league, but in gaining an uncontested top dog position in the Arab world, the league could make it big, there's a potential pool of 450 million viewers and that's without arabs living abroad. If the Saudi league monopolizes arab football fans the league will be sustainable I beleive.

Saudi league already watched by most of those 400milliom bud for a decade

@@Phantom-ez4zv link the tv viewership numbers, let's see it

@@monrow1961 mostly pirated tv channels watching it online, there's many arabic players that played in Saudi League from different countries so their fellow country men watch their players and plus same language, kind of like south America and Argentina and brazil league its watched by almost all south American ppl esp Derby's and big games, minus the fact that Brazil speak Portuguese not Spanish. Most arabs admit publically on their channels that the Saudis league is 1st in arab world and some of them make similarity with prem in Europe obviously not even close to prem quality but they mean its the premier League of Arabs.

Well, they are running out of time. Oil if it isn't finishing , will be used less and less. Saudi approach is wrong. They are not developing their own Talents there but instead relying on greedy players coming there to end their career from Europe.

Only some Muslim player might want to go their without big money factor.

that will not happen for generations.

The oil isn't running out it's being banned by corrupt western nations for control and their own enrichment.

What conditions buddy? Saudi is already more advanced and rich and cleaner than most western countries

I love what they're doing.

@@HistoricallyRomantic Well some people will, this issue is especially subjective.

Bruh this comment

Yea they have their version of the UCL. I'm pretty sure FFP doesn't exist because the Saudi teams are clearly allowed to offer those crazy wages

They have ucl and their teams historically won a lot

They already offered Mbappe a $B contract

@@train_xc crazy , i called it before it happened

True. Saudi is another retirement league just with more money. How can they even keep with Europe? A player would rather establish himself in Europe than to waste his prime in desert.

probably because unlike the examples you have provided, they actually have unlimited amounts of money, trillions of pounds worth of oil and gas in order to see all the diversification and development through

Agreed, they’re copying a concept that didn’t work for the MLS and was a disaster for China, because like you said, once Ronaldo leaves/retires, who really cares about Al Nassr? Certainly not anyone in Europe or Asia, perhaps only people in a few countries in the Middle East. Players come and go, but the clubs are there to stay. It’s the CLUBS that fans love, particularly in the Premier League, where they’re relentlessly battling it out for ‘silverware’, or to avoid relegation, playing football at breakneck speed, while the fans go berserk and threaten to attack each other if their team loses! It makes for amazing entertainment and is surely the most popular sports competition in the world. Even established leagues like Bundesliga can’t match the premier league, so how on earth can China and Saudi replicate it? They can’t. It’s a massive waste of money actually.

@@alex6677 China only failed because the government changed the laws as they didn't want the money to leave the country. Wasting money is subjective. if you buy a car for 400 per month on a lease instead of buying a second hand one, much cheaper, that's wasting money, so it's really up to the Saudi's what they want to do with their unlimited cash and I find it ironic that our countries in the west suddenly has become conscious about wasting money when we have been doing it for decades so this whole wasting nonsense and other reasons is nothing but deep rooted islamophobia and jealousy that an Islamic country with unlimited amount of wealth are going to diversify its own country at the expense of other countries in the west who can't afford to do so. They aren't trying to beat the premier league as they are trying to make the Saudi league one of the top ten leagues in the world and since England, Spain, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Holland, Scotland, France are in the top 10, their aim is very easy to achieve as other leagues are rubbish. The Saudi League has been around since the 70's and since the countries demographic is much younger now in comparison to the 70's and are football crazy and with the creation of the football academy to increase and get better middle eastern players since 2006, it will take time and the attracting of talent even though old and the world cup in Qatar has strengthened the Saudi belief that they can succeed. I was at Qatar for the world cup and can say that it was the best ever organised in the history of the sport and with Morocco going to the semi's where every middle eastern and african country supporting them, which doesn't happen here in the west, proved that the middle east football is growing and will get better with time, in fact, i remember when people started to complain about african players leaving for the african nations cup years ago calling the competition pointless never estimated how good the competition would get and it gotten much better and the same will happen for Saudi regardless who plays for them, in fact the Saudi's along with the American's will accelerate the Super League plan and it's only a matter of time when that happens because in the end, it's how much money your willing to throw at a problem will solve it and Saudi's have pretty much have unlimited mounts of it.

@@MrAce86Productions add that they alerady have the best club in asia historically winning most afc cl titles.

Half the country studies abroad and the other half spends summer in Europe/usa . Exposure isn’t an issue. Lol

Believe me they're fine, it's not exactly oppressive how the media says it is all the time

There's this thing called the internet...

messi isn't european and they offered him more than anybody else. they aren't offering that money to players who are playing outside of europe because the best players all play in european leagues regardless where they come from, best american, asian and african footballers all play in europe. why should anyone offer such contracts to a player who nobody ever heard of. they could get good african players who still play in africa for much less, but it's unlikely that these players will become worldwide superstars, they could only prove themselves in world cups, but without playing and training with the elite they probably won't get good enough. they'd have to create high quality academies first and raise the overall quality of the league first. the reason because the top5 leagues are so good is not because of a few stars, but because even the players most people never heard of are pretty good

Not a superstar, tho (good player that he is).

China is literally thousand times more propsperous than Saudi Arabia. In which world do you live?

​@@AyushMaurya-sw4etThere is a death penalty for corruption

@@vlogverse6900 doesn't seem like it in Kuwait.

@@nightking8490 Idk about Kuwait I live in Saudia

No they'll not be. Football isn't just about pumping money and it's just an irresponsible waste of money that Suadi leaders tend to do, because they have next to limitless amount of money.

@ cameronmurdoch. I don’t think they will have rapid growth same as Newcastle and City as these two teams are the fabric of English football and have been around for over a century. There is a risk of players in their prime signing up for Saudi teams but not getting picked for their countries as the league is at the moment not comparable to the top European countries.