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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
If someone came to you and offered you 10 times your wages to go work in Saudi Arabia for a few years - you wouldn't do it?
Its a bubble that will burst since there's only so much value you can get from it on the Saudi side - but not hard to understand why people would do it.
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There is so much value to be had by sports washing, both domestically and abroad. These players and franchises are helping to keep middle eastern dictatorships in power, thereby increasing the riches of the royal families by billions of dollars each year.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-sportswashing