French Football Kylian Mbappe £259m offer!

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In the prime of his career and going to take the Saudi bunce.

What a shame for such a good player.

It’s this kind of move that makes sacking the whole sorry lot from the top flight off to the ESL to gorge in the trough of greed more appealing.
 
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unification said:

In the prime of his career and going to take the Saudi bunce.

What a shame for such a good player.

It’s this kind of move that makes sacking the whole sorry lot from the top flight off to the ESL to gorge in the trough of greed more appealing.
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Trouble is, who else can afford him? He's backed himself into a corner. I can sort of understand Jordan Henderson wanting 'one last payday' but for Mbappe to basically end his serious career at 25 seems tragic.
 
Will be interesting to see what he does - and therefore what his true motivation is. I still think he will end up at Madrid.
 
Seen some comments online about this being a precursor for Saudi trying to force their clubs into the Champions League. Nothing but unsubstantiated rumour, but you wouldn't be surprised.

It feels nice sitting in the comparative Hobbiton of League 1, where things are broadly as they once were. But all this stuff does make you wonder at what point you'd walk away from football entirely.
 
bashamwonderland said:
Seen some comments online about this being a precursor for Saudi trying to force their clubs into the Champions League. Nothing but unsubstantiated rumour, but you wouldn't be surprised.

It feels nice sitting in the comparative Hobbiton of League 1, where things are broadly as they once were. But all this stuff does make you wonder at what point you'd walk away from football entirely.
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Well UEFA have never had a reputation for putting money ahead of the good of the game so I can't see that happening :cool:
 
Mbappe must be ridiculously well paid to start with, so he hardly needs the move for money. Shame to waste his career at such a young age.
 
bashamwonderland said:
Neither is Israel...
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Right, you can't leave Israel with AFC...
Israel and potential Arab opponents together? Bloodbath!
Yeah, I know, that's why... Anyway, you can't leave Israel with CAF-
Er, hello, I'm Israel, thank you for leaving me with Egypt, my favourite opponent of the Six Day War.

At least Israel overlooks the Med. I don't know how Kazakhstan have managed to wheedle its way into UEFA though.

Then again Russia are still part of UEFA and could, when allowed, choose to p**s everybody off even more and host their matches in Vladivostok if they so wished!
 
MarkG said:
Mbappe must be ridiculously well paid to start with, so he hardly needs the move for money. Shame to waste his career at such a young age.
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There is talk of him going to Saudi for a year before joining Madrid for free in a years time!!
 
It’s a strange one, £400/500 million for a single season of Kylian Mbappe seems a bit excessive, he is good but nobody is that good.

Got nothing much to do with football though I suppose, it’s a mega rich state buying good publicity.

With Golf, Boxing and now Football they seem to just be trying to buy up elite level sports, so I think we should be pretty safe from there clutches.
 
holdsteady said:
It’s a strange one, £400/500 million for a single season of Kylian Mbappe seems a bit excessive, he is good but nobody is that good.

Got nothing much to do with football though I suppose, it’s a mega rich state buying good publicity.

With Golf, Boxing and now Football they seem to just be trying to buy up elite level sports, so I think we should be pretty safe from there clutches.
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We just need to make sure we don’t get too good
 
bashamwonderland said:
Seen some comments online about this being a precursor for Saudi trying to force their clubs into the Champions League. Nothing but unsubstantiated rumour, but you wouldn't be surprised.

It feels nice sitting in the comparative Hobbiton of League 1, where things are broadly as they once were. But all this stuff does make you wonder at what point you'd walk away from football entirely.
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This sort of thing is why I'm so glad I support a League One football team and my hometown club. I genuinely do not understand how you can support a 'club' that is effectively nothing more than a corporate commercial entity. And that's even before you throw in the sportswashing and human rights abuse elements.
 
ttg17 said:
This sort of thing is why I'm so glad I support a League One football team and my hometown club. I genuinely do not understand how you can support a 'club' that is effectively nothing more than a corporate commercial entity. And that's even before you throw in the sportswashing and human rights abuse elements.
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Makes you wonder though - if we did make it to the Premier League would you be happy? New Saudi owners, gambling sponsor on the shirt, etc. etc. Kinda makes me just want to float around the upper half of the championship!
 
bashamwonderland said:
Makes you wonder though - if we did make it to the Premier League would you be happy? New Saudi owners, gambling sponsor on the shirt, etc. etc. Kinda makes me just want to float around the upper half of the championship!
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By the time we make the prem in a couple of seasons gambling sponsorships will be banned, so we will just have to stick to Bangkok Glass unless Ethical coconuts outbid them.
 
bashamwonderland said:
Makes you wonder though - if we did make it to the Premier League would you be happy? New Saudi owners, gambling sponsor on the shirt, etc. etc. Kinda makes me just want to float around the upper half of the championship!
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I have thought about this quite a bit. Let's assume that OUFC got taken over by a nefarious nation state like Newcastle, Manchester City or (it still looks possible) Manchester United. The narrative when Newcastle were taken over around, 'What are you going to do, stop supporting your club?' and all of that.

My answer to that would be an unequivocal yes. I genuinely don't understand how it's any kind of moral dilemma. My reasons for that would be that:
1) Taking Newcastle as a particular example, my empathy for homosexuals and women and journalists and the Yemeni people far outweighs my enthusiasm for seeing my football team score more goals than another on a Saturday afternoon, and I'm staggered that that would not be the same for everybody; and
2) It would not really be OUFC any more. It would not be the local, intimate thing that I knew and loved any more. It would be, as I've said in another thread, a vessel for the promotion of an objectively abhorrent nation state. By continuing to support it, I would be supporting that state rather than my team. Which I simply would not do.
 
I knew PSG would accept the offer, what club wouldn’t?!

I hope he doesn’t go. But this move might mean Real Madrid now have to make a large offer and not get him for free next summer.
 
This whole idea of ‘sportswashing’ is strange as I was discussing with a friend how, after all these takeovers etc, I know far more about the crimes and human rights abuses of Saudi Arabia, for example, than I ever did before. It’s really brought it up in the media constantly much more than it ever was before!
 
Northstandboy said:
I knew PSG would accept the offer, what club wouldn’t?!

I hope he doesn’t go. But this move might mean Real Madrid now have to make a large offer and not get him for free next summer.
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I agree. I too think he'll end up at Real Madrid, but he will (or rather his wily agent will) use Al-Hilal to try and leverage as much money out of Real Madrid as possible.

Plus didn't he also screw over Real Madrid once before, in order to wangle more money out of PSG? Now PSG have decided they've had enough of the Mbappe circus -make's you wonder why Real Madrid are interested - particularly given Harry Kane* is approaching his 30s, and has yet to win any silverware.

* Yes, I know Mbappe is a better player, but football is a team game, and Kane is more of a team player.
 
boogaloo said:
I agree. I too think he'll end up at Real Madrid, but he will (or rather his wily agent will) use Al-Hilal to try and leverage as much money out of Real Madrid as possible.

Plus didn't he also screw over Real Madrid once before, in order to wangle more money out of PSG? Now PSG have decided they've had enough of the Mbappe circus -make's you wonder why Real Madrid are interested - particularly given Harry Kane* is approaching his 30s, and has yet to win any silverware.

* Yes, I know Mbappe is a better player, but football is a team game, and Kane is more of a team player.
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PSG want him to stay and have offered him a massive new deal, it’s just they don’t want to lose him for nothing after paying so much.

A fit and motivated Mbappe is one of the top 3 players in the world, I think every club in world football would take him if they could. He seems to only want to go to Madrid though. They could have some team with him and Bellingham!
 
Foreign leagues buying marquee players has been a thing for years and years, I guess im curious why theres a fuss now. Is it that saudi isn't enough of a football country? Just the weight of the money making it harder to ignore? We don't have kittens when messi goes to the usa for an elaborate show and tell but we rankle at saudi. Saudi is a more obviously "baddie" country but is it that simple?
 
Mojofilter said:
Foreign leagues buying marquee players has been a thing for years and years, I guess im curious why theres a fuss now. Is it that saudi isn't enough of a football country? Just the weight of the money making it harder to ignore? We don't have kittens when messi goes to the usa for an elaborate show and tell but we rankle at saudi. Saudi is a more obviously "baddie" country but is it that simple?
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Messi is on his retirement tour

Mbappe is at his absolute peak

Very different situations
 
I`m just glad we made it to the top flight when we did and I was there to savour every moment.

As for now - this sort of situation is unsustainable for football as whole.

Let the mega wealthy scuttle off to form some sort of World Super League and leave us alone.
 
Essexyellows said:
I`m just glad we made it to the top flight when we did and I was there to savour every moment.

As for now - this sort of situation is unsustainable for football as whole.

Let the mega wealthy scuttle off to form some sort of World Super League and leave us alone.
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Yep, agree. It is amusing watching the English, Spanish, French etc getting their noses put out of joint by this, considering they have been hoovering up talent themselves for decades.
 
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