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9. Non responsive & more CT. Why don't you go worry about an actual Saudi owned team, like Newcastle,
Tue Jun 27, 2023, 11:00 AM
Jun 2023

or all the other players the Saudis are buying from other clubs.

The prices for the players we sold to them were all at much lower figures than we paid, and total up to a low sum.

So far its been (assuming all these go through):

Kante £0 (left on a free, as we didn't renew, we paid £32m in 2016, long before the club was sold, and it was a steal, he was the best DMF on the planet for years)

Koulibaly £19.5m (we paid £33m for him last summer)

Ziyech £8.5m (we paid £34m for him 3 years ago, before the clubs was sold)

Mendy £16m (we paid £22m for him) 3 years

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Total we sold the four for: £44m (versus £121m in transfer fees paid over the years)

£44m is chump change for 4 players today, and all 4 of those players are globally famous, so add star power for the Saudis, at least in reputation.

We are also trying to sell Aubameyang, but will ger little, maybe £4 or £5m. We paid £10m for him last summer, and he was a bust.

The Saudis are not doing massive deals with us, nor are they remotely in any postion of direct ownership.

That would be clubs like Newcastle, who if you are so concerned about the Saudis, you should be truly in a lather over.









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