• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Are there even any players left in the top leagues who haven’t gone to countries with awful human rights records such as Saudi Arabia and the US?

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      11 months ago

      I was surprised by Henderson going for only 12 too. He might be 33, but a European club would probably still have had to pay much more than that.

      I think clubs are either afraid of angering the regime or getting extremely lucrative deals the press doesn’t know about in addition to the transfer fees…