Kylian Mbappe: Al Hilal make £259m world-record bid for France international | Premier League clubs also interested

[Monster munch]

So do the FFP rules not apply in Saudi?
These clubs may be owned by super wealthy hedge funds and oil rich royal families, but surely if the actual revenue for the saudi clubs is low, sponsorship etc is low (and im pretty sure the revenues are nowhere near the european clubs) then how are they getting away throwing these transfer sums around?
Manchester city, Real Madrid, Barca etc, the wealthiest football teams in the world can't throw transfer fees like this around so how are teams in the non heard of saudi leagues able to to do it.

259million.

Wheres FIFA in all of this.

[nomad blue]

So do the FFP rules not apply in Saudi?
These clubs may be owned by super wealthy hedge funds and oil rich royal families, but surely if the actual revenue for the saudi clubs is low, sponsorship etc is low (and im pretty sure the revenues are nowhere near the european clubs) then how are they getting away throwing these transfer sums around?
Manchester city, Real Madrid, Barca etc, the wealthiest football teams in the world can't throw transfer fees like this around so how are teams in the non heard of saudi leagues able to to do it.

259million.

Wheres FIFA in all of this.

FFP is just a UEFA thing, so won't apply to SA. Standard revenue streams won't matter much with the oil and investment incomes there.

I can see players retiring there, or going for a year to beef up their bank balances, but can't see any top player in their prime signing a long term contract to play there.

[splott parker]

I can see players retiring there, or going for a year to beef up their bank balances, but can't see any top player in their prime signing a long term contract to play there.

What about an outstanding 20/21 year old getting an offer of about £60m a year on a three year contract? Returning to the Premier League, Bundesliga, La Liga etc at the age of 23/24, absolutely financially made for life with another ten years of ‘normal’ wages.

[lardy]

What about an outstanding 20/21 year old getting an offer of about £60m a year on a three year contract? Returning to the Premier League, Bundesliga, La Liga etc at the age of 23/24, absolutely financially made for life with another ten years of ‘normal’ wages.

They would probably have found European football to have passed them by as their development stops.

[MacAdder]

I see the offer has been accepted.

They never even haggled

[goats]

I see the offer has been accepted.

They never even haggled

Will he go though? Basically playing for nothing but money? No doubt psg would love to cash in after losing almost half a billion pounds, owners want out anyway dint they?