Looking at Laporte’s transfer, as with all the Saudi moves, you can’t help but ask: is this just about money?
probably exemplifies this better than anyone. Howe tends to indicate he doesn’t have the time to engage with such trivialities, but really it’s a matter of simply not needing to.
When you earn a certain amount of money, you become largely exempt from needing to engage politically, so some simply don’t. Public transport, or affordable housing, or migrants being allegedly killed don’t really infringe on the lives of most mega-multi-millionaires, so they don’t need enter their consciences either. In fact, when you have quite so much money, as most footballers do,becomes an inconvenience. If this is in a country you don’t consider your own, that feeling instantly quadruples.
English fans can say these players are effectively dead to them, that they would never switch on the Pro League even on their darkest, loneliest night, but the football will happen all the same, still commanding the rest of the world’s attention. It will still be selling what their chief operating officer called “experiential entertainment”.the continued normalisation of Saudi football
to the West. In the space of a summer, the Pro League has dramatically shifted the Overton window, lurched from novelty to priority in the psyches of Europe’s top footballers. It’s just somewhere elite players choose to go now.
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