LIV Golf is scrambling amid Saudi funding questions. Will the kingdom’s stake in other sports last?
LIV Golf is scrambling amid Saudi funding questions. Will the kingdom’s stake in other sports last?
The news that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) is preparing to withdraw funding from LIV Golf, according to golf industry sources, sent shockwaves through the sport.
The rebel league was launched to huge fanfare in 2022 with the aim of disrupting the established PGA and DP World Tours. But despite billions of dollars of investment, the project has been a huge loss leader, with The Athletic reporting Wednesday that people inside the sport are scrambling to figure out their futures amid the uncertainty.
The consequences for golf could be seismic if PIF completely exits the league, but the fund’s apparent shift also has potential implications for other sports partly bankrolled by Saudi Arabia through various mechanisms. PIF laid out its strategy Wednesday for its wide range of investments over the next five years, yet did not mention “sports” directly in its news release, an omission that seemed small yet was notable enough to draw attention throughout the sporting world.
PIF did not comment formally when contacted by The Athletic, though a source familiar with the firm’s thinking who was not authorized to speak publicly said it remains fully committed to sports.
But with so much uncertainty surrounding LIV, its most high-profile sporting project, it is logical to pose questions over PIF’s investments in other sports.
Here, The Athletic’s writers outline the Saudi influence and what they are hearing about the potential fallout from Wednesday’s developments, based on sources briefed on the arrangements between PIF and their sports. Many of the sources spoke on condition of anonymity because PIF has not publicly announced specific plans for the future of each of its sporting investments.
Soccer
There is no bigger sport globally than soccer, and Saudi Arabia arguably made it the centerpiece of its investment strategy, despite the billions spent on LIV Golf.
Initially, it was an aggressive play. The Saudi Pro League, the country’s top domestic league, which is overseen by the Ministry of Sport, not PIF, saw vast sums of money being poured into player acquisitions and infrastructure as part of the country’s Vision 2030 project.
Cristiano Ronaldo left Manchester United to join the Riyadh-based Al Nassr as a free agent at the end of 2022, signing a deal worth £173 million ($234 million) a year. No other club in Europe would even consider paying a then-37-year-old that sort of salary, regardless of his past achievements and commercial appeal.
Ronaldo was followed by a raft of other high-profile names in 2023, including 2022 Ballon d’Or winner Karim Benzema, Brazil international striker Neymar and ex-Liverpool forward Sadio Mane. It was part of a spree that saw more than £700 million (roughly $760 million) spent across the 2023-24 campaign by the four PIF-owned clubs (Al Nassr, Al Hilal, Al Ahli and Al Ittihad) and close to £500 million (about $565 million) in 2024-25.
There has been significant spending this season, too, but the big checks are not being signed at the same rate.
One hope when PIF acquired 75 percent stakes in those four clubs in June 2023 was that it would build them up to a point that attracted foreign investment to buy the stakes from it, thus creating a return on its investment.
That foreign cash has yet to materialize, although Thursday, PIF did sell a 70 percent stake in Al Hilal to Kingdom Holding Company, the firm run by Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, the billionaire businessman and member of Saudi’s royal family. That sale valued Al Hilal at SAR1.4 billion ($373 million; £276 million).
Much more crucial to creating a long-term impression from a soccer standpoint, however, is the country’s decision to host the men’s World Cup in 2034, a project bankrolled by its Ministry of Sport rather than PIF.
Saudi Arabia was awarded the tournament uncontested in December 2024, indicative of a recent trend that has seen the country pivot away from directing money overseas and focus more on events that bring a direct domestic benefit.
The overseas portion of PIF’s investments hit a high of 30 percent in 2020 but has been in steady decline since. Company filings to the end of 2022 showed investments in countries beyond Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Cooperation Council members — Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates — totaled 23 percent of PIF’s portfolio. Two years later, that had dropped to 19 percent.
As part of its commitment to hosting the World Cup, Saudi Arabia’s bid pledged to build 11 new stadiums across the country while refurbishing four existing venues. One planned stadium, the King Salman International Stadium, is due to have a capacity of 92,500 and would likely host the opening match and the final.
Building one stadium is expensive, let alone building 11, so that is a significant financial undertaking by the country, and money will also need to be spent elsewhere to ensure suitable transport infrastructure is in place to host a tournament that attracts visitors from all over the world.
Hosting the World Cup is an entirely different commitment to signing another big-name soccer player at the end of his career, and as it seemingly shifts toward internal investment, it is reasonable to expect Saudi Arabia to plow significant sums into staging the tournament, even if some of its grander plans for stadiums and training facilities are scaled back.
Doubts have also been raised about PIF’s commitment to its flagship Premier League investment, Newcastle United.
The message being conveyed from PIF and the club is that nothing has changed. A Saudi source familiar with PIF’s plans said Newcastle falls into the “strategic” pod of investment and its funding will be unaffected.
Newcastle’s hierarchy continues to have daily contact with PIF representatives — often with Jacobo Solis, the board member — and Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the club chairman, is due to visit at the end of the month for his usual end-of-season departmental reviews.
Newcastle has received £491.9 million ($665.7 million) in cash from its owners over the past five years, the majority coming from PIF, its 85 percent stakeholder. Without PIF investment, the stated aim to turn Newcastle into one of the world’s biggest clubs by 2030 would become even more fanciful.
Fans and even some senior club insiders have privately expressed doubt over PIF’s interest and commitment to the club over the past three years, given the lack of progress in developing a new stadium and training ground. Yet senior Newcastle executives say PIF remains a determined long-term investor.
— Dan Sheldon and Chris Waugh
Tennis
Saudi Arabia’s investment in tennis, which amounts to more than $1 billion, has taken several different forms.
When LIV Golf launched, tennis governing bodies worried about a similar playbook coming for their sport — the establishment of a rival tour designed to pay its stars much more than the four Grand Slams and the men’s (ATP) and women’s (WTA) tours.
That was never in Saudi Arabia’s plans in any significant way. Instead, it wanted to host a top-level tournament, known as a 1000, one rung below a Grand Slam.
Its initial vision, the center of a $1 billion proposal funded by PIF that threatened to upend tennis in spring 2024, was to host a combined ATP and WTA 1000 in January, ahead of the Australian Open and nearly two weeks long.
The organizers of some of the Grand Slams, especially the Australian Open, opposed that. Now Saudi Arabia is set to host a 56-player men’s event for one week, which is slated to start in 2028 in a to-be-determined city. The event is likely to be held in February, in the weeks after the Australian Open, though the exact time remains uncertain.
It bid for, and won, the license for that event through its SURJ Sports Investment. And though the new event represents a contraction in Saudi Arabia’s initial ambitions, it is also an entrenchment of its relationship with tennis, which has intensified in the past few years.
Through PIF, Saudi Arabia became a major sponsor first of the ATP Tour and then of the WTA Tour. It bought the naming rights to the rankings on both tours. PIF now has a major presence at numerous tournaments, especially at the mixed 1000-level events, with courtside signage that is impossible to miss.
Also, in 2024, Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Sports and its Tennis Federation signed a three-year deal with the WTA Tour to host its marquee event, the season-ending WTA Tour Finals (for the top eight singles players and the top eight doubles teams) from 2024 to 2026.
The event has offered record prize money of more than $15 million per year, and the $5.235 million Elena Rybakina won for beating Aryna Sabalenka in the 2025 final was the largest winner’s check in women’s sports history.
For now, that is equal to the men’s event, and roughly 50 percent more than players had been receiving under the tour’s most recent long-term deal with China. It marked the first time Saudi Arabia had hosted a tour event for top-tier players.
However, as Saudi Arabia moved closer to the deal with the ATP Tour for the Masters event, its enthusiasm for the WTA Tour Finals waned. In November, the chief executive of the WTA Tour, Portia Archer, expressed enthusiasm for extending the deal by one or two years beyond the original term. Saudi officials did not share that enthusiasm. The WTA Tour is now weighing offers from cities in the Americas and Europe.
In addition, Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority has created the Six Kings Slam, a men’s exhibition played in October that has featured tennis luminaries including Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic in its field of six.
Each receives at least $1.5 million per match, with the winner taking home $6 million, the biggest prize in the sport.
The event is part of the Riyadh Season, an entertainment extravaganza the GEA created to attract comedy acts, sports and other forms of entertainment to the city each fall.
The past two years, the Saudis had also hosted the Next Gen Finals, an ATP Tour event for players under 21, in Jeddah.
The ATP announced earlier this year that the Saudis would no longer host the event and began accepting bids from other cities. Just as with the WTA Tour Finals, the kingdom decided the event did not map onto its wider tennis ambitions.
— Matthew Futterman
Boxing
Saudi Arabia has been involved in major professional boxing since 2018 and staged Anthony Joshua’s rematch with Andy Ruiz Jr. in 2022 and Joshua versus Oleksandr Usyk a year later. These were hosted by Skill Challenge Entertainment, founded and led by Prince Khalid bin Abdulaziz, with the backing of the Ministry of Sport.
But the landscape shifted significantly when Turki Al-Sheikh emerged as the sport’s leading Saudi figure in 2023.
The chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority brokered initial deals with Queensberry Promotions, the U.K. promotional outfit run by Frank Warren. They put on Tyson Fury’s fight with MMA star Francis Ngannou in Riyadh, an event that marked a significant uptick in the seriousness of investment.
Al-Sheikh, who is an adviser to the Saudi royal court and close to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has had significant backing from PIF but uses his own position in the government to gain investment.
Al-Sheikh is a boxing enthusiast, which is one reason Eddie Hearn, a leading U.K. promoter who works with stars such as Joshua, sees Saudi investment continuing in the sport despite the uncertainty around LIV Golf.
“He has a huge passion for boxing,” Hearn told The Athletic. “That’s the truth. If he didn’t, I think he would have left.”
Al-Sheikh has staged major boxing events in Saudi Arabia as part of Riyadh Season, which is run and funded by the GEA, along with sponsors, and Sela, the entertainment company owned by PIF.
Riyadh Season also acts as sponsorship for major boxing promoters, including Queensberry, Matchroom, Top Rank and Golden Boy.
Al-Sheikh is also running major boxing events under the Ring Magazine banner. In 2024, Al-Sheikh personally purchased the historic magazine, which at the time had just become a digital-only publication, for a reported $10 million. PIF is listed as a strategic partner of Ring Magazine rather than an investor.
Also in 2024, Al-Sheikh confirmed investment with Sela and TKO Group Holdings — a U.S. entertainment and sports company — to form Zuffa Boxing, a new promotional outfit fronted by Dana White with plans to form a UFC-style entity within boxing. This has led to a potential $1 billion lawsuit from Queensberry Promotions.
There have been doubts over Al-Sheikh’s longevity in boxing, but sources familiar with how Al-Sheikh operates believe it will last as long as he remains interested in the sport. They are confident he can continue to secure funding from the government and other companies within Saudi Arabia.
Al-Sheikh is the one leading the negotiations for a potential Joshua-Fury showdown later this year on Netflix, and Usyk will face kickboxer Rico Verhoeven on May 23 at the pyramids in Giza, Egypt. Canelo Alvarez is also expecting a lucrative bout in Saudi Arabia in September.
Yet there is also recognition from boxing industry insiders that events are now being looked at with a commercial eye, rather than simply paying whatever it takes to obtain big fights — although turning a profit is still not always the aim.
Hearn said: “There is definitely an element that it has to make some kind of sense, and there has to be a value to Saudi to do those events — and it is how much value? Now they’re probably looking to run it more as a business.”
— Chris McKenna
Olympics and multisport events
You might think it ambitious for a country that has never won an Olympic gold medal to be considering a bid to host the Games, but no Saudi has ever won a pro golf tournament either, and that did not stop the Gulf state from trying to buy that sport.
No senior Saudi official has publicly stated the kingdom wants to host the Olympics, but they have not needed to — its actions have spoken for it.
In 2020, Princess Reema, the great-granddaughter of Saudi Arabia’s founder, Ibn Saud, became the country’s first International Olympic Committee member. It was a hugely significant moment for a nation that had not sent a female athlete to a Games until London 2012.
Later that year, Riyadh was awarded the 2034 Asian Games, a multisport event that now involves more athletes, more sports and more events than the Olympics.
By 2022, the whole world had become aware of Saudi Arabia’s sporting ambitions, as Newcastle United had been added to the sovereign wealth fund’s portfolio and the golf land grab had started. But just in case anyone needed further proof, Saudi Arabia was awarded the 2029 Asian Winter Games. (Yes, winter.) The plan was to host them in the new $40 billion ski resort it was building as part of the $1.5 trillion NEOM giga-project on the northwest coast.
The winning bids were coming as thick as artificial snow by this point. Riyadh hosted the International Equestrian Federation’s World Cup in 2024 and won bids to stage the 2027 Pan Arab Games and the first Olympic Esports Games, also in 2027.
The latter, which was part of a 12-year deal with the IOC, was a real coup, as the Olympics have been desperate to tap into the youth market for years, and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman is a gamer.
What else was part of that deal was never made clear, but it now seemed a matter of when, not whether, Saudi Arabia would be submitting a bid for a real Olympics. And the sense of inevitability around a Games in the Gulf only grew in December 2024 when Saudi Arabia won a one-horse race to stage soccer’s World Cup in 2034.
Looking back, that was probably the high-water mark of Saudi Arabia’s attempted takeover of global sports. In 2025, the IOC canceled the Olympic Esports Games, saying the decision was mutual and both parties were free to pursue their own esports ambitions. We are still waiting for news on that front.
The sense that the wind had changed grew during 2025, as LIV Golf’s problems became apparent, the buzz around the Saudi Pro League’s relaunch faded and no new mega-events were secured.
Any doubts about the Saudi sports boom hitting the doldrums disappeared in January, when it was announced that Trojena, the Red Sea ski resort, would not be ready for 2027 (or maybe ever), so the Asian Winter Games would need a new home. A month later, they were given to Almaty in Kazakhstan.
In the meantime, the field for the 2036 Summer Olympics has become very crowded, with India’s Ahmedabad and Doha, the capital of Saudi Arabia’s noisy neighbour Qatar, both looking like much better bets than a potential Saudi bid.
It would probably make more sense for Doha and Riyadh to team up, as the IOC is much more open to cities, regions and even countries spreading the burden (and benefits) of a Games, but that would require their ruling families to bury centuries of rivalry.
In reality, it just seems unlikely Saudi Arabia will want to commit to something as big, expensive and high-profile as hosting an Olympics until it has seen how the Asian Games and World Cup go in 2034. Perhaps those events will bring the curtain down on the crown prince’s Vision 2030 investment plan for the country, and a 2040 Olympics could become the centerpiece of his next master plan.
— Matt Slater
Formula 1/Motorsport
Over the years, Saudi Arabia and PIF have invested more heavily in the motorsport industry through partnerships with Formula E and race hosting across categories.
The Dakar Rally, a multiday off-road endurance event, has been held in Saudi Arabia since 2020, and the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix joined the F1 calendar in 2021, though it was canceled this year because of the Middle East conflict. And despite recent news regarding PIF and LIV Golf, it’s unlikely F1 will be affected given the long-term nature of the current deals.
Saudi Arabia’s F1 ties date to the 1970s, via different businesses. Airline Saudia previously sponsored Williams and stayed with the team from the late 1970s until the end of the 1984 season, a period that included its first two constructors’ championships. In 2021, PIF and Ares Management reportedly invested £400 million in the McLaren Group and eventually sold the stake to Bahrain’s state investment fund, Mumtalakat, a few years later, per Sky News.
More recently, Aramco, one of the world’s largest oil producers, became heavily involved in the sport via its Formula One Management and Aston Martin partnerships. The energy giant is majority-owned by the Saudi Arabian government, and PIF held 16 percent as of 2025.
The FOM-Aramco global sponsorship was announced in 2020, and it marked Aramco’s first global sponsorship platform. The deal is multifaceted, including trackside branding and title rights to races. In 2020, those included the U.S., Spanish and Hungarian GP rights. This season, Aramco is the title sponsor of both Bahrain preseason testing outings in February, and it was the title sponsor of the Japanese GP.
Aramco’s F1 involvement extends to the teams as well, as Aston Martin’s exclusive title partner as of 2024. The partnership between the two entities began in 2022, with Aramco a joint title sponsor of the team with Cognizant, an IT consulting company. It entered an exclusive title partnership in 2024.
PIF is also a minority shareholder of Aston Martin F1’s parent company, AMR GP Holdings Ltd.
In 2021, Saudi Arabia’s F1 involvement extended to the calendar, with the Grand Prix in Jeddah. The Saudi Motorsport Company is the promoter of the race, and it operates under the Saudi Arabian Motorsport Federation and the Ministry of Sports.
It is not expected to stay in Jeddah. Another track is being built in Qiddiya as part of the country’s Vision 2030 project, with a view to staging races there from 2028 or 2029.
The Qiddiya Speed Park Track is being developed by the Qiddiya Investment Company, which is owned by PIF, and has been designed by famed circuit designer Hermann Tilke and ex-F1 driver Alexander Wurz. One of the most prominent features is a 20-story-high corner.
PIF is more heavily invested in other motorsport categories. In 2024, the fund announced the creation of the Electric 360 partnership with Formula E, Extreme E (now Extreme H) and E1, the latter of which is a powerboat racing series.
The Athletic contacted Formula E and E1 to understand more about the current state of the partnerships in light of the recent news. Both organizations declined to comment.
— Madeline Coleman
Cycling
Cycling falls into the bracket of sports that Saudi Arabia remains interested in, with the Ministry of Sport viewing the activity as worth continued investment because of its potential health benefits to the population.
The nation’s tourism department is the co-title sponsor of the Australian team Jayco-AlUla, in a move intended to drive visitors to the ancient desert city of al-Ula, and the AlUla Tour, relaunched since the COVID-19 pandemic, was upgraded to a second-tier UCI ProSeries race this season. Its three most recent winners include high-profile riders Tom Pidcock, Simon Yates and Jan Christen.
However, these designs were once far greater. Cycling’s funding model faces inherent difficulties, with teams not receiving a share of television revenues from the Amaury Sports Organisation, the body that runs the majority of the sport’s largest races, including the Tour de France.
Teams have been unhappy with this for years, and, more recently, several of the sport’s largest squads entered negotiations with PIF-owned SRJ Sports Investments to discuss launching a breakaway league in a project known as One Cycling.
The project was eradicated in September when the UCI, world cycling’s governing body, threatened to remove the licences of any teams or individuals involved.
Jayco-AlUla, meanwhile, missed this season’s initial license deadline after failing to secure bank guarantees, though this was not as a result of their AlUla agreement. The issue has since been resolved, with men’s and women’s squads competing as usual throughout 2026.
— Jacob Whitehead
MMA
The influx of investments from Saudi Arabian sponsors into MMA has altered the competitive landscape and the physical geography of the sport.
The largest sum was put toward the Professional Fighters League through PIF’s SURJ Sports Investment, which invested more than $100 million in the PFL in August 2023.
The PFL, which was founded in 2017 and boosted in 2019 by a broadcast partnership with ESPN, was locked in a battle with Bellator to become the second-most recognizable MMA promotion in the United States. By the end of 2023, with the financial bolstering from PIF, the PFL purchased Bellator in its endeavor to rearrange the MMA hierarchy.
“With this capital, we now have what we need to realize our vision to start the next chapter, become not just No. 2, but the potential co-leader in MMA,” PFL founder Donn Davis said in a May 2023 statement announcing the investment from PIF.
“PFL is now a global powerhouse in MMA,” Davis said in a November statement announcing the acquisition of Bellator.
As part of PIF’s investment, the PFL launched PFL MENA — a regional fight league headquartered in Riyadh — and announced that all fights in the PFL’s Super Fight division would be hosted in Saudi Arabia.
The Super Fight division, co-founded by Jake Paul, was created for high-profile fights and to give the PFL negotiating leverage against the UFC. The division’s flashiest signing, Francis Ngannou, gave the PFL a proof of concept to Saudi investors, setting the stage for the $100 million investment from PIF three months later.
Ngannou’s tenure went down as an industry failure, as the former UFC champion competed in only one MMA fight under PFL’s banner before the promotion released him in March. Since the inception of the Super Fight division in January 2023, the PFL has put on only two Super Fight events, both in Riyadh in 2024.
On April 9, the PFL announced its upcoming PFL MENA event in May would be postponed “as the league finalizes updated event plans for the 2026 PFL MENA season.”
The UFC has also benefited from Saudi Arabian sponsorships. UFC 306, held at Sphere in Las Vegas and billed as the company’s most expensive event ever, was branded as Riyadh Season Noche UFC.
Three months before that, the UFC went to Saudi Arabia for its first event in the country, Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Aliskerov. It returned in February 2025 with Fight Night: Adesanya vs. Imavov.
— Mark Puleo
DAZN/broadcasting
An indirect but significant investment in sports came in February 2025 when SURJ Sports Investment, the subsidiary of PIF whose strategy extends beyond sports to broadcasting and digital platforms, acquired a 10 percent stake in DAZN, the U.K.-based company that considers itself the only global sports streaming platform.
The $1 billion outlay came just two months after DAZN had struck a landmark broadcast deal with FIFA for the rights to the Club World Cup for the same amount. A Venn diagram, serving the interests of the three, was easy enough to draw at a time FIFA had just awarded the 2034 World Cup to Saudi Arabia.
DAZN, owned by Soviet-born British American billionaire Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries, has pushed back on the suggestion that Saudi Arabia effectively covered that payment for the untested Club World Cup to FIFA, saying that investment would be used for the company’s growth in the MENA region. That, in theory, could then rival the Qatar-owned beIN Sports in the long term.
The Athletic has previously reported that the $1 billion investment in DAZN had been pushed by Al-Sheikh, with Al-Rumayyan favoring a potential deal with beIN.
Little has materially changed since Saudi’s investment in DAZN, but it has served to strengthen relations between the two. DAZN has been the host broadcaster for Riyadh Season and has televised the Saudi Pro League in the U.K. since 2023.
DAZN, predictably, has also been a broadcast partner of LIV Golf for the last year. A deal announced in March 2025 outlined a “long-term strategic partnership” that offered free ad-supported content in more than 200 international markets.
“The strategic partnerships will grow the reach and popularity of LIV Golf, while bringing us closer to building the global home of golf on DAZN,” said Shay Segev, CEO of DAZN Group, in the company’s announcement, which also promised the development of a paid subscription offering greater content “in the future.”
A question mark now hangs over those plans, but the stated reasons for teaming up with DAZN — providing SURJ with an “official streaming partner … to showcase the best of Saudi sport to a global audience” — seemingly remain unchanged.
— Philip Buckingham
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· 7h 16m ago
Mad that a regime that murders journalists and limits human rights is allowed to partake to be honest. But then again, I guess the current US regime isn’t much worse.
M
· 7h 6m ago
@Tom R Its how the world works. If you have enough money then all your sins are forgiven. Its probably always been that way, its just that us ordinary folks didn't know about it. The rich have done a brilliant job of getting ordinary folks to blame each other for their poverty while the rich keep getting richer.
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· 4h 14m ago
@Tom R. Wow, we made a choice to get rid of the bad actors in this world. I guess nuclear bombs in a regime that wants to use them is ok, as long as we keep having diplomatic talks with them to stop the bombs, till they used them
M
· 4h 3m ago
@Bobby J. Wow, Americans are unbelievably moronic…
C
· 3h 3m ago
@Tom R. Yeah right.
Show some gratitude and just say thank you to the Americans for providing the blanket of the very freedom you are able to live and breathe.
A
· 2h 51m ago
@Mister P. European voters have been screaming about cost of living, immigration policy, and energy prices for three years straight.
Brussels heard all of that and decided what the continent really needs is a publicly funded neighborhood diversity program.
J
· 10m ago
Please stop saying cringe shit like this, makes us look bad.
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· 8m ago
@Jason B. You are bad, absolute morons the lot of you. It’s a shame you idiots are so dead set against abortion, the world would be better place if your mothers had put you down…
K
· 5m ago
@Tom R. the US is murdering journalists?
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· 6h 2m ago
Very interesting article! Since the beginning of Saudi-backed investments into different sports, I have been quite interested to see how those investments will pan out.
This piece gave a comprehensive overview of the current situation, and it certainly raises questions about whether the major investments are on their way down. It feels like the World Cup 2034 was the major goal, and now they don't need to spend too much on other endeavors.
A
· 3h 46m ago
Formula 1 is probably safe.
The Saudis love fast cars.
Like their friend Trump,
their promises are weak.
M
· 7h 46m ago
How does the LIV golf league work? I thought it was just a new schedule of independent tournaments like regular golf.
T
· 7h 21m ago
@Martin W. Nah, it’s some daft format where you compete both as an individual and as part of a team at the same time. It’s shit, no one wants to watch it and it looks like it’s finally going to be put out of its misery.
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· 5h 51m ago
just to be clear, america's human rights record makes saudi arabia look like saints,
C
· 3h 6m ago
@Premier League🌰🚨🚨Man City Lakers Ohio State 🌰 B. Really? Without the Americans pal, you and I would probably not be around.
A
· 2h 57m ago
@Mister P. UK is an apartheid state. UK would be the poorest state in America worse than even Mississippi
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· 2h 43m ago
Can you elaborate on your claims with anything coherent? Otherwise they're just words you heard somehwere shouted without meaning. Just like Trump who doesn't know anything about anything.
B
· 1h 41m ago
@Anonymous U. That’s a take, I guess?
A
· 2h 54m ago
WWE plans their biggest events with the Saudis
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· 1h 43m ago
@Anonymous U. Considering Wrestlemania is on ESPN, i was hoping for a WWE section. After all, next year's Wrestlemania is in Riyadh, SA
K
· 2m ago
interesting to see the results of big plays meant to diversify SA involvement in the West, beyond oil.