Sam Tighe

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685 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 15 Jan

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ESPN FC · Gab & Juls Show: Is this Real Madrid's worst week in recent history? · 15 Jan 2026 podcast

Um, but Hey, all you other billionaires, big companies, you guys go and buy in and you guys buy other clubs.

And so we can have a proper league.

Hasn't really happened to the degree that they wanted to.

That's right.

Neom, you've had Aramco, but Neom again is very much a PIF project, indirectly.

Saudi Aramco.

Alcantia?

Yeah, that guy, I don't know how rich that guy is, but they are spending money.

So it is happening a little bit, but you want it to continue.

You can also be very cynical about this and say, hey, if I'm Al-Waleed bin Talal, I'm a very rich guy from Saudi.

But in the end, MBS is the absolute ruler, de facto absolute ruler of Saudi.

So if he asks me to do something, probably a good idea for me and my businesses to go and do it.

Otherwise, I end up I might I don't want to end up at the Ritz Carlton where all his cousins ended up a few years ago.

Right.

So.

It's still not like to me, this model will work and I'll be convinced that.

When you start getting people who have no ties with the Saudi government saying, hey, this is a great business opportunity for me.

I'm going to go and spend half a billion or whatever it is to buy this club.

But it is interesting that there's movement at this stage.

Sam, I have to ask you about the seven-match ban Swindon Town's Olly Clark got for, quote, highly invasive, unquote, and, quote, violating, unquote, acts against two Cardiff City players on the pitch.

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