Gab and Juls: The Summer of Saudi

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🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens discuss Saudi Arabian clubs' heavy investment in European players as N'Golo Kante becomes the latest player to make the switch from Europe. The guys also look ahead to the NBA draft with their very own fantasy draft of footballers born in 2001. All that and much more including Sandro Tonali's move to Newcastle, Ilkay Gundogan's move to Barcelona and why Arsenal have suspended sales of their new kit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Gab, he's Jules, Blue Skies, over West London.
0:09.9	Jules, we're going to, we're big NBA fans, we'll be doing our own draft.
0:14.4	We'll remember, last year, drafting players born in 2001.
0:19.8	We're going to pretend it's a bit of fun.
0:22.1	Yeah, it's deal with it.
0:23.6	But before we get into that, because we have a ton to go through, because the transfer
0:26.9	markets are full swing, I feel like we need to talk about it.
0:29.9	Talk a little bit more organically about this summer, the summer of Saudi, as we've
0:34.5	had it so far.
0:35.8	Yeah.
0:36.8	I began with Cristiano Ronaldo going over to Saudi League for enormous deal.
0:45.5	And people talked about, oh, he's going to raise the level of the Saudi pro league, blah,
0:49.8	blah, blah.
0:50.8	And then send some people like, aha, okay, whatever, right?
0:53.6	Just, you know, Cristiano making a lot of money, because he's one of the goats.
0:56.8	Yeah.
0:57.8	And then some serious money's already been thrown around, confirmed.
1:01.9	We have obviously Korean benzema.
1:04.0	We have in Golokante, lots of rumors and reports that Edward Mendiz closed, the ashes closed
1:10.3	and so on.
1:11.3	I want to start with one basic question, because to me, this smells like China a few years
1:16.8	ago.
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