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The Price of Football

Saudi Pro League, Moises Caicedo joins Chelsea for £115m

The Price of Football

Guy Kilty

Sports, Business

4.92.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Kevin and Kieran take a detailed look at the money behind the Saudi Pro League as Neymar becomes the latest high-profile player to move there, and discuss Moises Caicedo's £115m transfer to Chelsea. COVERED IN THIS EPISODE: - Neymar - Saudi Pro League - Caicedo transfer - West Brom loan - La Liga and PSG - Barcelona payday loans - Barcelona's content creation unit - San Siro Follow Kevin on Twitter - @kevinhunterday Follow Kieran on Twitter - @KieranMaguire Follow The Price of Football on Twitter - @pof_pod Support The Price of Football on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/priceoffootball Check out the Price of Football merchandise store: https://the-price-of-football.backstreetmerch.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Price of Football, the show that looks at the money behind the

0:14.4

beautiful game with me Kevin Day and lovely university's Kiran McGuire, Kiran, how are

0:19.0

you? I'm wearing half a black arm band, Kevin, having lost Moises Kai Shado and I'm also

0:29.0

going to have half of a sheet green because of the sale of Moises Kai Shado for a British

0:33.6

record fee. I never thought in my, in all of my days, that Brighton would be anywhere

0:38.8

connected with such a sentence. Yeah, it's a lot of money for a defensive midfield player

0:45.5

and Kiran, I'm still trying to work out how you wear half an arm band. It's quite a good

0:50.5

trick if you can pull that one off. We are recording this Kiran, I think we should say

0:55.2

all disclosure, just before the Australian England game in the semifinals of the women's

1:01.1

World Cup, which is why we're not mentioning the outcome, but just to deal with that, our

1:06.1

listeners can delete as appropriate, well done England, well done Australia, a seven-all-draw

1:13.9

and a dog on a pitch. Who would have thought that would happen? It's newsday Kiran, we're

1:18.5

back, we're back in our full routine, hopefully. They're not actually not not meant, not many

1:26.5

news stories, Kevin, but they are biggies. They're big, big news stories. The first one,

1:33.0

Kiran, and I suspect we're going to be talking about this for the next two years. Name

1:38.9

are it's the latest big name to go to Saudi Arabia. A lot of people, Kiran, a lot of people

1:46.2

have asked us to explain exactly what's going on with the Saudi pro league. Can I ask you

1:51.0

a couple of questions about first of all, where's the money coming from, people who are asking

1:57.0

that? I think it's fairly obvious where the money's coming from, but I'd like to take

2:01.1

on it. Yes, as far as the Saudi pro league is concerned,

2:05.9

four of the clubs there are now effectively being nationalised and are controlled by

2:14.2

the Saudi public investment fund, which I think people are more familiar with as being

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