Henderson to Saudi!

FabioPorkpie said:
Surely there comes a point where the number of millions you have in the bank becomes irrelevant. After, say, 5-10 million, what on earth are you going to spend further on? Who on earth actually needs more than that?
Being a multi millionaire already gives people of sound moral fibre the means to take the high ground and not be bought.
Really don’t know why it’s hard for people to understand why others say they’d reject the move/money if in similar circumstances to Henderson.
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This is a society problem, people obsessed with how many zeros you have at the end of your savings account. It's greed.

You die with £1m in the bank or £1bn - what's the difference? You're dead and you have not been able to spend it. Could have gone to people less fortunate but .........

Redistribution of wealth ✊
 
I can't really fault him accepting that ridiculous offer.

Yes, he's already a multi millionaire, but he may have plans for that insane level of money offered to him and it may end up to good use?

We don't know the facts yet.

If he say, took the offer of £70m over 2 seasons, then retired at 35/36 and decided to use a large portion of that money for charity work, then surely that's a good thing?

Going from earning £100k/£200k per week to £700k per week is still staggering, even at those levels.
 
equaliser said:
Interesting post. I too have lived in a country with a questionable human rights record and an efficient system of brainwashing the masses/suppressing dissent. I wasn't particularly aware of it until I moved there but after I did my main focus was ensuring my daughter was not brought up there (and hence permanently infected by it - as I saw it). I viewed the system as too pernicious and impregnable.

I also wasn't getting wealthy, even vaguely so, by staying there. Had I been, I suspect I would have accommodated my distaste into a more efficiently worked-out position as you appear to have done. And if you happen to work in, say, the petrochemical industry, you are probably right: you'd probably struggle to find a job that wasn't in a jurisdiction governed by brutal repression!

I hope you are right; I hope the signs of tentative liberalisation do signal a genuine desire from modernising elements in the regime to fundamentally remake Saudi society and to deliver democratic freedoms for the people. If so then the football players and others taking lucrative tax-free contracts will be viewed historically as enlightened trailblazers in an emerging dialogue and not mildly cynical 'realists' engaging in humdrum self-enrichment.
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Was it the UK?
 
zzzzz said:
And if you were offered £70 million?
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Well you’re talking about several hundred times my current salary, not 4x, so how can I judge Jordan Henderson against that scenario?

I probably would take it if it was offered to me tomorrow. Would certainly sort out my childcare bills. That said it’s a lot of upheaval for my kids and a lot of internal moral jousting to do. What could I really do with the £70m? I don’t even drive so can’t waste it on flash cars.

But if I was already earning several hundred thousands of pounds a week, ie way more than I need now, plus enough to give my kids’ an easy life, I don’t think I would. You don’t want your kids growing up thinking that they literally don’t ever have to lift a finger for the good of society and they can still buy whatever they want 365 days a year.
 
zzzzz said:
And that IMO makes you a hypocrite, albeit an honest one.
You're not alone though. I've said before, I've had and still having a very handsome living out of O&G but worry about climate change.
My point though still stands, few would turn the £70 million down.
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This is so stupid I can't believe anyone could be so blinkered.

The difference between all the people on this board getting £70m is it would drastically change everyone's life. It's a lottery win. For people that have already got millions it won't change anything. They can already afford everything they want. They are already lottery winners. They can afford to make a moral decision. It isn't comparable to someone else who, with rounding, is worth £0m.
 
The football world sent a very clear message in 2022 (you can include the previous world cup in Russia too if you like) that they did not and do not care about any countries regime or human rights records. If as a player you went and played in that World Cup you have already crossed that moral boundary so go take what you can while you can, your legacy should already be tarnished...
 
Some of these Saudi deals seem quite convenient for the selling clubs. If Liverpool didn’t see Henderson as a first team player where could he realistically move to who’d pay a fee?

With regards to Ruben Neves didn’t he sign for Wolves in the championship because they offered the most money?
 
zzzzz said:
And if you were offered £70 million?
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Do you think that Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk or Bill Gates would agree to live in Saudi Arabia for 2 years if the financial return to them was £70m? Would they consider it a life changing amount of money?

The sum being offered is always going to be assessed in the context of the individual’s own current financial position. I’m not sure what’s so difficult to grasp about that.
 
Nano said:
This is so stupid I can't believe anyone could be so blinkered.

The difference between all the people on this board getting £70m is it would drastically change everyone's life. It's a lottery win. For people that have already got millions it won't change anything. They can already afford everything they want. They are already lottery winners. They can afford to make a moral decision. It isn't comparable to someone else who, with rounding, is worth £0m.
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Wonder if Henderson does Wordle? 🤣
 
LowMoorBoro said:
Some of these Saudi deals seem quite convenient for the selling clubs. If Liverpool didn’t see Henderson as a first team player where could he realistically move to who’d pay a fee?

With regards to Ruben Neves didn’t he sign for Wolves in the championship because they offered the most money?
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Neves signed for Wolves for a record championship fee, just beating Assombolonga, but the premise of their transfer activity at the time was that the agent Mendes was bringing players over and giving them exposure so they could move on to a PL club (and huge contract). Wolves obviously got promoted, did well and established themselves a bit so there was no need to move on. I'm surprised he stuck with wolves so long though when there were probably other bigger clubs that would've taken him. He clearly is either only interested in money or, something which could be an issue in the not too distant future, it is an FFP avoiding route via a loan to Newcastle.
 
Al-Ittihad set to bid £40m for Fabinho

Liverpool currently looking at replacements.

Saudi's ain't backing down at all!
 
Respect to Jamie Vardy - offered the chance to go over there earning eye watering sums but turned it down as he didn't want the upheaval for his family. 👍
 
Al-Nassr already under transfer embargo for failing to pay fees, and it's only the early days of the splurge.
 
I’ll be disappointed in him if he does go, not that it’ll bother him. Looks like the Saudi’s are getting ready to do to football what they did to golf. Sovereign wealth funds seem morally bankrupt to me, unless which I very much doubt, the dividends from lucrative investments are used to make the lives of ordinary people in these countries better. From my limited knowledge, Saudi Arabia is little short of the kind of absolute monarchy that the French threw out in 1789.
 
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