Marco rejects approach….

[Baston White]

From Saudi club Al-Ittihad to become their manager on
£15m per year.

[DM]

No one has reported he's rejected the approach. I doubt the approach has been made yet.

[Hatch007]

From Saudi club Al-Ittihad to become their manager on
£15m per year.

Where did you read or hear that?

[Rightwhite]

From Saudi club Al-Ittihad to become their manager on
£15m per year.

Where did you read or hear that?

It was on Sky Sport's News last night at around 10pm ish. Reported by Kaveh Solhekol.

[Baston White]

Also reported by other sources in Fulham Tuesday stuff.

[demeant0r]

This makes me love the gaffer even more, approached twice by Saudi clubs and rejected both.

[filham]

Must be hard to turn down £15m a year.

[Tabby]

Must be hard to turn down £15m a year.

Makes about £5million now, so not exactly a pauper as it is.

Going to Saudi Arabia would set any chances of top teams wanting him back by a decade at least, if he has any ambition.

[Lighthouse]

My feelings about working for a corrupt regime for lots of blood money has bored enough people already. But if our coach or any player wants to be taken seriously and have a future in football. Then it is only common sense he would turn them down.

For those that say they would take the money and have a future for their family. Then you have every right to think like that as I have to be truly embarrassed by your morals.

[hovewhite]

Must be hard to turn down £15m a year.

Makes about £5million now, so not exactly a pauper as it is.

Going to Saudi Arabia would set any chances of top teams wanting him back by a decade at least, if he has any ambition.

seeing the players who have played in the Euros none of them have impressed me of there quality Ronaldo Portugal performances case in point .think overall standard of Saudi league is poor money apart,so Silva will know that,them and Fulham no contest.

[bog]

This is the time of year for Saudi clubs to do their best to unsettle FFC and p*** off the club's supporters.   

[Willham]

My feelings about working for a corrupt regime for lots of blood money has bored enough people already. But if our coach or any player wants to be taken seriously and have a future in football. Then it is only common sense he would turn them down.

For those that say they would take the money and have a future for their family. Then you have every right to think like that as I have to be truly embarrassed by your morals.

Great post Lighthouse, I will continue to exercise my right to feel disgusted at anyone who goes.

[blingo]

I never have any form of grudge nor jealousy against anyone who is making the most they can whilst they can. Most regimes, wherever they are from, have had their low points, and no one can say that they are not disgusting. However most countries have done as bad or worse so what's the use of ging on about morals in their regimes? They have none, but, they are throwing bucket loads of money at sport and are making the lucky few better off than if they won the euromillions. Enjoy the game for what it is, a game, and let the politicians sort out the rest.

[RaySmith]

I never have any form of grudge nor jealousy against anyone who is making the most they can whilst they can. Most regimes, wherever they are from, have had their low points, and no one can say that they are not disgusting. However most countries have done as bad or worse so what's the use of ging on about morals in their regimes? They have none, but, they are throwing bucket loads of money at sport and are making the lucky few better off than if they won the euromillions. Enjoy the game for what it is, a game, and let the politicians sort out the rest.

In WW2, many in power in Britain wanted to come to a peace agreement with Hitler, which after  the fall of France, and Dunkirk, would have been some kind of surrender, to ward off an imminent Nazi invasion of this country.
The reasoning for this was reasonable enough - to prevent the huge loss of the lives of British soldiers, and civilians, if we fought against a Nazi invasion, which, many said, we wouldn't be strong enough, like the other European countries overcome by the Nazi might, to resist.
Britain was also a country Hitler was sympathetic to, unlike the his attitude to the 'inferior' Slavic nations.

But it seems unlikely that Hitler would have allowed Britain's Jews, or other minorities and political opponents, to survive if such a peace agreement had been made, since he was obsessed with the eradication of the Jewish race, and all political opponents, and who were  were forced into ghettoes, and ultimately deported to death  camps, along with anyone Hitler disliked, in every country the Nazis occupied, including France, another country Hitler was sympathetic to.

The Holocaust was the worst crime against humanity ever perpetuated in its scale and  sheer barbarity, I think it can be argued.

In your argument Blingo, we would just see Nazi Germany as regime like  ourselves and every other country  - they all, historically, had their faults re human rights after all, so why not make peace with them, in our weakened position, to save ourselves, even if it would almost certainly meant giving up our Jews, other minorities, and liberal left politicians to Hitlers death camps.

But, as i said, the Nazi totalitarian regime and  Holocaust were uniquely evil, and Stalin's Russia comparable - and even Putin's Russia today. Whereas I don't think that we, or the rest of western Europe or the US, or indeed most countries in the world are comparable in the way our societies are run. We have developed historically, through the struggles of our citizens to become  liberal democracies, with human rights enshrined in our laws.

BUT, the authoritarian, undemocratic, Saudi regime, in its treatment of its citizens, and those working there from other countries, and its violent misogyny and homophobia  enshrined in its laws, which include the imprisonment and murder of women and gay people, and all political opponents, is; and it  is comparable with Nazi Germany - a regime which thousands of our citizens,  gave their lives to  fight against, and defeat. A victory for civilization against the forces of darkness - forces which regimes such as the Saudis, embody today.

The fact that the Saudis throw money at the game, which seems gratefully received, shows how morally bankrupt our game has become, and how it's been taken over by greed and the amorality of the Market- and  where the almighty dollar rules everything.

[cmg]

It took the efforts of 2 million Brits, Yanks, Canadians and Poles (many of whom did not return) to rid France of the Nazis in 1944.
I see our French friends are now voting them back in again.

[blingo]

Whilst I respect your views Ray, you simply cannot compare the Saudi regime to Hitler. The Saudis have no intention of taking over the world or eliminating whole races of people, and if they did, I'm sure it wouldn't take long to see them put firmly in their place. It's 2024 not 1939