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TheBrownDog
Is Chelsea a state backed club?We've been over this. At the wages the Saudis are paying fair market value is donuts. No other clubs (apart from the other 3 Saudi govt owned clubs) would cough up even a third of the wages the Saudis are paying considering the transfer fees offered.
You do like to try and paint it as a normal transaction between two clubs but it simply isn't and the Saudi government is heavily involved.
State backed clubs are simply a cancer on modern day football.