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7/7
If the best asset is priced like this,

the opportunity is not in buying quality.

It’s in buying early ⏳

The next 14 clubs will define the market.

Miss the first wave, and you’re paying a different price.

#SportsInvestment #SaudiProLeague

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Al Hilal just sold at ~1.1x revenue.

~$339M revenue
~$373M valuation
For the biggest club in Asia, that number should make you pause 👀

Here’s what the deal actually signals 🧵👇

#SaudiFootball #SportsBusiness

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6/7
Zoom out 🌍

Football M&A has mostly been a European story.

This changes that.

A top Asian club:
• professionalized
• commercialized
• transacted as an asset
And likely not the last.
#FootballBusiness #MENA

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6/6

👉 Modern sport no longer operates separately from geopolitics.
Football diplomacy today is geopolitical diplomacy.
And Infantino is not pretending otherwise.

#FootballDiplomacy #FIFAStrategy #GulfSports #SportsBusiness #Vision2030 #FIFA2034 #SportGeopolitics

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1/6
⚠️Infantino visiting Qatar & Saudi Arabia during an active regional war is not routine diplomacy.

And yet FIFA's institutional relationship with the Gulf continues normally. Here is why. 🧵

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5/6
They do it to send a message about continuity. About whose bets they are standing behind. About which partnerships are too structurally important to abandon.
That is the art of relationships design.

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7/7
Final Thoughts:
📈 The Arab football premium is real.

The numbers are big and real, in the most part they were infrastructure building costs, but now the market is mature enough to start thinking financial sustainability.

#FootballBusiness #SaudiProLeague #SportsBusiness

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1/7
Arab clubs spent $1.185B on transfers in 2025. +77% YoY.
2nd highest in Arab football history.
Let's explore what lays beneath these colossal figures.🧵

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6/7
The Frameworks in the region are different, seem disconnected, but in reality when they are well understood they form an interconnected ecosystem.

An ecosystem that is complementary to each other, with a huge potential.

The question is how does Arab football use it?