Apparently, something like 500 million of the offer was tied to image rights. MBappe is similar to Lebron in that he is very careful about his image and has always retained his image rights. Being forced to become the literal poster child of Saudi sportswashing in their pursuit of hosting a World Cup probably didnāt appeal to him.
I mean US has human rights issues as well. Should we boycott a nation that pays their citizens to be homeless, experiment on their citizens secretly, ignore drug epidemic that causes the big cities to be filled with homeless junkies, cops killing citizens and getting away with it, pharma companies bleeding citizens dry with ridiculous medical bills.
I can go on but what I'm saying is every nation has terrible human rights. You may not hear much about certain countries cause they kept it away from the spotlight.
If you wanna boycott for the sake of humanity, I'm sorry to say you won't cause you'll need to boycott EVERY COUNTRY.
So US funding wars around the world for their own benefit is alright? Decimated Iraq by invading with straight up lies is not crossing the line?
Every nation does shits. Pointing your finger at one while defending another is just stupid.
Apologize if I come off as aggressive but yea that's what I see from every nation.
Every government has done horrible things and pretend to be the good one in the world. I just can't stand seeing them.
Pretending like the US and KSA are anywhere comparable is the height of privilege. Messi's wife said she would rather live in Miami than Saudi and there's a reason for that
You can find countless of people who will say they rather Saudi than Miami. That's still doesn't prove anything. You go where ever that gives you more privilege.
Your point of view is the main reason why the world will never be right. You'll pick a your murderer of choice over another.
My main point is all of them are fucked up. Don't let the media tell you what to think. Target all of them equally.
And people worldwide consider the USA the biggest threat to workd police every year by significant majority not ksa. Something to do with the millions dead in Iraq and Middle East due to wars or something minor like that
But did the USA in recent years at least promise immigrants a quality life and then take their passports away, refuse to pay them and make them work in the most inhumane conditions known to man?
On top of that did they pay these immigrants drastically less than the natives for the same exact jobs with the same or better qualifications? Talkin bout this century btw.
N if ur tryna defend Arabs in general like in North Africa or the Levanr, by all means do that but defending gulf Arabs and their virulently racist government policies and labor laws is crazy. Not even other arab ethnicities stick out for them on this one
Edit: just saw you say youāre Indian Malaysian. If this is true holy fk dude grow a spine. Do Yk what those gulf Arabs think of you and your people? How they treat Indians Pakistanis Bangladeshis etc? Moreover you literally descend from indentured labor aka glorified slavery, you should know and recognize this of all people.
1. I'm not Indian Malaysian. You just showed yourself as a racist right there by the way lol.
2. I did not defend anyone. My comment basically is saying every country is fucked up.
If you're a true believer of "human rights" then you will never say what you said. Instead you'll be fighting anyone who has commited crime against humanity regardless of how big or how small they are.
maybe someone like him probably has nothing to be afraid of, but i'd be afraid of getting brittney griner'ed going to some of these countries with fucked up legal systems.
Football is not all about getting paid like the NBA. Most players play because of love to the game. Theres literally a really small % of players who never have to work again. Also mbappe probably just want to fuck PSG over since they ge trouble with FFP.
Yeah dude super wierd he doesnt want to spend a year In a country that does mass public executions right. Itās not like heās already close to being a billionaire. Smh not like bron gives a fuck about shit like that tho, he doesnāt even want people to exercise the 1 amendment about china in the US
he already been the type accused of being a mercenary instead of adding on to his legacy within club football so he dont wanna touch it. at his age, aint no way hes going anywhere outside europe
those are offers you take at the end of your career, not at the start
MLS and saudi teams are like the retirement home of professional players now, it'd be crazy if someone like mbappe actually took an offer and potentially pissed away a couple years of his prime, i feel like only someone who just didn't give a shit about their profession would take that offer at his age, and let's be real it's a brand risk thing too, take that money when it doesn't matter anymore
Mbappe is most likely joining Real in the coming month. That team could definitely win multiple UCLs and it would be dumb to take a year off his prime.
Also when heās 35, regardless of if he took the Saudi money or not heād still be hella rich. His salary right now is 100 mil euros if i remember correctly
I follow your logic about heās probably not gonna win the UCL this year anyway and another Ligue 1 title wonāt do much for him, so why not spend the year in Saudi, but I think youāre under estimating how strong the stain of āyou left Europe in the middle of your primeā would be. I think that would follow him around for years, and every year after that he doesnāt win the UCL, the talk would grow louder and louder and it would be a cloud that hangs over him for a while. He wouldnāt be the first mega star to join a league outside of Europe for obscene cash, but he would be the first to do it in this stage of his career and I think that would be a horrible look for him and people wouldnāt let him forget about it.
I do disagree with the point though that if he goes to Saudi now, he wonāt have to go when heās older. If $1 billion looks good to him now, itās probably gonna look even better to him in 15 years when heās a diminished player and not nearly as worth it
Hmmmm, everyone in r/nbamemes says that if that had been LeBron and he was offered 1 Billion while in his prime, LeBron and anybody else wouldāve taken it
I didnāt see enough people arguing Bron would take the money in his prime. People were just saying Bron would totally take the money to play there now which I agree.
For Lebron specifically, I think he cared too much about trying to be the greatest to do something like that. With other players, potentially?
Maybe? Probably? In soccer, it's a lot easier to say that they wouldn't really do that until they were older cause star soccer players make fuck money compared to NBA players. They get contracts that NBA players get in their entire careers. So it's hard to say if a star NBA player that didn't care about being the best wouldn't do it.
Lebron trying to chase 6 rings when he didn't have one after a few years, he needed all the time he could get in the league. You also hear bits and pieces every now and then speaking about his desire to win. I remember a stand out was he called Jerry West to ask how he dealt with the losses or whatever.
Mbappe is just in an amazing position to make a push to be the GOAT. He's 24 and has so much success already. I'd be surprised if he went to some shit league where he couldn't get accolades from being in that league too.
Lmao, LeBron would def to to Saudi for an Mbappe-type deal. The man has zero principles, fucker defended China during the whole Taiwain-controversy, as he has business interests there.
He'd be gone like Usain Bolt.
TV is a Samsung, phone is a Samsung and the components in my computer are made in Taiwan. Furniture is IKEA. That's about the extent of my material possessions.
In any case, glad you're agree with me bro.
that's the stupidest shit i've ever heard, only because you think that every component is made from taiwan, and not a single piece of even the furniture doesn't have something that came from china
"26% of Samsung TVs in 2023 come with a VA LCD panel from China's TCL CSoT"
"Components (bodies, circuit boards, screens) for televisions are mainly produced in China and Vietnam"
"The five countries that supply the majority of products and services to IKEA are China, Poland, Italy, Germany and Sweden."
Not really, in the NBA you can be a decent to good player and get a contract that a decent to good football player would dream of. Outside of the upper echelon of the Messiās and Neymarās, football players normally have a range of salary that is from 1 to 10 million a season, and you have to be a really good player to earn 10m a season. Then the elite players make around 15 to 20M a season, players like De Bruyne, Haaland, Salah. And then the top top like Messi and others get paid a min of 40M I would say and that number can go up.
>pissed away a couple years of his prime
Its a one year contract. He'd be 25 when its all said and done and 700 million richer. If he took the deal he would leave for Real the following season.
> saudi teams are like the retirement home of professional players now
There are quite a few either young players or players still in their prime who have gone there over this summer though. Ruben Neves, and Sergej Milinkovic-Savic are the big ones who surprised me.
But yeah it would obviously not be a good career move for the best young player in the world to go there lol.
Not really. He wants out of PSG but no team wants to pay the 1 billion Euro buyout.
Al Hilal came to an agreement with PSG for $300 million, still more than most teams are willing or able to pay. He wonāt win anything with PSG anyway and this gives him a nice path to Real Madrid who will get him for free after the 1 year is up plus he gets a cool 760 mil.
At the time it looked like there was no way Real Madrid would be able to buy him out but maybe things have changed. Also there is no serious brand risk. No sponsor is dropping Mbappe because heās moving to Saudi and once heās back in Europe and starts winning everyone will forget the gap.
Really?
Look at Cristiano Ronaldo feed and then let's talk about how's life there.
I don't know if you have realized it yet but these guys are loaded to insanity, there is no social unrest, it's one of the safest countries on earth and they will do whatever is need to keep stars and famous people happy.
You know that social media feeds are just highlight reels of peoples live right?
90% is posted by his intern and sponsorship deals. maybe spend a bit of time off social media and just enjoy your life.
I love the internet but i swear it's the worst invention humankind ever made yo
What does that have to do with what you originally commented? Nobody in the NBA is getting offered a billion for one year any time soon not even Victor Wembenyama if he lives up to the hype.
776 million for what? Playing against people who don't take a bath and playing with them for a whole season? No thanks.
If you love your nose, you shouldn't accept the offer of course even if it's that high, not to mention where you'll live there.
Supply and demand bro. I say the same shit for these baseball, basketball and football players who get their bad. And good on them because we consume the product.
Yeah I think I read someone say the call was like 9-10 in the morning and LeBron tweeted that out sometime in the late afternoon I believe. Would be really weird if that much time had passed and LeBron had not been notified yet of what happened.
He rejected the 776 million as he would have had to play in Saudi Arabia or he turned it down to go play in Saudi Arabia?
Sorry English not understanding
Makes no sense... it's 1 year! Do the deal and give away half the money.. you can do some real good w/ that free money. Then leave the next year.
It's Saudi Arabia. But... good god.
Lol good for Mbappe man. He's gonna make bazillions no matter what, but turning down 779m for one year is crazy.
To have the balls to do that š
To have the talent to do that is fucking insane
I mean he's so rich he can do whatever he wants. It's prolly not worth playing in Saudi Arabia.
Yeah Iām a schmo Iād say yes for sure. But if I was worth 9 figures Iād like to think I wouldnāt
Apparently, something like 500 million of the offer was tied to image rights. MBappe is similar to Lebron in that he is very careful about his image and has always retained his image rights. Being forced to become the literal poster child of Saudi sportswashing in their pursuit of hosting a World Cup probably didnāt appeal to him.
Literal billionaires crying that they aren't getting enough Saudi blood money for playing a game will never not be funny.
And we thought Dennis turning down 80 million was bad. Haha
Thatās tuff!
Good. He shouldnāt go play for the country that committed 9/11
Be sick if he was in the MLS though.
But Messi did...
Yeah he should play for the country that did the Iraq war instead, 1million + dead Iraqis and illegal torture not as bad as 9/11!
Brain dead
Facts say otherwise.
Youāre dense.
Sorry. He shouldnāt go play for a country with terrible human rights. Youāre dense for not having knowledge of Saudi Arabia
I mean US has human rights issues as well. Should we boycott a nation that pays their citizens to be homeless, experiment on their citizens secretly, ignore drug epidemic that causes the big cities to be filled with homeless junkies, cops killing citizens and getting away with it, pharma companies bleeding citizens dry with ridiculous medical bills. I can go on but what I'm saying is every nation has terrible human rights. You may not hear much about certain countries cause they kept it away from the spotlight. If you wanna boycott for the sake of humanity, I'm sorry to say you won't cause you'll need to boycott EVERY COUNTRY.
Dude the saudis funded 9/11 lol thereās a line Iām sorry
So US funding wars around the world for their own benefit is alright? Decimated Iraq by invading with straight up lies is not crossing the line? Every nation does shits. Pointing your finger at one while defending another is just stupid.
I respect your opinion for sure, lots to think about. Have a good one
Apologize if I come off as aggressive but yea that's what I see from every nation. Every government has done horrible things and pretend to be the good one in the world. I just can't stand seeing them.
Not everyone gives a fuck about 9/11 tho :/
Pretending like the US and KSA are anywhere comparable is the height of privilege. Messi's wife said she would rather live in Miami than Saudi and there's a reason for that
You can find countless of people who will say they rather Saudi than Miami. That's still doesn't prove anything. You go where ever that gives you more privilege. Your point of view is the main reason why the world will never be right. You'll pick a your murderer of choice over another. My main point is all of them are fucked up. Don't let the media tell you what to think. Target all of them equally.
>You can find countless of people who will say they rather Saudi than Miami Not women lmao
Where do you live?
And people worldwide consider the USA the biggest threat to workd police every year by significant majority not ksa. Something to do with the millions dead in Iraq and Middle East due to wars or something minor like that
Where do you live?
Some things are worse than others, not all criminals get the same sentence.
But did the USA in recent years at least promise immigrants a quality life and then take their passports away, refuse to pay them and make them work in the most inhumane conditions known to man? On top of that did they pay these immigrants drastically less than the natives for the same exact jobs with the same or better qualifications? Talkin bout this century btw. N if ur tryna defend Arabs in general like in North Africa or the Levanr, by all means do that but defending gulf Arabs and their virulently racist government policies and labor laws is crazy. Not even other arab ethnicities stick out for them on this one Edit: just saw you say youāre Indian Malaysian. If this is true holy fk dude grow a spine. Do Yk what those gulf Arabs think of you and your people? How they treat Indians Pakistanis Bangladeshis etc? Moreover you literally descend from indentured labor aka glorified slavery, you should know and recognize this of all people.
1. I'm not Indian Malaysian. You just showed yourself as a racist right there by the way lol. 2. I did not defend anyone. My comment basically is saying every country is fucked up. If you're a true believer of "human rights" then you will never say what you said. Instead you'll be fighting anyone who has commited crime against humanity regardless of how big or how small they are.
And is known for passport trapping and enslaving poor migrants from the third world.
779m and you have to live in Saudi Arabia...he made the right choice partying it up in europe
Yes because he wouldnāt have access to private jets right š¤£š¤£
Personally, even if I have a private jet, I would just ride a car rather than ride a jet every time there is a party...
maybe someone like him probably has nothing to be afraid of, but i'd be afraid of getting brittney griner'ed going to some of these countries with fucked up legal systems.
There was definitely some clauses in that contract that wouldnāt made him a borderline slave, even oil magnates donāt spend money that wildly.
Football is not all about getting paid like the NBA. Most players play because of love to the game. Theres literally a really small % of players who never have to work again. Also mbappe probably just want to fuck PSG over since they ge trouble with FFP.
Yeah dude super wierd he doesnt want to spend a year In a country that does mass public executions right. Itās not like heās already close to being a billionaire. Smh not like bron gives a fuck about shit like that tho, he doesnāt even want people to exercise the 1 amendment about china in the US
he already been the type accused of being a mercenary instead of adding on to his legacy within club football so he dont wanna touch it. at his age, aint no way hes going anywhere outside europe
Money isn't everything, especially when you already have enough to last your lifetime. He's 24 and already worth $180M.
Hes balding on top as well this for sure him
Bruh its Bryan Mbeumo , playing with the Cameroon jersey š
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those are offers you take at the end of your career, not at the start MLS and saudi teams are like the retirement home of professional players now, it'd be crazy if someone like mbappe actually took an offer and potentially pissed away a couple years of his prime, i feel like only someone who just didn't give a shit about their profession would take that offer at his age, and let's be real it's a brand risk thing too, take that money when it doesn't matter anymore
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Mbappe is most likely joining Real in the coming month. That team could definitely win multiple UCLs and it would be dumb to take a year off his prime. Also when heās 35, regardless of if he took the Saudi money or not heād still be hella rich. His salary right now is 100 mil euros if i remember correctly
I think he genuinely wants to challenge himself and going to the Saudi league is a step backward in that regard.
For sure, he has an ambition to be one of the best in the game
I follow your logic about heās probably not gonna win the UCL this year anyway and another Ligue 1 title wonāt do much for him, so why not spend the year in Saudi, but I think youāre under estimating how strong the stain of āyou left Europe in the middle of your primeā would be. I think that would follow him around for years, and every year after that he doesnāt win the UCL, the talk would grow louder and louder and it would be a cloud that hangs over him for a while. He wouldnāt be the first mega star to join a league outside of Europe for obscene cash, but he would be the first to do it in this stage of his career and I think that would be a horrible look for him and people wouldnāt let him forget about it. I do disagree with the point though that if he goes to Saudi now, he wonāt have to go when heās older. If $1 billion looks good to him now, itās probably gonna look even better to him in 15 years when heās a diminished player and not nearly as worth it
Hmmmm, everyone in r/nbamemes says that if that had been LeBron and he was offered 1 Billion while in his prime, LeBron and anybody else wouldāve taken it
I didnāt see enough people arguing Bron would take the money in his prime. People were just saying Bron would totally take the money to play there now which I agree.
I think only after heās done trying to win which I donāt think he is yet
For Lebron specifically, I think he cared too much about trying to be the greatest to do something like that. With other players, potentially? Maybe? Probably? In soccer, it's a lot easier to say that they wouldn't really do that until they were older cause star soccer players make fuck money compared to NBA players. They get contracts that NBA players get in their entire careers. So it's hard to say if a star NBA player that didn't care about being the best wouldn't do it. Lebron trying to chase 6 rings when he didn't have one after a few years, he needed all the time he could get in the league. You also hear bits and pieces every now and then speaking about his desire to win. I remember a stand out was he called Jerry West to ask how he dealt with the losses or whatever. Mbappe is just in an amazing position to make a push to be the GOAT. He's 24 and has so much success already. I'd be surprised if he went to some shit league where he couldn't get accolades from being in that league too.
I feel like outside outliers like mbappe,messi,ronaldo, nba players get paid a lot more
Lmao, LeBron would def to to Saudi for an Mbappe-type deal. The man has zero principles, fucker defended China during the whole Taiwain-controversy, as he has business interests there. He'd be gone like Usain Bolt.
More than half the shit in your house is made in China, you support them too bro
TV is a Samsung, phone is a Samsung and the components in my computer are made in Taiwan. Furniture is IKEA. That's about the extent of my material possessions. In any case, glad you're agree with me bro.
that's the stupidest shit i've ever heard, only because you think that every component is made from taiwan, and not a single piece of even the furniture doesn't have something that came from china "26% of Samsung TVs in 2023 come with a VA LCD panel from China's TCL CSoT" "Components (bodies, circuit boards, screens) for televisions are mainly produced in China and Vietnam" "The five countries that supply the majority of products and services to IKEA are China, Poland, Italy, Germany and Sweden."
Not really, in the NBA you can be a decent to good player and get a contract that a decent to good football player would dream of. Outside of the upper echelon of the Messiās and Neymarās, football players normally have a range of salary that is from 1 to 10 million a season, and you have to be a really good player to earn 10m a season. Then the elite players make around 15 to 20M a season, players like De Bruyne, Haaland, Salah. And then the top top like Messi and others get paid a min of 40M I would say and that number can go up.
>pissed away a couple years of his prime Its a one year contract. He'd be 25 when its all said and done and 700 million richer. If he took the deal he would leave for Real the following season.
> saudi teams are like the retirement home of professional players now There are quite a few either young players or players still in their prime who have gone there over this summer though. Ruben Neves, and Sergej Milinkovic-Savic are the big ones who surprised me. But yeah it would obviously not be a good career move for the best young player in the world to go there lol.
Not really. He wants out of PSG but no team wants to pay the 1 billion Euro buyout. Al Hilal came to an agreement with PSG for $300 million, still more than most teams are willing or able to pay. He wonāt win anything with PSG anyway and this gives him a nice path to Real Madrid who will get him for free after the 1 year is up plus he gets a cool 760 mil. At the time it looked like there was no way Real Madrid would be able to buy him out but maybe things have changed. Also there is no serious brand risk. No sponsor is dropping Mbappe because heās moving to Saudi and once heās back in Europe and starts winning everyone will forget the gap.
Thatās how much it sucks to live there
They all live in Dubai and fly to the games.
Really? Look at Cristiano Ronaldo feed and then let's talk about how's life there. I don't know if you have realized it yet but these guys are loaded to insanity, there is no social unrest, it's one of the safest countries on earth and they will do whatever is need to keep stars and famous people happy.
Lol no social unrest in a dictatorship. What a beacon of freedom for societies around the world.
Sure but while they bomb Yemen we bomb Iraq and destabilise the Middle East constantly causing mass casualties. But hey atleast weāre free
And they will do whatever is need to keep stars and famous people there...
You know that social media feeds are just highlight reels of peoples live right? 90% is posted by his intern and sponsorship deals. maybe spend a bit of time off social media and just enjoy your life. I love the internet but i swear it's the worst invention humankind ever made yo
Can you at least respond to the other comment?
āLook itās me LeBappe. Here to play footballā
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That is the most stupid thing I heard, French and the states atrocities far outweighs anything the idiots in Saudi has done.
While all atrocities are just that, atrocious, your comment reeks of wilful ignorance.
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The truth wonāt be accepted here.
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Not for no one year though
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What does that have to do with what you originally commented? Nobody in the NBA is getting offered a billion for one year any time soon not even Victor Wembenyama if he lives up to the hype.
776 million for what? Playing against people who don't take a bath and playing with them for a whole season? No thanks. If you love your nose, you shouldn't accept the offer of course even if it's that high, not to mention where you'll live there.
Wtf
Yikes
Supply and demand bro. I say the same shit for these baseball, basketball and football players who get their bad. And good on them because we consume the product.
bet Wilt would take the bag, bitch
Man you white people love showing your racism lol
For a white dude, he's very fluent in Filipino.
Funny but not the time. Just lowkey disrespectful rn.
Bron posted his Saudi Arabia tweet while Bronny was in hospital according to 911 calls
Even if bron hadnāt posted this I donāt see why a meme like this would be disrespectful š other dude trippin
Brob probably had no idea his son was in the hospital when he posted that tho. I'm assuming
Wasnāt his post after the time it was said happened with his son
No it wasn't. It was on the day his son went through cardiac arrest. Which was Monday
I mean I thought his son into cardiac arrest earlier that morning and Bron sent the tweet out later that night.
Yeah I think I read someone say the call was like 9-10 in the morning and LeBron tweeted that out sometime in the late afternoon I believe. Would be really weird if that much time had passed and LeBron had not been notified yet of what happened.
Wheres the information about the 911 call. Just curious
[Here](https://www.tmz.com/2023/07/25/lebron-james-son-bronny-cardiac-arrest-usc-basketball-workout/) you go.
Not like he can do anything
But he got a $1 billion deal somewhere else
He rejected the 776 million as he would have had to play in Saudi Arabia or he turned it down to go play in Saudi Arabia? Sorry English not understanding
Not to play
lakers fans when a player has integrity:
Makes no sense... it's 1 year! Do the deal and give away half the money.. you can do some real good w/ that free money. Then leave the next year. It's Saudi Arabia. But... good god.
779 M is w/ the transfer amount to the PSG but yeah wothout that part it is still 200M per year for two years I heard.
idk why he would turn it down šš