Saudi take over

@Whyme we dont need regimes like that in sport. Its like Hitler and his olympics while thousands were in camps being worked to death

@Jamesy are you dure your government had never assassinated anyone ?

@Whyme people dont disappear here for criticism and then murdered and chopped up

@Whyme The connection is that of selling a large business to a repressive regime not above murdering its own journalists and critics in its embassies abroad.

That the business happens to be a football "club" is not really the point, and the UK has sold far too many assets much more important than a football firm to far too many overseas companies and countries; to answer your direct question about the connection.

Unfortunately we live in a world in which the democratic nations do have to have trading and diplomatic links with some very nasty dictatorships, such as Russia, Saudi Arabia and China.

@ArishMell Were talking football here not industry. I think it is wrong and condoning their horrific human rights record

@Jamesy I agree with the moral point but would say similarly whether a football team or some vital industry.