Qatar group looking to invest in Miami MLS team

Sorry Beck's, I choose to not get behind it.

 

LOL...whether corrupt or not...signed Joe Kennedy.

 

Who is Joe Kennedy?

 

A fairytale...it was all Camelot.


"Let's not go to Camelot, it is a silly place."

 

Nice PR opportunity for MLS to reject any Qatari investment on principle.

 

Suddenly it makes sense why Beckham has been defending the 2022 World Cup going to Qatar.

 

After his time at PSG I just assumed $$$$$$ was the reason.

 

Similar to how they rejected Man City's ownership?

 

I don't understand the connection?

The Man City owners are not from Qatar.

 

All wealthy Middle East families look alike.

 

No, but they are not exactly above reproach. If MLS was willing to accept Man City's owners from the Emirates into the league, why would not they not be willing to accept PSG's owners from Qatar into the league?

 

That is certainly what it sounded like.

The Man City/NYCFC owners are likely no more corrupt than any other MLS owner is on average.

 

In the words of one of the greats:


"Everybody has a price"

 

Hopefully they don't do something stupid like name the team PSG Miami or some bullshit like that

 

I recall a lot of criticism about the ownership when they first entered the league.

 

Paris Saint Germain Miami? Not likely.

 

As long as there's a foreign club involved in the establishment of the team, there's a risk.

Don't you remember?

http://www.espnfc.us/story/581958/barcelona-to-bid-for-miami-mls-franchise

"If successful in its bid Barcelona are expected to name to the Miami franchise after the Catalan club itself, and will view the MLS as an opportunity to expand the Barcelona brand into the United States."

 

MSG? Miami Saint Germain?

 

Saying they are going to do it, and MLS allowing them to do it are two different things. And this isn't 2008. After the whole Chivas debacle, the league is likely a lot more wary on how teams are branded. Generic FC's and United's are fine, but, I doubt the league will ever again allow a team to take a name as a marketing tool for a team in another league. (And no, I don't think Red Bull would pass muster in 2016 either).

 

If the Mansour family is directly linked to a bunch of human rights abuses and thousands of deaths, I haven't heard about it. PSG's owners are basically the Qatari government, and MLS should want nothing to do with monsters like them.

 

The conditions of migrant labourers in Abu Dhabi (and the UAE in general) are similar to Qatar. If Abu Dhabi money is good enough for MLS then so is Qatar's.

 

Aside from the "whataboutism" involved in bringing CFG into this, if the human rights abuses and worker deaths are similar to Qatar, then MLS should have rejected their money as well. My understanding is that it isn't even close to as bad. Which is still not good, but the UAE isn't killing thousands of migrant workers for their vanity project.

That doesn't somehow make it okay to accept money from this clearly terrible regime and group.

 

The UAE has its fair share of vanity projects. I know. I live here.

How do you think Burj Khalifa was built? The Dubai metro? Palm Jumeirah? The World Islands?

For Abu Dhabi look up Yas Island, Saadiyat Island and Raha Beach.

And the worker conditions are (unfortunately) largely the same.