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Once the Sumo soccer warrior, EPL now faces a new challenge from Saudi Arabia
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Liverpool's Mohamed Salah is the latest transfer target of the Saudi Pro League, with a reported £200 million being offered to the Reds.
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For the last few years, the European transfer window was simply not a fair contest. Imagine a sumo tournament where one wrestler is triple or even quadruple the size of the other competitors – the English Premier League (EPL) swaggered around like a monstrous yokozuna, throwing its weight around at a cast of malnourished and often impoverished jonokuchi.
Your club wants to keep the player? How about we pay over his value and double his wages? It’s deadline day and you won’t have time to replace him? How about we offer more money then to move the deal?
