A multi-billion-dollar Saudi-backed golf tour is reportedly near collapse – so might this spell an finish to the Gulf state’s curiosity in sport?
The controversial LIV Golf Tour is only one strand of the Saudis’ sporting portfolio.
Footballing celebrity Cristiano Ronaldo performs there, whereas the nation’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) additionally owns English Premier League workforce, Newcastle United.
But the PIF – which has plunged $5b into the LIV challenge – has a brand new five-year financial technique that features no point out of sport. Having been accused of utilizing sport as a political device to legitimise the Saudi regime, what led to this obvious change of technique?
Sky News’ sports activities correspondent Rob Harris joins Niall to debate what it means for the way forward for Saudi sport.
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