More sports talk

Sports continues to dominate coverage of Saudi in the foreign press this morning, with a number of Saudi Pro League clubs on the hunt for top transfers to boost the local league’s strength. The Guardian is looking at some of the target transfers which include Manchester United’s Casemiro and Raphaël Varane and Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah and Alisson. The Guardian also looks at how Al Nassr’s Cristiano Ronaldo and peers from Europe could perform at Euro 2024 in June.

A taste for rugby? Former England rugby captain Mike Tindall is all for Saudi investing in the oval ball game, The Telegraph reports. Saudi Arabia has been investing in several other sports, Tindall said, pointing out that rugby could do with a financial boost from the Kingdom as what the players put in, the hard work on the field, is just not backed up by the finances off the field.”

Meanwhile, Dubai-based boutique advisory deNovo Partners sees Saudi luring in more FDI from its Vision 2030 projects, Bloomberg reported. The advisory firm is looking to set up shop in Saudi to capitalize on the Kingdom’s appetite for FDI, the company’s Executive Chairwoman May Nasrallah said. She said a lack of significant foreign investment was not “something that will be there forever.”