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If Bloom sold to the Saudis or any other kind of State-funded investment group I would be done with the Albion. I guess I'd probably still watch on the TV from time to time, but it would be Haywards Heath Town for me at the weekends.

Just because we have over 100 years of traditions in football, does that mean nobody else is allowed to try and start their own tradition? Unlike China / Qatar etc the Saudis do at least have some footballing history- they got to the round of 16 in the World Cup 30 years ago.

WHat would the 'slow' route of hosting sporting events be!? Wait 20 years and then do it? How would that possibly make sense? I find it really odd how many people have said things like "They can't modernise until they change their religion". When criticising a society for not being open and...

Women can drive now, they got the right to in 2018. As I said before, the place is changing. It can't all happen at once.

OK Mr Crown Prince Terry Butcher Tribute Act. You have a population of 35 million people who have lived in a backward, Shariah-law led society for generations, the vast majority of whom know no other system. Tell us how you'd completely change to a forward-thinking, progressive, democratic state...

I think that's one of the reasons I'd consider it. Things are changing there, and I think it would be rewarding to be able to say 10 years down the line that you had been part of facilitating that. He would go there and push the women's teams and diversity and inclusion like he has with us, and...

Out of interest, would people rather Saudi Arabia stayed as some medieval backwater that cuts of people's heads and doesn't allow women to drive? Or would they rather they slowly modernised, bringing in more Western influence and gradually bringing in more women's rights and modernising and...

I think it's genuinely quite an attractive challenge, too. How much more can he achieve at Brighton? Regular European football? That's about it, surely? I can't see how things are going to get much better here. The Saudis seem very serious about creating a genuine rival to the European leagues...

It's massively changing over there. It's funny how in the West we see Mohammed bin Salman as a journalist-murdering nutjob who stones homosexuals, but across the Middle East I think he is seen as a great reformer and moderniser. You can't go from a medieval type society to a modern progressive...