The Rugby Australia chairman has fielded “interest” from Middle East investors looking for a chunk of the sport.
Spare a thought for the bleary-eyed diehards who woke up at 6am on Monday to watch Fiji v Portugal for what should have been a tier 2 pool game at the World Cup. Instead, the Portuguese thrust a stake into the pathetic zombie Wallabies.
There has been talk in rugby circles as far back as July that the “interest” was from a Qatari sovereign wealth fund. The Gulf state sheikhs are in a multi-year global sport capture. Both soccer and Formula One are now hostage to petro-billions. McLennan needs cash because central to his plan for rugby’s revival is spaffing money on NRL players. He successfully nabbed Sydney Roosters star“We just need to invest in more players,” he said. “Imagine if we had five more Joseph Suaalii’s in the squad.”We’ve got a good imagination. Global oil sovereign wealth money and McLennan on one side; on the other, the NRL’sWe’re reliably informed the so-called “interest” is not expected to bear fruit.
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