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do you think they get paid millions ? I know tons of uni professors and researchers who took massive side contracts to work temporarily in rich middle eastern universities, it’s purely a money thing
Theres a conflict of interest at the very least with refs as the royal family of the UAE own Man City as well.
It’s different when it is their job to remain impartial. If a professor of Human Rights got paid his twice annual salary for a six-week stint at King Saud University and a year later authored a paper called “Saudi Arabia: Extremely Chill For Women And Gays, Actually”, you’d rightly look at it with suspicion.
on the flip side a ref’s job is easily prone to errors, different rule interpretations, and like dear old Howard said yesterday just the need to keep things interesting (lmao). Whereas if that paper got published, everyone would look at the numbers and sources provided, and those are quite objective.