It does send the message to the shitty red clubs that they will defend any civil claim to the nth degree and make it as expensive as possible.

The scale of the claims, points deductions and the attitude of the owner might be just to walk away in the end anyway.

So it will be expensive to sue and you might get nothing anyway.

Using another country, what do Saudi Arabia really get out of their Gold / Boxing / Footie 'sportswashing'

Just seems an incredible waste of money to me, but just like their 100 mile long city Neom, its a massive gravy train for Western companies and who's going say no to Mohammed bin Salman and still avoid the "just step onto the plastic sheet " treatment.