[Football] Saudi consortium to take over Newcastle

[GT49er]

I will confess I am a bit jealous of what’s happening at Newcastle. I love having Tony Bloom as one of our own and don’t really think I want a dodgy Saudi consortium in control but I would love us to have that amount of money to play with even just for a few years. Until this afternoon they were our direct rivals and now some of the players and managers they are being linked with are just insane.

It would be nice to have just a few transfer windows of top signings coming in rather than scrabbling around all summer for a striker we can’t get . This also just made our chances of becoming a top ten club that much harder, we simply can’t compete financially with at least 8/9 clubs so difficult to see how we do it consistently.

Would it? Would it really? Would it really be that great to be a different club to what we are now?

 

[Seasider78]

Another vote secured for the European Super League…..

Have to marvel at the Newcastle fans who claim to have removed the Evil owner whose main sins seem to amount to being a Cockney and a bit tight in transfer windows but are happy to welcome and celebrate Saudi ownership.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Well I think it is great to see all those Newcastle fans Celebrating the Saudi takeover and waving the Saudi flag.
I wonder how many hate Muslims and have racially abused them over the past few years.

 

[Swansman]

The Saudis built some kind of humanoid creature to do the talking.

 

[Weststander]

That’s what we said about City……

This.

Unfortunately their current league position will be their nadir, the huge new investment will gradually drive them up the division and they’ll stay there.

The paper talk today is ‘just’ an additional spend on transfer fees of £250m in the first 5 years, because the murderers will also be upgrading the academy and training base.

But with a big question mark that they may soon be tempted to spend far more on players, due to the huge rivalry with Abu Dhabi (Citeh).

 

[Wrong-Direction]

So what are we going to chant when we play them..?

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[portslade seagull]

Oh well another team that will now spend obscene amounts and pay ludicrous wages

 

[Reddleman]

Would it? Would it really? Would it really be that great to be a different club to what we are now?

We already are. I remember phoning the seagulls club call line and being excited to hear we had signed Paul Byrne. If you had said then we would be routinely signing players for £20m and competing to be top half of premier league we would have been having same discussion about being a different club to what we were then. Mega financial investment feels like less of a step then the ones we have taken already.

 

[timbha]

We already are. I remember phoning the seagulls club call line and being excited to hear we had signed Paul Byrne. If you had said then we would be routinely signing players for £20m and competing to be top half of premier league we would have been having same discussion about being a different club to what we were then. Mega financial investment feels like less of a step then the ones we have taken already.

Don’t remember him?

Edit: just looked him up. A loanee in 1995

 

[METALMICKY]

The Saudis built some kind of humanoid creature to do the talking.

What the feck is that? Botox frenzy or looking to audition for the musical Cats?

 

[Bry Nylon]

Pretty much the end of Newcastle as a club. You can guarantee that inside 5 years they will have an elite performance centre in north London so the first team squad and coaches can live in Hampstead and they’ll fly up for home games on a private plane from Luton or Stansted.

 

[Reddleman]

Don’t remember him?

Edit: just looked him up. A loanee in 1995

Yeah we signed him from Celtic when we were really poor and I thought he would rip it up. He didnt!

 

[Lindfield by the Pond]

Some goalkeeper (is it Neuer) - VVD, Ramos, Guy with egg-shaped head (assuming he is a defender) - Kante, De Bruyne - Messi, Mbappe, Haaland, Connolly, Ronaldo

Seems pretty dangerous! Dunno if its balanced though.

Look a little chilly though

 

[Brighton Mackem]

Toon army, careful what you wish for!

 

[swindonseagull]

New kits already in stock.

 

[nicko31]

I've said it before, if this was the Albion being taken over by a Saudi sportswashing consortium that would be the end of my 42yr association with the club.

Yes me too a fan for 42 years and 100% agree

These scenes sicken me...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLgIVYkbVz4

 

[Swansman]

Seeing the reactions from Newcastle fans make me nauseous. Its just bottom low. In plenty of countries in Europe the fans would turn their backs and dont go to the games, but this is so normalised now in the PL that people even appreciate it.

I hope these ****ers spend massive money on new players, rename the club القحبة النفط سخيف then get tired of it all, sell St James Park to some retail developer (or a new Shell petrol station), pay Alan Shearer £20m to be the Sunderland mascot and then **** off back to Saudi Arabia.

 

[nicko31]

As if things weren't bad enough, Kelvin Mackenzie has appointed himself the role of moral arbiter...

https://twitter.com/kelvmackenzie/status/1290248642410868737

Oh no, now I am torn

 

[knocky1]

So what are we going to chant when we play them..?

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Cover your tits up for the lads………

 

[herecomesaregular]

Any negative comments we make Newcastle fans will just say we're just jealous. Not in a million years. Would walk away from the Albion if it happened here. Such a shame really.