BN41Albion
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You only have to look at the colour of their away kits now
[Football] Saudi consortium to take over Newcastle
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I can separate the Saudi State from NUFC, just as I did with Hall, and Ashley, but I understand if you can't.
I agree it shouldn't have been allowed to happen, but it has. Same for Man City, PSG, Chelsea and all that. The clubs are more and more moving away from the communities they were born from.
I'm not here to make that state look any better. Do you think any better of them because of this takeover? I know that I don't. The club's changed owners 3 times in my life, it'll likely change again.
Dick Knights Mumm
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I believe Saudi Arabia are a different level of malevolence to this world than Qatar, UAE, and whoever else. I can see how it might make it easier for NUFC supporters to look on the Saudis as equivalent to a hedge fund/Qatar/UAE/Adu Dhadi or whoever. Unless I am missing something there is little comparison. I also have a minority view that knowing what we see now Chelsea trophies have been paid for by the people of Ukraine and should be expunged or at least an *. But I understand we all draw our own lines in the sand. I don't watch NUFC games any more and prefer not to read anything about them. I feel sorry for the position that thinking Newcastle supporters find themselves. It can't be easy.
Dick Knights Mumm
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And nothing personal my old fruit. I thought I had opened the Saudi Football thread - which is why I saw your post!
Best of luck to you.
The Saudis though ........
Soton Seagull
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Presumably any players that are half decent at golf will be sent off to do that instead to add a wow factor to the murderers new plaything.!
I agree that the Saudis are the worst of a bad bunch. No argument there. Unfortunately Newcastle fans don't get a say in who stewards the club. We should, as should any fanbase, but we don't.
What pisses me off are the children and morons with Saudi flags on twitter, or those that leap to that state's defence.
aolstudios
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Or suggest that PIF & the Saudi state are separate
Lots of talk about neves being loaned to Newcastle following his transfer to Saudi. That all sounds legit. Maybe it is like us sending people on loan to USG to develop them for first team. Yeah. That will be it. Not about avoiding FFP issues. No chance.
Hotchilidog
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Nobby Cybergoat
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Football, football. What are you doing to yourself?
aolstudios
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If they'd had some balls & enforced the rules we never would've got here.
Killing the game
This whole Saudi thing is a f***ing nightmare (leaving aside the human rights abuses, beheadings and the rest*)....we now have two clubs in the Premier League who can quite legally get around FFP regulations. The playing field wasn't level anyway, but now it is basically a vertical slope. No wonder Todd didn't seemed concerned about FFP....as soon as they get near the limits, they just sell an ageing "star" to one of the PIF teams for £100m, job done. [*which obviously should very definitely NOT be left aside].
As we know, Chelsea were funded for 20 years by a Russian oligarch, whose proximity to Putin caused him to be sanctioned, forcing the sale of Chelsea. Lo and behold, Chelsea is now owned by a corporate VERY closely linked to the Saudis....who have been massively enriched by the war in Ukraine (I read that Aramco, the Saudi state-run oil company made $160 bn in profit last year). You couldn't make it up.
Luckily I'm not interested in golf....as the Saudis have just bought the whole sport! They are throwing obscene amounts of money at it (eg: they offered Tiger Woods around $1bn to join the LIV tour). However, it can't be too long before they own the IPL and a whole range of other sports (see their attempt to sponsor the Women's World Cup).
But back to football...it is going to be seriously depressing watching this thing play out in the Premier League. I thought I disliked Chelsea too much (even before Potter)....but now it's at a different level.
As we know, Chelsea were funded for 20 years by a Russian oligarch, whose proximity to Putin caused him to be sanctioned, forcing the sale of Chelsea. Lo and behold, Chelsea is now owned by a corporate VERY closely linked to the Saudis....who have been massively enriched by the war in Ukraine (I read that Aramco, the Saudi state-run oil company made $160 bn in profit last year). You couldn't make it up.
Luckily I'm not interested in golf....as the Saudis have just bought the whole sport! They are throwing obscene amounts of money at it (eg: they offered Tiger Woods around $1bn to join the LIV tour). However, it can't be too long before they own the IPL and a whole range of other sports (see their attempt to sponsor the Women's World Cup).
But back to football...it is going to be seriously depressing watching this thing play out in the Premier League. I thought I disliked Chelsea too much (even before Potter)....but now it's at a different level.
Nobby Cybergoat
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But Newcastle did get to buy Guimares and Isak
Milano
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Gary Neville is now calling for all transfers from the EPL to Saudi clubs to be temporarily stopped. He gets it. I expect absolutely nothing to be done.
You'd like to think that other EPL clubs might try to do something.
They will be the death of sport as we know it. They've obviously greased enough palms in the PL, UEFA and Fifa to ruin the game unabated.
Algernon
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The sport of football as a whole is becoming increasingly underhand, dishonest and super greedy.
It can't carry on, Shirley it will lead to one eventuality.
Perhaps it would be the best thing should football eat itself then reset.
It can't carry on, Shirley it will lead to one eventuality.
Perhaps it would be the best thing should football eat itself then reset.
Superphil
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I'm now all for the Super League, let them all go and do it, with some Saudi money thrown in, whatever, I'll drive them there myself. Then the real sport of competitive football can commence.