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[Football] Saudis withdraw from Newcastle deal
- Thread starter The Wizard
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Not Andy Naylor
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Personally I'd be rather glad to discover that the club I support wasn't going to fall into the hands of a blood-soaked regime whose ideas of how a society should be run remain in the Dark Ages. But maybe that's just me. And a few million other football fans.
And Fulham
Yep! I would rather be in league 2 and poor then win the champions league with owners like that.It would be the day I stop supporting Brighton. I can't understand why Newcastle fans were so desperate for it.
father_and_son
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On the up side... A lot more people could afford to buy the club if the valuation crashes (silver linings).
super-seagulls
Soup! Why didn’t I get any Soup?
& Palllllllace, this is THEIR season.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
They had another interested party in any case, Henry Mauriss.
Eddiespearritt
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According to my (deluded) Newcastle supporting mate, Ashley is far far worse.
Crikey - how many journalists has he had chopped up then ?
Christ the Premier League have played this well. Stuck in a situation where they'll piss off basically everybody (Qatar, Amnesty, the established elite clubs, etc.) if they accept but can't find a valid reason not to in their own rules so bog it down with bureaucratic process leading to the Saudi's buggering off.
I'm sure Amanda Staveley will be back for a third time as part of a new consortium. Hopefully, Fat Mike will have a fire sale in the meantime.
I'm sure Amanda Staveley will be back for a third time as part of a new consortium. Hopefully, Fat Mike will have a fire sale in the meantime.
As long as it's not a fireplace sale - I think it's a bit shop soiled
dadams2k11
ID10T Error
Newcastle fans are a bit like the Leeds fans with the mantra that they DESERVE to be and have the DIVINE right to be a top 6 club.
Load of bollox if you ask me. You are we you are now, not where you were years ago.
Load of bollox if you ask me. You are we you are now, not where you were years ago.
Weststander
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According to 5live and TS over the last few weeks, the PL wouldn't cave in regarding the Saudi's state-sponsored broadcasting piracy of PL matches.
A PL condition was the unequivocal end to the fraud.
But by all accounts the bullying Saudis are used to getting exactly what they want, only on their terms.
Not this time
Arrivederci.
A PL condition was the unequivocal end to the fraud.
But by all accounts the bullying Saudis are used to getting exactly what they want, only on their terms.
Not this time
Arrivederci.
With the slight difference that, in the past 50 years, Leeds have won the league twice, the FA Cup once and have appeared in a European Cup final. Newcastle, on the other hand, have won the square root of cock-all in that time.
- Jul 7, 2003
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Another "we have lots of fans so we deserve success' club.
Don't get me wrong: I rather like the city and role part the club plays in it. I can't think of any other place which felt like such a football city as when I went up there. Most big cities have more than one team, so there's divided loyalties, or the ground is away from the centre like Liverpool/ Everton. Walking around the centre of Newcastle on match day, with the stadium towering over it all, and thousands of people in their black & white shirts, felt quite unique, and I thought it was great.
But my god do they have a sense of entitlement. They've won **** all in sixty odd years yet seem to think the world owes them a trophy. And the media loves to bang on about what great fans they are- if Ashley is that bad, why do they not actually do anything meaningful about him? All they do is moan on social media about how hard done by they are because they're mid table in the Premier League. What would Sunderland give for that? Or Exeter, or Crawley or Bradford City? He's not asset stripping the place: he just can't or won't spend a fortune. It's called living within your means. Like most clubs do. I don't see Norwich fans screaming at Delia for not funding the purchase of a £60m striker.
Don't get me wrong: I rather like the city and role part the club plays in it. I can't think of any other place which felt like such a football city as when I went up there. Most big cities have more than one team, so there's divided loyalties, or the ground is away from the centre like Liverpool/ Everton. Walking around the centre of Newcastle on match day, with the stadium towering over it all, and thousands of people in their black & white shirts, felt quite unique, and I thought it was great.
But my god do they have a sense of entitlement. They've won **** all in sixty odd years yet seem to think the world owes them a trophy. And the media loves to bang on about what great fans they are- if Ashley is that bad, why do they not actually do anything meaningful about him? All they do is moan on social media about how hard done by they are because they're mid table in the Premier League. What would Sunderland give for that? Or Exeter, or Crawley or Bradford City? He's not asset stripping the place: he just can't or won't spend a fortune. It's called living within your means. Like most clubs do. I don't see Norwich fans screaming at Delia for not funding the purchase of a £60m striker.