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Newcastle Utd (and Viz)

catcherintherye said:
He doesnt seem very cautious. He doesnt seem to understand the reach of the PL.
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He doesn't seem as cautious now, no. But he's been covering Newcastle United for years and has preached caution over every takeover saga that has unfolded and unreavelled during Ashley's ownership. I think you're doing him a disservice when you claim he doesn't understand the reach of the Premier League.

Most of the journalists who've written about it seem to be of a similar opinion, that it is likely to go through, despite justified concerns raised Amnesty International and self-serving protests from BeIN.
Henry Winter Chief Football writer for the Times said:
"Everybody expecting #NUFCTakeover to be waved through. Several Premier League clubs still voicing concern over Saudi involvement, though. Ethics, broadcast deals, but also self-interest - fears of the threat of a well-funded, newly ambitious #nufc. "
George Caulkin of the Athletic said 4 days ago;
"Where do things stand? The Athletic has been told that all necessary documents have been exchanged between the two parties and that a deposit has been paid, with the Premier League now working through the owners’ and directors’ test, which effectively represents regulatory approval. Once that has been granted — it began around April 9 and they have been told it could take up to four weeks — completion of a £300 million sale becomes automatic. “There’s no stopping it now,” says one source, who insists that the owners’ and directors’ test has not yet raised any red flags. "

The only journalists I can find that are doubting whether it will go through are BeIN employed Keys and Gray.
 

Shows how many football rumours are complete BS when Newcastle are suddenly linked with players higher teams are when a takeover hasn't even happened lol

Clubs dont do business in the middle of a potential sale.
 
killenefc said:
To Newcastle fans posting/ thinking about posting on here:

This is an EVERTON forum. Everton are a DIFFERENT club from the same league as you play in. Having no connection to your club and constantly seeing the Mike Ashley failings, fat men with their tops off and your fans punching horses it’s quite likely many on here will have a negative or apathetic opinion on your club. Stop being surprised that posters on here don’t like your club/disagree with your point of view/simply don’t care about what you’re saying.

Thanks.
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" Don't care about what you're saying ". Topic has 137 posts suggests otherwise don't you think, sniggers. Any team that can invest large amounts of cash WILL make the PL more competitive and hence more exciting. Gonna be really hard for any Club outside the top " six " just to qualify for a European place. Henry Winters piece in the Telegraph on the takeover of Newcastle and his assertion that other Clubs will be worried about a resurgent Newcastle is spot on. As I say 137 posts on this subject suggests fans won't be happy for the takeover to happen. To spout human rights as a reason may be a truism, however, we all know that it's a Newcastle with huge Investment that's gonna be the real reason for the " outcry ". Now, carry on not being bothered.
 
Spotty said:
" Don't care about what you're saying ". Topic has 137 posts suggests otherwise don't you think, sniggers. Any team that can invest large amounts of cash WILL make the PL more competitive and hence more exciting. Gonna be really hard for any Club outside the top " six " just to qualify for a European place. Henry Winters piece in the Telegraph on the takeover of Newcastle and his assertion that other Clubs will be worried about a resurgent Newcastle is spot on. As I say 137 posts on this subject suggests fans won't be happy for the takeover to happen. To spout human rights as a reason may be a truism, however, we all know that it's a Newcastle with huge Investment that's gonna be the real reason for the " outcry ". Now, carry on not being bothered.
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We have probably had longer threads on the Chuckle Brothers mate.

Y'know. But you have signed up to see what folk think about you. On a Friday evening, sunny as well.

You lot are odd. But strangely likeable.
 

Spotty said:
" Don't care about what you're saying ". Topic has 137 posts suggests otherwise don't you think, sniggers. Any team that can invest large amounts of cash WILL make the PL more competitive and hence more exciting. Gonna be really hard for any Club outside the top " six " just to qualify for a European place. Henry Winters piece in the Telegraph on the takeover of Newcastle and his assertion that other Clubs will be worried about a resurgent Newcastle is spot on. As I say 137 posts on this subject suggests fans won't be happy for the takeover to happen. To spout human rights as a reason may be a truism, however, we all know that it's a Newcastle with huge Investment that's gonna be the real reason for the " outcry ". Now, carry on not being bothered.
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Most of the posts you mention are about you being weird, horse punching, replica shirt wearing wannabe Kopites though mate.
 
zukai12_ said:
Oil has crashed into Negative value
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When normality resumes so will the normal price of oil resume. People are being really disingenuous at pretending to not care about a Club about to get massive investment. It will be better, much better, for the excitement
catcherintherye said:
Yes I mean it's hard, as it has a lot of history. Goodson has a lot of history too, but it;s facilities are very dated.

Re buying the league, it's certainly not something I subscribe too, Everton and Liverpool benefitted massively from John Houldings wealth initially. They then benefited (more Everton) from the Moores wealth. In between that there have been, as you say all sorts of clubs with lots of money. I'm not sure how anyone can begrudge anyone else.

I am not making a philosophical point to you though. It's not an issue of fans making barbed jibes (mainly from supporters of clubs who have spent more than most teams for years and don't like a taste of their own medicine) but a practical reality. The owners of these clubs are incredibly petty. They will make it bureaucratically difficult for you, especially as they will see it as City 2.0. I'm not saying you won't overcome this, I tend to subscribe to the view you can't halt progress, but it will delay things. Some of that will be preventing massive sponsorships of the stadium (qualitatively more than you have spent) and if you try it imposing transfer bans.

I should make clear, this isn't what I would do, but it's what they will do. I said to a Newcastle fan the other day who was goading me a bit, it doesn't worry me either way. Partly because I don't tend to get overly worried about such things, but also because I worry about Everton-we have a very wealthy owner who's willing to give us money to spend, so thats my main concern, not what others will do. But also practically I don't see this massively affecting Everton either way.

It goes two ways the takeover broadly. It's either not as we anticipate, in which case you are starting from a much lower base than we are currently (jin terms of squad quality, European recognition etc) and if we keep moving forward we will keep our distance from you. Or option 2 it does go as some suggest, and you become the new City/Chelsea and drop billions on transfers over coming years. In which case, we won't be shopping in the same pool for the most part. You will be targeting the top teams targets, and unsettling their players.

And thats the crux with this, if it's option 2 we end up at, they are going to become very resentful very quickly. Like in all seriousness, Liverpool don't pay players the going rate of what they could earn. If your view was "to hell with the consequences" you could go and offer VVD £500k per week and he would be tempted. It's a bit of a nightmare for their model, which relies on some degree of common sense, and inflation being kept under control.

There may be a bit of competition over lads like Coutinho this summer, but I sense we will nip in firstly as we are in a better position. By next summer I suspect we will be in different spheres, one way or another.

There's a bit of dislike for Newcastle currently, but honestly if you started disrupting Liverpool and to a degree Manchester United, and stopped them winning trophies, that feeling would change quite quickly!
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Very disingenuous from a lot on the board saying they aren't concerned about Newcastle being overnight, one if not the, richest Club in the World. Any Club that has that financial clout is going to be a threat and make it even harder for those not thought to be in the hop four, to won trophies and qualify for Europe. Newcastle have a huge following, a fine stadium and with s big of investment in updating the stadium and training facilities plus buying more quality, they WILL have an impact. To think otherwise is denial of the facts. City, Liverpool, Man U, Chelsea , Spurs, Arsenal and an invested in Newcastle means just reaching the top 7 and qualifying for Europe extremely difficult. Gonna be good to watch though !!!!!
 
roydo said:
We have probably had longer threads on the Chuckle Brothers mate.

Y'know. But you have signed up to see what folk think about you. On a Friday evening, sunny as well.

You lot are odd. But strangely likeable.
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Why the assumption of being a Newcastle fan ! In addition, no denial I note about the context of what I said about honesty and realism. and the weather, it's very very cloudy where I am. Good evening sir and " to you, to me..............."
 
Spotty said:
Why the assumption of being a Newcastle fan ! In addition, no denial I note about the context of what I said about honesty and realism. and the weather, it's very very cloudy where I am. Good evening sir and " to you, to me..............."
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Think its a reasonable assumption. Sign up to an Everton forum and leg it to the Newcastle thread.
 

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