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Newcastle Utd (and Viz)
- Thread starter Del-boy
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barneygumble
Player Valuation: £60m
toffee matt
Player Valuation: £60m
They haven’t sold out here since they were going for Top 4 with Pardew.
Biggest myth going Newcastle’s away support they sell out a handful of 3pm games a season but take small numbers the rest of the time.
anton66
Player Valuation: £50m
Wuv gor oor Cloob buck.
He's got close links with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev as well. It's not a place well known for it's fair and free electoral process, incorruptible justice system, prisoner welfare or worker's rights.
There's a lot of throwing stones in glass houses going on from some Blues here tonight.
barneygumble
Player Valuation: £60m
Guardiola, Klopp or Conte if you go on their forums.
ForeverBlue92
Player Valuation: £80m
Fans should have wanted it from day one to get rid of the scabs but they were too busy crying to Boris to stop it and backing Neville and Carra's crocodile tears as SKY faced losing out.
They deserve what they get the lemmings.
Blue 1
Player Valuation: £70m
Isn't the consortium is 80% owned by the Saudi regime itself.
The same regime that spreads terrorism around the planet, blows up buses full of kids; murders and dismembers journalists who speak out against them, on foreign soil. Executes gay people and "apostates". Uses starvation and disease as instruments of warfare. Is probably the worst regime for women outside of the Taliban, uses its vast oil wealth to influence the internal affairs of other countries and once threatened the a UK with terrorist attacks if it didn't stop investigating their corruption.
Is this the most egregious case of sportswashing yet? Possibly.
I'd be done with football if I was a Newcastle fan.
The same regime that spreads terrorism around the planet, blows up buses full of kids; murders and dismembers journalists who speak out against them, on foreign soil. Executes gay people and "apostates". Uses starvation and disease as instruments of warfare. Is probably the worst regime for women outside of the Taliban, uses its vast oil wealth to influence the internal affairs of other countries and once threatened the a UK with terrorist attacks if it didn't stop investigating their corruption.
Is this the most egregious case of sportswashing yet? Possibly.
I'd be done with football if I was a Newcastle fan.
Drico
Player Valuation: £50m
It's mirroring English society. Hilariously, there are some - even on here - who think the Premier League is some wonderful English success story. It's nothing of the sort: it's an international traveling circus that pitched up in Italy in the 1980s and Spain in the 2000s. It popped over to England over that last decade and all because of money. England is utterly open to this - as today's takeover proves - in a way that, say, Germany just isn't. The Germans refuse to allow it - regardless of the unsated desires of the "business community" (even though they too do appalling arms deals with the Gulf states). Boris Johnson has no issue with the Saudis taking over. They are his kind of people. English people are entitled to be appalled by todays's news - but only if they are similarly appalled by the close ties the UK has with Saudi Arabia, a place where women are lucky to be allowed to drive.
Dodgy money has been in English football forever - we surely have our share of it - but today saw blood money arrive and it's no longer even pretending to hide in plain sight. As that Newcastle fan said, "Today is about hope, not human rights." I mean, what's one suitcase in a Turkish embassy when we can turn a blind eye to the massacre of Yemeni children?
The binman chronicles
Player Valuation: £80m
Good luck to them, the thought of money is often better than the reality. After our initial splurge I wrote it might not get any better feeling than right then. The optimism and hope is what you try to capture but there are zero guarantees it leads anywhere.
No chance of first 2. Conte may fancy it with a big transfer pot.
Can see a load wanting Benitez back too
I'm convinced football ate itself on April the 18th of this year - this is just another mini foreshock before it finally goes off like Krakatoa.
The spirit of the game I grew up watching died many years ago and sadly this plastic imposter now holds all the cards.
Will they go and bring James back from the desert !
Encoder
Player Valuation: £35m
Why are people so eager to whip out the glass houses shout? Is it just to say "gotcha" to tother evertonians?
You can be against Saudi ownership of Newcastle and dislike the likes of Usmanov and other of his ilk in football too.