Newcastle takeover .

Saudi money is tainted money, but football fans everywhere have little morals.

How much cash does it take to make you a Champions League team today - £800m? say 14 players @ £50m and increased wage bill of £100m more . At least some money wil be coming into the UK economy.
 
JM14 said:
I just meant any foreign investment, not this specific takeover.


It’s a tricky one where to stand with it, we live in a country that has historically built wealth from the suffering of others, as a country we have all sorts of financial links to these countries, products we use every day will come from the same countries, businesses have all sorts of links with them too.
Football is built on people with very questionable backgrounds and plenty of clubs are benefitting from it. We are going for a World Cup in one of the countries with the worst human rights records. Where do you draw the line? And why is this getting so much backlash when I people who are just as bad have such an influence in almost every aspect of our society?
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s***ing on countries where appropriate is fine, but Qatar isn't even in the bottom 10 for worst human rights abuses.

10 Worst Human Rights Countries in 2020 - Insider Monkey

It shouldn't be hosting a World Cup for a myriad of reasons, its human rights record isn't great, but its not the worst either. I worked there for 3 years, and I prefer it to Saudi (where I grew up) and Dubai (where my folks lived for 30 years and I visited a lot). They are more tolerant of expats, and they also seem to like ******* off the Saudi's and Emirati's so thats a plus in my book :)
 
If only we were so up in arms about selling weapons to the Saudis as we seem to be about a football club.
Sad
 
jam69 said:
If only we were so up in arms about selling weapons to the Saudis as we seem to be about a football club.
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Some of us are. I'm F***ing gutted we sold arms to the Saudi's. I lived and worked in Taizz in Yemen for 3 months in 1998 and it was a great place, people were so friendly. To see Taizz get hit and pictures of dead kids in the streets from weapons we Brits sold them, it crushes my soul. I want, so desperately to go and be an aid worker for them, but the pandemic and having my own family to worry about while the conflict is ongoing means I can't. I do regularly give to the aid charities working in Yemen, its the least I can do to try and help.
 
zorro_mfc said:
It’s going to be unbearable

as for anyone doubting I’d this will equal success look at Man City look at Chelsea and look at PSG of course it will
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There's still hope though, look at QPR.

Their owners have more financial clout than City, have done for 10 years. Richest in British football.

They had a brief attempt at chucking money at 'living the dream' and making an unfashionable, unsuccessful yoyo club into Premier League giants, got relegated and got bored and gave up. It's really hard and a long term project, you can't just buy Mbappe and win the league overnight.

I'm also consoled by the fact that everything Newcastle United have ever done ends in chaos, terrible decisions, clownery and hysteria.
 
Anton_Berg said:
I don't see much protesting by geordies so I don't see how any other club's fans (incl Boro) would behave any differently, sadly.
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If you can't see the difference between replacing Ashley and replacing Gibson then I can see why you're just like them.

Personally I wouldn't want a man owning the Boro who chops a man up and dissolves him in acid just because he said bad things about him.
 
We can hardly blame the Newcastle fans for being excited. Fair play to them.

Let’s be honest 99% of our fans would be just as excited.

You can’t really sit judging them - we all consume and watch products associated with dodgy regimes everyday. That’s ok though?
 
Every country in the world that has prospered has, at some point, done so at the expense of others and very often at the cost of thousands if not millions of lives. However, many of those countries have now reformed their ways. Not one of them is clean, but they've at least moved in the right direction.
I couldn't in all good conscience support the Boro if the Saudi regime were behind us because their abuse isn't in the past, it is ongoing and they are one of the key players in the destabilisation of world politics.
I know I'm in a minority and the promise of sporting glory will be more than enough to make most supporters ignore the abuses of this particular regime, but I'm happy being an outlier.
My only consolation is that there are other uber-rich clubs about and only one of them can win a final so there is no guarantee that success will be handed to the Geordies.
 
Breaking News.

Sheikh Itoff, the renowned swift tailor, will be brought in to provide the matchday suits for the squad, while Sheikh Ya Lettuce will head up the clubs women's team.
 
zzzzz said:
If you can't see the difference between replacing Ashley and replacing Gibson then I can see why you're just like them.

Personally I wouldn't want a man owning the Boro who chops a man up and dissolves him in acid just because he said bad things about him.
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Ed. Journos beware!
 
I'm excited to see just exactly how they manage to mess this up.

I suspect their lack of patience will see them protesting outside their stadium again in three years.

I remember when they thought they had won the postcode lottery when Ashley bought them, so they shouldn't count their chickens just yet.

And what should be a sobering thought for any club of that size is that it wasn't fan protests, or rubbish websites wailing about the unfairness of it all, or misspelled banners or community action that got their hated owners out of the club, it was an overwhelming reserve of cash and I suspect a ****-ton of lawyers twisting the arms of the PL and FA.
 
Next time the Super League breakaway comes around (as surely it must, there has been no credible punishment handed out) will Newcastle get an invite? I hope so.
 
It'll all end in tears.

It only takes a string of poor results, especially at home, for the skunk mentality to kick in and the pressure on the manager and players ramps up like no where else.

These new owners talk about having patience and a long term plan, they really don't know the geordie mentality. These fans have been moaning about one thing or another long before Ashley came along. I still remember them getting on Bobby Robson's back after he only managed to get them to finish 5th one season as 5th wasn't good enough, and following a 2-6 home defeat by Man Utd early the next season, the football phone-ins were swamped with irate geordies calling SBR and the Hall's all sorts. Before that they were demonstrating outside their ground when Keegan sold Cole.

It won't all be milk and honey and if they don't win something sharpish, it'll end in tears.

History will repeat itself. You watch.
 
Had to throw radio out of window …. It’s as if we’re meant to feel happy for the bleating entitled Geordies and their heroic noble saviours. They’ve won absolutely nothing in living memory but will apparently be “back where we belong”
 
The only good thing to come from all this is that they will suddenly go from everyone's apparent 'second team' to the most hated in the country, everyone will want them to lose.
 
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