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Why not. Why wouldn't they do whatever it took to stop this given what it means to their own investment projects.

This tv piracy issue seems to be the last game in town for stopping the deal. I assume all other PL clubs will resist the takeover and write to the PL. It seems as though there are no ethical components to the fit and proper persons tests but there is a criminal aspect, which I suppose is the angle.

I got pretty invested in this tbh, shame they lost.

On the positive, absolutely none of the above sounds like a bunch of Newcastle fans trying to defend Saudi Arabia. Think we'll be fine on the sportswashing front tbh

I'm not even in that camp anymore tbf I'm in the conflicted af camp now.

Thanks man.

You know what, Newcastle is a fucking nice city. I've lived in various cities all over the world and there's absolutely nothing wrong with Newcastle. Ignorant fucknuts.

Welcome back mate You're not wrong on any of that.

He supports a lower league team that I can't remember, someone like Crewe or something. I think you're right about his consistency overall.

Agreed tbh. Thanks mate.

Fair.

Can see this side too. I guess time will tell for me where I stand on this, gonna have to reflect on it for a while.

Aye, very true.

In fairness, you lot should be well used to my hand wringing by now

Not feeling guilty about celebrating the success, but whether the success will really feel like it would have if we had done it without Saudi money, and all the moral considerations that come with it. Is the Newcastle owned by Saudi going to be the same Newcastle we all came to love. I mean, is it that club anymore anyway tbf. I've been looking at this as a 'the club is ours again' moment more than anything else and that article brought me back down to earth somewhat. As HMHM says, it'll take a bit off the shine off. I guess the worry is, how big a bit that is.

Fucks sake man. That's hurt me a bit tbf. He's probably right about how it will feel in the end. He might not be, but he probably is.

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Clearly the only morally correct response to this is to disband football altogether. Any team or club that legitimises the Saudi Royal Family by playing against us or operating in the same hierarchical league structure as we do is in effect legitimising the whole enterprise, to a greater extent I would argue than the fans are. I mean the club could continue to operate without the backing of the fans, but couldn't operate without the engagement of the rest of the football community.

That's quite the claim tbh

I mean, was he exiled or does he just feel more at home on their message boards?

Sima used to post somewhere other than RTG??

This purchase will not change my opinion of Saudi Arabia as a despotic, tyrannical regime of hypocritical fuckheads, in the slightest. But I am going to underline to any and all comers that we live in a country that is so wedded to free marketeering that we -allowed- a despotic, tyrannical regime of hypocritical fuckheads to take over a football club because that's what the free market means.

He now seems to be about to "clarify" that it wasn't a political decision.

What the fuck crawled onto and then died upon his face...