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“I think this one’s genuine. “I think this one goes through. “I think it works as a business proposition.” Samuel speaking on the Sunday Supplement just now. He looks like Fred Flintstone's less intelligent brother.

Didn't Rafa sign him for Napoli? It would make a lot of sense if Keith Downie is correct and it's inevitable that Staveley et al are set on hiring Rafa.

In fairness to Davina it's definitely not the worst YouTuber football video I've ever seen, but there is some steep competition. She has pretty much all the salient points in there, wasn't particularly cringe, and her editing and graphics were relatively decent.

See Garry Kasperov, the chess player for any mackems who might be reading this, has written a letter to the premier asking them to not let the takeover go through on the basis of Saudi human rights abuses. Only problem is that Gary is good mates with Pep Guardiola and congratulated both Man City and Pep on twitter after they won the league last season, oops.

I'd love to see the list of the people who have tenuous and otherwise links to us, who are trying to contact Staveley, Reubens etc in order to try and get on the gravy train. What's the bet that Wise has tried to tap up young Reubens. I'd actually like to see Asprilla back just for the craic.

The cope from the mackems is pretty hilarious. I think they're at the bargaining stage with this piece. https://www.sunderlandecho.com/sport/football/newcastle-united/why-newcastle-uniteds-ps300million-saudi-takeover-could-be-good-news-sunderland-afc-2547446

Uh, oh, don't tell me the administrator is from Dublin

And he's from Dublin, so that makes him functionally retarded to begin with

Delaney well caught out. He clearly doesn't give a shite about Saudi human rights abuses, otherwise he'd have went hard on the notion of them taking over his beloved Manure. It's hilarious how clearly bitter he is that it's us and not them in the context of that video and article.

Hopefully in the context of the first week of May it will be a very real consideration though. We'll just have to get used to shopping in Harrods

I think Rafa would be the wisest choice in terms of rebuilding a club. Poch in fairness did it at Southampton and Spurs, but I think Rafa edges it because of his familiarity and connection with the area as people have said. He could jump right in and likely already has plans to implement. To be clear though I would not be disappointed if Poch got it. No point acting spoiled before we're even sold.

Pochettino is a very good manager who's great at developing young players, but if we're going for the best I'd be a bit worried about how his tenure at Spurs ended. I mean maybe it was more a case of him not being given the funds needed to take them to the next level, and it going stale with certain players trying to jump ship. And perhaps he was a victim of his success in terms of getting very close to winning things and not, but I do have a slight doubt about his temperament.

My comment was in response to however many posts there were from you and others trying to draw false equivalences between the US and Saudi. And if you read my comment properly you'd see that the logical fallacy you were trying to bring people to was that because "no one is blameless" we're all in the muck. So yes you didn't say criticism was invalid, but that doesn't refute my point on the basis of whataboutism's definition.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/whataboutism

It's the definition of whataboutism, as in focusing on someone else’s misconduct implying that all criticism is invalid because no one is completely blameless. And I'd like to see where you'd place Saudi on this spectrum, who are literally still medieval in comparison to the west, to admittedly flawed Western democracies.

It's classic whataboutism, and a very poor example of it to boot, with regard to US, Saudi judicial comparisons.

Fucking hell. Lads the Saudi's cut thief's hands off regularly, decapitate people with machetes and have done so quite frequently in public, and have killed and then crucified a person in at least one case, also in public. A non Saudi servant for a Saudi family stated that her employers, more like slave masters, were unhappy with her work and so cut one of her hands off which they were allowed to do. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. If we as Newcastle fans start trying to draw transparently false equivalences we will rightly get torn to pieces by the media and other fans. Having said all that I'm going to go toast the prince

The Independent are saying that should there be no last minute hitches, the takeover will be completed by the 1st of May. They mention the Amnesty International letter and the leagues response, but as someone said it was likely just a very polite fuck off from Masters. https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/newcastle-united-takeover-saudi-arabia-premier-league-amnesty-international-a9478831.html

If I was him I'd say I supported a lower league team as well, just in case accusations of hypocrisy came up. Maybe he does just support a lower league team like Crewe, then again maybe he secretly supports Evil Utd FC

Yeah obviously, but again at least he's a twat in that respect all the time and isn't doing it selectively. Or well as far as I know. I suppose if we knew who he supported it would be easier to know how hypocritical or not he is.

In fairness the cartoonist, who's name escapes me, is at least consistent. He's done similar cartoons for Man City. Sports washing as an idea is a fucking nonsense anyway. It's just as term thought up by people who either want another weapon to use against regimes like Saudi, which is totally fair in a certain respect of course, or sanctimonious elites who don't think the rabble can hold two thoughts in their heads at the same time with regard to supporting the team not the regime, as it were. As people have already said there will be plenty of people who will have known barely anything about Saudi human rights and now do. Do people seriously believe that fans are going to be like, hey we won that cup, maybe beheading people isn't all that bad. And again as people have said it's not that journalists are pointing out the human rights abuses, they should, it's that they are trying to put blame on fans, are massive fucking hypocrites for one reason or another, and in some cases being very selective in their outrage.

Don't like the look of that, but surely Bein Sports and by extension Qatar don't have the juice to fuck over the Saudis. As people have been saying it would be an international incident if this was blocked. In fairness like the Saudis should be paying for football coverage, but I presume it's more of a fuck you to Qatar than it is a money issue. And surely the Saudis will have taken all this into consideration, maybe even greased a few palms, before they got this far along in the process. Can't see them paying Ashley the 17million deposit without some sort of idea that the fit and proper test was a formality.

Not sure what you mean by my side when you have no way of knowing what it is. If you are assuming that I'm not a socialist that's a safe bet though. Anyway I just thought your comment was funny, but this isn't the place to get into a debate about it.

Yeah it's just all the other dictatorships that he's either soft on or flat out praises.

I don't know about anyone else but I'll be whipping myself like Silas in the Da Vinci Code every time we win, so as to appease the moral guardians that are the mainstream press and jealous, sanctimonious opposition fans.