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Qatar aren’t the opening game anymore apparently they wanted to play in the “prime” 7pm spot, so Netherlands v Senegal is the opener. Then England v Iran, before everyone in the world breaks for food etc, while Qatar and Ecuador play, so they can come back for USA v Scotland/Wales/Ukraine.

Aye, it would take an Abramovich type scenario to take the club off them and I think as someone mentioned it would be even harder to do given the way the deal was structured. There couldn’t be any retrospective judgement in cases like ours and Man City as you say, especially if it was for the reasons everyone suddenly desires because there’s no legal structure in place in the UK preventing Saudi from investing (we know the Govt are actively encouraging the opposite as well), so some bureaucratic body with very limited purview wouldn’t be able to even attempt to remove them from ownership without getting sued to fuck. As you say any increase in these types of powers just impacts potential owners. Even then it’s questionable how much they’d even be able to prevent most owners anyway, iirc they rejected one of Leeds recent owners due to charges in Italy about his finances but he appealed the charge and then sued the EFL saying he still wasn’t guilty and they had to allow him ownership, he went on to lose the appeal but by that point he was owner. To be honest, I’m not sure it makes any difference anyway - the reason our ownership kicked up such a fuss is our lot are the end game of this, so preventing less rich owners taking over, or allowing them won’t impact the impending UAE and Saudi domination of the league.

What a total prick Glendenning is

Sorry to hear that Strawb, as others say I hope it went as well as those things can go.

The fucking brass neck on this bloke.

Sure Miguel, doing a really good job of holding them to task so far. He also is posting pictures about how good everything looks, but yeah something about it being important they can’t sportswash is his reason for being there.

Again, the majority of Newcastle United fans don’t defend Saudi Arabia in any way, shape, or form. They’re welcome to keep getting wound up about Saudi Arabia but their anger and name changes are meaningless. They really should leave the paedo stuff alone mind. A whole stadium of their fans loudly chanted support for one.

The car thing, it was brilliant how much he went on about that car.

For fuck sake . Still, I’m sure Bruce didn’t sweep the NUFC manager of the month award during his tenure.

Is this another in a long line of MUST WIN games?

Sky Sports have been airing and giving plenty coverage to one of the head Qataris who is basically having a pop at Southgate and pretty much writing off every negative thing said about Qatar as bullshit/media spin and that he should come and see Qatar himself before believing any of it. It’s funny to me how these reporters talk about sportswashing, but then will show an uninterrupted, and at least for the clips uploaded on line without any critical comment/opinion, speech by a very eloquent man which in isolation sounds very fair and reasonable. I looked at the comment section and sure enough there was a lot of “he’s spot on, these European countries did worse for years who are they to judge now” and “exactly you shouldn’t pass judgement unless you go and see it with your own eyes”. But sure Miguel, keep telling us all how journalists are somehow exempt from this sportswashing thing rather than imo the biggest enablers of it. I’m sure he will add in some colour about how there’s negatives to this WC, but like others say why the fuck would he go? By going he’s actively engaging in the project to the same level as any of the players/managers etc, arguably more so as the players/manager actually miss out on opportunities/face consequences by refusing to go, I’m fairly sure fuck all would change for him besides not getting an all expense paid trip. He also says he doesn’t pass comment on fans, I took a look at some of his recent posts and one was listing the countries who have sold the most tickets for WC games up to this point, it was of course without comment by him which gives him cover in future but it’s clear he’s trying to highlight something about the fans of countries listed (England and USA were two listed).

Brilliant, well deserved. Going from Steve Bruce’s turgid shite, to having PL manager of the month, and PL player of the month awarded to our lot in the same season

Spot on. I don’t get where they get this impression the fact they're shite is temporary, in my lifetime their pinnacle has been two 7th place finishes, we’ve managed to finish higher under Mike Ashley . On top of that, the best run of consecutive seasons in the top flight for them in my lifetime is 9 seasons, if they don’t go up this season it’ll be 5 in a rowahh in League One it’s not a massive leap to assume they might equal that consecutive top flight streak with their League One run. It’s not a fluke, they’re not hard done by, it’s where they are and it’s what they deserve. If situations were reversed I’m certain the Saudis wouldn’t have targeted them, they can laugh at our fan base but our lot have it right meanwhile they hound our managers that have them on track for promotion in favor of middle aged strikers who can’t score.

Nickson has been saving up his coupons. What I like the sound of is that when we have been quoted high sums we are moving to other targets or putting that position on the back burner, rather than just throwing money at everything.

May have been posted already, but I’ve heard this is really accurate. They like Burn a lot so are now looking more for a RCB, have scouted Gvardiol a lot and Botman on the back burner a bit. Bissouma/Phillips interest is cooling. Everton want £50m+ for DCL so that one’s unlikely, and we had interest in Osimhen at Napoli but they’d paid €70m for him recently so are asking €100m. Add Anthony from Ajax to the list Hope has as we’ve scouted him a lot as well. Sadly heard Pacqueta interest has cooled a bit as they want more of a Bissouma/Phillips type in the midfield 3 rather than him, hopefully that’s not the case as it would be brilliant watching Pacqueta.

He’s absolutely fucking class. It’s going to be great watching him for us, especially once our front line improves and is able to really capitalize on his passing.

Aye spot on, at this point I’d rather have Brighton get nowt. The team brought in the players we needed and they’ll have more time/an easier job convincing players (no immediate relegation fear). Not really sure why Brighton wouldn’t agree to a compensation package short of being bitter bastards. Maybe upset we absolutely rinsed them for Burn. Or we could have been giving them a hard line with a low compo amount, which I’d honestly be happy with as they’ll know we have him soon so it’s more of that long term thinking.

It looks like that was a mistranslation, the quote goes on to say he was being treat with antibiotics. People are saying he has tonsillitis, as I guess the word for that is close to the word for angina in Slovak.

Aye, he had that 30 goal season in the PL (his first in the top tier) when he was 27, after that he was basically a 1 in 3 PL striker up to the age of 32. I’m not sure he would have been revered at Newcastle personally, unless his numbers had been a lot better at us. Fwiw, I don’t have any hatred of Phillips, he seems a nice enough bloke and was a decent PL striker I just find it absurd when Mackems bring him up in comparison to Shearer, it’s like equating Callum Wilson to Aguero.

It’s honestly one of their biggest fucking delusions that Phillips was anywhere near Alan Shearer as a player. No wonder they can’t discuss football properly when they think players like Kevin Phillips and Jermain Defoe were world class ffs.

From what it seems like on Twitter he basically films games, which you obviously aren’t meant to be doing, he was asked to pack it in before being thrown out.

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