Howay

Aye he’s sharp changed his tune from last week. I agree with his points on FFP, that it’s set up to stop Man City type clubs rather than help avoid clubs going bankrupt. However, I can’t see it that the potential new owners don’t have a plan of working within, and succeeding within, the FFP framework. FFP’s been around a while at this point, and this lot are clearly very sophisticated and are surrounding the bid with very switched on people.

Aye as much as I like the bloke Asprilla is fucking desperate to get involved:

We haven’t even been taken over yet but are occupying prime spot in the heads of these vapid, pointless “journalists”.

Wow it’s such good logic. The investment into Chelsea really saw a big benefit for Fulham, you can totally see their point. Fucking deluded wankers. The only plus for them is if the Saudis do invest heavily and make Newcastle even better as a city they may be able to use that to attract more League One players to live in Newcastle.

and to David Squires point, they were good and enjoyable to watch somewhat recently so there’d be no reason to stop following them if the Saudis had bought them.

He does say it’s bad timing because of the murder of Khashoggi though, so really putting them, Manchester United, and Manchester United fans to task.

Aye, no chance the government would stop this. The BeIN letter is essentially unfounded allegations (regardless of how likely people think it to be the case) which the PL won’t consider. It’s happening.

Andy Gray nodding along the whole time to Keys nonsense, then when Key goes “and I know there’s been another bid, it’s been on the table a while, I thought it’d go through before Christmas but it didn’t” Gray interrupts and goes “what a bid for Newcastle?” Absolutely magical stuff from these two exiles. To be fair to Andy it must be hard to hear with the arm of the Qatari leadership that far up your arse you fucking puppet.

I don’t love giving them the views but it’s a fucking fantastic watch the indignation from these two arseholes is immense, meanwhile everyone fuming about human rights abuses and these two are whinging about claims of piracy Andy Gray just chipping in with a “too right” every now and again. What a pair of helmets. The pair of them are nothing more than mouth pieces for Qataris. This video shows that in a really embarrassing way.

Keys really is a desperate cunt. So he’s accepted and signed everything to do with the Saudi bid, but he’d rather some other bid that Keys made up in his head would succeed. Sounds like Keys is already trying to paint Mike Ashley as a bloke trying to do good, he’s selling to the Saudis hairy hands, just let it go.

The media put out complete nonsense like this, simply slagging off Newcastle and the North East, then expect us to fall in line with what they’re telling us our views and actions should be. Arrogant fucking belittling pricks.

Spot on, otherwise they themselves are funding and accepting the House of Saud in the same manner NUFC fans are being accused.

That’s an additional point as well, the PL know this is coming from the owners of PSG. So that’s a rival leagues super club attempting to block the creation of another super club under the PL brand.

I understand people would be worried about the Bein letter, but there’s no chance they would actually do something like pull out of their deal with the PL (that would hit them hard financially) nor will they avoid bidding for the rights in future - losing the PL rights would cripple Bein, the PL would know both points. The Bein note is based on allegations, they’ve not proven any connection between BeoutQ and the Saudi Government / PIF. The Saudis would probably get around any worry as well by saying they will be bidding for the Middle Eastern TV rights when they go open to bid is 2022 (iirc), which will make the PL’s eyes glint even more. I think it’s also worth noting that the PL, and English football in general is fearing the fallout of COVID-19, here’s a group coming in that are highly likely to trigger a huge cash injection into the English game, and getting many long chains of transfer deals started, I can’t see the PL turning that down because one of their many TV partners are trying to half bluff that they might walk away from a new tv deal in 2 seasons time. I think we can look forward to a lot of this proxy war type behavior between the gulf states over TV deals etc going forward.

What a huge shock. It’s also fantastic to see these journalists who are so high and mighty flocking to the side of the completely clean Qataris as the protectors of the dignity of the game.

They’d honestly be better off with thinking FFP will stop the Saudis, the chances that Saudi Arabia are going to buy a club and watch it get howked by one owned by Abu Dhabi, while also being a million miles behind one owned by Qatar is slim to fucking nil. This play by the Bein sports lot has nothing to do with a fear over piracy and everything to do with trying to keep the Saudis out of the top echelons of football imo. That’s before we even mention the clubs they looked into buying before us were Manchester United, Liverpool, and Chelsea apparently. Enjoy a solid decade of “The Don” you bunch of nonce sympathizers.

On the plus side, if the Saudis weren’t motivated to completely dominate before this type of opposition is going to spur them on to smash teams like PSG at some point down the line.

Agreed the PL would likely see it as a better opportunity to get Saudi into the fold and have them paying for rights rather than block the deal on those grounds imo.

Aye, the fact that was said and then they’re still pretending they’re not saying anything about the fans is disgraceful tbh.

That’s going to be brutal for him, it’s basically going to be professional people who know what they’re doing/how things should be run grilling him on why things were done in the shite way they were. Meanwhile Ashley has ran off into the sunset with £300m in his pocket.

It’s all well and good telling us to do this, along with all the fans of other clubs pushing back on Newcastle fans saying things like “well if Burnley got bought by the Saudis that would really test my support of the club” (they’re then all denying any of this is a dig at NUFC fans, even though what’s their message otherwise? They’re clearly implying they look down on those that don’t simply turn their back on NUFC). I look forward to them all stopping watching any tournaments to do with FIFA in future, and to the ones that say that’s no comparison they’re speaking out their arse. His point that basically we’ve been shit for yonks so we may as well sack it off is absolutely pathetic and undermines his entire narrative as well, if this were Manchester United would he have said it’s fine since they have enjoyed watching recently? So his overall answer is NUFC fans just don’t get to support a football club anymore phenomenal that. So how does he square the circle that when this lot start buying players from other clubs their clubs are then taking money from these people and furthering their own clubs ambitions? Or do they then have to stop supporting their clubs as well?

It’s also great to know that we had the full backing of the media when we did attack SD and their practices, so we will all be emboldened to take a stand again.

Agreed. They’re horrible cunts, ones I would want nothing to do with football, but in the same way I don’t want leeching cunts like Ashley involved in football neither. I’d prefer an ownership structure more similar to what we see in Germany, but it’s not going to happen and we are where we are. I look forward to the old guards heads imploding when younger journos/presenters start to refer to us as “United”

I just personally think they’re all being racist.

Delaney now thinks because we are excited to be rid of Ashley and see some investment in we are now going to be “weaponised” by the Saudis to attack anyone who attacks them. The point they continue to miss is that we just don’t want to see the fan base vilified unnecessarily for this. I’m fine with Amnesty writing to the PL, and I do agree with a lot of their points, but it also has to be aimed at society as a whole not just the purchase of NUFC. This drawing weird lines in the sand is the bit that’s not acceptable tbh. There’s also the argument that shutting them out completely does nothing but push them away from the west and into being potentially worse, I think that’s what makes the issue more complex than Delaney and co give it credence.