I thought Abromovich is Jewish?
Newcastle buyout
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Tucker
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LSUY
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During the first attempt at a takeover, Newcastle was reported to be looking at Olivier Giroud so that perhaps gives a hint as to the type of players they'll be looking to buy. I can't see them making the Robinho-sized mistake that Man City made or the laughable Ronaldinho attempt that Blackburn made.
I could definitely see Newcastle buying EPL experienced players like James Tarkowski who'll improve them in the short-term while at the same time signing young talent like Boubacar Kamara from Marseille for the long term.
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hellava_tough
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Got to be careful to take this at face value.
This is bread and butter for Russian and Chinese intelligence services; see an emotive high profile issue in a rival nation and inflame tensions with twitter bots/trolls.
They aren't getting top 4 this year. More likely relegated
easley91
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Watch The Dissident. Saudi has control over their social media. They employ bots themselves.
Simon Kuper -
"In John Osborne’s 1957 play The Entertainer, the fading old music-hall performer Archie Rice becomes the symbol of a fading old Britain. Rice boasts, pathetically: “I’ve played in front of them all. The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales, and the . . . what was the name of that other pub?” Anyone wanting to portray Britain today would use another image: a failing cash-strapped football club, which has won nothing for decades, selling its last remaining asset, its heritage, to a rich murderous foreign dictatorship. The £300m sale of Newcastle United to a consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund has been treated as an emblem of English football’s moral descent. But why single out football when the malaise is national?
Most of Newcastle’s fans seem equally unbothered by Saudi Arabia’s abuses against women, political prisoners, Yemenis, Khashoggi and others. They are just pleased that MBS might buy them some trophies. The comedian Mark Steel joked: “If Isis had been smart, instead of blowing stuff up, they’d have bought our football clubs. Then most people in the country would praise them as heroes and saviours.”
https://www.ft.com/content/1855b290-d02c-4f9e-b05b-d67df1ec350e
"In John Osborne’s 1957 play The Entertainer, the fading old music-hall performer Archie Rice becomes the symbol of a fading old Britain. Rice boasts, pathetically: “I’ve played in front of them all. The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales, and the . . . what was the name of that other pub?” Anyone wanting to portray Britain today would use another image: a failing cash-strapped football club, which has won nothing for decades, selling its last remaining asset, its heritage, to a rich murderous foreign dictatorship. The £300m sale of Newcastle United to a consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund has been treated as an emblem of English football’s moral descent. But why single out football when the malaise is national?
Most of Newcastle’s fans seem equally unbothered by Saudi Arabia’s abuses against women, political prisoners, Yemenis, Khashoggi and others. They are just pleased that MBS might buy them some trophies. The comedian Mark Steel joked: “If Isis had been smart, instead of blowing stuff up, they’d have bought our football clubs. Then most people in the country would praise them as heroes and saviours.”
https://www.ft.com/content/1855b290-d02c-4f9e-b05b-d67df1ec350e
JamieSpursCommunityUser
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Former generations fought and gave their lives in their millions to defeat the Nazi's and live under the principles of liberty and justice.
Our generation seems all to willing to look the other way for few trophies and bragging rights on twitter, whilst assuming liberty and justice as their birth right and for themselves only.
The only way for football to come through this with it's dignity in tact is to make a stand, and for every club to unite in protest against the Saudi regime.
They wanted to take centre stage, lets shine a light on what they stand for.
Protest the Saudi rulers at every club, every ground, every game, in every league.
We cannot allow these scum bags to use the excitement and emotion of sport to wash away the foul stench of their barbaric evil.
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LukaKranjcar
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We won fuck all before Newcastle had the Saudis and we’ll win fuck all now they do.
archiewasking
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The Sizeable Seven ?
Monkey boy
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that reminds me, I’ve not been in the guilty pleasures thread for a while
JerryGarcia
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Every club should chant the name of Jamal Khashoggi at every game against Newcastle.
Starting with us next game. Chant it loud & proud. Make that murderous scumbag MBS squirm.
Tucker
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Little do they know, they would be killed if they stepped foot in the owners home. Newcastle fans are fucking deluded. "They let a women be the lead so thats okay"
Lol yeah. Imagine what would have happened to that guy that tried to punch a horse.
Probably publicly stoned or crucified.
Little do they know, they would be killed if they stepped foot in the owners home. Newcastle fans are fucking deluded. "They let a women be the lead so thats okay"
They know very well what would happen to them in KSA but that's the genius of sports-washing. You have LGBT+ Newcastle supporters tying themselves in knots saying cautiously optimistic things about 'progress' in Saudi Arabia. What better publicity could the Saudis ask for internationally?
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Definitely. This is certainly not my experience with Geordies and bear in mind if you weren't aware that there is a significant Jewish population up here. You'll always get some morons but it's also a very big student City, which Newcastle relies on and they'd soon leave if Newcastle got a reputation for racism and homophobia.
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