Newcastle buyout

[stonecolddeanaustin]

I respectfully disagree. Shady business practices can ruin lives too. Just look at what Joe Lewis is doing in Argentina.

Edit: Im not sure how many people are aware of this, but people have been killed protesting Joe Lewis' land grab in Patagonia. This link makes for an uneasy read.

Indigenous rights protester killed by police in Argentina - Democratic Underground

www.democraticunderground.com

Slightly different in that we don't benefit from these shady business practices whatsoever. We're run for profit not as a toy for the purpose of sports washing and funded via ill-gotten means.

 

[Gassin's finest]

I'm not sure I agree. As someone who lives in Newcastle, I can tell you that they're no better or worse than any other fans and working in town, I've seen thousands on match day. Like any club, they get a few idiots and mostly decent fans.

As far as Ashley goes, all they've ever wanted is for someone to have some ambition. If Ashley had been like Levy and wanted to see the club fighting for top 4, they'd have taken it like a shot. He just had no ambition beyond ending up one place above the drop zone or that certainly seemed to be the case anyway. Added to that, look at some of the appointments that he made - Dennis Wise, Steve McLaren, Joe Kinnear and their first team coach too at one point. No clue whatsoever.

My Mam and all her side of my family are from Tyneside. The city breathes football, and that club in particular. I lived up there for 5 years, and I love the place.

At first I laughed at them, because they were banging on about Big Sam winning them the league etc... but when it turned out that they were being fleeced from within and left to rot, I really feel for them. Because when the club is doing well, the city is bouncing. Other way round... not so much.

But that notwithstanding, the Premier League is no longer an elite sport, and hasn't been for a long time. It's just another shiny product, and another part of the UK sold off to Asia.

Hard to keep the interest going.

 

[Japhet]

Breaking news : In addition to the Champions League , the Europa League, and The European Conference League, UEFA are set to announce a new competition that will begin next season and follow a unique format. The newly formed competition will be called the Sportswashing Corruption Cup. It will have 4 entrants and clubs can only qualify if they have a threshold of billions of money gained from dubious sources. All teams will play each other 12 times, home and away, at locations in the borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, Paris, the east side of Manchester and Newcastle with the remaining games being played at overseas locations where this questionable source of wealth came from, and the top 2 will battle it out in a final neutral venue somewhere between Russia and the Middle East. Most likely the Olympic stadium in Baku in Azerbeijan.
Hand picked and bribed match officials will be selected and money will also exchange hands with VAR officials whose names will be annonomysed. A hefty commission will be charged by UEFA to validate this tournament with monies being paid to them in unnamed Swiss Bank Accounts ......

...............any contentious decisions by match officials will be punishable by public flogging, water boarding, electrocution, castration, dismemberment and in the case of any penalty kick, the right to public beheading by the aggrieved team.

 

[Metalhead]

My Mam and all her side of my family are from Tyneside. The city breathes football, and that club in particular. I lived up there for 5 years, and I love the place.

At first I laughed at them, because they were banging on about Big Sam winning them the league etc... but when it turned out that they were being fleeced from within and left to rot, I really feel for them. Because when the club is doing well, the city is bouncing. Other way round... not so much.

But that notwithstanding, the Premier League is no longer an elite sport, and hasn't been for a long time. It's just another shiny product, and another part of the UK sold off to Asia.

Hard to keep the interest going.

Absolutely agree with all of that.

 

[Metalhead]

Well, I feel sorry for you having to live there now. They’re about to make your spurs supporting football life hell.

They don't really care about Spurs all that much. I get a bit of stick but it's all in good humour. Geordies are by and large a very decent lot.

 

[Tucker]

Mohammed bin Salman is a massive Newcastle fan. He knows all the words to Fog on the Tyne.

Amanda Stavely told one reporter that she has Jimmy Nail on speed dial.






She’s lying.

 

[Amo]

I respectfully disagree. Shady business practices can ruin lives too. Just look at what Joe Lewis is doing in Argentina.

Edit: Im not sure how many people are aware of this, but people have been killed protesting Joe Lewis' land grab in Patagonia. This link makes for an uneasy read.

Indigenous rights protester killed by police in Argentina - Democratic Underground

www.democraticunderground.com

Did Joe Lewis have them killed?

 

[easley91]

I respectfully disagree. Shady business practices can ruin lives too. Just look at what Joe Lewis is doing in Argentina.

Edit: Im not sure how many people are aware of this, but people have been killed protesting Joe Lewis' land grab in Patagonia. This link makes for an uneasy read.

Indigenous rights protester killed by police in Argentina - Democratic Underground

www.democraticunderground.com

But we're not funded by those means nor using that money. The club spends what it makes and so whatever Lewis is involved with doesn't actually link with us as a club. In Newcastle's case, they'll be using blood money straight up, at least in the beginning.

 

[Delboy75]

The involvement of the Reuben brothers is still a bit of a mystery to me. Saudis obviously don’t need their money, Stavely is the acceptable western blonde women face of the operation so what exactly are the Ruebens doing. Tbh it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s just one big smoke screen for huge property development and the opportunity to literally take over a Northern British city

 

[Amo]

The involvement of the Reuben brothers is still a bit of a mystery to me. Saudis obviously don’t need their money, Stavely is the acceptable western blonde women face of the operation so what exactly are the Ruebens doing. Tbh it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s just one big smoke screen for huge property development and the opportunity to literally take over a Northern British city

Stavely is very well connected in the ME and has played a pivotal role in brokering this deal in the first place.

 

[SixtyFour]

This is some proper bread and circuses on acid right here.

Well put. Biffs the nail squarely on the head.

 

[Spurslove]

Being bankrolled is one thing. Being bankrolled by a state that oppresses women and homosexuality, as well as murdering to silence those speaking out against the regime is another. If they came for us, I would say no thank you I'm going to support Crawley all in from that point on.

I fully agree. I think I'd be off to Brisbane Road as fast as my legs could carry me.

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[Buggsy61]

Just reading that they haven’t won anything major since 1955!. I knew it was a long time but that’s 66 years. From recent history they seem to have a greater ability to shoot themselves in the foot and sometimes both feet than we do, which is definitely going some!.
Can see why their fans feel starved of success and are jumping around outside with cans of piss, but is it really worth selling your soul to the devil- I don’t think so.

 

[Metalhead]

The involvement of the Reuben brothers is still a bit of a mystery to me. Saudis obviously don’t need their money, Stavely is the acceptable western blonde women face of the operation so what exactly are the Ruebens doing. Tbh it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s just one big smoke screen for huge property development and the opportunity to literally take over a Northern British city

From what I've read, she won't be there long term anyway.

 

[Metalhead]

Did Joe Lewis have them killed?

Yeah, I do get a bit fed up with false equivalence at times.

 

[Aphex]

Typical Spurs luck that in a world where all the Arab / muslim billionaires are buying up PL clubs, we are known as a jewish club so they won't touch us with a barge pole.

The thing is, the arabs splash cash around like they just don't care, and I'm NOT saying Jewish people are tight (before anyone get's the wrong impression), but I don't think you see the same kind of almost careless spending from Jewish billionaires in sport. If there is, I'd love to see an example.

Arab's are quite well known for flaunting their wealth, and football is an extension of that.

 

[dirtyh]

just once again shows up how much hypocrisy and myopia there is in football now, not that it should be called football as it's a long way from the game we all grew up loving. shearer, like neville is just so full of shit, they couldn't give two shits about any of the back story and where the money comes from as long as their club is in the news and in a position to win things, again not that winning stuff these days means anything outside of how much it cost.

mirrors society tbf. football is in as big a mess as society is. maybe it's time to finally find a sport that still has a soul to spend quality time following. i'll always be spurs but current football sickens me to the core.

am off to dig a bunker under the house.

 

[Metalhead]

Typical Spurs luck that in a world where all the Arab / muslim billionaires are buying up PL clubs, we are known as a jewish club so they won't touch us with a barge pole.

The thing is, the arabs splash cash around like they just don't care, and I'm NOT saying Jewish people are tight (before anyone get's the wrong impression), but I don't think you see the same kind of almost careless spending from Jewish billionaires in sport. If there is, I'd love to see an example.

Arab's are quite well known for flaunting their wealth, and football is an extension of that.

The fact that we are associated with the Jewish community is irrelevant in terms of being bought by Arab businesses. The only thing stopping it is the fact that Levy thinks that the club is worth over 2 billion and that is his right. Israel, a Jewish state is doing more and more business with middle East states and the Saudis would be fully prepared to deal with Israel despite the antisemitism that exists within the state itself.

 

[Aphex]

The fact that we are associated with the Jewish community is irrelevant in terms of being bought by Arab businesses. The only thing stopping it is the fact that Levy thinks that the club is worth over 2 billion and that is his right. Israel, a Jewish state is doing more and more business with middle East states and the Saudis would be fully prepared to deal with Israel despite the antisemitism that exists within the state itself.

Maybe, but I'll believe it when I see it personally.

Just wish ENIC would shit or get off the pot.

 

[Metalhead]

Maybe, but I'll believe it when I see it personally.

Just wish ENIC would shit or get off the pot.

They won't sell. They're creating an empire. The club will eventually generate an eye watering amount of money by virtue of the stadium.