Newcastle buyout

[Tucker]

Hasn't seemed to be a problem for the Man City players who take the knee.

The majority of them don't give fuck one about any social cause...

Problem is none of the journalists or pundits call them out on it.

 

[popstar7]

I sense many are secretly jealous of the Geordies this evening

Genuinely not. My best mate from schooldays is a Newcastle supporter. Been through friction over us buying Waddle and Gascoigne off them back in the 80s and them thumping us 7-1 in the 90s. But I always liked them as a club and I've seen plenty of their games with him over the years.

Going to have to choose my words very carefully when we next whatsapp (he's keeping a low profile today) because he was brutal about the ESL breakaway all of six months ago and how it was a joke that Tottenham were in it.

So no, I wouldn't want a bunch of medieval thugs, torturers and murderers anywhere near my club, let alone owning it. If they did, I couldn't support the club.

 

[rez9000]

Problem is none of the journalists or pundits call them out on it.

Of course not - they're in on the game. No-one who works for a mainstream broadcaster, for a national paper, for anything that is mass consumed gives a shit about anything like that. They either genuinely don't care or their livelihood depends on them not caring.

 

[Guntz]

Gonna be waiting a long time.

Conference league ?

 

[CornerPinDreamer]

The Toon Tyrants
Bone Saw United
The Khashoggi Army

 

[Hotspur33]

I'm not trying to be controversial, but I'm of the opinion that football shouldn't involve itself in politics, so what these owners do in their spare time shouldn't matter.
However, what I strongly believe, is that football, as a sport, should be fair. This is not a new problem however and there is seemingly no interest from anyone in addressing "sporting chance"

Also, Gary Neville is a Pratt!

 

[myhartlane]

I'm not trying to be controversial, but I'm of the opinion that football shouldn't involve itself in politics, so what these owners do in their spare time shouldn't matter.
However, what I strongly believe, is that football, as a sport, should be fair. This is not a new problem however and there is seemingly no interest from anyone in addressing "sporting chance"

Also, Gary Neville is a Pratt!

Gary Neville talks a lot of sense.

 

[Tucker]

I'm not trying to be controversial, but I'm of the opinion that football shouldn't involve itself in politics, so what these owners do in their spare time shouldn't matter.
However, what I strongly believe, is that football, as a sport, should be fair. This is not a new problem however and there is seemingly no interest from anyone in addressing "sporting chance"

Also, Gary Neville is a Pratt!

I think you’re being naive. It’s too late for football not to get involved with politics. The Saudi takeover of Newcastle is literally politics involving itself in football.

A government, or rather an absolute Monarchy are using their sovereign wealth to buy a football club.

They aren’t doing it to make money and they aren’t doing it for the love of the game.

 

[myhartlane]

What's holding up naming rights hopefully ends up in a takeover


Come on Google/ Amazon

What, you really want our club to be taken over by an American corporate?

 

[Spurslove]

It does make it very awkward for anyone involved with the women’s team imo.

When you can be stoned to death for having an affair under this despots regime, how can anyone justify taking a penny off them?

Ditto any of the men’s team wearing rainbow laces etc.

Yes, I hadn't thought of that.

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[Spurslove]

I think you’re being naive. It’s too late for football not to get involved with politics. The Saudi takeover of Newcastle is literally politics involving itself in football.

A government, or rather an absolute Monarchy are using their sovereign wealth to buy a football club.

They aren’t doing it to make money and they aren’t doing it for the love of the game.

I guess perhaps you could say the same about PSG who are owned by the Qatari government.

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[Spurslove]

If they come in for Kane, the price should be £250 million.

I'm joking.

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[Tucker]

I guess perhaps you could say the same about PSG who are owned by the Qatari government.

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Yep, Man City and all their subsidiary clubs too.

 

[easley91]

I know we're joking about it and saying how horrible this Saudi take-over of Newcastle is, and how hollow any of their future successes are going to be...but I'd love to know how many Spurs fans actually wouldn't mind too much if the same thing happened to us.

Any chance of someone starting a poll?

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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.

 

[mrlilywhite]

I sense many are secretly jealous of the Geordies this evening

Not me - success in sport shouldn't come at any cost, there should always be a certain level of jeopardy. On the face of it, I like(ed) our model of self-sustainability, where organic growth is and should be the way forward. This might come to pass, however, no amount of organic growth through various income streams is going to be able to compete with multi-billionaires who just throw money at the problem to create a ready-made solution. Even if we could compete, we don't have a chairman whose footballing vision aligns with the fans, so that's pretty much us dead in the water in terms of any trophies, not that there was that much hope, to begin with of course. My enthusiasm for this game is slowly regressing & seeing the Geordies celebrating on social media shows just how narrow-minded & ignorant they are where the overall picture of the game is concerned. It isn't jealousy, it's a sense of realism that the game of football has died.

 

[LSUY]

Conference league ?

Knowing the football gods that'll be the Vauxhall conference league.

 

[sundanceyid10]

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.

 

[easley91]

It just hit me that this was announced a little over 3 years to the day since Jamal Khashoggi was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul (October 2nd 2018).

Just feels weird that.

 

[JamieSpursCommunityUser]

I'm not trying to be controversial, but I'm of the opinion that football shouldn't involve itself in politics, so what these owners do in their spare time shouldn't matter.
However, what I strongly believe, is that football, as a sport, should be fair. This is not a new problem however and there is seemingly no interest from anyone in addressing "sporting chance"

Also, Gary Neville is a Pratt!

Murder isn't politics.

Or at least it hasn't been since after the fall of the Roman Empire when the country was plunged into chaos and darkness and it was every person for themselves scavenging for food and fuel.

Nothing like Britain in 2021!

 

[LSUY]

They aren’t doing it to make money and they aren’t doing it for the love of the game.

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