Geordie Arabia

[cloggypop]

Hope they get relegated. 

[sir roger]

Finding myself totally unarsed about this.

[Crazy Dave]

Bad news for us. We’re vulnerable as fuck to another top 4 challenger given the way FSG operate. 
 

It will be interesting to see some of the “sponsorship deals” heading their way now. 
 

Dark day for football all round. 

[Bjornebye]

46 minutes ago, VERBAL DIARRHEA said:

Any heads falling off over this? 

Only police horses heads 

[Chris]

I'm not too concerned about this purely because it's Newcastle, it'll go tits up and it'll be hilarious. I can't see it going much better than it has for Everton. If it was West Ham, Arsenal or Villa, say, I'd be much more concerned because those can be relatively attractive destinations for top, top players. Not that shithole.

 

EDIT: That's not to say this isn't yet another dark day for footy.

 

 

[Remmie]

Will be interesting to read the Everton take on this. FFP is ruining clubs like Everton to keep the big clubs happy, but should be applied to the Geordies. 

[Bruce Spanner]

I bet Bruce is rubbing his chubby little trotters at the prospect of being able to sign Alex Bruce on a bumper contract.
 

The Big Market is being renamed il souk kabeer in preparation for the murdering despots arrival.

[andyj]

13 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

I bet Bruce is rubbing his chubby little trotters at the prospect of being able to sign Alex Bruce on a bumper contract.
 

The Big Market is being renamed il souk kabeer in preparation for the murdering despots arrival.

Bruce will be out on his ear within a couple of weeks if he lasts that long 

[Harry Squatter]

Mike Ashley has done well out of Newcastle. Invested fuck all into them and walks away with £300m. 

 

You can see why a club like them would be attractive. Relatively low price, large local fanbase with being a one club town. Large fairly modern stadium that doesn't need any vast improvements.

 

 

[TD_LFC]

Be interesting to see how they approach it, hopefully they don't go for a load of aging 'big names in the early days and spend a load of money that is ultimately wasted.

 

They should be looking at the likes of Leipzig and Dortmund as a model knowing they have the resources to then keep those players not follow PSG and Man City (early on).

 

 

 

 

[TheHowieLama]

It's cultural appropriation.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

29 minutes ago, TD_LFC said:

Be interesting to see how they approach it, hopefully they don't go for a load of aging 'big names in the early days and spend a load of money that is ultimately wasted.

 

They should be looking at the likes of Leipzig and Dortmund as a model knowing they have the resources to then keep those players not follow PSG and Man City (early on).

 

 

 

 

They can waste what they want in my opinion. Fuck them!

[Babb'sBurstNad]

A man who had a journalist murdered and dismembered will have control of an English football club. This really is a new low. If Fred West had the money, the PL would let him buy a club and rebrand it Fred West Ham.

[El Rojo]

Assuming both Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher will be up in arms and urging protest and government intervention on this, given their strong stance on the ESL. 

[RedHeadedRed]

12 thousand civilians deliberately killed in Yemen, journalist chopped up mafia style, migrant workers used as slaves, critics of the regime imprisoned raped and tortured, human rights advocates disappear overnight, women and gay people oppressed, and yet none of this matters to the Premier Leagues fit and proper ownership test the organisation that uses the word respect constantly. Saudi Arabia and the UAE are two of the worst regimes on the planet worse than North Korea yet both are now in the Premier League. It seems the fit and proper ownership test means have enough money and we'll look the other way.

[Bjornebye]

1 hour ago, Chris said:

I'm not too concerned about this purely because it's Newcastle, it'll go tits up and it'll be hilarious. I can't see it going much better than it has for Everton. If it was West Ham, Arsenal or Villa, say, I'd be much more concerned because those can be relatively attractive destinations for top, top players. Not that shithole.

 

EDIT: That's not to say this isn't yet another dark day for footy.

 

 

I'd rather live in Aleppo than Witton. 

[Jimmy Hills Chin]

30 minutes ago, RedHeadedRed said:

12 thousand civilians deliberately killed in Yemen, journalist chopped up mafia style, migrant workers used as slaves, critics of the regime imprisoned raped and tortured, human rights advocates disappear overnight, women and gay people oppressed, and yet none of this matters to the Premier Leagues fit and proper ownership test the organisation that uses the word respect constantly. Saudi Arabia and the UAE are two of the worst regimes on the planet worse than North Korea yet both are now in the Premier League. It seems the fit and proper ownership test means have enough money and we'll look the other way.

 

But at least they've sorted out the broadcast piracy issues eh, I mean that's what's important, right. The more I see of man, the more I love my dog.

[polymerpunkah]

Why are the other clubs allowing this?

What's in it for them--do they get a cut of the purchase price?

 

For the lower level clubs another minted customer for the players they develop, I suppose.

 

But mid-table up, why would you want another ownership group with whom you can't compete financially?

[Captain Turdseye]

AND IT’S LIVE!

[Chris]

34 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

I'd rather live in Aleppo than Witton. 

If you're playing for Villa you could conceivably live in Shropshire and be at training in 45 minutes. God's country! 

[Jimmy Hills Chin]

8 minutes ago, Captain Turdseye said:

AND IT’S LIVE!

Well, until the Saudis get their hands on it anyway.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Newsandcastle

[Bjornebye]

10 minutes ago, Chris said:

If you're playing for Villa you could conceivably live in Shropshire and be at training in 45 minutes. God's country! 

Telford's in Shropshire isn't it? Never been there but it's in my top 5 most boring place names in the country. 

[Bjornebye]

Good luck to the Geordies, most of them would chop your hand off for 3 points 

[aws]

2 hours ago, Remmie said:

Will be interesting to read the Everton take on this. FFP is ruining clubs like Everton to keep the big clubs happy, but should be applied to the Geordies. 

They'll be in two minds about what to Mecca this. On the one hand there'll be no further arguing  that Newcastle aren't  bigger than them and there's even less chance of them ever winning anything. On the other hand it might stop us winning things. The other hand will win.