Geordie Arabia

[Pete]

15 hours ago, Anubis said:

 

 

That sounds questionable. 

[Bjornebye]

Almost no point in football anymore. 

[No2]

2 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

Almost no point in football anymore. 

They now own golf by the looks of it.

[Section_31]

Just watching this golf bollocks. Money just destroys sport. Heavyweight boxing was the first to fall, it's pure panto now.

[col06]

4 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Money just destroys sport.

It does when countries are allowed to buy huge bits of it without anyone batting an eyelid

[Megadrive Man]

Won't be long before we've got Premier League clubs naming love Island contestants and YouTubers on the bench.

[Anubis]

This whole £20b to bring the best players to the Saudi league is insidious as well. 
 

They’ve started by throwing money at players coming out of contract who are nearing the end of their careers - offers allegedly to Zaha, Kante and Aubamayang. I think that is an exercise to get their feet under the table, and when they have a sufficient number of ‘names’ at the table they’ll start to go after players who have a longer shelf life, while throwing money at UEFA to allow their teams into an expanded CL.

 

Spiders at the centre of a web trying to pull on threads. As they have been in the Middle East.

[Aventus]

15 hours ago, Anubis said:

This whole £20b to bring the best players to the Saudi league is insidious as well. 
 

They’ve started by throwing money at players coming out of contract who are nearing the end of their careers - offers allegedly to Zaha, Kante and Aubamayang. I think that is an exercise to get their feet under the table, and when they have a sufficient number of ‘names’ at the table they’ll start to go after players who have a longer shelf life, while throwing money at UEFA to allow their teams into an expanded CL.

 

Spiders at the centre of a web trying to pull on threads. As they have been in the Middle East.

Not sure where it ends, signing a load of promising youngsters and making them eligible to play for the Saudi international team?

 

Asking some of these players to have their wives give birth to their sons in Saudi Arabia so they have duel citizenship on the off chance they grow up and become pro footballers?

 

Wonder if there's rules stopping these Saudi teams mopping up all the talent and loaning them to Newcastle. 

 

I'd say it needs stopping before it gets out of hand but we're already at that stage. 

 

Football in another 30 years is going to be fucking grim. 

[Freddo]

Would they try and buy fifa and uefa. Similar to the golf deal. All I see though is nothing is off limits and everything is for sale. 

Can fifa and uefa be legally purchased. I don't know but they need stopping, but how? 

[Barnesey]

I don’t think you can purchase FIFA or UEFA but they are more likely to set up a rival “tour” as in golf or boxing and lure the better players across

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Seems legit.

[Bobby Hundreds]

Its blatent cheating champions league or not. Cityand Newcastle dont exist anymore they are just the public face of tyranny.

[Carra_is_legend]

17 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

Its blatent cheating champions league or not. Cityand Newcastle dont exist anymore they are just the public face of tyranny.

As much as we can shout and scream, they both exist and the ball is in PL's court to stop the cheating. If City get away with it we will all be looking back at the last few years as mickey mouse level of cheating because Saudi will take it a whole new level. Abu Dhabi's power is nothing compared to Saudi.

 

Saudi have everything to put not just the PL but entire European leagues in real danger. They have already started by attracting players to their league by paying obscene money. They won't stop.

[House of Dirk]

Im just glad we have 19/20 and the Champions League from the year before, when its becoming a circus like this

[Poor Scouser T]

There are going to be 4 or 5 teams fighting for two CL spots. City as winners so not sure if 5th gets in. Newcastle should. United will be stronger. Arsenal in good shape. Spurs who knows? Chelsea new manager who knows what he is doing plus usually one wild card freak season. As it stands we are shit.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

A five-fold increase in shirt sponsorship?  Yeah, why not?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/254513/value-of-jersey-kit-sponsorships-in-the-barclays-premier-league-by-club/

 

Fucking state of City, too.

[DaveT]

26 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

A five-fold increase in shirt sponsorship?  Yeah, why not?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/254513/value-of-jersey-kit-sponsorships-in-the-barclays-premier-league-by-club/

 

Fucking state of City, too.

City, £67.5m shirt sponsorship from the national airline of Abu Dhabi? City, bought by Abu Dhabi deputy Prime Minister Mansour, subsequently ‘handed ownership’ over to Mubarak, who sits on the Executive Council?

And their vast fan base, so happy to promote Etihad based on those shirt sales….. https://sportsjournal.io/premier-league-merchandise-revenue-data/

[JohnnyH]

Newcastle have gone from the Championship to the Champions League so their shirt sponsorship will and should skyrocket. City is the utterly crazy one. 

[Poor Scouser T]

In fairness to Newcastle and Howe they have done well without going mental and going after Mbappe, Neymar and the like. He has built a good side relatively modestly. Maybe a blip this season but doubt it. Of all the shit sides around the Geordies are probably one of the more genuine set of fans. City were the same prior Pep and stood by the team when they were dog shit. Its gone to their heads now and they think they are a level or two above their actual station. More the Arab states ruining football than the fans fault.

[johnsusername]

With Newcastle it's just the start.

 

These people have - to all intents and purposes - unlimited wealth. They're happy to circumvent the rules. In some cases they're happy to break the rules and either frighten the authorities into submission, or tie them up in court costs. 

 

The British working man's game has been flogged to death. And the worst thing is, it's the people in charge who have encouraged the buyers, tied it up with a bow and sold it off.

[Harry's Lad]

The game is dying because of the involvement of these Middle Eastern states and their practices, the FA, UEFA and even the government should hang their heads in shame for allowing it.

 

It seems to me that the only way clubs can fight this is by refusing to play the likes of City, Newcastle and PSG in UK games and in Europe until the relevant authorities put a stop to it by implementing and enforcing FFP, with all sponsorships, funding and transfers scrutinised to ensure these clubs comply.

 

It's gone on for far too long and without clubs taking action like this I doubt it will ever change.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Barrington Womble]

3 hours ago, Harry's Lad said:

The game is dying because of the involvement of these Middle Eastern states and their practices, the FA, UEFA and even the government should hang their heads in shame for allowing it.

 

It seems to me that the only way clubs can fight this is by refusing to play the likes of City, Newcastle and PSG in UK games and in Europe until the relevant authorities put a stop to it by implementing and enforcing FFP, with all sponsorships, funding and transfers scrutinised to ensure these clubs comply.

 

It's gone on for far too long and without clubs taking action like this I doubt it will ever change.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clubs won't fight it though. The owners of Manchester United are showing right now how important the Arab money is for them and owners up and down the country. Even if they don't sell to Qatar, they've pushed the price up INEOS have got to pay. There's barely an owner in the league who cares of the future of the game. The only thing they care about is how much they'll make when they cash out. 

[Harry's Lad]

1 hour ago, Barrington Womble said:

Clubs won't fight it though. The owners of Manchester United are showing right now how important the Arab money is for them and owners up and down the country. Even if they don't sell to Qatar, they've pushed the price up INEOS have got to pay. There's barely an owner in the league who cares of the future of the game. The only thing they care about is how much they'll make when they cash out. 

In which case we all need to find something else to throw our support behind because the game is already dead.

 

Club ownership isn't the problem here, it's the way certain owners go about their business.

 

The majority of club owners while undoubtedly wanting to fill their coffers also want success on the pitch because success means  the club grows along with its value and while the Arabs are getting away with what they're doing atm, it can't be allowed to carry on.

 

I see what you mean Baz and yes of course there are owners like that, the Glazers in particular, but City and Newcastle will turn the English Premier League into something more like the Scottish one with the other clubs fighting it out for scraps.

 

Simplistic maybe, but the only weapon the other clubs have is refusing to play them.

They can't win anything if that happens and the FA/UEFA would have to act.

 

 

 

[Daisy]

If they were going to eo something it would have been when the saudis came in. Nothing will happen now

[Bobby Hundreds]

We are just watching the demise of football being interesting. It will entirely become about Middle Eastern Tyrants little games of one upmanship against each other. The game is run by suits with a lust for money they will never put what's right ahead of personal gain. The game is dead we are just watching its final death throes, the only way to save it is by holding City and others who have broken the rules to account and that doesn't mean monetary fines because its pointless it means stripping them of all they have won and demoting them followed by making sure piss taking does not happen again. How they do it who knows, wage cap, transfer cap and the banning of any players or clubs who seek to make payments off the books under other guises. If they don't seek to fix this they have killed the game because who is interested in watching a group of dictators totally own the top of the game.