Apparently Saudi don’t own the mags. Proven separation lol. The point I am making is there’s ways and means of getting around rules. If the PIF who are chaired by MBS can prove that Saudi don’t control NUFC then anything can pass imo. If MBS told the PIF not to invest in nufc how is that not controlling the club. Madness.
I think this is one of the reasons I am wary of state ownership. Murky. I dont want us getting away with it like this. I have a feeling KLD has too many morals for it. Hope so anyway. I want to feel like it is still our club.
You often hear that sport and politics shouldn't mix. Any state ownership blows that statement out of the water.
I loved last weekend and was proud to be there after the miles I've put in this season. If we were taken over by any kind of state or political group I'd make Wembley my last ever game and call it a day.
I don't agree, they shouldn't mix. Sportwashing should be banned, all teams who are state owned should be forced to be sold or docked points until the state gives up and ****s off. The press should be talking about what they are trying to make us look away from! Are Man City even mentioned with sportwashing anymore? Or has it worked?
Yes that's it. Of course we don't own it, the owners do. But we own it's soul. That's what the slavering hordes up there have lost. They have celebrated the sale of the club's soul and it can never be bought back.
Here's is 5million assurances in a brown envelope. Spread that around until you are all assured enough!
Dave Stewart was at pop recs today, imagine a bunch of Sunderland born wealthy people forming a consortium including Ridley Scott
So have Del Boy and Rodney leaked this before due diligence has been completed? Even they couldn’t be that stupid? Then again….
i like KLD, i like the way he took his time and steadily went through everything before signing on the 'dotted line' (of course, i understand his advisors etc would have done the donkey work), i like the way it was all relatively low key, i like the way he installed the right people in the right jobs (probably the main reason Ellis Short struggled was wrong people in the jobs), i like the way the club has steadily changed to a different recruitment policy...the club feels as if it has moved on massively yet there has been very little publicity, no 'look at me' interviews with KLD taking any and every chance to get on television, it has not been about him but about the club. if there is someone who wants to join the ride that compliments KDL i would be happy with that, if we end up with a media whore shouting about his plans on every media platform they can find or need to hand ..err.. 'assurances' to the FA, then i would rather they feck right off.
Man City and sportswashing are barely mentioned right now, but it only takes one incident and the spot light will be right back on them. I tried to make that point to a mag I know a few months ago and he just wouldn't get it. More human rights abuses, dissidents murdered or imprisoned, links to terrorist funding discovered, civil liberties crackdowns or a small "hot" war with a neighbour and the world's attention will be on them. Not just the Saudi/Abu Dhabi/Qatari/ whatever states, but the football clubs, golf tournaments, formula 1 grand prix, boxing matches and so on they're involved with. They'll be the lightning rods attracting Amnesty International, investigative journalism and media outlets and public protests. I'm old enough to remember anti Apartheid protests at athletics meetings when Zola Budd was competing and protests against cricketers and Rugby players who'd toured South Africa on rebel tours. Can you imagine human rights protests getting televised outside or inside Sid James Park or the Etihad on a match day? Or protests on the greens at a golf tournament? It's stuff like that that'll make those involved uncomfortable because of their association with it. Personally I'd rather be well away from it
