Staveley: "The training ground is really awful and needs a huge amount of investment," Staveley: "There is no point in having fantastic players if there is nowhere for them to train." Staveley: "We also want to invest in St James' Park." I wonder if she told the Saudis they don't own SJP and never will
Under the auspices of the Freemen I don't believe it's possible tbh. I did have this all explained to me, by an elderly Mag relative years ago, but can't remember the details. Besides, it's pointless for Newcastle to buy the land only to stay where they were paying a peppercorn rent. The point is that Mags think they own the ground, can sell or redevelop with the Ruebens, and make a fortune to spend on a Town Moor super-stadium.
ATTACH=full]203232[/ATTACH][/QUOTE] The next question is, who will want to be the first club to sell the scum someone.
some of their fans touting the arena site for a new stadium....clueless!! If the Saudis are serious about NUFC, then it becomes a cock-waving competition with man citys owners, and to trump their set-up they'll need a site the size of a small town, and there's nowhere near the city centre that would come close to big enough. Get ready for the backlash when The Reubens step forward with their plans.
This reminds me of the stories of some bloke who pulls a fabulous looking lass, falls head over heels, tells all his mates and think he's the bollocks ... ... then to take her back to his place, get himself all excited only for 'her' to pull out a cock It's clear the Saudi state can afford to buy NUFC without the Reubens having to chip in, they could probably buy the entire Premier League which some believe they actually have. So why are these people involved at all, they're keeping very quiet about it. The Mags have shrugged it off with vague mentions of land around the ground, Gosforth Park and the incorrect theories about 'selling' SJP which doesn't actually belong to the club. In fact Staveley is saying they'll be 'investing' in SJP. It can't be an investment when they can never recover the money. In fact, if they ever lost, they'd be liable for the cost of demolition and clearance of the site. There's definitely a bombshell being loaded onto the plane and it'll soon be circling over the Toon. I've no idea what the explosion will be but there's definitely something that doesn't ring true about the Reubens who, as far as I know have zero previous interest in football. They do have a dozen racecourses and operate greyhound racing here but, what some don't realise is that debt management is one of their main businesses. I'd guess there's a sub-plot with those two and Staveley none of whom have any real interest in the club.,
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...blood-money-the-new-normal-for-newcastle-fans It's "only a few" remember lads, and they're "only having a laugh"
There There will be more of this. Banners, social media attacks, press disclosures of new and old atrocities, chants raining down on them from all over the country, ridicule poured upon ridicule. It won't change the Saudi 's mind at all. But it will entrench the widespread loathing and contempt in which the whole of football and beyond now holds what was once a decent football club, albeit our nearest and dearest. Whatever they buy with blood soaked Riyals to fill their dusty and empty trophy cabinet, it will count for nothing. They know it, we know it, everyone knows it.
The ridiculous way the Mags are bound to overreact will turn everyone against them but they're too deluded to realise. What they should do is take the calm reasoned approach but that's beyond their intelligence levels.
I have posted a couple of items on their board, the bloke who posts on there all the time... dismisses it of course. My cousins husband's response is that F1 happens in Saudi, nobody has a problem with that.
Saudi crown prince a ‘psychopath’, says exiled intelligence officer Stephanie Kirchgaessnerin Washington 1 hour ago A former senior Saudi intelligence officer has claimed that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is a “psychopath with no empathy” who once boasted that he could kill the kingdom’s ruler at the time, King Abdullah, and replace him with his own father. please log in to view this image In an interview on US television, Saad Aljabri, who fled Saudi Arabia in May 2017 and is living in exile in Canada, also said he had been warned by an associate in 2018, after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, that a Saudi hit team was heading to Canada to assassinate him. Aljabri told 60 Minutes on CBS he was warned “don’t be in a proximity of any Saudi mission in Canada. Don’t go to the consulate. Don’t go to the embassy.” When he asked why he said he was told “they dismembered the guy, they kill him. You are on the top of the list.” Related: Saudi aide accused of directing Khashoggi murder edges back to power Some details of the alleged assassination plot, which were detailed in litigation in the US and Canada, have already been reported. But the 60 Minutes interview represents the first time Aljabri has publicly spoken about his break with Prince Mohammed. He also spoke of the plight of his two youngest children, Sarah and Omar, who were arrested and are in prison in Saudi Arabia in what is widely seen as an attempt to force their father back to Saudi Arabia. “I have to speak out. I am appealing to the American people and to the American administration to help me to release those children and to restore their life,” he said. The Saudi government did not address Aljabri’s allegations but said in a statement that “Saad Aljabri is a discredited former government official with a long history of fabricating and creating distractions to hide the financial crimes he committed”. Aljabri was a close adviser to Mohammed bin Nayef, a former crown prince and interior minister who is being held in Saudi Arabia and has been seen as a potential political rival to Prince Mohammed. “I expect to be killed one day because this guy will not rest off until he see me dead,” Aljabri said. Aljabri has strong support in the US, where former intelligence officials have credited their Saudi counterpart for helping to save American and Saudi lives following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the US. On 60 Minutes, former acting CIA director Mike Morell said Aljabri was “honourable”. Intelligence relayed to the US by Aljabri – Morell said – had led to the interception of bombs that had been planted by al-Qaeda in 2010 in two desktop printers that were being flown as cargo on two planes. Morell said there were also other examples of Aljabri saving the lives of Americans, but that they were still classified. please log in to view this image Saudi Arabia has previously denied that there was an attempt on Aljabri’s life in Canada. The kingdom has also denied that the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post columnist, was ordered by Prince Mohammed. But a declassified US intelligence assessment – released earlier this year – concluded that the murder was approved by the crown prince. please log in to view this image © Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has been accused by Saad Aljabri in a 60 Minutes interview of boasting he could kill the kingdom’s one-time ruler, King Abdullah. According to Aljabri’s account of alleged plans to assassinate him in Canada, a six-person team landed at Ottawa airport in mid-October 2018, lied to Canadian border officials about knowing one another, and carried suspicious equipment for DNA analysis. The team was deported by Canada after being intercepted by the authorities at the airport. The Canadian government has said: “We are aware of incidents in which foreign actors have attempted to threaten those living in Canada. It is completely unacceptable.” The serious allegations about Prince Mohammed comes as Saudi Arabia is seeking to improve its image around the world, including through the recent takeover of Newcastle United by the Public Investment Fund, the Saudi-controlled sovereign wealth fund where Prince Mohammed serves as chairman. In the interview, Aljabri portrayed Prince Mohammed as reckless and untrustworthy. He is, Aljabri said, “a psychopath with no empathy, [who] doesn’t feel emotion, never learned from his experience.” The former intelligence chief also claimed that Prince Mohammed “feared” the information Aljabri knew about him, including a 2014 recorded discussion between Prince Mohammed and the then-crown prince Mohammed bin Nayef, in which the present crown prince allegedly said he could kill the sitting king, Abdullah, to clear the throne for his own father, Salman. “He told him, ‘I want to assassinate King Abdullah. I get a poison ring from Russia. It’s enough for me just to shake hand with him and he will be done.’ … We took it seriously,” Aljabri said. He added that he knew of two copies of the recording, and that he knew where they were located. Saudi Arabia has, in turn, accused Aljabri of embezzlement and claimed he stole hundreds of millions of dollars from the kingdom’s own coffers. The allegations were denied by Aljabri and downplayed by Morell, the former acting director of the CIA. “I don’t know if Dr Saad was corrupt in any way. I wouldn’t be surprised if he wasn’t because he’s such an honorable man. But I also wouldn’t be surprised if he was. Because everybody to some extent had their hand in the kitty. And King Abdullah allowed it, permitted it,” Morell said.
When you think about flight MH17 and the tragic loss of their own, when everyone got together and rightly condemned the disaster. Yet because this "isn't their own" that are suffering at the hands of atrocities, they don't ****ing care. All the money raised then mattered not one jot to those families, now what little morals they had have been bought by vast fortunes. This isn't comparing the two because that would be unthinkable , its comparing the differing reactions, there shouldn't be a value on anyone's head. However, I understand that I might be completely wrong in throwing that particular coal on the fire, if so I will delete and send my apologies. I will say though that the Saudi Arabia human rights record is well documented and current, we all know it and that is why the mags changed tack and decided the consortium has nothing to do with the Government. Yet ****wits like those mentioned in the Guardian when chanting, "blood money" over and over again, proves they have no ****ing filter when it comes to supporting their club and are actually countering their claim of non association.
