You forgot to add increasing the availability for foreign ticket purchases making it even more difficult for the "Nayshun" to get or be able to afford season tickets
Steve Bruce deffo been sending texts to the Crown Prince "oh aye, didn't ye no me Nan was an arab like?"
In some ways I would say they've lost their club further. But then again this is a further confirmation that we have lost our sport.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58838412 His bigger fear should be being invited into an international embassy....do they sack people
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1633643432 Infuriating tracksuit vendor v blood-stained dictatorship. Zero-hours sport-shop contracts v beheading 37 people in a single day. Hiring Dennis Wise v bombing Yemen. Is it really obvious that one of these – the beheading one – is so much more desirable than the other?
legally binding is not morally binding. It’s just legal/paperwork. PIF is so opaque there is no way the governance is in place to prevent sports washing….. much like the football authorities themselves.
Newcastle takeover - Arcane, troubling, 1950's views on women and minorities, propensity for extreme violence against those who challenge them and a huge mistrust of outsiders, but if the Geordies can tone down those views then the Saudis might be able to work with them....
It's a sad state of affairs. The razzmatazz and money hungry era of the Premier League has brainwashed fans into thinking its acceptable that their clubs are owned by such people. This has been happening for years now, to ourselves even, but now that it has happened to Newcastle, at such an extreme length, it has eventually hit home. If this had happened 30 years ago there would be uproar. But nowadays its a perfect yardstick as to where football, and the world in general, is at the minute.
Wouldn't trust her as far as I could throw her. And what’s with the plastic surgery? It looks like she fell asleep with her face on a hot radiator
She is as morally corrupt as her funding partners, but she ain’t alone in that regard. How competent she is is another matter entirely, as she will be running this project.
Losing their club is precisely what has happened here. Ditto City and PSG. But there will be great sport for those who can stomach watching Neville and the rest of the talking heads on the telly. For years it has been comical to watch them all, Neville in particular, lean over backwards to try and be first embrace whatever might be latest , right on, cause. Not unfairly in some cases either IMO, though there is a time and place for all that stuff. Now, they will have to blip over all the implications of a Saudi state being involved in football in half a sentence, pretending that there is nothing wrong in associating themselves with a regime that murders political opponents openly, tortures homosexuals, abuses women, persecutes Christians, exports terrorism and in any case loathes the West to start with. Just canny lads in keffiyehs really.
In other words a bunch of women hating, murderous scum, who like nothing better than chopping people up is a match made in heaven for a body of people whose only wish is to have a world famous number 9 scoring goals... for them nothing else matters. So you have scum joining up with scum....