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Snaggey said:
Good question Smug.

It must be ****e being the owner of a football club, yet you can't show your face at a game...a big game, in case you are rumbled as being the owner of that football club.

What a shambles club ownership is becoming.

At least with ours, and many other clubs, our owners can be there, with their heads held high. (Whilst still attached to their body).
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The thing is that they are not bothered, and whatever the EPL say, there is no one person named as owner. Obviously Bin Salman dictates everything, but he has no more interest in football than I do in one legged caber tossing.

Their absence will expose the obvious fact; another club has been kidnapped to shine up a repulsive state.
 
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Smug in Boots said:
After centuries with little interest in football the Qataris, Saudis, etc, are now buying up European clubs and flooding them with money. There's scant regard for where in the country that club is, not even which country.

As long as they can pretend, to the relevant FA it isn't actually the state buying the club while making it obvious to the public that it is ...

... it'll be interesting to see who's at Wembley next week.

Will any of the Saudi or Qatari state be there I wonder.
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Franchise football. Ripping the heart out of local clubs and applying an investment-heavy template.
The mags don't see what is happening. I give it 2 or 3 years before the owners start discussing the benefits of moving the training ground to the South East
 
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TopCat_ said:
Franchise football. Ripping the heart out of local clubs and applying an in vestment-heavy template.
The mags don't see what is happening. I give it 2 or 3 years before the owners start discussing the benefits of moving the training ground to the South East
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I give their involvement there five-year in total. Maximum.
 
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TopCat_ said:
Franchise football. Ripping the heart out of local clubs and applying an in vestment-heavy template.
The mags don't see what is happening. I give it 2 or 3 years before the owners start discussing the benefits of moving the training ground to the South East
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As unthinkable as it is...could easily happen. The Club based in London and the south,travelling back by private jet for each home match.
Mags'll want an emergency Parliamentary debate about that! :emoticon-0102-bigsm
 
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Brainy Dose said:
As unthinkable as it is...could easily happen. The Club based in London and the south,travelling back by private jet for each home match.
Mags'll want an emergency Parliamentary debate about that! :emoticon-0102-bigsm
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The idiot mags will be all for it if it means they can attract a higher class of player (let's face it, location plays a massive part in recruitment) but they won't realise that their club is no longer Newcastle, it's Saudi Franchise United FC and has zero links to the North East apart from 19 games in a white elephant of a stadium
 
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