Yeah and listen it's not something I want, but for us to compete with these we are somewhat snookered.
Newcastle United now owned by the PIF | PL receives "legally binding assurances that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will not control NUFC" ;)
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They don't give a feck, we're clutching at straws if we're expecting them to be swayed by Amnesty International
I think they'll do a lot of shopping for hyped young talents in France and Germany. There is going to be a lot of unhappy muppets on here.
I think they may start targeting the likes of Lewandowski & Kroos, players nearing the end of their careers and wanting massive wages to bump them right up the league.
It’ll be a mix of that and they’ll price everyone out of some German and French talents.
We can still compete, but the Glazers will have to be willing to do so.
I feel the same. If I live long enough, I see myself stopping to follow it in the next 3-4 years
This is crazy. 10 years in the making
More than a £1billion pounds. This is not gonna happen overnight, they need to buy 9-10 class players and keep investing to improve their squad.
£££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££ 
Stirling.....................Haaland...........................Mbappe
.............Pogba..............................Bellingham.............
...................................Rice............................................
Gaya........kouillibally...................Sule..............Trippier
...................................Oblak..........................................
I for one welcome our new footballing overlords and up the toon
All contracts probably available for the right bid within the next couple of years
Stirling.....................Haaland...........................Mbappe
.............Pogba..............................Bellingham.............
...................................Rice............................................
Gaya........kouillibally...................Sule..............Trippier
...................................Oblak..........................................
I for one welcome our new footballing overlords and up the toon
All contracts probably available for the right bid within the next couple of years
To think Newcastle Fans could well be giddily flight-tracking these very planes in January. Sickening.
Sterling, he'd be ideal as a first signing for them, whether he wants to go is another story
One too many zero’s
I think they have to start with has-beens like Isco and Coutinho and maybe try to make some smart signings like Aarons plus look at talents in France, Germany and Portugal. But they need a DoF first and Man. City's academy director Wilcox is one of their candidates.
Serie A clubs like Napoli will be raided for their top players.
Lads, Newcastle is a shite box. Pretty wives want to live in pretty places.
absolute rubbish, until Keegan arrived they were a level below City in terms of winning things and attendance. For example in the 80's out average attendance was 5-10k above theirs even when we were in the same division. They only started getting bigger crowds when the Halls and Shepherd invested, but even then they weren't a bigger club than City.
Could depend a lot on who they appoint as manager.
It's a bit weird when journos and fans mention human rights etc. in Saudi Arabia. Look at behaviour of Neymar, David Villa or "Topher" and allegations against them? How many fans they lost? It's like nobody cares about actual human qualities in football so why suddenly should anyone care about Saudis? I don't get it.
Is Neymar's human rights wikipedia page this long?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia
Wish them the absolute worst, same as City and PSG.
We spend more than virtually everyone even PSG
Fair enough mate, Kroenke is a businessman looking to make money that's why he's not ploughing hundreds of millions into Arsenal. Basically even as a billionaire he can't really afford to do that which is why it's a joke that nation states are allowed to own football clubs.
No but if some of the most famous and popular footballers are possibly sexual predators and rapists when I see that as a big problem. They're idolized by millions of people, by children but suddenly it's like nobody cares.
Even the original sugar daddy Abramovich has made a profit on his investment. We live in an era where digital tokens with no real value are being traded for millions. You better believe football clubs with large fan bases, TV revenues and sponsorships are capable of being profitable investments even if the initial outlay is seemingly massive.
Not really. Even with the Glazers leaching us we've still spent more than enough to be competitive as is. We just haven't spent it well enough. The competition will be harder but we're still an extremely wealthy football club.
Is it though or is that just a straw man argument you're making up?
At least his spell as Aston Villa manager ended with just a cabbage being thrown at him, could be something worse this time
Plenty of people care about this sort of thing. There was a fecking airplane flown over Old Trafford during his debut mentioning his alleged sex offence. Oppo fans mock it every game in song and he's never been found guilty of a thing.
What's happened to Mendy at Man City? Do you think "nobody cares"?
If we move to players who are actually guilty of dodgy stuff, they get pretty universally shamed and shunned.
If this goes through and Newcastle do end up winning a title I think I’ll be done with football tbh. It’s already nowhere the same this would just be the final nail in the coffin.
He's not the original sugar daddy in football (or even in the premier league) and he's not made a profit.
Sell what to the fans? The idea that an owner 10 times richer than City’s is coming to take over the club and launch them away from being owned by a bum who brings nothing but relegation battles into a new era of competing at the top of the table as the richest of the rich? Newcastle fans will be pinching themselves at the moment.
Seen similar, they have no shame.
The longer it goes on the more our global fan base will dwindle, the less we have to spend to even keep up. With more oil clubs there's more players and managers going to them so it will need a lot of luck to be able to compete even for a few years.
The other trouble for United is yes we've spent a billion and not come close to winning major trophy. The people that own City, Chelsea, PSG, and now Newcastle tend to hire the best people to run the club correctly. Even Jack Walker managed to win the league quickly yet our owners have done the worst job possible in spending a billion.
Forbes values Chelsea at 2b. Chelsea owes Roman 1.4b. That’s what we call a profitable investment.
This is going to end football for many people. And I would feel the same if, for instance, a Chinese backer now came in for Utd, with their human rights record.
I'm not going to get into an argument about real world investment versus what Forbes values something at. This isn't the thread for that.
Nah, people talk shit but this won't be "the end of football" for anyone.
It won't be the end, but it's certainly another blow. The dick measuring contest between PSG and City is bad enough, now we've got another player in the game and this one is in the same league.
How about real world examples then? Kroenke recently turned down a 2b offer for Arsenal. No way Chelsea go for less as they are worth significantly more.
Yeah I know we spend a lot, it just irks me that this great club have to function in spite of the owners taking money out instead of an owner pumping money into us like these other teams.
To me it doesn't matter if we spend as much or more than the others if could be spending a lot more. How much further along this rebuild would we be and how many trophies have we missed out on by not operating to our fullest potential like other clubs like Madrid, Barca, City, Chelsea, PSG.
In my opinion the dip after Sir Alex would have been a smaller than it has been.