They’re happy Ashley is out. Nearly 15 years of him milking them.
Newcastle United now owned by the PIF | PL receives "legally binding assurances that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will not control NUFC" ;)
- Thread starter Damien
- Start date
-
In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
Well, feck. That's us dropping out of the top four unless we get better than Pool.
Chelsea, City, Newcastle, <wildcard>. That's 3/4 top four spaces locked down.
Chelsea, City, Newcastle, <wildcard>. That's 3/4 top four spaces locked down.
this take over won't affect Arsenal. We have been in midtable for 2 seasons already.
Of course it is. If you have enough money then you can get to the top quite easily. City did it in 4 or 5 years. Everton and Villa aren’t comparable in the slightest.
And you conveniently leave out the billion or so Pep has spent in his time there.
And they’ll do great too! Problem with us is will the glazers spend the money if we sell the fringe lads and after them we nearly have no fringe players (read excuses) left
You basically wrote what I was about to type. It will take Newcastle a while to get going but, once they do, it’s two doped teams plus the rest fighting for the crumbs. Imagine a Champions League semi-final quartet including PSG, City and Newcastle…
This is actually great news. Bruce can do us a favour an sign Lingard, Martial, Jones this winter window. Great upgrade for Newcastle and we get rid of players hogging up space and wages.
PS I love Martial, but comes a time when a player with great potential hasn’t fulfilled it and you have to let him go knowing he might be very good elsewhere
PS I love Martial, but comes a time when a player with great potential hasn’t fulfilled it and you have to let him go knowing he might be very good elsewhere
Football is over. Chelsea and City accelerated it's death, city in particular as they were an absolute nothing club. Chelsea at least had put in the groundwork of becoming a competitive team.
If you're a team like Brentford or villa or any club that's been working so hard to build and progress then this is like being booted off the 'pyramid' and being told to be grateful to be let back on. Newcastle are a floundering shambles of a club and through no sporting merit at all are about to overtake clubs who have had projects in place for years with blood sweat and tears in it.
Abu Dhabi v Saudi Arabia. They should be made to change names to reflect reality. They're not football clubs anymore.
If you're a team like Brentford or villa or any club that's been working so hard to build and progress then this is like being booted off the 'pyramid' and being told to be grateful to be let back on. Newcastle are a floundering shambles of a club and through no sporting merit at all are about to overtake clubs who have had projects in place for years with blood sweat and tears in it.
Abu Dhabi v Saudi Arabia. They should be made to change names to reflect reality. They're not football clubs anymore.
Yeah, these are much better owners. Hurray for murderers!
It's like our fanbase is in denial about how much we spend ourselves
I'm waiting for the Taliban to buy a club in the EPL, probably some colombian drug kingpins as wel might be interested in buying an english club.
Last edited:
remember when QPR had a shite ton of money and was one of the richest clubs in the prem? Now look....
This story resurfaced out of nowhere, and it's already done.
Damn.
Damn.
I know right....there's gonna be a meltdown in here tonight!It's like our fanbase is in denial about how much we spend ourselves
Many Newcastle fans seem to be delighted on their forums to 'have the club back' after many fell out of love. Fans are ridiculously shallow.
Leeds. They’re a prime candidate for some oil state to buy.
It’s great news for Newcastle as a city. The club is a proper club that the whole city lives for. Yeah they won the lotto, good for them. Just means we need to be that much better and more efficient.
Murderous monsters make for much better owners!
You think they’ll keep Steve Bruce? He’s a goner.
Silver lining is that at least they didn't buy Liverpool. I think that was their aim at first.
Bruce will be gone before the transfer window opens.
Can we just put PSG, Newcastle and City in a league of their own?
And chelsea
Yeh, Daniel Levy could have took over and theyd have celebrated. Mike Ashley was held in disdain up there
Seeing the Newcastle fans singing with joy as an actual murderous regime buys their club is actually knocking me sick.
LOVE Newcastle as a place. The people there are great. Can’t stomach more scumbags involved in football.
LOVE Newcastle as a place. The people there are great. Can’t stomach more scumbags involved in football.
absolutely. Money on Conte for me. He'll make them very good, but i imagine hes a royal pain for owners/chairman because he always wants new players.
Hopefully they get relegated this year. Never would have wished that previously on Bruce. Awful people in charge.
Well the sugar daddy owners like Abromovich, the oil owners all do it massively.
The point is United would just need a top up on top of what we can already spend and we could literally outspend anybody with that right owner.
Yes we already spend high, but as I said earlier that shouldn’t negate the fact we could spend a lot more with the right owner.
Saudicastle Arabianited.
What’s klopp got to say about it?
So if their future star makes an own goal will they lure him into the clubhouse and saw him into little pieces? Or will they just do that to Gary Neville when he's critical of their play style?
Beheading journalists with the left hand, making Newcastle fans cheer with the right hand.
What a disgusting day for the Premier League this is. Abhorrent.
What a disgusting day for the Premier League this is. Abhorrent.
To be honest I would guess a large majority of United fans outside of the caf wouldn’t care either.
The depths people would stoop to for some sport trophies...
I’m not saying they won’t spend that much, they have the potential to splash much more than a billion over the next few years. But if they’re clever they could feasibly put together a team challenging for the CL spots for less than that. When they reach Europe is when you start to see the big vanity transfers.
And the fact the case failed because their cheating was time barred due to ineptitude on UEFA's front...
People really need to understand how ridiculous this is - City cheated at the time when it was most crucial, which is essentially going from a lower/mid table club into the CL places and accessing the CL money. The start of that journey is when no matter what money you have, FFP really handicaps your spending and the whole idea was that you have to plough money into infra and the academy but their issue besides impatience was a half empty stadium, no huge global fanbase and massive outlays on some pretty rubbish transfers so they inflated sponsors, freed up more money for spending (or more accurately accounted for spending that had already taken place). Once the CL money came in they were sorted, that's why Pep waited as he never wants anything but the perfect setup, but the fact they were allowed to basically cheat the system and fast-track just shows how little the powers that be really care.
Saudis are just going to be even more aggressive and they won't be the last; the CIC will be coming at some point as well to hammer the last nail into the coffin of the working man's game: run by billionaires, played by millionaires and paid for by schmucks like us.
Isn't this takeover the opposite of what people were talking about during the whole European Super League thing? That Premier League clubs shouldn't be owned by outsiders and that the 50+1 rule should be applied?
How are we doing on that? Any progress? No?
How are we doing on that? Any progress? No?
Can't wait to hear what Neville and Carragher say about this.
Barcelona spent a lot too, so did Real Madrid. You’re being naive if you think a legitimate football club relying on fair market price sponsorship deals, gate tickets, and tv revenue can in the long term compete with state-backed clubs.It's like our fanbase is in denial about how much we spend ourselves
To make it worse, the more these clubs dominate, the more legitimate sources of income they will have on top of the over-inflated sponsorships and other less kosher sources of income. Last year’s CL quarterfinal featured 3 of these clubs, and Real Madrid who were largely schooled by Chelsea. This should give you a flavour of what things will look like for years to come.
Basically we need to change our approach sooner or later to rely on competitive advantages (better scouting, better development of talent, coaching that gives us a team that is better than the sum of its parts, and so on) because sooner or later, we won’t be able to outspend these clubs. They’re happy to inflate the market ad infinitum, which something we can’t afford to do.
…or maybe something like FFP is introduced and it actually works this time around and reigns in this craziness.