You're going down, mate.
The Saudis bought a club in the wrong city. They're going to have to massively overpay for getting talent up to Newcastle. They would have been better off trying to buy West Ham or offer Kroenke a stupendous amount for Arsenal.
I don't think it's the City, it's just the fact they're doing so bad and might relegate and people might be sensitive to join the Saudis, given how the whole takeover was painted in the media and how the rest of the EPL clubs reacted to it.
Was thinking the same thing.
I think the Saudis are in it for the long term like City so it will be a bloody nose but nothing more unfortunately. They could however make a series of bad decisions which keeps them in the championship which would be funny but when you've got unlimited wealth you can keep spending till you get it right.
It would be glorious - but it's gonna take some seriously poor decision making.
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Isn't this already happening with City? Nothing new really.
I agree with you. A year in the championship would allow them to rebuild in a more stable way. They could easily buy the 10 best up coming talents in the football league and supplement that with mature players nearing the end of their careers who wouldnt mind a 2 year contract which would allow promotion and a year of rebedding into the prem.
Maybe I'm wrong but I think it means that Newcastle can't just magically get a sponsorship deal that blows all the other existing ones out of the water without the PL sanctioning it, which they probably would anyway
Different league now, but that reminds me of what they did in the early 90's when they came up with John Hall investing in them.
The other Premier League clubs want some investment in Newcastle by the Saudis, because some of that money will inevitably find its way to those clubs via transfer fees. At the same time, they don't want Newcastle to become a financial behemoth with a ludicrous £1.5bn Aramco stadium sponsorship deal.
Mata’s far too classy to be playing in the Championship.This needs to be Newcastle 2022.
The premier league is just full of greed and scum, so it will reflect in their owners as well.
It's fine. It took everyone decades to realise Russian money was dirty, so in another 1 or 2 decades, they might think about Newcastle.
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Far worse than invading another country and displacing millions of people? Plus bombing kids hospitals?!
Well when your country sells them lethal weapons, maintains strong diplomatic ties and lets their princes and queens shop in Harrods and buy houses in Kensington, maybe buying a football club isn't that huge of a leap?
Great answer to a silly question.
Yemeni genocide does not count tbf.
Would love this but they have no morals. Individual players should do it and put it in the press though.
Do you really need a history lesson?
pots n kettles………….
and how many are happy with the ownership of Manchester United?
We're not owned by the Saudis, we only take their money. On average that makes us culpable for about 0.36 executions per year, that's a major amputation. Not comparable to Newcastle being wholly owned by the executioner (I hear he'll be at St James in 2 weeks)
