Asking £10bn for Martial might be a little unrealistic.
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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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.
Better if all the state owned clubs broke away and created a pointless league to play in
We've got Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi.
Which other states will want to buy a club?
The Taliban might be interested.
Yes definitely. At least he knew that clubs could get actually relegated from the Premier League, and realised that spending £5m wouldn't 'quite' be enough for a potential top 4 challenge.
One thing that Ashley and the Venky's have in common is that they both sacked Allardyce. However our decision to sack him was far more ridiculous and stupid (one of the stupidest sackings in Premier League history). I could understand Newcastle, clearly a bigger club than us with more potential, wanting to get rid of Allardyce and thinking that they could do better (in Ashley's first season at the helm when he cared a lot more), but for a club our size he was pretty much the best that we could have got at that time.
Ashley deserved most of the criticism that he received, but there is pretty long list of far worse club owners than him (I notably missed Portsmouth from the list of examples in my previous post). The Newcastle fans I've come across who act as they've had it worse than anyone else, when they've only been outside the Premier League for a total of 2 seasons since 1993, are truly deluded.
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I think this will be the end of football for me and I assume a few others also, I have been way too emotionally invested in United and this will help me break that cord. I could just about manage having City and Chelsea as the Money pit clubs but you add in the giant whale of MBS with Newcastle which will be used as PR mouthpiece for the Saudis, it makes the future of the PL very bleak indeed.
Its disappointing that the PL top brass allowed one of the worst regimes in the world to control a football club in a league watched by 100s of millions but the problem is money talks no matter how dirty that money is.
Going forward I think there will be some negative press until the Saudis start wining and dining (bribing) Journalists, pundits and commentators just like City have done, Your top 4 will always be City, Chelsea and Newcastle and whoever finished 4th but who will really care at that point, its possible we don't see a PL winner outside of those 3 money clubs in decades.
I will follow this season and the next one possibly while slowly weening myself off it.
Its disappointing that the PL top brass allowed one of the worst regimes in the world to control a football club in a league watched by 100s of millions but the problem is money talks no matter how dirty that money is.
Going forward I think there will be some negative press until the Saudis start wining and dining (bribing) Journalists, pundits and commentators just like City have done, Your top 4 will always be City, Chelsea and Newcastle and whoever finished 4th but who will really care at that point, its possible we don't see a PL winner outside of those 3 money clubs in decades.
I will follow this season and the next one possibly while slowly weening myself off it.
There isn't really any property around the stadium that hasn't been developed, and although they own the stadium they'll don't own the land the stadium is built on unless something has changed in the last few years
China seem likely to at some point.
They will soon
Angry Premier League clubs demand emergency meeting on Newcastle deal
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...bs-demand-emergency-meeting-on-newcastle-deal
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...bs-demand-emergency-meeting-on-newcastle-deal
Do China give a shit about sportswashing? They're far too rich and powerful to give a shit.
Kim Jong-un is a big United fan...
"The Premier League is happy to confirm that the new owners of Manchester United (Supreme Leader is great, Pyongyang is Best Ltd) have zero connection to North Korea."
Kim Jong is a great bloke and North Korea should be a tourist destination.
more like ”Since the roman empire” only for the last 500years to be the peak
Will our away & 3rd kit be in different shades of red? :-0
States and folk with money to burn baby...
Kuwait, Bahrain, Dubai, Vlad, Trump, Tesla man and Amazon man. I bet the Chinese are interested.
They can take Pogba, Martial, Fred and Lindelof off our hands for starters.
Between their human rights record and the way they are engaging in a blatant attempt at sportswashing, these are arguably the most abhorrent owne—
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I like them...they've got money and we've got some shit players.
China could buy every team in every sport and every TV channel that broadcasts those sports and it wouldn't make a dent. They don't give a shit about sportswashing surely.
Hassanal Bolkiah (Brunei).
No but surely it'll help with their soft power and world domination ideas.
Glorious losers.
They lost to Arsenal in a couple of cup finals a few decades ago.
Apart from that I guess there might be some tapestries or cave paintings which depict their league wins.
Maybe Phil Jones can finally get his big move.
You know the glory days, winning the UEFA Intertoto Cup in '06? Or what about winning the first division in 1927 nearly 100 years ago? The runners up in the FA Cup in '99?
Absolutely.
It’s sad thinking that kids will soon grow up thinking the likes of City, PSG and Newcastle are biggest, most successful clubs around that have always dominated. Fake as feck.
https://www.swfinstitute.org/fund-rankings/sovereign-wealth-fund
Norway, China, Singapore -- the three largest.
On the one hand that all seems very sensible but on the other, Henry Winter thinks the human rights issue is best dealt with by a robust “comms strategy” and then finishes with a weird “Choose Life” esque outro, so it’s hard to know who to believe.
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The pre-Abramovich ones where plucky little Newcastle were by far the biggest spenders in the league and still won feck-all:
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Hopefully history repeats itself.
The PL and UCL are already super leagues in all but name.
Feck off. These journo’s don’t give a shite about this lot taking over do they? Just happy to have another new shiny rich club in the league that can buy all the best players. Where’s the same energy they had for stopping the ESL? Because this is destroying the game just as much.
All jokes aside this brings me to a point no one will want to discuss.
Are clubs who accept their money going forward immoral?
Everyone should have been more open to it. The outrage against it was ridiculous.
Would be a blast!