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Asking £10bn for Martial might be a little unrealistic.Hopefully selling clubs will bleed them dry.
Asking £10bn for Martial might be a little unrealistic.Hopefully selling clubs will bleed them dry.
Better if all the state owned clubs broke away and created a pointless league to play inI'm certainly more open to it than I was last year. The reality is there will be more state owned clubs popping up in the future and a super league will likely be the last resort for some clubs to stay afloat.
We've got Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi.I'm certainly more open to it than I was last year. The reality is there will be more state owned clubs popping up in the future and a super league will likely be the last resort for some clubs to stay afloat.
The Taliban might be interested.We've got Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi.
Which other states will want to buy a club?
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.Would you have preffered him at Blackburn to the chicken men?
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 yearsIt's a sovereign fund, it will need some level of ROI at some point. I bet it will be a property play. Buy up the property around the stadium which is smack in the middle of the city and turn the entire city centre into some sports Disneyland, topless men albeit obese ones to boot. Dhahran/Aramco of football.
A lot of the clubs have dabbled into it, Spurs being the latest. But in Newcastle's case, its in the middle of the city., lots of human traffic that is not being exploited.
Otherwise, a football stadium seems like a redundant property, being used mainly once every two weeks..
China seem likely to at some point.We've got Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi.
Which other states will want to buy a club?
They will soonthey'll don't own the land the stadium is built on unless something has changed in the last few years
Do China give a shit about sportswashing? They're far too rich and powerful to give a shit.China seem likely to at some point.
Kim Jong-un is a big United fan...We've got Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi.
Which other states will want to buy a club?
Kim Jong-un is a big United fan...
more like ”Since the roman empire” only for the last 500years to be the peakhahaha the last 500 years........
Will our away & 3rd kit be in different shades of red? :-0Kim Jong is a great bloke and North Korea should be a tourist destination.
States and folk with money to burn baby...We've got Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi.
Which other states will want to buy a club?
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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.States and folk with money to burn baby...
Kuwait, Bahrain, Dubai, Vlad, Trump, Tesla man and Amazon man. I bet the Chinese are interested.
Hassanal Bolkiah (Brunei).States and folk with money to burn baby...
Kuwait, Bahrain, Dubai, Vlad, Trump, Tesla man and Amazon man. I bet the Chinese are interested.
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.
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Glorious losers.What glory days?
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They lost to Arsenal in a couple of cup finals a few decades ago.What glory days?
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Absolutely.The difference between Newcastle fans and the average Uk citizen who doesn’t take to the streets over their countries relationship with Saudi is that the average Uk citizen isn’t being cynically weaponised in a PR battle. The Saudis brought the club to launder their reputation. They know that this is the best way to instantly generate an army of advocates online. Shouting down criticism of their human rights abuses and parroting whatever talking points they want in the media that week to defend their latest atrocities.
Those fans are being used in the most blatant and depressing manner. Used to whitewash ongoing state sanctioned humans rights abuses that vastly exceed anything the UK government has done in the recent past. They’ve become pawns of genuinely evil people. If they don’t even take a moment to think about what it means to be used in that manner then more fool them.
Would you care?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
https://www.swfinstitute.org/fund-rankings/sovereign-wealth-fundWe've got Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi.
Which other states will want to buy a club?
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.The difference between Newcastle fans and the average Uk citizen who doesn’t take to the streets over their countries relationship with Saudi is that the average Uk citizen isn’t being cynically weaponised in a PR battle. The Saudis brought the club to launder their reputation. They know that this is the best way to instantly generate an army of advocates online. Shouting down criticism of their human rights abuses and parroting whatever talking points they want in the media that week to defend their latest atrocities.
Those fans are being used in the most blatant and depressing manner. Used to whitewash ongoing state sanctioned humans rights abuses that vastly exceed anything the UK government has done in the recent past. They’ve become pawns of genuinely evil people. If they don’t even take a moment to think about what it means to be used in that manner then more fool them.
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The PL and UCL are already super leagues in all but name.A breakaway league will eventually happen. The Super League is inevitable.
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.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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All jokes aside this brings me to a point no one will want to discuss.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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Everyone should have been more open to it. The outrage against it was ridiculous.I'm certainly more open to it than I was last year. The reality is there will be more state owned clubs popping up in the future and a super league will likely be the last resort for some clubs to stay afloat.
Would be a blast!The Taliban might be interested.