| Concerns over Newcastle Takeover. 16:18 - Oct 7 with 826 views | JACKMANANDBOY |
People seem to forget
Chinese owners
Russian Oligarchs
Betting Companies
Pornographers
Qatar
Abu Dhabi owners [Post edited 7 Oct 2021 17:53]
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| Concerns over Newcastle Takeover. on 18:30 - Oct 7 with 754 views | Luther27 |
If there’s money involved the Premiership hierarchy will chase the money no matter what. The usual mumbles of passing the relevant ownership tests will be fed to the gullible but in reality nothing has changed since the likes of Portsmouth were screwed for every penny by unscrupulous owners several years ago. However in Newcastles case the fans are delighted. I hope they feel the same in ten years time. |  | | |
| Concerns over Newcastle Takeover. on 19:31 - Oct 7 with 714 views | Sirjohnalot |
Its these type of highly dubious, morally bankrupt takeovers make make me not particularly relish promotion. It's slowly turning into the NFL. Sooner these types bugger off and form their own little mini league the better |  | | |
| Concerns over Newcastle Takeover. on 13:49 - Oct 8 with 597 views | jackrabbit |
| Concerns over Newcastle Takeover. on 19:31 - Oct 7 by Sirjohnalot |
Its these type of highly dubious, morally bankrupt takeovers make make me not particularly relish promotion. It's slowly turning into the NFL. Sooner these types bugger off and form their own little mini league the better |
I wonder will we see apparently hyper-politically- sensitive football fans ‘taking the knee ‘ or performing some other virtue-signalling gesture to protest at this football club being bought by a regime as reprehensible as the Saudis? I doubt it. Won’t be long now before the Taliban take over a British football club. Awa’ the lads! |  | | |
| Concerns over Newcastle Takeover. on 13:57 - Oct 8 with 591 views | onehunglow |
| Concerns over Newcastle Takeover. on 13:49 - Oct 8 by jackrabbit |
I wonder will we see apparently hyper-politically- sensitive football fans ‘taking the knee ‘ or performing some other virtue-signalling gesture to protest at this football club being bought by a regime as reprehensible as the Saudis? I doubt it. Won’t be long now before the Taliban take over a British football club. Awa’ the lads! |
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| Concerns over Newcastle Takeover. on 17:16 - Oct 8 with 540 views | ReslovenSwan1 |
Saudi Arabia is not democratic of and treats it women as second class citizens. It is a monarchy like the UK. On the face of it the populace is not clearly against the countries rulers, abiding by strictly Islamic rules.
There are slow moves to relax the rules a little but this will take time. Tourism of sorts in being slowly encouraged and boxing and other sporting event have been bought. The murder accusation obviously needs consideration. Then again the British monarchy are also currently involved in accusations of serious criminality against one of its family members themselves. Both cases will presumably never get to court simply out of international diplomatic realities.
Is this relaxing of strict rules to be encouraged or not? I think it should be encouraged in a diplomatic sense and closer relations developed in association with a more tolerant approach to its people and international affairs. As such there will be greater understanding of the two peoples. On a football level it should only be allowed on the basis of fair financial fair play rules. |  |
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| Concerns over Newcastle Takeover. on 18:05 - Oct 8 with 524 views | jackrabbit |
This from today’s Telegraph Sport:
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The latest pawn in its sportswashing campaign earns a category of noxiousness all its own
The case of Jamal Khashoggi — the Washington Post columnist killed, according to American intelligence agencies, on the direct orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — is crucial to understanding why Newcastle’s takeover represents such a grotesque moment for football. Over the past 20 years, the game has made peace with Roman Abramovich turning Chelsea into two-time European champions, despite the owner acquiring Russian oil giant Sibneft, the key to his £10.5 billion fortune, in a post-Soviet landscape described by his own lawyer as having “no rule of law”.
It has worn the spectacle of Sheikh Mansour, head of an Abu Dhabi regime condemned by Amnesty for unfair trials and failing to investigate allegations of torture, bankrolling City to three Premier League titles in the past four seasons. It has tolerated PSG becoming the envy of Europe on the back of Qatar’s bottomless sovereign wealth fund, with president Nasser Al-Khelaifi stockpiling star strikers as remorselessly as his fellow power brokers in the tiny Gulf state acquire Belgravia properties.
But Saudi Arabia’s buy-up of Newcastle, the latest pawn in its sportswashing campaign, earns a category of noxiousness all its own. If it were not unpalatable enough that the kingdom is ranked among “the worst of the worst” in Freedom House’s annual survey of political and civil rights, or that it leads a coalition accused of war crimes in Yemen, its sanctioning of the hit on Khashoggi leaves a stain impossible to expunge. On Oct 2, 2018, he was lured by Saudi operatives to their consulate in Istanbul and killed, with Turkish authorities describing how the sound of a bone saw could be heard. All this took place, in the words of a declassified US intelligence report earlier this year, on the approval of Bin Salman, the man now hailed as Newcastle’s knight in shining armour.
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If sell-outs to the Saudis are good enough for the British government, why should football be a special case? It is this whataboutery, sadly, that trumps any thought of the Khashoggi family’s disgust for what Newcastle and the Premier League appear poised to do. Even in football’s hall of infamy, this is the most dismal Faustian pact yet.”
That’s about the size of it… [Post edited 8 Oct 2021 18:08]
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| Concerns over Newcastle Takeover. on 18:23 - Oct 8 with 508 views | Badlands |
Why is this such a big issue?
Liz Truss unveiled a trade deal with Arabian countries worth (she claimed) £2.5 trillion. One of those countries is Saudi Arabia a monarchy we have a healthy trade balance with already. I'm not sure jow many more instruments of torture the UK can shift to them but brexiters claim this deal is why we left the EU.
Time to recognise England as a fascist country more than happy to fund abject misery around the world in order to stick two finger up to anyone who doesn’t 'do as they are told'. |  |
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| Concerns over Newcastle Takeover. on 19:37 - Oct 8 with 485 views | jackrabbit |
| Concerns over Newcastle Takeover. on 18:23 - Oct 8 by Badlands |
Why is this such a big issue?
Liz Truss unveiled a trade deal with Arabian countries worth (she claimed) £2.5 trillion. One of those countries is Saudi Arabia a monarchy we have a healthy trade balance with already. I'm not sure jow many more instruments of torture the UK can shift to them but brexiters claim this deal is why we left the EU.
Time to recognise England as a fascist country more than happy to fund abject misery around the world in order to stick two finger up to anyone who doesn’t 'do as they are told'. |
You are Dave Spart and I claim my £5… | | | |
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| Concerns over Newcastle Takeover. on 19:40 - Oct 8 with 482 views | onehunglow |
So Im living in a fascist country.
It'll do me ergo I must also be fascist | |
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