If only it was just oil money...........
Newcastle buyout
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If only it was just oil money...........
Lilbaz
Just call me Baz
- Apr 1, 2005
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But would you prefer a level playing field?
It's been so long us being on a tight budget, we all want to be able to spend. But i hate what football is becoming. Forget even the city and chelsea, champions league has done so much damage.
scat1620
L'espion mal fait
- May 11, 2008
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Honestly, I just want us to win all teh trophiez for ever.
Lilbaz
Just call me Baz
- Apr 1, 2005
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We all do. If the king of saud bought us tomorrow and spent £500m on players. We wouldn't grumble (some would because they love a moan).
timfrancis
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There's one for the youngsters!Newcastle buy out is apparently a joint venture of a young English businessman and an Arab billionaire.....A guy called Johnny Kidd and Sheik Inallover......sound like a bunch of pirates to me.....
gilzeantheking
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Newcastle buy out is apparently a joint venture of a young English businessman and an Arab billionaire.....A guy called Johnny Kidd and Sheik Inallover......sound like a bunch of pirates to me.....
Showing your age there
tototoner
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- Mar 21, 2004
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Looks like it's very close now
www.bbc.co.uk
Newcastle United £300m takeover close
A Newcastle United takeover takes a step closer after new documents show that owner Mike Ashley has entered into a charge agreement with potential buyer Amanda Staveley.
www.bbc.co.uk
Metalhead
But that's a debate for another thread.....
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Hard to imagine us getting taken over - who could afford us? I'm really not sure if I'd be comfortable with us being owned by Saudi money though. Of course I'm probably not being pragmatic and living in the real world etc.
slartibartfast
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- Oct 21, 2012
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Yep. Shit your pants time.
Just like Blackburn, Notts County and QPR before them, mega rich owners are coming in to make them a serious power. Watch out.
Meh.
Just like Blackburn, Notts County and QPR before them, mega rich owners are coming in to make them a serious power. Watch out.
Meh.
Metalhead
But that's a debate for another thread.....
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I guess that at least Blackburn and QPR had genuinely rich owners. Notts County were conned.
Newcastle could certainly benefit from more money. They have a much bigger support than any of those other clubs.
Tucker
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I know I wouldn’t be happy. Newcastle are going to be another club funded by a dictatorship with blood on their hands. If they hate the way Ashley operates, they are going to love these guys...
Marty
Audere est farce
- Mar 10, 2005
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They only hate how Ashley operates because he's a miserly **** both in business and in the funding of the club. Whoever buys them will do the opposite of the latter and the fans will ignore whatever else they do, like City fans do with Abu Dhabi.
I think/wishfully hope (delete as applicable) that FFP stops clubs from magically becoming super clubs overnight and that any progress Newcastle might have under new ownership will take several years before they are a long-term threat on the CL spots.
Gb160
Well done boys. Good process
- Jun 20, 2012
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Yeah I'm starting to feel this way as well.
Marty
Audere est farce
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I'm honestly starting to hope that the pandemic goes on for just about long enough to send these ivory towers crashing down to earth. Spurs' included.
Metalhead
But that's a debate for another thread.....
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Money and success has a good way of filtering out morals (not for all obviously). I like the way that we go about it - obviously ENIC don't get everything right but compared to the other possible investors out there, they are definitely the better option.
Led's Zeppelin
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I detest the way football has developed into a super-rich person's toy that has virtually nothing to do with any of the things that constitute a football CLUB.
Location, history, character, the fans, style, the idea of respecting the fact that football is a sport before a business, an entertainment for the fans before an investment for whatever private purposes the mega rich choose to prioritise...all of this and more means that football is losing the thing that made it the greatest game on earth.
In the long run it will suffer as a result.
We're losing something precious.
Location, history, character, the fans, style, the idea of respecting the fact that football is a sport before a business, an entertainment for the fans before an investment for whatever private purposes the mega rich choose to prioritise...all of this and more means that football is losing the thing that made it the greatest game on earth.
In the long run it will suffer as a result.
We're losing something precious.
Metalhead
But that's a debate for another thread.....
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This - absolutely. If that makes us dinosaurs then so be it but it's hard to get passionate about it when it's become so unrelatable.
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