Newcastle United Thread - 2021/22

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Fode N The Hole said:
Because you are just making it up to suit your own argument or generalising the views of all palace fans. Go conduct a survey or find a better argument.

The rags, red scouse, Geordies and Huddersfield are irrelevant to Crystal Palace.

They've put up with Allardyce and Hodgson without much moaning and don't at all strike me as an entitled fan base.

This thread is full of city fans who think they have to defend Newcastle and Saudi Arabia less the be called hypocrites. Well I'm sorry that's bollocks, Abu Dhabi and the UAE are more liberal than the KSA and I'd much rather be a hypocrite than an apologist.

The very fact that a public investment fund worth half a trillion dollars purchased a provincial football club for less than 1% of the fund value and formed a consortium with domestic business people proves that sportswashing as a concept does exist.

There is no overwhelming strategic or business reason to own Newcastle United besides that.
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Maybe it's a fun way to make 2 or 3 billion in 10 years time.
 
Fode N The Hole said:
Because you are just making it up to suit your own argument or generalising the views of all palace fans. Go conduct a survey or find a better argument.

The rags, red scouse, Geordies and Huddersfield are irrelevant to Crystal Palace.

They've put up with Allardyce and Hodgson without much moaning and don't at all strike me as an entitled fan base.

This thread is full of city fans who think they have to defend Newcastle and Saudi Arabia less the be called hypocrites. Well I'm sorry that's bollocks, Abu Dhabi and the UAE are more liberal than the KSA and I'd much rather be a hypocrite than an apologist.

The very fact that a public investment fund worth half a trillion dollars purchased a provincial football club for less than 1% of the fund value and formed a consortium with domestic business people proves that sportswashing as a concept does exist.

There is no overwhelming strategic or business reason to own Newcastle United besides that.
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What about access to stottie cake?
 
Fode N The Hole said:
Because you are just making it up to suit your own argument or generalising the views of all palace fans. Go conduct a survey or find a better argument.

The rags, red scouse, Geordies and Huddersfield are irrelevant to Crystal Palace.

They've put up with Allardyce and Hodgson without much moaning and don't at all strike me as an entitled fan base.

This thread is full of city fans who think they have to defend Newcastle and Saudi Arabia less the be called hypocrites. Well I'm sorry that's bollocks, Abu Dhabi and the UAE are more liberal than the KSA and I'd much rather be a hypocrite than an apologist.

The very fact that a public investment fund worth half a trillion dollars purchased a provincial football club for less than 1% of the fund value and formed a consortium with domestic business people proves that sportswashing as a concept does exist.

There is no overwhelming strategic or business reason to own Newcastle United besides that.
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No, they’re not, because they’re all football fans, just like Palace supporters are.

Football is tribal, and, because of that, they behave similarly the world over.
 
Vienna_70 said:
No, they’re not, because they’re all football fans, just like Palace supporters are.

Football is tribal, and, because of that, they behave similarly the world over.
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There is no precedent of fans rejecting a takeover and walking away?

The fans of the club that were taken over by what became Redbull Salzburg...

There is a prominent poster on here who boycotted Thakshin's time at the club and handed his season ticket back. But unlike most of the posters on here he supported the European Super League.

Try working that out.

So you can't pretend to know how Crystal Palace fans would have reacted if the shoe was on the other foot.
 
Fode N The Hole said:
There is no precedent of fans rejecting a takeover and walking away?

The fans of the club that were taken over by what became Redbull Salzburg...

There is a prominent poster on here who boycotted Thakshin's time at the club and handed his season ticket back. But unlike most of the posters on here he supported the European Super League.

Try working that out.

So you can't pretend to know how Crystal Palace fans would have reacted if the shoe was on the other foot.
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And nor can you.
 
They wont spend £600 mil but a good breakdown of their spending possibilities under FFP by SwissRamble

 
foxbox123 said:
They wont spend £600 mil but a good breakdown of their spending possibilities under FFP by SwissRamble

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That's all well and good, but I suppose he did mention later that revenue would have to increase substantially (ie around the same as the extra 200 million additional costs, annually) otherwise they will show losses in future years and fall foul of the regulations?

In a not completely unrelated question: any idea why the cartel are trying to limit, or at least delay, their new sponsorships?
 
halfcenturyup said:
That's all well and good, but I suppose he did mention later that revenue would have to increase substantially (ie around the same as the extra 200 million additional costs, annually) otherwise they will show losses in future years and fall foul of the regulations?
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Also the fact that they could theoretically buy £600m worth of players, but they then wouldn't be able to buy anyone else for the next five years because those purchases would still be going through the books.
 
The police have said there's no case to answer in relation to the "offensive" banner. Nice to see common sense prevails for once.

"Following an assessment, officers have concluded that no offences have been committed,"
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Story

I've never had to report a crime before, but when you do it, do you have to say which crime you think has been broken? I'd be interested to know what they thought was illegal about the banner.
 
foxbox123 said:
They wont spend £600 mil but a good breakdown of their spending possibilities under FFP by SwissRamble

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Great analysis as always. I particularly like the bit in the middle where he highlights all of the other clubs in Europe that have the sort of "related party" deals that they are preemptively banning for one particular club.
 
Toon fans have much to learn....

Wonder how they'll react if KSA splash the cash and get no overnight success?

Personally I think the owners will dribble money in and it'll be 9/10 years if the Prem stays in its current format to be a top 4 side on anything like a regular basis.
 
Good of the police to assess something entirely legal over 3 days to determine no law has been broken. Ridiculous.
 
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