Media Thread - 2021/22

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So here's my feelings. The European Super League has completely invalidated the reaction to this takeover, more specifically the reaction to the ESL.

When ESL was announced, people went fucking mad. Fury all over, outrage internationally, Chelsea fans protesting with threats of more elsewhere taking their turns too. Governmental figures threatening to intervene, threats of football authorities completely dismantling everything to knock this back. People were genuinely mad, to the point that even people barely affected by it were threatening to quit watching the game they'd spent their whole lives loving.

Compare that to the current reaction of Newcastle's takeover. A lot of mumbling, a lot of crying about human rights, a lot of looking down from ivory towers. I'm not saying people can't be bothered by this for genuine reasons, but what I am saying is that people really don't care as much as they pretend to on this. If hypothetically these new Newcastle owners turn out to be even relatively incompetent and Newcastle spend the next few years floundering they'll generate no outrage. A lot of mockery but that's where it ends.
 
Just wait until the Saudis start increasing the price of season tickets, matchday tickets, and Newkie Brown Ale, to increase matchday revenues.
 
Onholiday(somemightsay) said:
Not sure who specifically should have won it, however if I take the two performances that say Bernardo put in against Chelsea and Liverpool, it makes the award going to him astounding if not completely unsurprising..........
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This is what I am talking about. Bernardo puts in a world class performance and Ronaldo gets player of the month. Even if we don't consider Bernardo for it, what did Man United do in September? They lost to Villa, Barely beat West Ham and beat Newcastle(which pretty soon will starting beating them! lol)

All talk is about Man United not playing that well yet Ronaldo gets player of the month!??!?!?!
 
Keeper! said:
And in the 80s, they has some serious idiots and there we some very scary away days.
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Hell all away grounds were scary in the 80's. This is now 2021. Good luck to the fans. I would rather have our/geordie model than the Rag/burnley one.
Why aren't the press asking how Americans can be allowed to buy a club like Burnley place it under huge debt whilst taking millions of pounds out ?
 
Blue Mist said:
Hell all away grounds were scary in the 80's. This is now 2021. Good luck to the fans. I would rather have our/geordie model than the Rag/burnley one.
Why aren't the press asking how Americans can be allowed to buy a club like Burnley place it under huge debt whilst taking millions of pounds out ?
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Totally agree, after the years of suffering under Ashley , they can now dream and deserve it.
 
Blue Mist said:
Hell all away grounds were scary in the 80's. This is now 2021. Good luck to the fans. I would rather have our/geordie model than the Rag/burnley one.
Why aren't the press asking how Americans can be allowed to buy a club like Burnley place it under huge debt whilst taking millions of pounds out ?
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Or why aren't they asking about Wigan's(i think)takeover that was as dodgy as anything, seemingly all about a betting syndicate cleaning up if they were relegated?
 
I see the BBC are at again in a piece about PIF:

What is sportswashing?​

Some people have argued that investing in small parts of big companies is not the same as buying a majority stake in a Premier League club.
You may have heard the term "sportswashing" recently amid criticism of the deal.

It's what countries such as the UAE and Qatar have been accused of recently - their leaders own Man City and Paris Saint Germain respectively.


I thought the leader of the UAE was Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Has Sheik Mansour been ousted?
 
Good luck to them , but if they think they will be in the top 4 In 18 months they are in for a shock . They need a minimum of 15 players at say 40 million each on average so its going to take a long time + city and others will keep improving
 
Keeper! said:
Totally agree, after the years of suffering under Ashley , they can now dream and deserve it.
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Won't happen! The red tops will already be plotting a scheme to put the kibosh on their progress. Also Prince Charming from Shrek ( aka Simon Jordan ) was quite conciliatory the other day,no mention of Newcastle being a Frankenstein club now and that being profitable they could spend up to £1bn without infringing ffp. My understanding was that this is possible by spending on infrastructure projects ie: stadium upgrade,academy investment etc but ffp still applied to income against outgoings.At present taking into account the clubs profit and accepted losses maybe they will be able to spend £250m rising with their increased revenues but will their sponsorship deals be questioned like ours have by the likes of Jordan?
 
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