Newcastle United Thread - 2021/22

[KS55]

And they are off and running in the "Trash Newcastle Ownership Stakes". Our old friend McGeehan has fired the starting gun and the Whatsapp group are in the lead.....

Newcastle takeover exposes 'massive hypocrisy' on anti-discrimination policies, says Fair Square

Newcastle's takeover by Saudi Arabian owners has exposed the "massive hypocrisy" with regard to its anti-discrimination policies, says human rights organisation Fair Square.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[tregyblue61]

I was just about to post the above about our friend McGeehan. I'm still waiting for him to sound off about the "massive hypocrisy" over at the swamp. (Apologies if he already has done)

 

[Damanino]

I hope they go and spend 200m just in January to see the reaction of rag/scouser media and these sportwashing brigade who has no other thing to do than push this mantra day in day out...

 

[LongsightM13]

McGeehan ws a fucking zero, a glorified intern and a complete nobody in his field, until he and Delooney started their mutual ‘log rolling’ exercise - providing a shallow veneer of mutual credibility for their shared business model of slagging City

 

[Nihilist]

5 doesn’t go into 4.

But United have finished outside that 4, five times, in the last nine years; Liverpool have finished outside that 4, six times in the last eleven years; Chelsea have finished outside that 4, three times in the last nine years…

City have finished outside that 4, ZERO times, in the last eleven years; we have only finished outside the Top 2, twice, in the last ten years.

We’ve done that because we are the best run club.

Liverpool aren’t particularly well run, they’ve just got a great manager who’s been able to invest in the team in one go to build a good team once, and their board don’t invest in the team anymore. By next Summer, every one of their best players will be over 30, and they have no real strength in depth or succession plan for these players. That’s poor from them considering they have earnt £1.45bn in the last three years. Where the fuck the money goes at Liverpool is a mystery.

United are terribly ran. There are a dozen clubs better run than United. They’ve got no plan at all on the football side of things.

City and Chelsea are much better run than those two. That’s why you’ll get City and Chelsea fans welcoming new challenges from clubs like Newcastle being taken over and fans of Liverpool and United crying about it.

And we don’t yet know how well run Newcastle will be. They might not be particularly well run. They might make a lot of mistakes. There could be another club who does better than them. Everton could move to their new ground and attract more investment and do better than Newcastle. Having money is no guarantee of anything, QPR have the fourth biggest backers behind them in English football and they’re nowhere, SheffUtd have Saudi backers and they’re nowhere.

Thats true but we were also lucky to have Pep during half of that decade, and except for his 1st season when we finished 3rd, he never had us finish below 2nd place. If we didnt have Pep maybe we would have dropped out of top 4 a couple of times , with Pellegrini we finished 1st, then 2nd then 4th. Pep came just in time.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I was just about to post the above about our friend McGeehan. I'm still waiting for him to sound off about the "massive hypocrisy" over at the swamp. (Apologies if he already has done)

I loved this quote "where there is systematic discrimination against women, Shia Muslims, LGBTQ people and migrant workers." Apart from the qualification about Shia Muslims, he could just as easily be talking about this country or the USA.

Although the Daily Mail and its readers don't discriminate between Shia and Sunni here.

 

[waspish]

I hope they go and spend 200m just in January to see the reaction of rag/scouser media and these sportwashing brigade who has no other thing to do than push this mantra day in day out...

Rags be fine about it if they throw 50m of that 200m there way

 

[Blue Mist]

I know the Saudis murdered the journalist but have the Saudis ever kidnapped someone from one country against their will, flown them to another country and systematically tortured them ?

I know the USA with a lot of help from us have. We have such a lovely name for it, rendition, that Amnesty may not have realised what it meant and that we were doing it
Oh and at least one of the people we did it too was totally innocent, so much so we paid him millions on damages.

 

[MeatHunterrr]

Saudi is a disgrace and should be removed from the game as soon as possible.

Relegation for Newcastle will do.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

So you don't believe that it has anything to do with them losing deals as a result of blowback from consulate incident?

The Saudis have been looking at investing in a football club for the last decade long before the murder of the journalist. They have to diversify their investments away from fossil fuels. Their wealth fund invests in all sorts of sectors as well as sport and leisure. The idea that their whole investment strategy is just a so-called "sportswashing" exercise is ludicrous.