Newcastle takeover

You just know that there will be a group of fans at the first game under the new owners wearing white robes.

4 hours ago, sweetsheri said:

Bet Journos go easy on them now.. we all know how amenable the Saudis are to a bit of criticism...

The Journos had better be wary if they are ever "invited" in for a "briefing"

Newcastle fans are absoloutely creaming at this. 

For years theyve been amongst the mardiest fans in the land thinking they deserve the world even though they've won **** all for decades. 

They'll happily sell their soul to these 'good, generous, kind, moral' new owners. Football will cover up more of the worlds ugly side and we will all clap and enjoy what a product the premier league has become. 

20 hours ago, Rogers said:

FFP is still in place, you can only spend so much. As Man City have found out. 
 

But obviously nice to have it

You can still spend and make a loss within a limit, I think this has been a sore point for their fans as they've seen other clubs spend money excessively when they've been almost working to a sell to buy ethos. Prior to Joelinton and Almiron their record signing was Michael Owen for £16m in 2005.

Don't necessarily agree with the stance on money but Ashley has been pretty terrible with their managers and renaming St James Park.

53 minutes ago, Putney said:

 

You can still spend and make a loss within a limit, I think this has been a sore point for their fans as they've seen other clubs spend money excessively when they've been almost working to a sell to buy ethos. Prior to Joelinton and Almiron their record signing was Michael Owen for £16m in 2005.

 

Don't necessarily agree with the stance on money but Ashley has been pretty terrible with their managers and renaming St James Park.

Can you believe Shearer went there for only £15m

12 minutes ago, Rogers said:

Can you believe Shearer went there for only £15m

That was a massive transfer fee in 1996 to be fair. It’s all got a bit silly since then

Obviously there are serious question marks over there new owners but fans being fans will

just see the money side of things. 
 

Billionaire owners seem ten a penney now don’t they? I like some others wish football

was regulated properly and we had a salary cap

for all leagues. It’s too easy for rich owners to turn clubs like Man City and Chelsea (let’s not forget before money took over the game, Wednesday had won more than both of these teams) into champions of the PL. 

Newcastle are a very well supported club but haven’t won anything for years. Like some other clubs including ourselves unless they drop on an exceptional manager, they were always swimming against the tide (until now). 
 

A salary cap would allow the bigger clubs to fight it out, not the richer clubs to dominate. This break in football has rammed home how money rules the game and ruins it in equal measure. 30-35 years ago they would have already cancelled the season IMO. 

I'd look at moving to a salary cap like the US have. 

Right now there is the odd exception, but football just isn't fun generally, it's predictable on the whole who will win what. 

A general cap with further allowances allowed dependebt in income (like a rejigged and better ffp) across all the divisions and Europe. But it'll never happen. 

God knows how the league run by all these businessmen let's the players take so much money that could better benefit customers as the fans are these days. 

I like Newcastle. Good luck to them.

21 hours ago, Bulgaria said:

You just know that there will be a group of fans at the first game under the new owners wearing white robes.

The KKK making a come back is taking it a bit too far mate.

On 21/04/2020 at 15:35, Bulgaria said:

You just know that there will be a group of fans at the first game under the new owners wearing white robes.

With cans of special brew and flip flops 

11 hours ago, markg said:

I like Newcastle. Good luck to them.

I dont, I hope they get relegated and fire Mrs Doubtfire 

13 hours ago, Putney said:

 

You can still spend and make a loss within a limit, I think this has been a sore point for their fans as they've seen other clubs spend money excessively when they've been almost working to a sell to buy ethos. Prior to Joelinton and Almiron their record signing was Michael Owen for £16m in 2005.

 

Don't necessarily agree with the stance on money but Ashley has been pretty terrible with their managers and renaming St James Park.

Dont see what's wrong with renaming the stadium, the branding put up was to show what  they could do to market a potential real stadium sponsor bringing in more money.

If it wasnt for sponsorship Arsenal's ground wouldn't have a name.

Lot of people now throwing shade at this take over, wait until they realise there is a actual member of the Saudi Goverment who owns and runs a PL club.

Also isn't there a direct conflict of interest between the Saudis owning TWO PL clubs ? 

When Newcastle play Sheffield united......