Kasper

1) Bein isnt in a trade war. 2) To me that sounds like the opposite of a loophole, it would be a loophole is Bein decided not to broadcast in KSA. There's no way a country can decide to pull out of deal they have no part in and start negotiating their own. First PL take a stand on piracy to protect the rights and then make a complete mockery of the rights by selling them twice to one country? Nope.

Why are you all talking about countries owning the rights? They dont. Bein is a company that owns the rights to certain areas. The rights dont free up just because someone isnt allowing that company to broadcast in their country. Another matter is whether Premierleague have clauses in the contract that force the broadcasters to air x amount of games in all the countries they own the rights to. I'm guessing they do. So I doubt Bein could themselves decide to stop broadcasting without consulting PL or paying some sort of fines. But if SA block them, then what can they do.

Why do you not go and support another club then, as the only thing I have seen you contribute on within the footballing part of the forum is the takeover and your anti-thoughts on it. Do you have to support the takeover to support the club now? That seems to be the consensus on here anyway. You don't have to. But if you feel that strong toward Saudi owned Newcastle, then the only logical thing for you if the takeover is approved is to stop supporting Newcastle. Sadly it kinda feels like a logical choice, it won't be the same. I just hope it won't go through, I know I'm in the minority and i understand people disagreeing with that. Being in favour of the takeover, and defending Saudi Arabia is two different things though. I can understand wanting the takeover, but people on here defending Saudi Arabia is just baffling in my honest opinion. They really are horrible. To be honest, based off the general tone and content of your posts, you have never seemed to recognise that distinction If that's the case I apologize. But people were smearing Khashoggi and his widow fiancee earlier in the thread, when you do and say that, it's way beyond just being in favour of the takeover. I realize that that's of course a minority on here, and I was unclear in my replies earlier, as to whom i was referring to. Playing devils advocate a tad here but as someone stated earlier in the thread, nobody knows for sure what Khashoggi was involved in or the full background of him and his now vocal fiancee. I don't think anyone's really daft enough to condone what happened to the guy but bearing in mind the involvement of both the Saudis and the Qataris I think it's relatively safe to assume neither party were/are whiter than white. From my point of view it comes down to which has an effect on me more in my day to day life and all I want is Mike Ashley out of my club and, if possible, a new owner with enough clout to potentially bring some success in my lifetime. Saudi bots got one I see.

I know he's a weird fucker but surely that's sarcasm. Sarcasm from me or him ? Yes Exactly.

I know he's a weird fucker but surely that's sarcasm.

Clearly.

Not sure if you’re some sort of weird parody of yourself now. If yes...nicely done.

Junkhead will come in here soon telling everyone that there's no way Saudis can rival Qatar for the rights to PL or any other major league.

He knows its off so he doesnt have to talk about it anymore.

Getting a strong sense of deja vu. "Any day now..."

Kicked the ground

Hahahahaha

Nicely hid behind the only defender there Joe.

This. Absolutely nothing in it. None of you fuckers would have gotten sacked for that no matter what your job is. What if you were press officer for the Simon Weisenthal Centre? You really dont understand what the phrase means do you?

This. Absolutely nothing in it. None of you fuckers would have gotten sacked for that no matter what your job is.

”If he gets sacked..” Fucking hell guys, no one is getting sacked for that. Why on earth would they?

I wonder where exactly you would need to work to get sacked for that? Biggest crime was forgetting that the saying is about Italy and not Germany.

Please post more tweets from moronic Newcastle fans. Like someone said, full RTG mode now.

Set to land at or near Hamburg. Scouting for HSV players, perhaps? Only one player worth scouting there.

It's almost not worth clinging to every single story that comes out. But how am I supposed to get infuriated over nothing then?

Not in December 2019. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-saudi-arabia-arms-sales-yemen-war-weapons-treaty-oxfam-a9258166.html In June 2019, the UK government suspended arms to Saudi Arabia and its partners after the Court of Appeal found it had approved the export of weapons without assessing whether the Saudi-led coalition had broken international law.

Werent the UK and Saudi arms deals already ruled illegal and stopped? If so, that excuse is hardly relevant anymore.

There are very obvious hidden agendas though. This woman is no-more a freedom fighter than Richard Keys in this case - A high profile name who is being paid to defend Qatar's interests. Even leaving aside the fact that she's met "the love of her life" - a 60-year old guy with three previous marriages - less than 10 times. They've known each other for 5 months, the first 3 of which they only chatted. The moralists on here should rest easy though - her Qatari overlords dwarf Saudi Arabia in any way imaginable and I have little doubt that their influence will stop this takeover, so that we can continue with our honourable lives under Ashley's ownership. You sound like those Saudi troll accounts on Twitter Well done.

The number of countries who have murdered journalists is quite short - and the list of those who have dismembered journalists shorter still. Let's not p*ss on our legs and say it's raining. I’d argue that the 2007 video that Wikileaks put out of the Americans killing several journalists and civilians and laughing about it was equally as chilling. The USA and the UK for that matter have far more blood on their hands than Saudi do overall. So let’s not sit up on some moral high horse. I’m not saying we should condone any of it by the way, we shouldn’t, but if you’re going to criticise one nation right now you should also be able to turn that magnifying glass on others too. Are any of those countries buying the club or what has this got to do with anything? I doubt many would want Trump owning us.