Kasper

A full read of that is actually quite good. It is. I'm not expecting people not to be excited about the prospects of this but wish the "club getting it's soul back" and "saudi saviours" shit would stop quickly. Cringe as fuck. E: Obviously thats more on Twitter etc, where the idiots roam.

Should've gone with your first instinct.

”Finally Newcastle is getting its soul back” x 10000 Sportwashing is already working.

This. I'm ready to focus worrying whether next season will start or not.

Keep digging

No, but going after people with different opinions to yours about their "moral depravity" is pretty boring.

Good point that. Moral is all relative therefore one can never say that something is evil or good. Every action, deed, process, activity can be seen as good or evil, it's all in the eye of the beholder. Therefore by your impeccable logic, we cannot ever criticize anyone or anything, lest we fall in to the morally superior stone-throwing position, which you have decried. I was suggesting there was a degree of hypocrisy in taking a morally superior position without looking carefully at a lot of things. I was not suggesting there is no such thing as right or wrong. As Kevin Spacey's K-Pax character said, "The whole Universe knows right from wrong". I wish there was some better word for this....

We would never have questioned Ashley if he'd invested in making the club better. Exactly. Owners of a football club will be judged by how they run it as a football club. Yeah, but we'll also ignore the fact that football is owned by extremely dodgy people. Sadly that seems to be the only way to compete at a high level. And the next question is how important is competing at the highest level at all. For some people values like human rights are more important than playing in the Champions League. And that's completely fine and understandable. It's just personal opinion. For some it would be better for their club to play in the lower leagues and share the values they respect. Someone voicing their opinion about that doesnt mean you as a fan are being "attacked".

I'm not telling what anyone should think but that last line is completely untrue. We all know that the only reason they are buying Newcastle is sportswashing their image and moving the conversation to something else than their human rights situation. So it naturally is tied to what happens in Saudi Arabia. You can't just separate the two things at that point. Whether you give a s*** or not is another matter. You seem pretty convinced of the reason for purchase. Do you live next door but one to "Newcastle Fan'? Yes. I don't think the reason they are involved requires any debate.

A bit weird comparison. How many clubs has your royal family bought in, let's say India, for the sole purpose of improving your image?

I'm not telling what anyone should think but that last line is completely untrue. We all know that the only reason they are buying Newcastle is sportswashing their image and moving the conversation to something else than their human rights situation. So it naturally is tied to what happens in Saudi Arabia. You can't just separate the two things at that point. Whether you give a shit or not is another matter.

I like right next door to them and honestly they're not half as bad as the media tries to portray them, what many people in the UK think of them is quite far from the reality. They literally kill journalists ffs https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/saudi-arabia Oh come on. Newcastle Fan lives next door to them so I'd trust him to have a slightly better idea what's actually happening than some "watch".

Cos that's usually how all changes happen?

Plenty of clubs announce it at this stage. Yep. "Pending PL approval.." Guess they'd have to be pretty confident to do that.

We quite rightly will From my understanding The Arab Emirates isnt really in the same league when it comes to evil regimes and human rights. I think we can take it like...

You’d think this would be announced ”pending PL approval”. Think I’ve seen that in some other takeovers.

How lucky for the press to have something to write about. In no way am I implying that they might milk this even more than before.

Interesting how they could continue the season past June 30th with lots of contracts ending and transfers already agreed for players.

Still think it’s unlikely that the Euros will be cancelled/moved. Too much money involved and they dont give a shit about anyone’s health. Some countries will say that they wont host and UEFA will move the matches to another city. Im sure Russia will gladly host as many games as possible....

That’s weird? Since when?

Joelinton just seems to get worse and worse. Wonder when he’ll peak in shitness.

All Bundesliga ultras should just copy that banner now for the rest of the season.

He through his toys out the pram banning away fans from other clubs the other week n all. I'm just puzzled why a banner like that is causing such an outbreak. Yell racist shit to a player and he's pretty much forced to continue the game, tell the billionaire owner he's a cunt = OMG STOP THE GAME THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/51690403 Can someone please explain what the hell is happening here? Bayern ultras display a banner calling Hoffenheims owner a son of a bitch and everyone acts like someone was just shot to death in the stadium? WTF

That'd be just fucking perfect