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Nah not yet, the ghost of Princess Diana has wrote a letter to the Premier League now.

Well if things go sour with the Saudi lads we can move from shouting at shops to shouting at petrol stations.

Its killing him.

fuck does that take up to 4 weeks to verify Sitting in lawyers in trays.

Someone send that to Wolverine in exile.

This came out last night mate, it’s what we are discussing Yeah, I caught up with the last couple of pages, I was just adding that the BBC running with Beins complaint now. Have you seen the picture of your avatar on top of the Newcastle Crest? It actually looks good. Nope?

This came out last night mate, it’s what we are discussing Yeah, I caught up with the last couple of pages, I was just adding that the BBC running with Beins complaint now.

BBC news has just claimed the deal has hit a snag as Bein sports have complained to the prem league.

On the takeover vinegar stroke.

Bye

Having quality wingbacks

I get that, but it's not done until it's done. We've all seen the youtube "Early celebration fail" compilations, and I refuse to add myself to that list. It wont be rejected man.

Makes perfect sense for the reasons others have pointed out. He'll be peddled the minute the club is safe or its future secured.

That’s not true though is it? Yes, it is true. Having spent time there with work (our company has since disinvested, some macro reasoning but also based on valuations), I have spoken to tens if not hundreds of people in their twenties and thirties in Riyadh who are open, global and good people who have studied outside Saudi and want to see and be part of it become a more open and tolerant society, while also being fiercely proud of their country and their religion. Saudi Arabia has a million miles to go to become close to being as progressive and advanced in certain areas as they could and should be if held to Western standards, but if you genuinely think they aren't moving forward in this regard when you look at generational trends, then you've not looked beyond headlines in the last few years. By way of a very obvious example, last time I was there several meetings with big banks and the regulator were led by females. Something this simple was inconceivable until fairly recently. Are they trying to use sports to improve their global standing and become more integrated in the western world? Absolutely. Does this make me feel uncomfortable when associated with my team? In some ways it does, in others I'm fairly accepting that this is cause and effect of broader society these days. Am I going to stop following / not attend games as a result? No, it means too much and it's been way too long since I've been able to truly enjoy watching Newcastle. If this comes off then it's mine and my dad's time to get to games and have some hope while he's still able. If it makes me a hypocrite so be it. It does get somewhat boring reading the standard left sided trope rolled out whenever it can be applied of Saudi (or US, or Israel) bad and evil without any balancing factors for the other sides involved in these proxy wars and nothing more than rudimentary understanding of the underlying centuries of religious and political discourse that have got the world to where it is. It becomes even more taxing watching it played out on a football forum. But such is life. Superb post.

"You dont know how horrible we can be". I think that was Llambias tho.

“If someone said to me I am wealthy – OK, in theory I am a billionaire, even maybe a multi-billionaire – but in reality my wealth is all in Sports Direct shares that, as I said the other week, are the same as wallpaper. I don’t have that cash in the bank, so I don’t have that ability to write a cheque for £200m. I don’t have it, it’s very simple, it’s not there. I would have to sell the Sports Direct shares to fund that" Thats the one, making out he is "cash" poor while starving the club of commercial revenue with SD sponsorship all over the stadium and paying very little for it.

Selling our best player to rival clubs and allowing them to pay in installments and then insisting we only pay in full when buying.

What was his line about wallpaper?

I'm not sure Ashley will ever want to own another club again, it's far too time consuming for him and it's not as straight forward as he once thought. Even picking up a lower league team he'd still have to deal with fans and their emotional attachment to their club, which he will never grasp.

Read that, such an annoying man.

SSN were interviewing Kevin Phillip's the other day and the presenter asked him how the Saudi influence would affect the power balance in North East football.

I think thats the most likely scenario.

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". Shame Kevin Spacey didn't

Give him the Bobby Concur role, a link between the fans and the new board/ owners. At least for period to help get the club back on its feet.

To be able to set foot back in SJP again