YourTypicalSaudi on reddit
Hello lads, Saudi guy here to mention some points.
I’ve seen some people wondering how Yassir can manage the club while he’s also managing Aramco and PIF. In reality, Aramco is chaired by Amin Nasser (CEO) and Yassir’s position is just to get the PIF closer to Aramco. So he mostly works on the PIF and nothing else. Personally I think him sitting at the top of Newcastle shouldn’t be that much of an issue if he has good & qualified people to take care of the various aspects of the club. Also the other partners will have their presence too so I don’t think this is something to worry about.
Turki Al Alshaikh has nothing to do with NUFC. Honestly he doesn’t have any qualities that will benefit you and he absolutely has no authority over PIF. Don’t let his Twitter description of “Royal Court Advisor” fool you. Until two years ago he wasn’t known in the kingdom until he became the president of our FA. Which he fucked up royally for one year until before he left his position. I personally don’t like him because he brought so much instability to my club (Al-Hilal) and was a major reason why we lost Jorge Jesus. Money wise he isn’t that rich. Football wise he’s just a big fan who wants some recognition and fame, you can see that in his Twitter profile if you spoke Arabic. He bought a club in Spain’s second division (Almeria). I think it’s pretty safe to take him off your radar.
Regarding your sponsor, if it happens to be from here my guess it’s Aramco, our biggest telecom company (STC) or maybe our airlines (Saudi Airlines).
We have a really big company (SABIC) but I never saw them doing any advertisement or sponsorships. There’s also some new projects in Saudi Arabia that established their own companies that may end up sponsoring NUFC if they wish too. NEOM, AMAALA and Qiddiya for example. I believe all these companies have modern and good logos so hopefully if you get a sponsor from here it won’t ruin the jerseys.
I guess that’s it for now, feel free to ask me about anything regarding Saudi Arabia or this deal and I promise you to be honest and impartial.
A bit off topic, but I’ve been seeing the reactions of NUFC fans on the internet (mainly Twitter) and you lot are fucking hilarious. I’ve had so many good chuckles the past few days and checking #NUFC has become a part of my daily routines these days. I don’t know why but seeing English lads with the Saudi flag, photoshopping ‘Shimagh’ -our head scarf-, having Arabic names or Saudi flair on r/soccer is really funny for me. I never knew the English were this funny and I feel like I need to watch more English shows beside The Inbetweeners and The IT Crowd (fucking love it).
I also learned a lot about Newcastle so that’s a bonus for me. Anyways, sorry for taking long, good luck with this endeavour. Newcastle is a beautiful club and I wish you the best. My first Newcastle exposure is this old video game
My club just played the Club World Cup as Asia’s Champions League winners and let me tell you it feels amazing. Hopefully one day our clubs can meet there
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