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45m for Lewis fucking Dunk??!

If someone told me this was our side to play Sheffield Wednesday reserves i'd believe it.

The Bin Zayed Group is starting to look more and more dodgy to me to be honest, even if they do complete the take over it dosn't seem like they are the Man City type owners, not that we were expecting that but the fact that they couldn't complete the take over in time before Rafa leaves and Ashley starts selling our best players say a lot. And one thing this summer really showed is how fucking clueless the local journos are.

Who exactly is managing them at the moment?

Very happy to sell players aren't we, but not to hire a manager, or buy players, or sell the fucking club.

It really seems like there is no longer any sense to the prices of players, just name whatever insane price that comes to mind and hope it works.

Emre Belözoğlu just signed for Fenerbahce again!

If we are in talks to Hire an Israeli manager then i really doubt there is any truth to the Bin Zayed Group talks.

Ahh for fucks sake, you just knew with the fucking news they were posting about the academy and other "positive"changes that they were building up to this. quite an unbelievable situation to fuck up.

How are they able to retain most of their players and pay them the same wages?

He did much more than i expected when we first signed him, genuinely seems like a lovely and professional guy as well, best of luck for him. His goal against Huddersfield in the Championship will always be one of my favorite goals

Nice guy, shit footballer.

absolutely, being paid to go to training and have a kick about with your mates

He was a really good player for us, and seems like a lovely person off the field, wish him nothing but the best.

This is the best article about it so far: https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/view-dubai-what-middle-east-16340160

No one here in the middle east or in Newcastle seems to have any idea what is going on to be honest the things i have heard about the guy and his company are promising but the middle east sources are taking the news from Newcastle and the Newcastle sources are taking the news from the Middle East so..

Just leave it be guys, at the moment there seems to be confusion all over, we will find out in the next few days where is this going..

He has huge assets in Abu Dhabi but non are sports related

Heard back from the guys in Abu Dhabi, they are very serious and it looks very likely this will happen, the guy definitely has the cash but he is a business man at the end of the day, unlike city who are funded by the sovereign wealth fund of the Abu Dhabi government, expecting good things

Spoke to a few contacts in Abu Dhabi; they are as surprised as we are, they will get back to me with more concrete news

It's way too early to get excited guys

That's the culture....please let this be true it would be perfect end to the day I seriously doubt it, if we are going to bought by Rich Arabs it definitely won't be the ones in Abu Dhabi, maybe someone from Dubai or Saudi Arabia .

I have big doubts around this story, He is the son of Abu Dhabi's ruler and they already have and are very proud of Manchester City, why would he effectively go in a competition against his own family?

Why what did he do to you? Hitler never did anything personally to me, I know he's not a good bloke though Quite odd comparison tbh but ok Not that odd. Do you know anything about the UAE? I live in that region and go there regularly to work, doubt you ever visited , they are quite loved and done good things for their country, but I'd rather not turn this into a politics thread, i could understand the football argument about people being p*ssed at them for spending s***-loads of money to get Man City to win the league but that's been the case since Roman Abramovich took over Chelsea,. Ah right you live there as a rich foreigner and get on fine so that makes them sound. You should get out of your ivory tower and speak to some migrant workers sometime I'm an active member and donor of the Migrant Workers Protection Society here in Bahrain, soon to be board member, and UAE is even a step ahead of us, while there is definitely room for improvements the situation is actually quite good, both Bahrain and UAE are always among the top 10/20 places worldwide for expats to live in,and i find it a bit annoying when people who have read an bunch of articles on the media make a judgment about a place they have never came near to visiting or just generalize all Arabs in one big pot. of course you could go online and find articles about all kinds of vad stuff but you could do that for pretty much any place on earth.

Why what did he do to you? Hitler never did anything personally to me, I know he's not a good bloke though Quite odd comparison tbh but ok Not that odd. Do you know anything about the UAE? I live in that region and go there regularly to work, doubt you ever visited , they are quite loved and done good things for their country, but I'd rather not turn this into a politics thread, i could understand the football argument about people being pissed at them for spending shit-loads of money to get Man City to win the league but that's been the case since Roman Abramovich took over Chelsea,.