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Definitely.

The correct positions are: (1) fans obviously aren't responsible for solving Saudia Arabia's problems, they shouldn't be chastised for celebrating the takeover and continuing to support the club, and they shouldn't be expected to mount a protest campaign against Saudi Arabia; and (2) fans also should not be dicks who do blatantly offensive things like dressing as sheiks or waiving Saudi flags. Issue resolved.

Somebody like Rudi Garcia could probably do the job, but probably more risk than anyone would want to take given our situation.

That's all giving people a pass. If you follow the club at all, then at this point you know the issues around Saudi Arabia--at least at a very basic level--even if you didn't before. Going ahead a dressing like a sheik or waiving the Saudi flag is just poking people in the eye. "Virtue signaling" is one of the stupidest phrases currently in circulation. And fuck you very much for saying I was engaging in it.

The fact that many people are somewhere in the range of willfully ignorant to callous doesn't mean it's okay to be willfully ignorant to callous.

I guess Shevchenko only having managed Ukraine makes him too much of a question mark.

Thread title needs "-- W A I T" at the end.

"A few negative responses." Ya think?

It's a little tongue in check. There are probably worse ways to earn a living. Like writing commercial jingles or something.

Like "What can I do to help improve the world? I know! I'll draw fucking cartoons!"

If I ever really give a shit about what a cartoonist thinks, it's time for sepuku.

Uh-oh. Pottsy doesn't know about us. Somebody alert the Membership Outreach Committee!

Ydaerla, mih kcas neht.

If they're actually looking for a Ralf Ragnarok style DoF, can't imagine they'd bring somebody in on more than an interim basis without making sure Ragnarok's down for it first.

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From the recipient's side, it doesn't matter a whole lot. Blood money is blood money.

Uber was not sportswashing, no. That is a little bit different. It was, however a $3.5 billion investment--in an investment round, not buying equity on a market--in which PIF got a board seat.

Plus, we all know we're getting Albert Conte, anyway.

Obviously we'd all jump at the chance to have Ralph Benitez back, but, hey, we've finally got rid of Mark Ashley. Can't get everything.

Not my first choice, but Fred Lampard is surely better than Stuart Bruce.

Stuart Bruce

Some supporters in being absolute boneheads shocker!

It really is pretty fucking surreal that football, of all things is where we're having a prominent discussion about Saudi Arabia. I'm sure lots of people are trying to address these issues in more appropriate venues, and this is just a convenient, high-profile transaction, so why not use it. But honestly it's kind of grimly funny.

It's a fucking cartoon. Water off a duck's back.

Yeah, I'm aware of what he does. I find it funny, because he's gone so sanctimonious about it and not even attempted to include any humor. More, please.