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didn't wraith have some kind of funeral thing for nufc with him dressed up as a priest presiding over it?

your right its not a morality test, essentially the main ways to fail it are already owning another club in england, being involved recently in something going bust or unspent criminal convictions. The possible wrinkle is a vague notion of someone from another country doing something that would be considered a crime in the uk and the piracy angle but neither seem likely to stop it from everything I've read but if anything can its the beoutq stuff

not to defend SA but hell the Barca board have been accused of that to attack the players or something

and a little more of my faith in humanity is destroyed. Christ if its like this now and morons seem so willing to defend Saudi fucking Arabia what will it be like if we win something

the football authorities above all else should have put a stop to this years ago. Countrys should not be allowed to own football clubs

He's not winding me up, it's simply an example of someone who has a high profile platform to spout a load of rubbish when it comes to Newcastle. The fact that the Premier League already has Saudi owners who were allowed in without any hint of a fuss is another example. Do you know this for a fact or is it not just that the issue's now come into your world so you're more aware of it? He's not winding me up, it's simply an example of someone who has a high profile platform to spout a load of rubbish when it comes to Newcastle. The fact that the Premier League already has Saudi owners who were allowed in without any hint of a fuss is another example. once again to make it clear private saudi owner (who yes is a member of the royal family but theres a lot of them) is not the state of saudi arabia which whats buying nufc through their public investment fund thats the difference and why theres not a fuss about Sheffield Uniteds owner. Does it matter? They're still from Saudi Arabia, the place with the rotten human rights records, and the place that is pirating games from beIN Sport. The same outrage should apply, but it didn't. I don't recall seeing Sheff Utd's takeover dominating the football headlines and loads of people having their say on it, or trying everything they could to block the deal. If that did happen to the level we're getting rocks thrown at us then I'll gladly hold my hands up and say I'm wrong, but again I don't recall that happening. Does it matter? Yes it's the entire point. Unless you think the British Government currently owns and is responsible for NUFC. The paper merchant from Saudi Arabia is not directing the war in Yemen, or decapitating journalists. The state is. At the end of the day the human rights records and piracy are still being brought up, and Newcastle fans are actually being persecuted with the Saudis by the media. What's more the British Government are involved with the Saudis. If they were taking over another club, I sincerely believe there would be less of a fuss being made in the media. Do you honestly believe there isn't a bias toward the top 4-6 clubs? This "persecution" of Newcastle doesn't just relate to the takeover. We've had it throughout the entire Ashley era that we're ungrateful, we expect too much and can't see what a good job Ashley as done. the british government (and world governments in general) is a reasonable point but goes way beyond football into global politics. As for the bolded thats pure paranoid nonsense of coarse there would be outrage in parts of the media about SA taking over Man Utd or whatever probably a bit more with Man Utd being one of the most two most successful clubs in English football historically. There of coarse be segments (the sun) completely ignoring it to focus on man utds summer "transfer spree" but they're probably doing the same right now for us anyway. The media is not out to get NUFC

Because its the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia responsible for investing on behalf of the government of Saudi Arabia and its Chairman is the Crown Prince? A reminder that SA is an absolute monarchy with no representative legislature

He's not winding me up, it's simply an example of someone who has a high profile platform to spout a load of rubbish when it comes to Newcastle. The fact that the Premier League already has Saudi owners who were allowed in without any hint of a fuss is another example. once again to make it clear private saudi owner (who yes is a member of the royal family but theres a lot of them) is not the state of saudi arabia which whats buying nufc through their public investment fund thats the difference and why theres not a fuss about Sheffield Uniteds owner.

and the fact guess what theres no football on to report on so any football related news will get a lot more attention right now

Can't even get anyone to give a fuck about the direct role of Saudi Arabia in 9/11 or the murder of journalists man, why would this be different? because it affects the premier leagues money

and above all else why the fuck is a country allowed to own a football club

I actually find it rather depressing that such a fair percentage are so willing to deflect divert and distract already and it hasn't even gone through yet. If you want to just ignore the politics and try and enjoy the football I can respect that line of thinking but going after amnesty international and trying to claim journalists are just worried their club (insert whatever top 6 club you feel like) will lose a spot to NUFC so this must be stopped is such a ridiculous line of thinking. At the moment I'm just trying to say its a combination of lockdown boredom and general social media stupidity bringing out the loudest stupidest voices but god damn

Politics. They are a Qatar broadcaster. Qatar and Saudi are pretty much at war, at least diplomatically. This is all part of that. while this is true it is also true someone in Saudi is 100% just stealing and rebroadcasting Beins stuff which is also probably part of the whole political mess ongoing but whether there is anyone part of the royal family or government involved in beoutq but its a reasonable concern for Bein to raise as they are paying a lot of money for these tv rights and it is being blatantly stolen.

worth noting sky and the bbc have complained about beoutq before as well https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/oct/31/bbc-sky-eu-european-commission-saudi-pirate-tv-service-beoutq

pretty sure that would be a breach of contract and cost them way more in court. However instead of maybe extending a bit of time for this season to get finished Bein start asking where is the premier league games we paid for under this contract then things could get awkward

well the other clubs have an equal say in the rules being made so writing to them isn't a bad idea, not sure theres anything technically atm that could stop it but as could be expected if theres anything that could get the prem to reject a deal its a threat to tv money via piracy.

as said they were in league one and most importantly weren't taken over by the literal saudi state but a private individual who happens to be a member of the royal family (theres 15,000 of them).

theres only one other state owned club in the premier league which as demonstrated they have kicked off about. Everybody else may include some distasteful people but I don't recall Abramovich or the Glazers bombing Yemen.

fyp

because it seems to be actually happening instead of a rumor

We aren't painting ourselves as victims as a fanbase. You will get some who will whinge about the media, but I would imagine there are plenty like me who think it will be nice to compete for stuff as a football club again. There's no victimhood in that. You've got Rafa as your avatar there, do you think he should refuse to come back because of the Saudi link? That is a totally reasonable point of view to take but believe me there are a LOT of our fans who have immediately gone to bat for the Saudis, many convinced that it's all an anti-NUFC conspiracy. The position being taken by some of our fans is actually the thing I'm struggling most with, not on here I should add, I think there's more sense here than on Twitter. I should stop reading it tbf. I have infinitely more respect for "I don't care, I don't want to think about politics, I just want to support my team" than "You just hate NUFC and anyway, you can't complain about Saudi bombings because you enjoyed the smell of petrol once when walking past Esso".

says here Atsu https://www.premierleague.com/epl-invitational

its always been the case with all football fans that they think the press is out to get us and they're all man utd/liverpool fans (delete as appropriate)

In fairness to Keys (yeah, I know) he just seems to have beef with Saudi Arabia full stop, mainly as he accuses them of stealing and showing BeIN sports streams. which someone is 100% doing in SA whether they have any links to the government