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Why would you ask every manager? Eddie Howe is the manager of the team owned by Saudi Arabia. The rest of those people should be asked but they aren't obliged to sit in a press conference or respond to a journalist's request for an interview so it's difficult to ask them. Politicians should absolutely be grilled about it but not sure how a football journalist does that

How does a football journalist ask the powers that be? Howe is essentially the face of Newcastle Utd. He's forced to do a press conference twice a week, nobody else is

Surely this is a pisstake at this stage? There's a difference between the government and private individuals from a particular country

Tbf prior to the last few months I'm not sure Abramovich or Russia were worthy of as much criticism as UAE/Saudi Arabia. Obviously how he got his money was always known to be dodgy and his links to Putin were known but Putin's reputation basically went to Hitler levels overnight but it wasn't always *that* bad

I don't think the journos point has ever been that they expect sanctions to be imposed on Saudi Arabia so I don't see why it would

Not sure his form dropped really did it? Just by the time he came back Diame was like peak Essien

Surprised Barca have never tried to buy Grimaldo back over the years

Very little mention of him. Some other players seem to be held to a higher standard which is understandable

Great win for Benfica. Annoyed Ajax are out mind

Didn't even think Atletico did much diving/play acting. Man Utd were just shite

Man Utd were shite. Ronnie did sweet fuck all

Rarely does a team not concede when playing this negatively these days. They need some kind of outlet

Bruno makes Ronaldo look like a saint, moaning cunt

Thought they were shite for 35 minutes tbh, couldn't string 2 passes together. Miles worse than they were a few years ago. Still decent defensively of course

Aye. Absolutely never a foul

Lovely stuff

Give Chelsea fans' footballer's wages

Unfortunately it would probably take the Saudis starting a war in Europe as the Russians have done for there to be sanctions

What do you think happened considering the Saudis themselves first lied saying that he left the embassy an hour after arriving before admitting a few weeks later he died in a "fight" at the embassy

He is the boss of the company that bought Newcastle for hundreds of millions like. I'd imagine he had quite a large say in the purchase

Tbf Tariq Panja and Miguel Delaney have been writing about City for years

He seems untouchable for some reason. So much so that he seems to think the Man City owners aren't even dodgy

Fortunately the UK is a democracy so you don't have to leave if you disagree with the government's policies

What exactly did he do wrong today? The time he lost the ball in his own half was a clear foul. The 2 Chelsea players literally sandwiched him

This thread is for discussing the owners of the club. You can ignore this thread if you wish, just as I ignore most of the football related threads