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48 minutes ago, McCormick said:

There’s always problems with PIF. As usual the government have set lofty goals without knowing the real prices, how to secure funding or ways to achieve said goals.

 

A lot of funding has been diverted towards the ultimate vanity project in The World Cup too.

 

I think that might also have been the reason they bought us though. If it was a vanity project they'll have had no problem throwing money at it assuming that they could very quickly build a team that won everything. The cartel and their minions at PL headquarters have acted to make sure they can't do this, and I always fear that if they aren't allowed to win stuff, they might well sell up and invest in another club that can. Effectively it works in the same way as PSR. The best owners as well as the best players are prodded and cajoled towards the approved cartel clubs.

 

This is just me speculating by the way, but it's the direction I'm seeing.

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24 minutes ago, Stifler said:

There isn’t any suggestion that they are selling us. They are on about a new training ground, new stadium, bringing in a DOF for the women’s team, bringing on new board members etc.

It’s all hyperbole.

 

https://www.intelligenceonline.com/international-dealmaking/2025/01/28/dazn-newcastle-neom-the-line-mbs-s-powerful-financier-on-the-line,110368358-eve

 

There was some suggestion right there a few posts back.

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They won’t be selling us imo. Even from an investment point of view it’s a poor time to sell and from a vanity/optics pov it’ll look like a massive failure.
 

I’m sure they’ll see this a long term project and the club (as it already is) will benefit massively from their stewardship.

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Complicated to understand. As far as I am aware they are ultimately an investment fund. They usually want more back then they put in...so short term they sell us to someone else to get money back, or invest hoping for more later on by selling or for the intangibles for KSA. 

 

I think we're in relative safe hands if they hope for any sort of profit from us short medium and long term.

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It helps that the Reubens are on board as they do actually have local connections. But the limitations of FFP/PSR do mean that PIF themselves have no incentive to break any rules or invest huge amounts in a hurry, they can quite happily just treat the whole thing as an investment.

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40 minutes ago, TRon said:

What I’m trying to say is that the article will be a lot on conjuncture, opinion etc.

There are no real tell tale signs of them selling up in terms of running the club.

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38 minutes ago, Dr Jinx said:

we've essentially spent fuck all since the summer before last.. is that 3 windows now?

 

In terms of PSR, if we don't spend for a few years, does that mean we could come out fighting in the summer?

I don't understand it either but the take over players all signed bar bruno and Gordon all are on their amortisation costs per year the same when they signed the losses drop off a 3 year cycle but the costs per year wage and amortisation remain the same?

 

Someone will tell me if I have been too thick to understand it. 

 

Not expecting massive moves in the summer partly due to the numbers who may go on frees if the youth don't step up to take meaningful squad places we will need squad padding and first 11 quality signings. 

 

 

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19 minutes ago, Jackie Broon said:

We haven't quite spent fuck all because we technically signed Hall last summer.

 

But we are likely to have more headroom to spend this summer.

 

And Osula and Vlachodimos. £60m between them all, supposedly.

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