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Newcastle’s Billionaire Takeover

Discussion in 'World Football' started by Liam Scales, Oct 2, 2021.

Discuss Newcastle’s Billionaire Takeover in the World Football area at TalkCeltic.net.

  1. Buster

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    Brendan Rodgers would give his life for Newcastle United…
     
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    Whilst I completely sympathise and agree with the concerns this has raised (and I know the above is tongue in cheek) you can bet your bottom dollar that there’s no billionaire alive with no skeletons in their closet. And I include our own majority shareholder in that.

    Quite a bit of holier than thou patter from some groups of other teams fans.
     
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    Ashley will now invest that money in sevco :84:
     
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    I get and agree with what your saying here. For me though this instance is different and I have an issue with it as Newcastle has just been taken over essentially by the Saudi dictatorship. That evil scumbag MBS is the head of their sovereign fund and given how utterly evil the Saudi dictatorship is that's the issue I have here.

    Lets just hope that Celtic never ends up in the position that Newcastle are now being the property of an utterly rapacious and immoral Saudi dictatorship.
     
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    Big mike has had enough of football he might try another sport
     
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    Even with Ashley's Ashley's personal wealth they were rich....he just didn't * money up the wall and was there to make money. Hence why they got * over.
    * a billionaire for a reason.

    But aye....not a fan of all this billionaire playground * but thought newcastle would have had more interest years ago.
    Man City were * all before they got stupid money
    * Robinho and * like that
    Madness. Should remember where they came from
     
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    Don't know how anyone can support this after the same fans probably got all pissy over the super league.

    With the supposed level of money this group have, it makes this * more of a reality. I actually hate football more and more everyday.
     
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    Their fans are as thick and deluded as the Huns.

    The only good thing about this is the Geordies getting wound up at the inevitable influx of Londoners etc appearing in the home end.
     
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    Ashely similar to Desmond a billionaire who hardly spent * all in the football club and I can understand the Newcastle fans being excited but not Saudi Arabia owners and the human rights issues of that country but hope the club get relegated this season as it's blood money getting put into that club and just have a thought of that poor journalist and what happened to him .
     
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    The Saudi regime is awful, but at the end of the day Britain was the country that invented war crimes: concentration camps, engineered famines, ethnic cleansing and genocide.

    I'm sure the Saudi Prince will fit right in.
     
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    You’ll not catch me defending the brits mate, but I heard Julius Caesar boasted he killed a million Gauls and enslaved a million more.
     
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    Newcastle a true working class city, their football club being taken over by one of the richest and most horrible guys in the world, yet they’re celebrating as though they’ve won the league. Complete shambles.
     
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    Probably * away a fortune and win * all lol, not just about money they'll need a strategy in place.
     
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    Queue the Newcastle Fashion Brand - ala PSG and City.

    Castore will be rubbing their hands at this one. Cheap deal for them to begin with, few more years I imagine on that deal and they will be hoping that the global glory hunters come out in force to buy up all the kits.
     
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    Was wondering about FFP and how they can get around it, whats to stop them having another club in Saudi Arabia thats in someone else’s name and buy absolutely * players off Newcastle for £300m so that Newcastle can then spend that on new players?
     
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    One of the most ridiculous things I've seen in a long time
     
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    Newcastle will be dropping them as soon as possible I imagine.

    They’ll probably by out the contract for next season depending on how serious they are.
     
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