How low can we go - Newcastle united 2019/20

[Lord Camomile]

Thread title has taken on a somewhat different meaning

 

[Badgers]

#pochin

 

[Limejuice]

looks to be in the final furlong from various sites. KSA, Rueben brothers and staveley ownership. Im torn about this. you want principles( which ashley doeesnt have) and some kind of success, the new lot are a vile vile collection of capitalist pigdogs but may get some success. Suppose the whole PL is like this anyway.

I'm afraid the ship of honour has long sailed from the Premiership's quayside. The best we can hope for is that when the SS Petrodollar heaves back into port it's carrying a cargo of silverware and Lee Charnley's knackers mounted into cuff-links.

 

[Badgers]

 

[Limejuice]

Fingers crossed.



But I won't believe it until I see the door slamming into Mike Ashley's spongey derriere on the way out. I wouldn't put it past the fat twat to up the price.

 

[hash tag]

Mixed blessings.
lets hope Bruce doesn't find out the hard way when something goes wrong
Steve Bruce admits he would love Saudi-led Newcastle takeover to happen

 

[The39thStep]

Mixed blessings.
lets hope Bruce doesn't find out the hard way when something goes wrong
Steve Bruce admits he would love Saudi-led Newcastle takeover to happen

I’m sure that if he hadn’t already been in the job that he would have been the first name on the proposed new owners list .

 

[Badgers]

It is going to be odd and interesting to see how this plays out. They are chucking a lot of money just at the takeover. With talk of FFP being relaxed they might run wild on this.

My feeling is the Saudis should not be allowed into the sport. It is a damning indictment of CAshley that this murderous regimes is the better option for the Geordies.

 

[hash tag]

Saudis will want a yes man who performs...performs for peanuts. Is that Bruce?

 

[Badgers]

Saudis will want a yes man who performs...performs for peanuts. Is that Bruce?

I think they will keep Bruce for a while but not long. With managers like Pochettino on the market I can't see Bruce being the long term boss. Someone more international and experienced at a top level will fit better.

First big signing?

 

[Badgers]

Saudi Bid For Newcastle United Approved

The Premier League has approved an agreed deal between Sports Direct tycoon, Mike Ashley, and a consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), chaired by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, alongside funding from UK-based billionaire brothers David and Simon Reuben.

www.forbesmiddleeast.com

 

[Limejuice]

It is a damning indictment of CAshley that this murderous regimes is the better option for the Geordies.

I, for one, welcome our new sandy-toed overlords! We shall have many international stars and camels, inshallah. I hear we shall have a free barrel of crude with every season ticket! Truly, these are good times!

I wonder what they'll change the name of St James' Park to?

 

[hash tag]

Is a football simply greenwashing or are the Saudis playing games with "toys".
will it come down to my club is better than your club!

 

[hash tag]

Najd United would save changing initials and everything they are on.
will St James become dry?

 

[Limejuice]

Najd United would save changing initials and everything they are on.
will St James become dry?

Odds against an attempt to install prohibition at St James' - 10/1.

Odds against that attempt succeeding - eleventy-trillion to the power googleplex/1

 

[The39thStep]

I think they will keep Bruce for a while but not long. With managers like Pochettino on the market I can't see Bruce being the long term boss. Someone more international and experienced at a top level will fit better.

First big signing?

Depends which agent they are going to use as adviser tbh . They may or may not have a business plan and strategy about recruitment . They might want to recruit the same sort of staff that City did or invest in analytics like Liverpool. The notion that you just splash the cash and hope for the best won’t work at the top end of the EPL. Needs something more imo.

 

[sunnysidedown]

Staveley has previously made noises about getting Rafa back to FTP (finish the project).

bugger luggs will probably stay till the end of the season.

 

[The39thStep]

Staveley has previously made noises about getting Rafa back to FTP (finish the project).

bugger luggs will probably stay till the end of the season.

Be a good appointment for a squad that will change , lots of experience .

 

[tommers]

Its another nail in the coffin innit.

 

[Limejuice]

Depends which agent they are going to use as adviser tbh . They may or may not have a business plan and strategy about recruitment . They might want to recruit the same sort of staff that City did or invest in analytics like Liverpool. The notion that you just splash the cash and hope for the best won’t work at the top end of the EPL. Needs something more imo.

Given the tonnage of loot in play here, I can't believe the takeover plan hasn't considered future coaching staff, as well as thoughts about the youth academy, buying strategy, etc. I'm willing to bet that the takeover plan - at least the secret, in-house one among investors - considers some/most of the important structural changes to come. Whether or not that gets into the public domain before its provisions begin happening is another matter.

 

[not-bono-ever]

I should bothered given the CVs of those involved- the reubens in particular- but its not like NUFc have been some kind of paradigm of socialism anyway. It galls me but everyone else is knee deep in ropey wankers owning clubs so I suppose it have to accept it. I just want to go back to the King Kev years of genuinely engaging football, irrespective of cup success, but thats not going to happen. I know everyone think their club is the centre of all life, but newcastle are a real outlier in the utter lunacy of their support in their home town.

is Tino still available ?

 

[Limejuice]

but newcastle are a real outlier in the utter lunacy of their support in their home town.

This.

 

[The39thStep]

I should bothered given the CVs of those involved- the reubens in particular- but its not like NUFc have been some kind of paradigm of socialism anyway. It galls me but everyone else is knee deep in ropey wankers owning clubs so I suppose it have to accept it. I just want to go back to the King Kev years of genuinely engaging football, irrespective of cup success, but thats not going to happen. I know everyone think their club is the centre of all life, but newcastle are a real outlier in the utter lunacy of their support in their home town.

is Tino still available ?

Keegans first spell at Newcastle and his time at Man City when he got them promoted were great to watch

 

[not-bono-ever]

This.

I know. Its hard to explain or justify unless you have done it. Even Viz made a nod to it with tasha I think, where here ma says to tasha soemthing like -yer fatha will be back soon, ye had better hope to the toon have won today. its nuts

 

[sunnysidedown]

Its another nail in the coffin innit.

there's more nails in that coffin than Dracula's had hot dinners.

 

[BCBlues]

Keegans first spell at Newcastle and his time at Man City when he got them promoted were great to watch

Keegan as joint commentator on these old Euro96 shows is great stuff. Hes got a brilliant knowledge of the game, a wicked sense of humour and comes across as a really nice bloke.

 

[tommers]

there's more nails in that coffin than Dracula's had hot dinners.

Yeah absolutely. But this is another one innit?

Saudi fucking arabia.

Are there any cunts left who don't own clubs? Uncle Joe to rise from the grave and buy Southampton.

 

[hash tag]

Well, there is no doubting that there will be money invested. £19 million for Pochettino, a year! heaven help him if he doesnt deliver.

Pochettino must think long and hard before accepting Newcastle's £19m offer

Mauricio Pochettino is the most attractive manager on the market - but are Newcastle the most attractive project for the former Tottenham boss?

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[tommers]

Well, there is no doubting that there will be money invested. £19 million for Pochettino, a year! heaven help him if he doesnt deliver.

Pochettino must think long and hard before accepting Newcastle's £19m offer

Mauricio Pochettino is the most attractive manager on the market - but are Newcastle the most attractive project for the former Tottenham boss?

www.mirror.co.uk

Oh right. Well that changes everything. As long as Poch is getting a decent wedge out of it.

 

[planetgeli]

Newcastle takeover in serious doubt as WTO rules pirate TV channel is Saudi

The controversial £300m Saudi Arabia-funded takeover of Newcastle United appears to be in serious doubt after the WTO ruled that the country is behind a pirate satellite TV and streaming service

www.theguardian.com