08 Oct 2021 09:15:56
With Newcastle becoming supremely rich now and with historical actual supporters that will fill a stadium and support the team.
I can see them having a few really good transfer windows.
Which makes me think, can we be a little smart and sell 1 or 2 of our players to them.
Martial to Newcastle would make a lot of sense to me.
Maybe even Lingard, as I think Newcastle is close to Manchester, correct me If I'm wrong as I'm not from UK.
Perhaps Dean Henderson?
I think this is the time to get good money for some of our fringe players.
Newcastle won't come out and sign the best players from the go, they will go a similar man City trajectory with good PL players first and then 1 odd potential top class player.
Still think Newcastle will have a better pull than maybe man City had when they started.
Come on United, sell Martial, Lingard + Henderson for a combined 80-90m and invest it on Ndidi.

1.) 08 Oct 2021
08 Oct 2021 09:44:24
Newcastle is not close to Manchester, its on the other side of the country, perched on the edge of the North Sea. Its actually closer to Glasgow than Manchester.
Reports say the new owners of Newcastle will spend around £200million over the next 3 years, these days what does that get you.

2.) 08 Oct 2021
08 Oct 2021 09:52:26
Rohan,

Newcastle is at least a 2.5 hour drive from Manchester, depending which bit of Manchester you start from.

I am most interested to see which manager they get and that likely will tell us the direction and which players they want. They may start at a lower level of players but if they get a good manager they could be quite interesting in a year or two. Talk is of Rodgers. Yet I wonder about Mancini the Italy manager who mentioned about a return to club management recently, experience at City in a similar period of investment as well.

Whilst our owners do what they do, we now have a Newcastle club, a single club City, very well supported and now with ultimate wealth. If I was our board I would be worried looking forward in two years that top 4 is going to be tough given the structure and incumbents we have in key positions.

Players will probably want more money to go up there, but some will. Just look back at what City did and the curve they went on. Martial would be a good start.

3.) 08 Oct 2021
08 Oct 2021 10:31:09
Newcastle 1 Human rights abuses 0.

4.) 08 Oct 2021
08 Oct 2021 13:51:06
I'm delighted for Newcastle. Big club good stadium good fans my 2nd team i'd love to see them have some success and even win a title.
Great project for the right manager.

5.) 08 Oct 2021
08 Oct 2021 14:01:09
Remember Tino Asprilla - loved watching him. They used to attract a few flare players to Newcastle and middlesboro.

6.) 08 Oct 2021
08 Oct 2021 14:05:49
I don't know how to feel about it. I love football but these type of takeovers don't sit well with me. The money involved in what is just a game, doesn't balance with so many people struggling. I don't know?

7.) 08 Oct 2021
08 Oct 2021 14:08:56
Yeah DB they did. Newcastle got close but boro never did although they got to a couple of cup finals.
Great part of the country for football but the region has been starved of success for decades.
Great for the area and I'm sure it will take a bit of time but they will build something good up there i hope.

8.) 08 Oct 2021
08 Oct 2021 14:25:18
Banjoe the wheels of industry still keep turning no matter how difficult it is for some.
Its big money and can seem to be a bit crass given the poverty about but the market dictated the price.
I'm sure Newcastle fans are delighted.
Of course there are some that will point the finger at the morality of the new owners. That's fine with me people will have their opinions. I'm sure they are all saints and don't use any of the products that line the pockets of the people they condemn.

9.) 08 Oct 2021
08 Oct 2021 14:50:53
I'm not too sure newcastle would have any interest in martial they may feel they have a better player from the left in maximin and a striker who would get more goals in Wilson.
They have lots of areas of the pitch where they are very weak to address more urgently I'd have thought but who knows.

10.) 08 Oct 2021
08 Oct 2021 15:16:24
I hope it works out well for Newcastle Ken, they are due their shot at some glory. I guess when I see olympians return to cleaning jobs and such, the wealth of football seems a bit obscene. But I'll still watch football and cheer for utd, so I guess I'm part of the whole thing.

11.) 08 Oct 2021
08 Oct 2021 15:53:51
Listen mate I hear you i don't disagree the money is it of whack with what's reality for most but tesco make 100s of millions in profits from selling poor people their groceries. Its around us every day but just not spleen about like football is.

12.) 08 Oct 2021
08 Oct 2021 16:24:13
Wow, CIA report the Saudi fella gave the word for the Journalist to be mudered, the journalists wife says she saw a report whereby he was dismembered while he was still alive but let's not worry about that we can get a new centre half out of it. Football fans . dear oh dear.

13.) 08 Oct 2021
08 Oct 2021 16:37:29
Pendant won't stop you being on an aeroplane fuelled by them to go on holiday bfbw.
Your lining their pockets everyday is my guess so you think about the journalist when your filling your car? I'd say most people don't as it's inconvenient to them.

14.) 08 Oct 2021
08 Oct 2021 17:09:59
Really Ken? Because I buy petrol I therefore condone what has happened -btw does all the petrol in UK come from S. A, I should ask at every garage if they know the origin of the fuel before i fill my tank?

If you think its OK for the situation to be allowed by the F. A then that's fine, I dont.

15.) 08 Oct 2021
08 Oct 2021 18:04:29
Bfbw my point is I would never condone some of their actions but life goes on we all use their products either through need or choice. But we don't ban germany because they invaded Poland 80 years ago and lots of countries with dodgy backgrounds ethics and morals play football.

16.) 08 Oct 2021
08 Oct 2021 18:06:14
I am sorry but most simply do not have the right to question Saudi's morals. The Brits did it for centuries and still doing it in Middle East.

17.) 08 Oct 2021
08 Oct 2021 18:37:53
I hear you Ken - just wandering what the Premier League’s “fit and proper” criteria is vis buying a football club? Flexible . .

18.) 08 Oct 2021
08 Oct 2021 19:36:20
UA,

That’s an interesting way to look at the situation, not sure judging how people behave on how others behaved centuries ago is the right way to be, things that people said 10 years ago wouldn’t be ok now, thinks change quite quickly, each to their own though.

{Ed007's Note - Yeah it's been a right few hundreds of years since Britain done anything wrong ?‍♂️

19.) 08 Oct 2021
08 Oct 2021 20:08:17
Not hundreds of years ago. Two years. Khashoggi murdered on his say so. Perfectly fit my arse.

20.) 08 Oct 2021
08 Oct 2021 20:08:41
To be fair Ed, it's been a while since Britain publicly beheaded our own citizens or flogged homosexuals. And the post concerned SA, not Britain. If a thread starts on the current UK govt, I'd have plenty to criticise or judge them for too.

{Ed007's Note - The thread wouldn't just be about the current UK government's - it would be about a succession of them who have committed war crimes all over the world and ruined where we live.
We might not flog homosexuals but have a read at THIS.

21.) 08 Oct 2021
08 Oct 2021 20:14:47
Let's not make a list 007 it's not the page for politics.

{Ed007's Note - Well people shouldn't bring it up, Ken. You can't be against certain things and calling out certain countries or nations without accepting - and calling out -what is Britain has done and continues to do in other countries and even to our own people within the UK.
Yeah what goes on in places in the Middle East that are shocking but there's things that go in the the UK just as bad.}

22.) 08 Oct 2021
08 Oct 2021 20:41:45
You don't have to tell me that mate.
I sometimes wonder what the history curriculum is in English schools. That's not to even mention the present.

{Ed007's Note - History is written by the victors....

23.) 08 Oct 2021
08 Oct 2021 20:58:58
No country has a lily-white history, Bond, most certainly not Britain. That doesn't mean we, as private citizens, can't judge the actions of other current govts for their behaviour today, if it falls outside civilised norms. The two things aren't mutually exclusive.

24.) 09 Oct 2021
09 Oct 2021 08:46:18
Spot on Stevie.

25.) 09 Oct 2021
09 Oct 2021 09:07:55
Not lived in an occupied state much then gds2 have you.

26.) 09 Oct 2021
09 Oct 2021 09:08:23
Bringing this back on thread - a cheeky £70m offer for Lingard and Martial from Newcastle would be a good start.

27.) 09 Oct 2021
09 Oct 2021 09:42:16
Tbe British Government isn't buying a Premier League club so its past atrocities are not relevant.

The Saudi Government now owns Newcastle and the Abu Dhabi Government owns City.

Both Governments have appalling human rights records and to consider them 'fit and proper' is ridiculous.

28.) 09 Oct 2021
09 Oct 2021 09:51:33
Eric, give them a 50% flat off if they take Ole along?

{Ed014's Note - I’m sure their new owners will be switched on as to how shite that trio are.

More your Notts Forest level right now those 3 dopes.

29.) 09 Oct 2021
09 Oct 2021 10:53:06
Notts County more like ed014.

{Ed014's Note - yes I was probably being a little unfair on Forest Ken ?

30.) 09 Oct 2021
09 Oct 2021 11:35:14
Just me Ken? I agreed with Stevie, maybe it’s him you need to take it up with? This is getting a bit scary now.

31.) 10 Oct 2021
09 Oct 2021 11:37:21
As a private citizen, I can question, criticise and judge the actions of my own govt. And as a private citizen, I can certainly question, criticise and judge the actions of any nation that beheads it's citizens, chops up journalists, still treats women as second class citizens, and imprisons, flogs and chemically castrates citizens who dare to be gay. I haven't done any of those things recently, or committed any other atrocities as far as I know, so yeah, I can judge them.