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Sale is close - Barnsey

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homeless kid said:
If we get bought by billionaires from a country with a shady human rights record I’m gonna look like a massive massive hypocrite like 😂

played all these cards in arguments with mags online and in real life....!
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It's a bit different having independent individuals buying the club as a sports-centric concern to having the actual figureheads of an authoritarian state buy the club for propaganda purposes.

How different is up for debate, but it is different.
 
homeless kid said:
If we get bought by billionaires from a country with a shady human rights record I’m gonna look like a massive massive hypocrite like 😂

played all these cards in arguments with mags online and in real life....!
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Tbf as long as it's not the actual head of the state looking to buy us then it's not on the same level as the Mag/Bin Salman carry on.
 
Nelson! said:
It's a bit different having independent individuals buying the club as a sports-centric concern to having the actual figureheads of an authoritarian state buy the club for propaganda purposes.

How different is up for debate, but it is different.
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I mean, I lost all respect for myself a long time ago so looking like a hypocrite really doesn’t worry me

I won’t be writing to MPs, setting up fake twitter accounts, travelling to London to camp outside football league’s offices... if it doesn’t happen like so I’m not a complete dipstick
 
homeless kid said:
If we get bought by billionaires from a country with a shady human rights record I’m gonna look like a massive massive hypocrite like 😂

played all these cards in arguments with mags online and in real life....!
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Just accept it for what it is, say how bad it is and then go to the game and support the lads as you would anyway...
 
Seems to be confusion as to whether the bidders are from Qatar or Dubai, can anyone clear it up please? I ask as some posters don't seem to know the difference between UAE and Qatar.
 
alebeac said:
Seems to be confusion as to whether the bidders are from Qatar or Dubai, can anyone clear it up please? I ask as some posters don't seem to know the difference between UAE and Qatar.
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I think the confusion is that some journo from Dubai said he isn't one of the 3 billionaire Dubai investors....then MG was supposed to be taking to people from Qatar (BeIN sports connections etc...)

Then the board put 2+2 together and come up with UAE and Qatar being 1 nation. Basically :lol:
 
Chip said:
I can fully believe it. The blokes been "hounded out" of the biggest club he will ever have any involvement in (in his mind he has done a great job and doesn't deserve it) so he is now making sure he can twist the knife as much as possible to make the sale as fraught for the fans as possible. Collectively, he hates the fans with a passion. This is a manifestation of his ultimate reluctance in having to give up something that he sees as his because hes not loved as he expected to be loved.
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i have to disagree about Donald being "hounded out" as you put it. When first he bought into the club ,I'm sure it was all with good intentions but also as a business opportunity to make quite a few million pounds profit, provided he could turn the club around in this short space of time.. He began by bringing in people and mates that he knew from his Eastleigh time he thought could do a good job. In a short space of time, as we now know to our cost, these were no better than the previous "professionals " employed prior to relegation.. Yes, he did manage to bring the fans on side from very early on with the seat replacements but again within a short space of time, with his direct involvement, recruitment strategy, fans began to see just how inexperienced he was. The Grigg situation in the January transfer window of 2019 proved emphatically just how much Donald was unprepared and incapable and so out of his depth as one of the management recruitment team (5 members of which he was one) and showed supporters and staff much of his amateurish approach to running Sunderland. His lack of nous embarrassingly was backed up in the Netfilx series with the January transfer window in particular. Donald's vanity in the pursuit of Grigg was there for all to see and lead the Club to its worst ever league finish.

The appointment of the manager, Jack Ross, I'm very much convinced Donald knew very little of prior to taking control. The January non transfer window is best left alone but it was a bungling fiasco to say the least that haunts us to this day.. After Wembley 1, the wheels began to well and truly come off the bus which is when Donald's & Methven's approach was to begin by berating the fans. We were to find out very quickly just how ill equipped and incapable both the owners were to manage the Club. By Wembley 2 tit was everyone but the owners in the firing line of blame, the fans, players, manager which then beggars belief as to why Jack Ross was retained for the next season..

The clumsy attempts to rectify the following season when those players that everyone knew were needed failed to materialise. The cost cutting and trimming back of staff that had started in the March/April time took on a new emphasis until the firing of Jack Ross. After a half decent start with player who we could all see were not up to the task and probably what Ross did not ask for, the Axe fell. Even at this stage, Donald & Co had a second bite of the cherry to put things right. Alas, they were unequipped and clueless to do so. Ross's replacement Phil Parkinson, THE standout candidate from a long list of third raters..a man who had ,I think, two promotions from League one years ago who was out of work. Donald saw this man as the man to save the day. Cheap and cheerful springs to mind because by this time it was becoming obvious that the owners , who had started out in the summer of 18 ,well intentioned, didn't have a pot to piss in and were by now well offside with a larger growing number of fans. When the question began to be asked about how they funded the purchase of the club and the use of the parachute payments, that had been simmering away for some months, finally came to the fore with Teddy Bears and dummies flying "All ower the place". I'm not going to comment on December 19 with the owner selling/ not selling , RAWA/ Fanzines , the owners trying to control the narrative, the diabolical transfer window that saw us bring players in but we never seen, Covid, the season cards.
I could go on . however, I've decided to end this now because my tea is ready and the wife's in a strop over my rant but to finish... The owners have no one else to blame but themselves. They ware inept and clumsy , ineffectual,unfitted, inadequate, maladroit and useless. The sooner these people leave our doors the better.
 
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