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safctommie said:
They need at least 5 players bringing in to avoid relegation,plus a manager.I think we all expect that to happen.More than disappointing,I know,but no point on letting it affect our lives as much as it will with many on here.We have our own project, which I’m enjoying,and will continue to enjoy hopefully.One thing for sure,our noisy neighbours will get noisier.
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At the end of the day, and after all the hype has died down there's still a very good chance we'll be in the same league as these next season.
 

I would rather they sign football mercenaries than develop local talent. We would find it difficult to compete for local lads if they had an unlimited budget and Premiership elite status.
 
Jack Blue said:
Yes. 100%.

Im talking about 6 year old kids with a Sunderland fan as a fatha who decide they’re supporting Newcastle. We lost 000s of young fans to the Mags in the 90s and never got them back.
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The Reidy era was a grand time to be supporting the lads.
 
Safc1987 said:
The mags bleat on about ‘getting them’ and ‘getting their city’ this takeover means they lose that instantly Man City are the same. They become a toy, a ‘customer’ more than ever now, fans watching them with no affinity ‘glory hunting’ tourists etc.
If that’s what they want good luck to them. They’ll be one of five that sky wank over weekly about who has the biggest cock and who’s buying who for 400k a week
I work with a guy who started supporting Man City 5 years ago (Boro fan also) as quote ‘I liked players they have’ imagine having fans like that im not sure genuine mags will enjoy this as much as they think as inevitably they will become irrelevant to their owners merely people who fund them
The hall/Keegan era represented
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The beauty is, it’s not possible to do a Man City anymore due to fair play regulations, they’ll do what Everton have done last 4 years IMO.
 
Howard the Duck said:
I’m far more interested in how smart PiF are and will be with the running of the club than how much money they have.

I think players, guided by their agents, will want a slice of the pie if the money is on offer but throwing a king’s ransom a load of talented mercenaries won’t get them far without a proper, decent strategy.
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Their first challenge is appointing a manager capable of keeping them up and who they then manage to add to the squad in the notoriously difficult January window. Beyond that hopefully they're content just being accepted into elite Western European sports and hoying millions rather than billions at it. Its a sovereign wealth fund so wasting money isn't likely to be in the plan. They can't get to where city are organically.
 
Mackem00 said:
Sunderland fans absolutely losing their shit here. Get a grip lads.
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I'm not bother about it. We have are our billionaire owner and the green shoots of recovery are starting to show. As for the Mags, it was only a matter of time. Like ourselves there's plenty of potential. It's a kick in the teeth but what can you do?

My main problem is with the FA. For all their talk about human rights, LGBT rights and equality for women they are happy for this to go through. And the reason is money. The Saudis have settled the piracy issue with BEiN.
 
0321safc said:
The beauty is, it’s not possible to do a Man City anymore due to fair play regulations, they’ll do what Everton have done last 4 years IMO.
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Time will tell. Personally I think IF the numbers are correct about amount of wealth (10 / 12 times the wealth of city) then purely and simply over a period of a few years it will count in the end. They may do an Everton for a few years but it will pay off eventually
 
Charmless Man said:
That isn’t ‘their’ pool of companies. It’s a list of companies they have investments in.

It’s a dreadful argument which has been touched on multiple times.
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the point is if those companies didn't oppose them, why would other multi national companies have the issue. stop drinking starbucks, stop going on social media. it's still saudi money going into companies, people who have an issue can't just slander one deal without the rest.
 
Mackem2017 said:
They are going to invest heavily in youth they’ve already said that. I get that some people are ‘I’m a Sunderland fan I don’t give a shit what Newcastle are doing’ I wish I was more like that but this does have massive implications for us there’s no point pretending it doesn’t.
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Jesus they haven't even got the club yet.
Hulkenburger said:
I honestly hope they do try to spend ludicrous sums of money. They'll end up paying over the odds for average PL players, and clubs will start charging them extra just because they're owned by people with ridiculous wealth. So they'll be barely any further forwards having spent an absolute fortune.
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They might actually get choudhury finally!
 
garyswc said:
Their first challenge is appointing a manager capable of keeping them up and who they then manage to add to the squad in the notoriously difficult January window. Beyond that hopefully they're content just being accepted into elite Western European sports and hoying millions rather than billions at it. Its a sovereign wealth fund so wasting money isn't likely to be in the plan. They can't get to where city are organically.
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Last year it was reported they would invest 250m into the club over five years.

Whilst undoubtedly more than Ashley, it’s not a massive amount these days.

They’ll get their wish of being a stable premier league club with some ambition, but not much more. Unless they get some really good people running the club, then it could be different.
 
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