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NUFC/Sportwashing

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Charmless Man said:
To repeat the earlier point: Those are passive investments in publicly traded companies with the sole intent of making a profit.

This is a group taking a controlling, and leading stake in a 100+ year old institution rooted in a particular community with the intent of whitewashing their record of human rights violations by handing out sweeties.
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And they’ve cherrypicked the world’s loudest, most gullible fans to suck on them. Not a bad day’s work if you’re covering up systemic abuse.
 

garyeaststand said:
It really does show the state of football when the big issue with the takeover was TV rights and not human rights
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Nail on head…. sick as a chip they’ll obviously achieve some success, but even more sick about where the moneys coming from. That Staveley reminds me of orrible Hopkins too… it’s shite news on so many counts.
 
Honess10 said:
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
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There’s nothing to suggest they’ll do anything like a Man City though, and in a few years time clubs like Leeds, West Ham … will likely have their own petrodollar backers. I think it represents an opportunity for us to laugh at them like we’ve never laughed before, In January they’ll likely panic buy on flops and end up going down.
 
If they spend the maximum that FFP allows every year reasonably well then eventually they'll break into the top 4. Might take a few years, perhaps 5 years. Then once they get into champions League they'll be able to kick on again and be able to outspend anyone.

The problem they have is they spend big badly in the first couple of windows, it'll set them back years, they'll be hamstring with average players on big wages. Man city bought a lot of shite in the first few years but were able to keep throwing money at it.
 
Zimba said:
Manchester is a very different place to the North East though. For someone rich there's absolutely nothing for someone up here.

Manchester has Cheshire on its door step which has some of the richest people in the country especially around the Knutsford / Winsford / Macclesfield area.

It's not about the club, it's about the area and living in the area.

It's not a co-incidence all the big clubs are in the North West and London.
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For context, there are houses within half a mile of me which would cost at least twice as much as anything within a 50 mile radius of Newcastle. We're talking £2.5m for a large urban detached house (late 1900's) with a reasonably sized garden (no extensive grounds). And this is Bristol, not Manchester or London. Newcastle is fine as a city, in its way. But that way is brash, cheap and cheerful. PL footballers (or, more specifically, their wives and girlfriends) are about conspicuous consumption.
 
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