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ALL NUFC and Sportwashing stuff in here. (Threads will be merged)

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MackemX said:
Is this post pissing my knickers? 🤔

ALL NUFC and Sportwashing stuff in here. (Threads will be merged)

Thing is majority of their current squad will realise they are going to be binned, hopefully they down tools and say feck it.
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The short version of that post is that it's not the 90's and people need to realise that it's a far different and harder league and a shit load of money (if it's even spent on the Mags) won't mean success. I may well be pissing my knickers when the Mags realise they've been had and being the 'richest club in the world' means fuck all and they turn on the owners due to lack of success.

There's also the non football development side of things (Reuben brothers anyone?) as could they end up turning St James into flats/business ala Arsenal and redevelop land elsewhere with a new stadium being part of a larger complex? Man City have regenerated the areas but I saw this shared last week which is interesting. Only time will tell of course but I won't be surprised if the Mags get nowhere and have been used.

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Given the partnership was supposed to be a 50/50 venture and involved these significant public contributions, it therefore seems extraordinary that
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from Manchester Life is flowing to Abu Dhabi via its Jersey-based holding company. The council response has been to offer some vague assurance of ‘longer-term profit sharing arrangements’. These details of the Manchester Life deal leave many in the city wondering why council leaders have allowed ADUG to extract so much from Manchester now and centuries into the future without the city acquiring significant financial benefit.

Despite promises of wider investment used to justify such partnerships, this may turn out to simply be allowing new forms of financial extraction through rent and real estate development across urban space, further exacerbating inequality and the housing crisis. The costs seem too high.
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Not only sportswashing but money laundering straight back to KSA

Found this on my mag cousin’s match tickets

“Did you know? A proportion of your fee goes towards helping others. Your contribution could be used for a new execution axe, castration knife or wife muzzle for Saudis In Need”
 
ilovehorswill said:
Not much of a reader are we

Worldwide condemnation seems to have passed you by
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I've read quite a lot on this thread about this takeover posted by people far more intelligent than myself. I totally get it, but I work away from Sunderland and I went back last week and where I work it's full of plastic liverpool, manchester United, manchester city fans and not one mentioned this takeover.
It's only a big story here in the North East.
I haven't seen any worldwide condemnation on the news. Nor have I seen any mass protests around the world.
So no nothing has "passed me by"
 
freyasda said:
No matter what we say or what we do the deal is done let's just leave it
They've won
I'm sick of this thread they are the richest club in the world. So what!! let's just concentrate on us there's nothing we can do about it
If or when we play them just let's see what happens
Forgot them they are in bed with the devil himself I hope they enjoy the ride parden the pun
I agree with all the human rights rights issues ect ect but nothing is going to change
Let's move on..........please
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There was a couple of instances in the last century where if that attitude had prevailed we’d be speaking a different language now and a large number wouldn’t be here. And if you’re sick of this thread don’t look at it.
 
CheersMarra84 said:
In my head, you don’t invest in a football team to make money especially a club like Newcastle, who’s fan base are the most expectant in the world. If that PIF is primarily used to invest in companies such as Boeing to turn a profit, how are they expecting to do the same thing in the Premier League? Every club in that league is a money pit and both Man City and Chelsea’s owners have spent well over a £1 Billion with no where near the return, which leads me to think that they won’t invest as much in players as to what the Mags are hoping for. But like you said, it could go both ways and they might spunk a load of cash and hoping to white wash their human rights violations from people’s minds.
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man city owners have already had most of the money back..theyget sweet deals on planning permissions for redevelopment in manchester
they get the reputational boost of owning a club..
its not about the profit and loss on city..thats just a loss leader
 
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INTERESTING...


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Nothing will happen. The premier league were told to approve it. To the extent that the minutes of the meeting aren’t to be released. Their statement said as much. Stuff like this will come out all the time and will make not an iota of difference. The government have been paid so that’s that
 
garyswc said:
Thing is though they will have to spend unbelievable sums to challenge. City have paid £2.4B over the past 5 years on player transfers and wages, their wage bill per the latest filed accts to 2020 was over £320M a year, probably more like £350M per annum now. The riches are obvious but there's no suggestion yet that PIF will be here to piss their money away. Even if they want to go big the best players still won't want to go there, we have already seen that managers are knocking them back left, right and centre. By Sunday night they could be bottom of the league with Steve Bruce still in charge and with a very poor squad of players.

Hopefully pif by inter and the mags just become one of their feeder clubs.
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man city owners are making a tidy sum from the club..
 
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New chairman of them lot ran the fund when a jet company it owned was used to fly the assassins in and out to kill the journo in the embassy. He also played a key role in the Saudi purge when they assumed the assets of the Saudis wealthy through coercion and torture....

And them lot had a problem with a pay day loan company on their shirt 🤣. The new chairman makes Mike Ashley look like a cross between mother Teresa and Ghandi....
Waiting for the grass routes movement with baited breath..........


“One of 20 seized companies, the documents show, was a charter jet company that was later alleged to have been used in the Saudi plot to kill Jamal Khashoggi. US intelligence agencies concluded in an intelligence report that was declassified in February that Prince Mohammed
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“The court records include copies of memos that were sent to his “excellency the supervisor of the Public Investment Fund” by Mohammad al-Sheikh, a senior Saudi adviser to Prince Mohammed. They relate to the infamous anti-corruption campaign led by the crown prince from November 2017, when 400 of Saudi Arabia’s richest individuals – including princes and ministers –
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in Riyadh in what was later condemned by witnesses and critics as a purge involving torture, coercion and the expropriation of billions in assets into Saudi coffers.”
 
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Mackemmichael said:
The problem is that football is full of uneducated morons. You cannot be surprised in the slightest at these dullards posing for pictures with an Islamic flag in one hand and a bottle of alcohol in the other. There didn't look to be a single postgraduate among them - not one.

Had it been Newcastle Falcons, there would have been absolute uproar over such a takeover, and rightly so.

This entire sideshow has only succeeded in showing the lower-working classes for what they truly are.
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Sanctimonious claptrap
 
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