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NUFC/Sportswashing - Summer 2022

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xVJ said:
Depends how you want to spin investment. A successful club that develops a global outreach and a wide fan base does wonders for tourism as one example. Not all 'benefits' have to be direct investment projects.

There's definitely logic in the idea that if PIF have a shareholding in the region, and a large one at that, they're more likely to look at investment opportunities in that area. Ruben brothers already own quite a bit of land in the area and that's probably why they were brought onboard, along with their wealth of course.


As pointed out to you before, the Saudis have/are already investing in the region. You keep saying the same thing and you're just plain wrong.

Surely you've read the articles that were directed your way and found that the investment is very much in Teesside. Which if you didn't already know is very much not Newcastle or Newcastle United.

If you want to be pedantic, an argument could be made that investing in Newcastle United itself is investing in the region and local NE economy in a multitude of ways.

Just because you can't/don't see it doesn't mean it's not there.


It's such a weird hill to die on. Pick the other far easier and far worse wrongs of the Saudi regime and rip them a new one on them. But this investment thing is such a non-starter. Anyone half educated can pick out multiple economic benefits a takeover has for the region if it goes on to be successful.
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This is how the local MPs wanted “to spin investment”.

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You can call it a weird hill to die on if you want, but seeing local elected officials making up this disgraceful rubbish to try and get the most disgusting scum on the planet into the region seriously annoyed me and still does now.
 
Skellington said:
This is how the local MPs wanted “to spin investment”.

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You can call it a weird hill to die on if you want, but seeing local elected officials making up this disgraceful rubbish to try and get the most disgusting scum on the planet into the region seriously annoyed me and still does now.
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Or Chi Onwurah bringing it up in parliament

I'm no defender of the tory government but at that time the pandemic was at its peak, unemployment issues, cost of living etc so they had them things to deal with and she had the nerve to bring up billionaires taking over a football club.
 
Burnley, Bournemouth, Brighton and Watford players

The richest club in the world

Yes botman and Bruno but not competing at the real top level

Taking out a loan
 
jlaws said:
The “message” from a collective number of journalists is too consistent and orchestrated. Definitely someone pulling the strings.
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This was awful from Louise Taylor a few weeks back. Pure Saudi propaganda. I’d guess journalists like her work out which way the wind is blowing rather than actually get fed their lines, but it amounts to the same thing in the end:

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Staveley now has time to concentrate on wider initiatives, including turning Newcastle’s women’s team professional.

Despite residing in the fourth tier, Becky Langley’s side appear on a one-way journey to the Women’s Super League.

Their debut appearance, in front of 22,000, at St James’ Park last May was widely publicised in Saudi Arabia, surprising those already taken aback at seeing Staveley handed such a high-profile role by overlords in a country hardly known for female emancipation.

Such unexpected promotion of women’s right can either be seen as genuine attempts at Saudi modernisation or, along with those regeneration projects, a clever and subtle form of sportswashing designed to soften the Kingdom’s image abroad. Maybe it’s both, but at least Gary Neville’s fears about English football’s growing north-south divide should diminish.

In 2015 the former England full-back turned TV analystwarned of Newcastle being “cut adrift” by the game’s “wider economic drift towards London”, musing: “Does any top player want to go and live in the north-east?”

Given Botman chose Tyneside over Milan and Guimarães claims Newcastle possess more potential than Arsenal, it seems the Premier League’s most contentious owners are already achieving a form of levelling up politicians can only dream of.
Be Here Now said:
Or Chi Onwurah bringing it up in parliament

I'm no defender of the tory government but at that time the pandemic was at its peak, unemployment issues, cost of living etc so they had them things to deal with and she had the nerve to bring up billionaires taking over a football club.
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MP for South Shields here. Awful stuff that shouldn’t be forgotten:

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MEE asked the South Shields MP what her message was to Yemeni and Muslims constituents who had spoken out against Saudi involvement in their football club. She was unavailable for comment.

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