Jordan Henderson (signed for Brentford)

[dangermows]

 

[Guinness Guzzler]

While I agree he made a stupid choice moving there he quickly rectified it and cost himself a lot of money in doing so. To compare it to a full takeover and fans wearing towels is a stretch mind.

This. It was disappointing that he chose to go there. If we were to subsequently employ him it doesn't reflect on us though. We're not taking their money and being used to project a "positive" image of their state

 

[Jasper]

Slight difference between a single bloke making a mistake which he put right fairly soon after, for whatever reason, and whole city and its populous buying into the sportswashing motives of a tyrannical regime.

 

[chriswallace85]

Employing somebody who was once employed by someone else, is a tad different to the club being funded by an oppressive, totalitarian state.

 

[Thunder Road]

I don't blame fans of Newcastle supporting their team and continuing to support the club despite who their owners are but I think actively supporting the Saudi royal family is deplorable and unforgivable.

Henderson made a huge mistake in going there and I genuinely lost a lot of respect for him but he has recognised that it was a mistake and rectified it at the first chance he could.

 

[Hongkongphooey]

Local lad = gets a pass

 

[TikaTakaTico]

He worked for a Saudi club.
Newcastle United is an extension of the foreign policy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

 

[stan the man]

I'd sign Christiano for one last season (donation to a charity for a wage)

 

[dangermows]

You object to a murderous state buying a football club so you can't have a player who once played over there for a bit

 

[Wrenthorpe Mackem]

This. It was disappointing that he chose to go there. If we were to subsequently employ him it doesn't reflect on us though. We're not taking their money and being used to project a "positive" image of their state

This really. I don't think everyone understands the concept of sports washing......

 

[10 Gary Rowells]

Have our fans forgotten he sold himself to the Saudi lot?

We can’t beat on at the mags about blood money etc, then welcome Hendo back with open arms. We are opening ourselves up to them lot if so.

No comparison whatsoever. He went, made a mistake and realised that. They are owned by a murderer, had to pay a bribe to Boris Johnson who then forced the EPL to accept the Saudis. Everything about them is about a murderous regime that executes people for being gay. Henderson made a mistake and realised that pretty quickly. If the Mags fanbase acknowledged that having murderers as owners fair enough but they don't and never will.

 

[Lipso]

Who gives a fuck about them, man. We’re talking about bringing a current England international player, who has won EVERYTHING, (literally) home.

Anyway, it’s not the same either. Local lad returning compared to a state moving in and locals out…

 

[Jasper]

Ban all fans who've ever worked or visited Saudi Arabia from the SOL I say.

 

[dangermows]

I don't blame fans of Newcastle supporting their team and continuing to support the club despite who their owners are.

Do you blame them for petitioning for it in the first place, dancing about in Saudi dress and referring to themselves as the Saudi boys?

 

[Tin Man]

Have our fans forgotten he sold himself to the Saudi lot?

We can’t beat on at the mags about blood money etc, then welcome Hendo back with open arms. We are opening ourselves up to them lot if so.

If he returns I will boo his name during the team announcement.Cant forgive him for shameful hypocrisy.

 

[Daniels]

Mistakes happen.

 

[fixxxer]

Going to be a long old summer

 

[Mackemansj1]

Local lad = gets a pass

Don’t think he got a pass, there were plenty on the thread on here at the time proper having a go at him. Was a stupid move one he obviously regretted straight away as he cost himself a fortune in doing so.

 

[Gronkowski]

Aye we might as well not take Any of that PL money either as that’s funded by mainly questionable Middle Eastern regimes

 

[Northumberland Rocks]

why the Op feels a need to start a new thread on JH when there is one down the page is laughable.

However, il respond, given a goalkeeper I smell a whif of Saudi Bisto.

They know JH would be an excellent signing. Comparing JH taking a bit of money near the end of his career (a bit foolish but everyone makes mistakes) to being owned and run by a terrorist state as a sportswashing tool is laughable.

BHH and FTM