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Grumpy Old Man said:
FFP is based on losses, and any termination payments go through wages. The can't exceed £15m losses over a 3 year period, but that can be increased to £105m if the owner injects equity or a gift (loans don't count). Also, unless the wage bill is under £60m, you can only increase that by £4m per season, plus any increases in commercial income and transfer trading profits. The second part might constrain paying players off.
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This should be pinned at the top of the thread for those concerned about them doing a Man City or Chelsea, both of those had a better base to build from than the mags currently have too. It’s a different landscape now. By my calculations they’ve got 10 players under contact until 2024, some until 2027!
 

TartanMackem said:
Kashoggi is obviously the headline case, but far more grisly is the fact that the club has been bought to facilitate the murder of people in future. There are people in Saudi Arabia, as we speak, who are sitting on death sentences for having protested against the government and the Al Saud monarchy. Most of them are also minority shias. One young man was executed earlier this year for "crimes" committed when he was a teenager. The "crimes" being anti-government protest.

In this day and age, it would be near impossible to find a club owner who doesn't have dubious morals. It's not really possible to accumulate the kind of wealth needed, without being fairly shady. But for the most part, these people are guilty of no more than being capitalists in a society that tells itself that capitalism is the greatest thing to have happened to humanity.

Mike Ashley is a shitty person, but he is only guilty of taking advantage of the society that we have built, and made himself wealthy while others struggle. MBS is an outright killer. He will continue to kill in order to preserve his rule and the rule of the Al Sauds. Newcastle United are now a tool in those killings.

Their fans are talking about getting their club back, but eventually the smarter ones will realise that the opposite is true. They've lost their club.
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Excellent post.
 
Shandy drinker said:
Hope every game is hijacked by amnesty and lgbt protests
What about Saudis role in 9/11
Can Biden not block it😀😀😀
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Exactly. The money they'll be receiving for their clerb will be the same that was used to fund the biggest terror attack in history and instigate a 20 year war.
As long as they can sign players on £500k per week though eh?

Mind, I'm urnly jealous, of course.
 
The Fish said:
It's not their primary, no. But it is a motive.

So why do you think they're buying Newcastle, instead of Manchester United?
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The Fish said:
It's not their primary, no. But it is a motive.

So why do you think they're buying Newcastle, instead of Manchester United?
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That’s what I can’t understand and why I hope you are right and I am wrong and it is all about making a profit .
 
The Pallion Stallion said:
Thing is though, with their wealth they make even City’s owners look like paupers.
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And yet, they're only buying 80% of the club. Which does beg the question - why?
The Fish said:
100% Yes we may have more money to throw around, but everyone knows that, so everyone will demand more. Not just clubs, but players and agents too.

There isn't a Man City/Chelsea splurge incoming, it'll have to take time and sensible long term planning.
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Genuine question - do you think the consortium have acted sensibly so far? I'd be hoping for a spending spree, because I wouldn't have much faith in the acumen of those involved so far.
 
You can’t just buy your way to the top now. I mean if you look at us , the Dreyfus family business turn over is 120billion . Sartoris in law s are mega rich also. People are forgetting here our owners are also minted . Maybe not that level but still very very rich. It’ll take years and years to get to the top.
 
Frankel said:
I appreciate Mike Ashley is a horrible bloke. The alleged practice ongoing at Sports Direct is awful.

However to describe them deserving to ‘be free’ of him isn’t right. He kept the club afloat and has been open that the club needed to be self sustainable which it is. He’s done a good, if unambitious job whilst there.

I heard Keith Downie describing the mags as ‘some of the most passionate fans’. It’s absolute bollocks. All football fans are passionate. We all believe we are entitled to do well. This notion that they’ve some how suffered is laughable. If we were to do a direct comparison between us and them there’d only be one winner in the shitty stick competition.
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They were falling over themselves to get on Talksport last night. One, who was 50 (and had been going 'nearly 30 years' funnily enough) hoyed in that football is a religion there. Mind that religion will have a Wahhabi interpretation now.
 
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