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MackemX said:
"It's not about signing the best players in the world or even backing the best manager in the world, it's about gettin wur club back to where wur belong" he says

Erm aren't they where they've always been finishing lower mid table or so? 🤔
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In all fairness if this was us and they asked me I’d just say walk out your studio and down to downing street and direct that question to doors 10 and 11 down there. It’s fcuk all to do with a bunch of football supporters to provide moral high ground on dealing with significant investment from Saudi Arabia. I personally wouldn’t give a monkeys. Well a little one maybe but certainly wouldn’t stop me lapping it up at the match.
 
News of Ashley’s departure will provoke joy and relief among many fans but the takeover will be met with a strong backlash from human rights groups, most notably Amnesty International, who have long warned that the Saudi regime is trying to “sportswash” its reputation.

Amnesty has also cautioned that civil society has also been silenced in Saudi Arabia and “anyone critical of the regime has been exiled, arrested, or threatened”. On Wednesday its UK’s chief executive, Sacha Deshmukh, said the deal represented “a clear attempt by the Saudi authorities to sportswash their appalling human rights record with the glamour of top-flight football”.
 
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