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While the forum changing the title of the David Squires thread is funny, Twitter is where all the snide, insufferable little tattle tales go to live.
 
DrManhattan said:
That’s before you delve into the families ties to football and other wealthy benefactors they are involved with. Like I said earlier the local press don’t help SAFC - there wasn’t much coverage of KLD when he took over.
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His mother sold 45% of their family business to ADQ (Abu Dhabi's 3rd largest Soverign Wealth Fund). The board is made up of his mother and these investors. Fair to say they know people with a fair amount of wealth. A bit about the fund here and purchasing a stake in the Louis Dreyfus Company.
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Their “well you didn’t complain when the Saudis had money in Starbucks or Facebook” is a f***ing crease man. You know how annoyed they are at this point of calling them ISIS FC for the 20th time
 
Jelly Belly said:
Fair enough, you'd know better than myself but I was sure I read a couple of days ago that he also had shares in OM?
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No. RLD left the club and the shares in the family company to Margarita. The sons' trust funds came from his other assets. Margarita then sold 95% of Marseille in 2016 after a serious falling out with the Marseille ultras over her running of the club.
 
Gaz said:
i honestly don’t get the majority of journos / media ignoring what they’ve done or just going along with this “its great for the club & fans” shit.

At least there’s a few said it like it is, the rest can fuck off imo
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They make a lot of money from the PL mate. But one thing is for sure, when shit really does hit the fan, they’ll turn in a heartbeat and all become human rights campaigners.
 
Dilligaf60 said:
It’s crystal clear now mate. When the Tory prime minister is telling the PL to get it done it’s no longer deniable. F**k me, the Saudis are bad enough but you know how putrid it is when the most corrupt, morally bankrupt government we’ve ever had is balls deep in it I don’t know what else needs to be said.
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Mate it's not even just the Tories now. With that Chi what's her name openly supporting the takeover. There's some serious issues throughout government.
 
Fetch Fletch said:
Just shows how this is the best message board going
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Certainly more active than toontastic. Think it's easier to have a sensible conversation ther, even with people whose views are polar to your own. But not as much fun as watching people get so riled up by someone who supports a different team having different views.
 
nelford_safc said:
You can. But you also have to live with the fact hundreds of your fans protested and begged for the takeover to happen after it was originally turned down.
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I can and do live with that. I'm convinced that, had there been two parties with bids accepted, on the Saudis and one the Mexicans, there'd have been a split between which one we wanted. Even if 100% wanted a takeover.
 
zero_hour said:
They worshipped him when he brought back Keegan don't forget, I worked in Newcastle at the time and they were loving it.

Where's the "True Faith" fanzine moral compass that they showed against Wonga payday loans? Or when they criticised Di Canio for being a fascist? Or the zero hour contract outrage?

This takeover has shown them up for what they are.

I do not envy then in the slightest, I actually pity them and the fact that "their" club is now being used for sports washing a regime that literally beheads and executes people on a regular basis for having the termity to ask for equal rights. It's an impossible situation for decent fans to be in, you can't just stop supporting your club overnight, it can't be easy. But then you have those morons waving the Saudi flag and they just ruin any and all good will
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I've said this, for all we like to mock Newcastle, they're a big club with a lot of history, and now all they'll be known as is the club who bought their way to success by a regime that murders journalists, women’s rights activists, human rights defenders, and relatives of activists.
 
The Fish said:
Certainly more active than toontastic. Think it's easier to have a sensible conversation ther, even with people whose views are polar to your own. But not as much fun as watching people get so riled up by someone who supports a different team having different views.
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Or who in future will financially support a murderous regime.

Just saying.........
 
The Fish said:
The one on Toontastic has c700 pages. It's 9 years old.
This thread has 903 pages and was started 2 months ago.
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The big difference is all the Mag trolls in this thread that pop up every so often, some rarely at the same time strangely enough. They feed the thread and most get shot down but some keep going as they're not coming out with constant drivel trying to bait a response.

A quick search of your name in this thread and you've contributed nearly 5 pages of posts (nearly 100 posts) in the last 2 weeks alone (3 pages in the past week). Now add the multiple replies to your posts (or those joining discussion subject you're also discussing) then you could be looking at 20 pages just because of you. This thread has gone daft in the last week but given that it's a global discussion then you'd expect it to have constant discussion.

How many sadsack Mackems are in those threads on Mag forums trying to troll the Mags? There is your answer as to why this one is big, the sad Mags on a rivals forum bloating a thread even more than normal. You and other Mags will also be ignoring the fact the SMB has a shit load more active members with over 1,600 online and over 600 members at the time of this post

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Yet at the time of this post, Toontastic has all of 3 people recently browsing 🤪

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