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I stated my feelings on this last time round in January and they haven't changed. I don't want NUFC to be owned by the Saudis. I despise them and would hate for our club to be involved in their plans to legitimize their medieval regime in a post-oil world. All of that said, if this is happening, it's out of my hands. Just like it was when Ashley bought us. We're as powerless against this as we were any of the myriad times we protested Ashley's decisions. And so if I've got no say, and I don't, then I'm going to fucking enjoy being a real club again, no matter who's signing the cheques. Having a real manager again instead of a succession of bargain-basement bozos. Investing significant funds into the first-team squad. Having a serious tilt at Europe again. Getting some relief after thirteen (fuck me) pretty fucking barren years. Scrubbing every trace of Ashley's low-rent sportswear empire from SJP. So aye, bring on the Saudis. Even if they only spend enough to make us a going concern again, that'd be enough.

Give over man. The Saudis chopped up and dissolved a well known journalist, do you really think a few bleeding heart twatterers will stop them investing?

Oh man, I’ve had a fucking shit week and I needed that thread. What a fucking treat that was. That fucking huckle doesn’t grasp why a family worth trillions wouldn’t take the cheaper and immensely more risky option of buying a League One side over buying a Premier League side and being able to immediately start investing? It’s not even worth noting that for all their twisting and deluded Geordie jibes we are the more recognizable club from the two by a large margin, especially internationally. As many know I live in the states, when I mention I’m from Newcastle people immediately reference either the beer, Newcastle United, or both even when they know basically nothing about footy. I’m sure the Netflix comedy series will help their exposure but it’s not exactly in a good light is it? This quote btw: ”I hope that their buy out will encourage people to buy us though, for one of they put a team together someone could see us as an attractive club to reignite the rivalry, I would say man city got bought out because they are next door to man United and already had a brand name” This is the sort of fucking gold I was expecting from them, they honestly call us deluded and then come out with utter dross like this. Every bit of it is magic, even down to bitterly trying to say Man City was a bigger brand than NUFC pre-Abu Dhabi group, we were a CL side just 4-5 season prior to that you numpty. It’s also worth noting the Abu Dhabi group went to buy NUFC first, there’s a reason this isn’t the first gulf state to try and buy NUFC while the only takeover attempts for our malformed “rivals” have been a clueless American hedge fund owner, then two wide boy chancers. Michael Dell has no knowledge of Sunderland, nor the imaginary takeover, firstly he invests in a passive fund that was rumored to be interested, he doesn’t engage in it, and secondly they gave a loan to SAFC, that’s what it was ffs they gave them a loan and the connection got the mackems frothing. It’s going to get a whole hell of a lot worse you little tramps, and you best believe I’m going to enjoy every second of it. Call me obsessed all you want, it’s going to be fucking hilarious to potentially watch world class players while those bong eyed cucks watch Will Grigg.

Surely if there is anyone to be criticised here it is Ashley for choosing to hand the reins to the Saudis? Has there been any such article?

Wonder if we should listen to glendenning (mackem) Delaney (hypocrite) Samuel (patsy) and the like. Or this When it comes down to it, there's fuck all moral high ground in football, but fucking hell we might actually have something to fall in love with on the pitch again.

Aye, I’ve come to expect no less from most journalists tbh. Most tend to be nothing more than WUMs with a greater vocabulary: This tweet was linked by prominent German Journalist Rafael Honigstein, in reference to Delanys piece as well as a few other little jabs he aimed at the fanbase. Again that’s the fan base this is all aimed at. Now I know this new bunch are pretty abhorrent, but where we’re all these journalists when we were railing against Ashley for 13 years? Where were they as Ashley took a club that had recently played regular European football and cheapened them out and drove them into the dirt to the tune of 2 relegations, basically never getting past the 3rd round of any cups, let the stadium and facilities rot to shit, tried to embarrass any club legend we had while essentially mocking and laughing at the fans. Did they stand up and say that football has gone to shit and he should never be an owner? No, they generally ignored him, or wrote a little piece about it when the fan pressure ramped up at a point or he done something particularly bad so they could cash in on some clicks, before going back to ignoring it. Little to no doubt many will be wanking off about NUFC years down the line if this lot do pile money in and have us in a position like Man City are now, which is what many currently do over Manchester City games.

Didn’t smell that bad, actually.

Food £200 Car £240 Mortgage £500 Cans £1865 Utility £150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

The Raygime has spoken.

I'm sorry like but that's utter fucking tripe from Glendenning. Working for a business owned by Saudis and therefore being paid by them is entirely comparable to supporting a club owned by them. No one who gets paid by the Saudis is in any "moral" position to say shit to us. Fucking losers man. No one who votes for any government that sells weapons to the Saudis is in any moral position to say shit to us either, so there goes half the country. I vaguely suspect new Labour might have done it too in which case that's the other half of the country also.

I guess almost everyone is selectively moral. I suppose the difference is some people accept it’s virtually impossible to live in western society and not be. You can still have misgivings about things and realise there’s fuck all you can do about it. Then on the flip side there’s a bunch of sanctimonious hypocrites who are essentially just using this as a front for their displeasure at us having an owner with money to burn. They’re bankrolling the House of Saud and others of equally dubious morals every time they go to the petrol pump

Mind, there's going to be a real dearth of journalism and punditry on the 2022 World Cup when they all boycott it on the same moral grounds. (They will be doing that, right?)

He’s literally the embodiment of everything that is wrong with way Ashley has run the club. An over the hill perma-crock signed because he was free and to try and appease the halfwits who would view him as some sort of returning hero. Beyond being a promising (and clearly talented) youngster who we somehow got an absolute fortune for, he really never achieved much here in the grand scheme of things. However, even that dwarfs what he’s gone on to do since leaving. Factor in that he’s an absolute knacker who’d cause trouble in an empty house and I think it’s safe to say you and I differ somewhat on this matter

Aye, a lot of short memories. It's almost like, to be the best team in the league, you need to have the best players who tend to cost the most money.

I think we have to realise that this is coming from a place of pure jealousy tbh. Most human emotions boil down to something simple in the end and this lot are absolutely fucking gutted that it's us and now whoever it is they support.

That Glendenning really nails his point in the responses: So, essentially he’s perfectly fine with Delaney saying he’s uneasy/having a go at the Saudi Royal family, while he also takes their money since they pay a portion of his salary through part ownership of where he works, but it’s totally impossible for a fan of Newcastle to be uneasy with the new owners but still support the club. Bizarre and completely ridiculous take and logic. Apparently he’s a mackem that works for talkSPORT? Makes sense he’s an utter fucking knacker. He’s getting beyond wound up in the responses as well .

In the old days Liverpool and MUFC used to buy the league as nobody could compete against them financially. They just dont like it now cos the game’s been changed through foreign money

Pretty hilarious reading that with them talking about not being able to compete financially and not wanting to buy victory anyway - given they currently have the largest wage bill in the entire league by quite a distance!

I get that he doesn’t like us but if he genuinely thinks that if the owners spent £600m on the team we’d not have a chance of breaking in the top four he’s off his map. While it’s not worth mentioning how wrong he is I also find it funny that he’s essentially saying we can’t buy our way in but then references Man City as being in that elite, a team who.... well... bought their way in. To be honest if he’s that biased against a side he shouldn’t really be paid to give his opinion on football. I immensely dislike Sunderland but if they were in the PL and suddenly had owners who would spend £600m on their team they’d be a very good football side, to say otherwise is foolish. We aren’t going to go out and buy Mbappe but there’s no reason we can’t go and buy someone like, say, Grealish from a tin pot side headed for relegation. It would be an immediate step up for him, players of that bracket would definitely come. Sure you’d miss out on some that might get an offer from a current CL side and they opt for that but it’s utter drivel for him to act like we are going to sit not being able to buy decent players, we are in the PL after all which according to him in that set of quotes we should be immensely thankful to Ashley for.

Potentially, within 4 weeks, we can sit back and watch wall to wall football as 90 PL games are broadcast live on telly, along with the Champions League and Europa League latter stages, safe in the knowledge that we are no longer owned by Ashley and that Bruce will be on his way out in the Summer.

I do like wrapping my mouth around a juicy bit of loin, now that you mention it...

Not in a Yorkshire fucking accent it’s not.

Imagine missing the boat so much you became a plastic mackem Couldn’t they just invent a “grandad” from Manchester like half of the rest of the country in the 90s?

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Notice how it's the top 6 now? Used to be the top 4 when the PL started then they were forced to include Man City and maybe us when we were good and Liverpool were shit then Tottenham. They're now in denial about Leicester. Also it gets extended whenever Man Utd finish lower. Doesn't enter their tiny brains that having 8 or 10 genuinely good teams would make it a lot more interesting.

I'll be honest I've not clapped fucking once. It's an empty gesture. A total fucking charade. Done so the Tory cunts can feel better about themselves. I did my clapping at the voting booth (Well my postal vote)

It'll be even better when they cancel this season and don't award the title to Liverpool. Then we win in next year

They can play a mash-up of Local Hero and Rule Britannia as he takes to the field for his biannual cameos.

Media told us to be happy with Ashley, insinuation was he was little more than we deserved... Now they’re telling us to be furious with the Saudis....am guessing they’re a lot more than we deserve? 🤔

It’s funny how they’re all suddenly desperately concerned about how our club is run. Cunts, the whole lot of ‘em.

Their desperation for statements is probably directly related to having to write 15 shitty articles a day for their malware ridden websites.

Merson never has a good word to say for us. He’s thick as pig’s shit as well

Patter more lifting than his mother’s minge tbh

Howay has been on the red meat in lockdown

Go on son!

To be fair, our crowds doubled from that season to the mid nineties when the ground was almost finished. The mackems had to fuckin treble theirs to fill the stadio del cultural appropriation...but can you tell any of them that though?

Tunnel buddies with Shearer? What an honour

Usually by cherry picking some solitary league cup replay attendance that was held on a midweek November night in the pissing rain.

Quite a popular one for showing how ‘fickle’ we are is comparing 80s crowds to later ones without the context of the division or the crowds of other clubs in the 80s

What they always ignore because it's too painful is the different appeal of the two cities as well. Especially since the Rueben's supposedly want to invest in the city itself - who the fuck would invest in the city of Sunderland? Of course they also can't see the irony in calling us all 92'ers and history forgetters while expecting their 19th century titles to give them some kind of elevated position in the game in the present day.

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I can’t hear any clapping where I’m at as the servants’ quarters are too far away but plenty of fireworks going off round here. If people want to do it then fair enough as long as they’re doing no harm. Hopefully they’ll remember how much they love the NHS next time it comes to vote.

I hope our wonderful new owners execute ashley.

If it’s at the PL for fit and proper test everything is agreed pending that. The fat pig Samuel is just fishing for clicks. I don’t get the “but if they don’t just stump up exactly what Ashley wants are they really that interested”, that’s not how things work people try and pay what they value the asset at or get it for a cheap as they can, why would they simply pay whatever Ashley wants? Also using his shit analogy, would the person on £30k a year happily pay an extra £4.50 for their pint? I don’t think they would. In fact from their perspective he fucked the deal up once, and now they have him in a more desperate position (since he probably wants liquidity to buy SD) why would they give into him ?

You could try that every now and again mate