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If we were jealous to United, I would understand, but, Newcastle, I'm not, can only blame our last 3 owners

they have an evil murdering pyscho in charge , if thats not reason enough to wanna see them relegated then maybe ur as mad as he is

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Implications are simple, they will be like City when they were bought by the Arabs. If I am not mistaken, their local fan base is even higher than City. We were so unlucky when it comes to ownership, and the rest will be history. At least United has similar owners, if not worse [/quote]

They get a bad rep for the money they take out but they've invested hundreds of millions into the team. Over 1 billion in 10 years apparently. Imagine Klopp being given anywhere near that?

If they'd gotten someone like Klopp they'd be winning titles and CL's. Long live Ole.

Good thing we won the title because it will be harder to win in the future with another cash loaded club.

Newcastle have an evil murdering psycho in charge, who is that? Now of you are talking about Saudi Arabia, then the first step should be stopping to buy your gasoline which has a high chance of coming from there and you should put pressure on your govt to severe diplomatic relationship with them, hoping Newcastle to get relegated because of that would be just hypocritical.

If we were bought by Saudis would you have stopped supporting the club, I read 93% of Newcastle fans are happy with the take over, dont think it would be any different for us.

yes if MBS got his evil hands on LFC i would stop supporting them, of course, without a question and I am already actively involved in the boycott saudi movement and the boycott israel movement

And how do you boycott Saudi, how do you make sure that the gasoline you are using is not from there?

with actual real life stuff: petitions ,protests etc. I can't analyze petrol nor would it make much of a difference if i could.. real life social and solidarity stuff.

Best thing to do if you hate the Saudis is to support shale gas extraction. America is now a net exporter of energy following their decision to extract the gas. That damaged Saudi and the Middle East despots massively. Boris Johnson has just refused shell the opportunity to open a new gas field in the North Sea on global warming grounds that again would have reduced our reliance on Middle East energy.

As for Newcastle yes I hope they get relegated for the laugh factor. But medium term they and city will dominate being financed by two despotic regimes. I can see the super league coming back again.

Vish is correct emp the Saudis don’t care about your protests but they do care about their revenues

Interesting topic which has certainly caused a lot of interest I must say.

Seems to be a lot of contradictions and assumptions happening here:

1. Newcastle will immediately (near future) become successful or the most successful team in the league

I don't buy this, Everton has loads of cash and have spent it and what have they achieved? Nothing. Yes Newcastle may build a good team but it will just increase the competition within the league I think this is a good thing. Just because they will have loads of cash does not mean players will get better, all it means is there is more cash in the system to buy players which will inflate player value more (probably bad). Players will still want to go to United, City, Chelsea, Madrid, Barca, Bayern etc

2. We won't be able to compete unless we have mega rich owners

We recently won the league, champions league, club world cup and built the best team in the division to compete with City. Has it made us more successful than City? No, but we have shown that on some level our model works. Leicester won the league as well in a division with other billionaire clubs.

3. We want rich owners without getting out hands dirty

Most rich owners of football clubs have some dirty dealings, Abramovich, City and now Newcastle. Is there a perfect owner for us out there who will lavish us with all the gifts we want and not have any downside to that? I'm not sure.

4. Human rights abuses

In a perfect world I would love for the British football to show some backbone and say we aren't going to deal with these people. In reality if we do it for Newcastle we have to have a level playing field for everyone else.

Also how many brits will go and holiday in Dubai this year, will watch the Qatar world cup on TV, how many of us are going to buy something from China this afternoon or watch a Disney film (yes the Saudis even have a stake in Disney). I don't necessarily like it but I wouldn't blame the Newcastle fans for just wanting to see some investment in their club. When it comes to politics we all talk a tough game but hardly every follow through.