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Re: Saudi Arabia - Friends Of New Balance
« Reply #80 on: March 6, 2017, 10:56:13 pm »
I hope they don't have any secret dirty dealings...

But I want Klopp to have unlimited funds..... This is mad!

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Re: Saudi Arabia - Friends Of New Balance
« Reply #81 on: March 7, 2017, 12:39:57 am »
I find it HUGELY ironic that people are commenting on Saudi human rights history, when very recently posters were creaming themselves on the prospect of a Chinese takeover!
Double standards!

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Re: Saudi Arabia - Friends Of New Balance
« Reply #82 on: March 7, 2017, 12:54:18 am »
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Re: Saudi Arabia - Friends Of New Balance
« Reply #83 on: March 7, 2017, 11:09:47 am »
I find it HUGELY ironic that people are commenting on Saudi human rights history, when very recently posters were creaming themselves on the prospect of a Chinese takeover!
Double standards!
Were these the self-same people? Because if not, kindly explain to me the huge irony and double standards on display in this thread.


There seem to me to be more bemoaning the impediment of personal principles, scruples, a sense of honour and empathy for the disenfranchised and oppressed, to our chances of gitting summa dat.

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Re: Saudi Arabia - Friends Of New Balance
« Reply #84 on: March 7, 2017, 12:41:35 pm »
If we can get some of that tasty oil money to beef up the squad, I'm all for it. Always loved the Saudis.
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Re: Saudi Arabia - Friends Of New Balance
« Reply #85 on: March 7, 2017, 01:52:34 pm »
If we can get some of that tasty oil money to beef up the squad, I'm all for it. Always loved the Saudis.

I'd rather get some tasty beef money to oil up the squad.  Get the McDonald's sponsorship back!
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Re: Saudi Arabia - Friends Of New Balance
« Reply #86 on: March 7, 2017, 05:07:53 pm »
I find it HUGELY ironic that people are commenting on Saudi human rights history, when very recently posters were creaming themselves on the prospect of a Chinese takeover!
Double standards!

Who are these people?

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Re: Saudi Arabia - Friends Of New Balance
« Reply #87 on: March 7, 2017, 06:45:03 pm »
Who are these people?

FSG thread link goes here  :butt ;D

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Re: Saudi Arabia - Friends Of New Balance
« Reply #88 on: March 7, 2017, 09:09:03 pm »
This football club literally has more history than the House of Saud. People were bitching before about Warrior and their sexism, but this would take the cake if they became associated with us. I want absolutely nothing to do with these people.
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Re: Saudi Arabia - Friends Of New Balance
« Reply #89 on: March 7, 2017, 09:47:02 pm »
Anyone heard  the rumour that we're going to play a friendly with one of those Saudi clubs?  Are we going to the middle east to play it?  :o

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Re: Saudi Arabia - Friends Of New Balance
« Reply #90 on: March 8, 2017, 01:08:43 am »
That last para maybe set a world record for the most commas in one sentence.
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Re: Saudi Arabia - Friends Of New Balance
« Reply #91 on: March 8, 2017, 11:20:37 am »
Makes me uncomfortable too. Anfield being used as the backdrop for a repressive regime's photo-op.

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Re: Saudi Arabia - Friends Of New Balance
« Reply #92 on: March 8, 2017, 12:20:05 pm »
I was in Bahrain a few days ago meeting a Saudi-residing mate. I've never seen so many pissed-up Saudis in my entire life.

Anyway. The Saudi economy is in the shit, and there's nothing quite like a bit of financial hardship to push along gender equality and to open up a country to a bit of good old fashioned Western capitalism. Give it 10 years.

Also this is hardly major news, is it? One of our main sponsors hosted one of their new partners at our stadium. That's essentially why they pay us a shitload of money. To show off to their new mates. This week it's an obscure Saudi royal. Next week it's someone they're trying to headhunt from Nike. Welcome to 2017.
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Re: Saudi Arabia - Friends Of New Balance
« Reply #93 on: March 8, 2017, 06:55:43 pm »
This week it's an obscure Saudi royal. Next week it's someone they're trying to headhunt from Nike. Welcome to 2017.

Bit of a difference between business headhunters and actual headhunters though.
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Re: Saudi Arabia - Friends Of New Balance
« Reply #94 on: March 13, 2017, 03:39:54 am »
I feel like there should be a scorecard or something for the players at home...

We here in the US are still in top form with the coup in Honduras still fresh, drone bombings all over the middle east, and some precious xenophobia percolating in the sphincter of our political beltway.   And boy do we as Americans have a nice bit of history for regime change -

1. Displacing/butchering native Americans and later on using them as a billboard to bypass gambling laws
2. Overthrowing Mossedegh in Iran
3. Killing Patrice Lumumba in the Congo
4. Allende overthrow and Pinochet support - Chile (first great experiment in how neoliberal economics is a disaster for labor/workers)
5. Domino Theory Wars --- Korea and Vietnam (LBJ manufactures Gulf of Tonkin incident)
6. WWII Savior Meme --- although it took US years to declare war --- when Russians, and non US-Allied Forces were dying
7.  Not to mention our tobacco industry, oil industry and United Fruit --- using their private armies, attorneys and cronies to fuck things up
8.  Killing Black Activists like it was a game show, Huge Prison Populations, Spying upon populations and creating Oligopolies

Yep, if the US were a FIFA player --- our cuntery score would be 95 plus.

Not sure if this was discussed when the white knight of FSG were "saving" the club....  However, administration or the threat of it, changes one's perspective a tad.


Had I know there was an article about to be written about this --- I would have cited... but I'm not a big fan the publication Salon (too close to the Clintons for my taste)

http://www.salon.com/2014/03/08/35_countries_the_u_s_has_backed_international_crime_partner
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Re: Saudi Arabia - Friends Of New Balance
« Reply #95 on: March 13, 2017, 09:17:31 am »
So has anything concrete happened with this?
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Re: Saudi Arabia - Friends Of New Balance
« Reply #96 on: March 13, 2017, 09:55:23 am »
Hopefully they buy us and we financial dope our way to some success at last.