Topic: Newcastle - RIP Jamal Khashoggi; Free Salma al-Shehab

[Elzar]

Tariq's journalism over Saudi buying Newcastle, City's ownership and FFP workarounds, PSG, Chelsea, and the Qatar world cup is all great and no doubt has made him an enemy to Sportwashers.

[Elzar]

On the BBC

Howe was criticised for not commenting on Saudi Arabia executing 81 men in one day following Sunday's loss to Chelsea.

Imagine if they had lost to Burnley

[Wullie160975]

I take that as the government passing the buck because they need the Saudis to up oil production. There may be an undercurrent of encouraging the PL to do something about strengthening the fit and proper persons test and also about tightening FFP so that sponsorships connected to owners are limited. This would save the government from having to engage with the issues currently spotlighted and causing them such grief.

I thought the government had those assurances already -

https://www.joe.co.uk/sport/uk-blocks-details-of-newcastle-united-takeover-assurances-to-protect-saudi-relations-292966
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58840820

[Kopenhagen]

Adam Crafton (@AdamCrafton_)

Eddie Howe says he will stick to football but that has not always been in his position. When at Bournemouth, he did a cover interview with the LGBT magazine Winq and got lots of good publicity for saying pretty groundbreaking things at the time.



Don't tell your bosses, Eddie!

[RedSince86]

Front page of The Mirror was great today, picture of MBS and "Boris does another deal with The Devil" type headline.

[him_15]

Newcastle could go buying all the United dead wood.

[Tobelius]

Newcastle could go buying all the United dead wood.

They'd be stupid to do so imo,even the best wood at United is not any good and they just bought a Wood.

[Dim Glas]

Aye, Tariq Panja might have made his way on to MBS's list by now (the one that he maintains Khashoggi wasn't on)

As Tariq tweeted this morning about Howe;

He took the job in the full knowledge of who his owners were. He wasn't grandfathered in. It's precisely thanks to who those people are that he finds himself as the figurehead of their project.

I see the Man City fans on the comments on that tweet are out in force with their pre-planned whataboutery as they always are - asking why Tariq Panja’s doesn’t ask Jürgen Klopp about Standard Chartered. 

[oojason]

I see the Man City fans on the comments on that tweet are out in force with their pre-planned whataboutery as they always are - asking why Tariq Panja’s doesn’t ask Jürgen Klopp about Standard Chartered. 

Tariq should answer back to the City fans with a whataboutery question on City's former owner Thaksin Shinawatra

[Son of Spion]

I see the Man City fans on the comments on that tweet are out in force with their pre-planned whataboutery as they always are - asking why Tariq Panja’s doesn’t ask Jürgen Klopp about Standard Chartered. 

Who have Standard Chartered murdered this week?

[Dim Glas]

Who have Standard Chartered murdered this week?

Not sure.

It also came as news to me that they owned Liverpool and paid Kloppo’s salary. Interesting what you learn isn’t it!

[Son of Spion]

Not sure.

It also came as news to me that they owned Liverpool and paid Kloppo’s salary. Interesting what you learn isn’t it!

It certainly is. Maybe I should keep more abreast of the news.

[Nobby Reserve]

I see the Man City fans on the comments on that tweet are out in force with their pre-planned whataboutery as they always are - asking why Tariq Panja’s doesn’t ask Jürgen Klopp about Standard Chartered. 

Them and the Saudi Sportwashing fans are incredible. They care not one shit about the victims of these tyrannical dictatorships, and instead weave this totally false narrative that they're the big victims of bullying by other fans.

They have absolutely no self-awareness

[JRed]

Not sure.

It also came as news to me that they owned Liverpool and paid Kloppo’s salary. Interesting what you learn isn’t it!

I didn’t know that. I also didn’t realise they ruled their own sovereign state.

[rushyman]

These are getting battered along with Chelsea. Good

Is there a reason Man City owners are being completely left out of the discussion across punditry and mainstream media ?

[JRed]

These are getting battered along with Chelsea. Good

Is there a reason Man City owners are being completely left out of the discussion across punditry and mainstream media ?

Lawyers?

[rushyman]

Lawyers?

Yep. Better ones

I’m sure Newcastle will be on that case Amd you’ll hear fuck all soon

Government have just got in bed with them aswell

[RJH]

Newcastle could go buying all the United dead wood.

Trying to replicate the success of the Gabriel Obertan era?

[red1977]

Anyone know what the outcome was/is/is going to be on the associated commercial sponsorship deals thing? As far as I can see, associated commercial sponsorships are ok (even though the league voted against it) but the premier league will scrutinise each deal to see if it’s fair market value or inflated. City and Newcastle I believe have contested it because they believe you can’t determine fair market value because people will pay what ever they want to pay. Is this a rule as of now or is it being drawn out and City and Newcastle can get above market value deals until it’s sorted?.

I mean the whole thing stinks, two clubs fighting for the right for sponsorship deals that they haven’t yet got to be unusually high. Hmmmmm. Wankers.

[Egyptian36]

These are getting battered along with Chelsea. Good

Is there a reason Man City owners are being completely left out of the discussion across punditry and mainstream media ?

Newcastle takeover showed how hypocrite everyone is especially the media, football fans too. UAE is involved in Yemen as much as Saudis but only now everyone suddenly cares about the Yemeni people. Only now they care about sponsorship cheating and tried to force a new rule, where were they the last 11 years? everything that is being said about Newcastle applies to City. Hypocrites.

[Machae]

Eddie Howe, another tactically inept manager who will be lucky to survive another season.

[BarryCrocker]

Eddie Howe, another tactically inept manager who will be lucky to survive another season.

If they stay up he’ll get a massive pay-off and be pushed out for a ‘big name’ manager. I don’t see the owners giving him the money to recruit big names and not many would want to work with him when he’s a virtual unknown out of the UK.

[RedSince86]

Only time i wanted them to win since they got bought by that torturing beheading sadistic human rights abusive regime.

Useless fucks.

[Fordy]

They were shite.

[Kekule]

If they stay up he’ll get a massive pay-off and be pushed out for a ‘big name’ manager. I don’t see the owners giving him the money to recruit big names and not many would want to work with him when he’s a virtual unknown out of the UK.

If he was the one responsible for buying Chris Wood for £25million then you wouldn’t give him another penny regardless of how many hundreds of billions of pounds you have in the bank.

[Armchair expert]

Watch them bust a gut though when we play them at the end of April, just like they did in 2019 …

[AndyMuller]

Watch them bust a gut though when we play them at the end of April, just like they did in 2019 …

They can bust it all the want they still won’t be able to string two passes together.

[OOS]

If they stay up he’ll get a massive pay-off and be pushed out for a ‘big name’ manager. I don’t see the owners giving him the money to recruit big names and not many would want to work with him when he’s a virtual unknown out of the UK.

I can see him staying there for a few years atleast. I rate him, however his transfers at Bournemouth were really iffy. If they can move on the deadwood, and bring in quality players like Trippier and Guimarães, they will be a solid midtable Premier league side. They need a striker, Wood is crap. I thought it was a shrewd signing at the time, but he's been stinking the gaff out.

[AndyMuller]

I can see him staying there for a few years atleast. I rate him, however his transfers at Bournemouth were really iffy. If they can move on the deadwood, and bring in quality players like Trippier and Guimarães, they will be a solid midtable Premier league side. They need a striker, Wood is crap. I thought it was a shrewd signing at the time, but he's been stinking the gaff out.

What makes you rate Eddie Howe then?

By the way that Saint Maximus fella is the French Zaha. Shite.

[Thepooloflife]

I hate the blueshite as much as anyone - but, was that really a red card for Allan - even Shearer didn't think it was ? Not that it mattered, like.

[So… Howard Philips]

I hate the blueshite as much as anyone - but, was that really a red card for Allan - even Shearer didn't think it was ? Not that it mattered, like.

My first impression was that it was a yellow but the more you looked at the replays you could convince yourself that it was red.

Anyway Newcastle are pretty shite.

[lfc79]

I'd say if you jump into a tackle with both feet off the ground and don't attempt to play the ball it should be an automatic red card, if that is Allan trying to win the ball from the side and being late then I'd go towards it being a yellow.

[Thepooloflife]

My first impression was that it was a yellow but the more you looked at the replays you could convince yourself that it was red.

Anyway Newcastle are pretty shite.

Yeah, I know what you're saying - though have seen much worse and not get punished at all. So, with the ref changing his mind after looking at the video, is it classed as a straight red.....thought I saw him bring out a yellow again, then red or was that a mistake ?

[JRed]

Yeah, I know what you're saying - though have seen much worse and not get punished at all. So, with the ref changing his mind after looking at the video, is it classed as a straight red.....thought I saw him bring out a yellow again, then red or was that a mistake ?

They bring the yellow out again to show they are cancelling it, then show the red.

[sinnermichael]

Apparently there's a feature before the game later with Carragher asking their fans questions about the club "on and off the pitch".

I'm sure they'll all condemn their owners and not just turn a blind eye to it.

[Barneylfc∗]

Apparently there's a feature before the game later with Carragher asking their fans questions about the club "on and off the pitch".

I'm sure they'll all condemn their owners and not just turn a blind eye to it.

Looking forward to Carragher and Neville calling out the PL for allowing a disgusting regime buying into it and calling for riots.

[Barneylfc∗]

This is pathetic

[Barneylfc∗]

Already fucked off the Saudi 'debate' and have moved on to splurging their blood money.

Carra is pathetic and Sky are pathetic

[FiSh77]

What did you expect, sky will be wanking themselves silly once they start spunking hundreds of millions with not word said about where it comes from

Hope we win the lot then I can be done with this shitshow for good

[scouse neapolitan]

Thoroughly dislikeable club and supporter base. This lot are so up themselves it's untrue. Their manufactured support, plastic flags, nicked songs,overflated sense of self and enormous anti-scouse chip on their shoulder towards us and our city has always made them enormously disagreeable.
Recent developments have only made them worse though I suppose they and  their new owners totally belong with one another. They'd love to be us and have our  support and history.  Take the Makkems any day over this lot. Bring them back to earth please Redmen. Give them a reality check.