To see journalists and other media personalities (Tyler) bootlicking this lot is genuinely nauseating.
Unlike that goal. Get in Tanguy lad.
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Three things.
- I think you underestimate the lure of cold hard cash
- I think you underestimate the fear of being one injury away from never earning
- I think you overestimate the virtues and/or the ability to reason beyond a pay check of a PL player - this is not a slight, if I was in their shoes, I would jump at moving up from 30-40 k a week to 100+k a week.
Finally, the possibility of being in the CL (in the next 2-3 years) is now probably higher being a Newcastle player than the other 16/17 PL teams atm. Players from the top 4 wouldnât likely go across, but players from all other teams would likely jump at the chance.
The sticky ground for me is the moral one. As Iâve mentioned (earlier) Iâd walk away if the Saudis had bought Liverpool. However, if I was 20-25, before gaining a certain bent on life, I would jump at 100+k a week. Seems like a no brainer.
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I think you underestimate how rich this league isâŠ. Raphina is already playing and scoring for Brazil, Leeds will struggle to hold on to him thatâs for sure but I think he will move higher as it is now not on the promises on future.
These people are not earning pittance at their clubs, Ward-Prowse is on anywhere between 50-100k but one Soton Forum suggests itâs the top wage.
There are reasons some really good players end up at some very average teams.
They will have to do all this while paying lip service to the PL and Europeâs money restrictions (I donât delude myself itâs anything more than lip service).
Stavely has said 5-10 years to reach the title and that makes sense to me, though even that isnât a given.
City like Chelsea before should be able to stock pile the best so why is Mbappe pining after Real Madrid?
They will get there over time but expecting them to get everyone they want in January. Clubs will want a pretty penny and Newcastle have to be confident enough to suggest they wonât be going down.
To me they are shopping in the very worst of markets and if they canât stay up then they can add another year to their wait.
I canât see many teams wanting to sell in January. Either theyâre fighting for honours/a place in Europe or trying to avoid the drop.
Obviously thereâs the likes of Barca who will be looking to cash in on some of their unwanted assets, but even they will want top dollar knowing how much money Newcastle have.
Theyâll do some business Iâm sure, but it will set a marker for their whole transfer future if they come in throwing around BIG money for the likes of Dunk.
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Without the incoming cash this lot would be truly fucked. 3 points from 8 games 
If they do manage to buy their way out of it it will be a proper head-shaker.
By the time the January window opens, Newcastle could be too far behind in terms of points. Apart from the first two minutes of the game today, they were shocking. If Spurs hadnât eased off for most of the 2nd half, they could easily have conceded 5 or 6.
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Them been in deep shit is going to make it even harder to attract players of any note. If your an established Premier league player are you wanting to learn a new system while been in a mire.
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Shafted by Spursy. 
No new-owner bounce? 
Must be drowning in oil.
The broadcast showed several Newcastle fans wearing keffiyah, I would imagine in support of their new owners.
My question is for those that have a much deeper understanding than I do on the matter, specifically as they were black and white keffiyah being worn (and the relevance of that specific symbolism) doesnât that seem a bit patronising/offensive or at the very least cultural appropriation?
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And not least the behavior going on while wearing it i.e. The drinking, swearing and generally all that goes on and swirls around fans on a match day. Itâs a complete parody and I canât imagine there being much magnanimity towards them.
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i expect to see their shirt sponsors paid out and gone by the end of the weekâŠ
Pity they arenât still sponsored by Wonga.
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It means they are too stupid or ignorant (most likely both) to understand its symbolism and significance. Maybe they get an (undeserved) out by claiming that SA is one of the last Gulf countries that still ,at least , pays lip sevice to the plight of the Palestinians.
Aside from our rivals , this is the one result I will be looking out for now every week. Hopefully by the time January comes around they will be hopelessly adrift and destined for the Championship.
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As someone that was brought up thereâŠyou are wrong on that list!
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My take on it is this.
We like to think that FFP isnât a thing, but it obviously is (notwithstanding Corona induced relaxations). City, PSG and Chelsea all make great pains to make a show of complying (The transgressions City should have been nailed to the wall on were historic ones - I think they have broadly been in compliance over the last five years).
I think there is a strong possibility that what a new mega club - and not just any old mega club, one whoâs wealth is many magnitudes greater than than the rest of football combined - does is unite the other big clubs solidly behind FFP and the idea of financial restraint.
There is a simple logic here that as of today, Man Cityâs wealth is closer to Burnleyâs than it is to Newcastleâs. Newcastle are such an outlier that it makes make more sense for City to find common ground with the rest of football that it does to try and plough a loan âweâll do what we wantâ furrow.
Clubs like Man Utd, Liverpool, Bayern, Juve, Real, Barca etc. have not been happy with the state of football governance in relation to money for a long time. Thatâs what created the Super League fiasco. Add to that now City, Chelsea and PSG concerned that they arenât even close to being the biggest fishes anymore and I think you have the imperative and the will in football for a much enhanced FFP type arrangement.
There is also the problem that another blank chequebook club, who will be vastly overpaying in the early days to try and leapfrog their way up the league, is going to create wage and fee inflation, which no clubs really want.
So I think one of two things could happen.
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UEFA and the Premier League could come under much more pressure to enhance FFP or create mechanisms to ensure that Newcastle canât bully their way past everyone else.
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longer term, if UEFA donât act, then the super league will be back on the table. And this time the clubs wonât make sure a mess of it.
So maybe John Henry will not be in too much of a rush to sell up. If I were him, Iâd hang on a bit and see how things shake out over the next few years. It might be that this takeover is the catalyst for the game to start taking financial doping a bit more seriously.
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Just look at that stupid old bastard, waving the money around.
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Is that not Steve Bruce?!
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