Al-Sandcastle - the sportswashing barcodes

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Piss taking to the finest art

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They’ve invested lots of energy against Dortmund. Playing away against Wolves tomorrow. Going to be without Botman, Barnes, Murphy and Isak already.

So Tonali being available or not might make a huge difference for them.

Player has been banned and he has agreed to it. So who is holding the official stuff back?

Hope the 10 months start from the day he misses the first match.

Could see them signing a new midfielder in January.

Neves perhaps? Which would open up another frontier for the Saudi sportswashing enterprise with Newcastle at the pinnacle of their football efforts.

Own four of the teams in Saudi, punch well above your weight in attracting players due to the obscene money being thrown around.

Now let’s see if any of them are ‘recycled’ back to Newcastle.

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I wouldn’t have bet on that

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Glad to see FIFA put the smack down. Eddie Howe was gearing up to play silly buggers with the Italians over the admin. FIFA step in and that’s that.

Maybe a sub plot will be who knew what, and when did they know it? Newcastle paid a tidy sum for a player who did not want to go there, and AC Milan may have cashed in, knowing all this gambling stuff would come out.

no shit.

Gee, you think? Credit to Toon and their newfound millions, they have discovered a new way to get fucked over by Italian clubs on a transfer.

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I believe you’d file this one under… caveat emptor?

Im just happy FIFA have put a worldwide ban on him,

As i had my suspicions that he might be sold to a Saudi Arabia for mega money, if he was banned from playing in Europe

Waiting on Newcastle signing Neves on a cheap deal now

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Matt Targett injured after 5 minutes tonight.

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https://twitter.com/LukeEdwardsTele/status/1720443628856717495

Nothing to see here, eh?

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“unsetltled”

Fuck off.

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You know what’s the funny thing about this? The fact we all knew it was going to happen and that no one was going to do anything about it. How can Ashworth say it with a straight face?!

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Yep. The second the PIF bought out 4 of the Saudi Pro League clubs and started buying players from the top leagues, it was clear that some “handy” loans would happen over to NUFC.

Nice way to circumvent the FFP rules - you won’t see Newcastle caught up with 115 charges as they will be loaning all their top assets from elsewhere.

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We will probably end up with rules regarding loans or sales to/from premier league and foreign clubs with possible connections once the remaining clubs in the league start to question deals between those clubs.

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Kind of another reason why Salah going there is something I wouldn’t want to see.

They can loan Fabinho and Hendo if they want :joy:

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It’s not even the cost I’m concerned about, its the ability to stockpile players it could lead to…

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