I was thinking about Markovic the other day because I was trying to think who Mudryk reminded me of. Same career trajectory for those two.
It’s easy to forget now but Markovic was thought of as one of the best young players in Europe at the time. Us signing him was considered a coup.
for the longest time, I mis-read the title of this thread as starting with “Draft Pick”
It morphed…
Draft Pick
Daft Pick
Daft Prick
Same here. Has it beeen changed?
Makes more sense now mind you.
One of those who may have benefited from a better manager.
Take Sancho at Man Utd he’s just spent too much time under Ole, Rashford was able to shake that off but some times you can get in a rut and it finishes you.
Wouldn’t ever happen, but what a Klopp reclamation project he could be. Terrible career choice going to ManU.
There was an article a few months back that suggested Sancho was already going off track while at Dortmund.
Lol, just saw the prick but didn’t notice the daft.
https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1669990306220064768?t=--iT229LrntqeG8yusGpmA&s=19
How is this club able to sign so many players without many outgoings? They signed like an entire squad in the winter.
I did that
Perfect 
So PIF own NUFC outright; as well as a 60% stake in Clearlake, who own Chelsea, whilst they also own the Saudi clubs about to pay a fuck tonne to clear Chelseas books. So who do they ultimately back? I assume Tods a pawn for PIF and they will be backing Newcastle.
I think is confusing many issues. Clearlake is an investment group who take people’s money and spend it in ways that should bring a return for those investors and then take a % themselves off the top. PIF are institutional investors with Clearlake, but that makes them no more shareholders than I am in Fidelity because I have money invested in their mutual funds. The 60% figure doing the rounds Im assuming must be from the % of chelsea that Clearlake own with Bohley and his group from the LA Dodgers owning the rest.
You can make an argument that Chelsea failing and costing Clearlake would cost the Saudis money, but does that mean they’re going to spend money to prop up a direct competitor in a way that makes their sport washing enterprise that much harder to achieve, just so they can protect their balance in an investment fund that represents a likely tiny fraction of PIF’s total balance?
https://twitter.com/jdnalton/status/1670525077295624197?s=46&t=AoktOJjkeKxUQ1-kchHRQQ
Whoops duplicate
its all a toxic mess isnt it…greed is good they say… Once the Pl opened their legs to state ownership, that was all she wrote…Gonna get a lot worse
Wait can someone explain to me how PIF are able to invest in two clubs in the same league? I thought you couldn’t do that? Or have they gotten around it by doing it under the name of two different organisations? Or is there a limit on how much they can invest in the 2nd club?