• Capable_Secret5000@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    How exactly is this a Newcastle issue when the majority of PL clubs voted against the rule changes? Yet another example that fans shouldnt sit on their high horses as the clubs know they are involved in shady shit

  • The_Ghost_Of_Pedro@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    NUFC fan here and I think there should be a ban on transfers between clubs owned by the same people.

    It’s annoying that it’s been massively ignored for years until Ashworth did an interview saying he was aware of the opportunities, but that’s modern football.

  • Old_Leather@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    How about they vote on Saudi ownership for English clubs? Let’s get SA out of sports.

  • benc777@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Reports Newcastle, Sheff Utd, Man City, Chelsea, Everton, Wolves, Forest voted against.

  • Argos74@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    a) Instead of football teams, there will be groups of clubs owned by the same Sovereign Investment Fund / plc / James Bond villain. The FFP limits will be ammortised for the group, and players transferred at will between group clubs, making a mockery of the FFP regulations.

    b) Probably the same clubs who were up for the European breakway league, plus a few who think they can join up at a later date.

    c) I give up. Everton thrown (and I’m not a blue) to the wolves over breaking the FFP reg while UK ambassadors emailing the PIF over the Newcastle takeover. Shenanigans with Chelsea, Manchester City, now Spurs. World Cups bought and sold like trinkets for the prestige and junkets for oligarchs, celebs and their hangers on. I give up. It’s not a sport. It’s not a business. It’s not even anything I recognise anymore. It’s just rotten to the core.

    I’ll pay a tenner to watch my local club, have a cup of boiling Bovril in the rain, and cheer on a bunch of lads working as joiners and call centre monkeys during the week. Because they’re still footballers, and that’s still football.

  • titchrich@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I would have thought that keeping all of the expensive talent in the Saudi league is the aim though right? Why pay all that money to raise the standard/profile of your league to send the best of them to Newcastle? Not sure how loaning a player for 6 months or even a year would help Newcastle really? Takes our new signings a while to get up to speed with Eddies training/tactics so not a great move really, it would be better to loan with an option to buy which might end up happening.
    Personally hope loans from Saudi don’t happen for any club but these are the rules that the clubs wanted… Along with no automated offsides, seems like the clubs aren’t capable of managing themselves anymore but seems to be the Newcastle fans getting the stick again instead.

    • TheSpartan83@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Doesn’t even need to be the expensive talent in Saudi. Get 4 players signed up to 4 different clubs in the Saudi league, with transfer fees of say circa £50m per player. All 4 are loaned to Newcastle on 2 year loans. FFP works in 3 year cycles (I think?), leaving a huge amount of breathing space for the club’s finances and you’ve signed nearly half an outfield starting 11 in the process. If you really want to push the boundaries of sporting integrity, those players sign for the Saudi clubs on 2 year contracts and have “gentlemans agreements” to sign pre contracts with Newcastle in the months leading to the expiration of their contracts.

      It’s open to plenty of abuse if they want it to be.

  • Quiet_Moose7749@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    This really is only an issue if Newcastle brings in players that make them better. No one cares if Newcastle brings in Hendo.

  • ConfidentEagle5887@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Ahh, got it - Chelsea can’t be sponsored by Paramount but Newcastle’s owners can loan themselves players. Excellent.