Premier League 2021/22

[Payne74]

Perhaps Newcastle will bring in Beheading as half time entertainment

 

[parafox]

Still no reply, do I ring the club shop or summat?

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See if you can get a Yemen national football team kit to wear next time we play them.

 

[Blue Maniac]

I wonder what happens if they qualify for Europe and draw an Israeli team

 

[camberwell fox]

I wonder what happens if they qualify for Europe and draw an Israeli team

Yemen, could be interesting.

 

[Blue Maniac]

Yemen, could be interesting.

Oddly I can’t recall seeing many Yemeni teams in European competition

 

[camberwell fox]

Oddly I can’t recall seeing many Yemeni teams in European competition

Whooooooosssssssshhhhhhhhh

 

[Blue Maniac]

Whooooooosssssssshhhhhhhhh

Is this Yemen / Yeh-man?

 

[camberwell fox]

Is this Yemen / Yeh-man?

Spoil sport

 

[londonfox]

We’ll we can give up any hope of them taking Choudhury off our hands now.

 

[Graz]

We’ll we can give up any hope of them taking Choudhury off our hands now for anything less than £160m

Fingers crossed.

Does anyone really think Newcastle will go and be able to sign elite players straight away? I very much doubt it.

Be interesting to see if FFP committee or whatever develops a spine. Man City had already brought their way into the big 6 by the time FFP rules were introduced. Will they really let Newcastle buy their way in too?

 

[parafox]

Fingers crossed.

Does anyone really think Newcastle will go and be able to sign elite players straight away? I very much doubt it.

Be interesting to see if FFP committee or whatever develops a spine. Man City had already brought their way into the big 6 by the time FFP rules were introduced. Will they really let Newcastle buy their way in too?

Yes

 

[Blue Maniac]

Fingers crossed.

Does anyone really think Newcastle will go and be able to sign elite players straight away? I very much doubt it.

Be interesting to see if FFP committee or whatever develops a spine. Man City had already brought their way into the big 6 by the time FFP rules were introduced. Will they really let Newcastle buy their way in too?

Yep. The rules will apply to Newcastle as much as they do Man City: not a bit. Expect disproportionately large sponsorship deals to be announced very soon.

 

[Biffa Bacon]

Yes

Fingers crossed.

Does anyone really think Newcastle will go and be able to sign elite players straight away? I very much doubt it.

Be interesting to see if FFP committee or whatever develops a spine. Man City had already brought their way into the big 6 by the time FFP rules were introduced. Will they really let Newcastle buy their way in too?

Reports are already circulating that Newcastle can spend £190m in January and stay within FFP, mentions of signing Harry Kane and Coutinho

 

[fitz]

FFP is one of those rules innit. Like the directors test for owners. I think you're also not meant to have state run clubs.

 

[fitz]

They've got VAR to sort out marginal offsides being given though....so at least all football is sorted and how it should be.

 

[Blue Maniac]

FFP is one of those rules innit. Like the directors test for owners. I think you're also not meant to have state run clubs.

I reckon as long as they don’t start beheading people on the pitch for witchcraft or throwing people out the stadium for being shirtlifters they’ll be alright

 

[fitz]

I reckon as long as they don’t start beheading people on the pitch for witchcraft or throwing people out the stadium for being shirtlifters they’ll be alright

I think even that would just lead to a fine that doesn't actually have to be paid.

 

[Blue Maniac]

I think even that would just lead to a fine that doesn't actually have to be paid.

Seven grand is a bit steep, mind

 

[SilverFox]

Yes

You are right but the word ‘yes’ has never felt so brutal

Reports are already circulating that Newcastle can spend £190m in January and stay within FFP, mentions of signing Harry Kane and Coutinho

I thought they might try to sign someone good

 

[SilverFox]

Barney Ronay;

In this light the comparison with Ashley, the assumption that Newcastle has finally found its prince, seems to involve a degree of cognitive dissonance. Infuriating tracksuit vendor v blood-stained dictatorship. Zero-hours sport-shop contracts v beheading 37 people in a single day. Hiring Dennis Wise v bombing Yemen. Is it really obvious that one of these – the beheading one – is so much more desirable than the other?

Newcastle’s Saudi takeover will cause faux morality of football to collapse | Newcastle United | The Guardian

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amp.theguardian.com

Well written. Makes me want to pack it all in.