Newcastle buyout

[Trix]

Speaking to former Villa Director last night and he thinks this could end up being a good thing in the long run. Said the old guard of big clubs are pushing hard now to get wage caps introduced based on generated income. Of course they are only looking after themselves but they know they will get the backing of all but a small handful of clubs should they manage to get it to the table.

 

[Tucker]

Newcastle fans rightfully buzzing this morning - imagine waking up to this news, i'd most probably be delighted if this was Spurs, and very few of them will care where the money comes from.

agree with many of the comments above - it's bad news for us.

I’d be gutted if this was Spurs. It’d literally be like hollowing out the clubs soul and replacing it with the worst possible kind of manufactured success.

This isn’t just about football.

 

[Gbspurs]

Will be interesting to watch Newcastle next season with Haaland and Mbappé upfront.

It will take a while to get to that point. Look at the early Man City and Chelsea signings.

 

[luptic]

Wonderful times for Newcastle fans, but what could the PL do? They want this to be a richer league, and now with the additions of the Saudis it is. Just another entity trying to launder their cash/imagine in the UK, just another UK asset in the hands of a foreign investor.
I can see the like of Liverpool, Arsenal & ourselves being concerned at another Club with endless cash.
I am sure the likes of plastic SSN will be loving this morning.

 

[cookiemonster]

It will take a while to get to that point. Look at the early Man City and Chelsea signings.

Man City & Chelsea owners are nowhere near this lot though

I think it will happen very fast

 

[Dov67]

Another thing to consider if this goes through and they do get away with spending ott, they have 3 major financial competitors.

They are going to have to compete against 3 financial powerhouses plus us, Pool and Scum all who have excellent revenues.

There will come a point where there so many sugar daddy types it will all even out, just at much higher prices for transfers and wages etc.

I do fear the game is going to die in the coming years though. Everyone who has allowed these owners to come in to clubs should be ashamed of themselves.

We could be a football powerhouse club but have made a conscious decision NOT to be. Same goes for the goons.

I wasn’t expecting to qualify for the champions league at all in the next 5 years, and I wasn’t expecting to see us win the title in my lifetime (I am 53), but with 3 financially doped fake plastic clubs in the premier league, and only 4 champions league places, those chances are even lower than they were a week ago.

I’m sure Newcastle fans are super excited after over a decade with Ashley at the helm and who could blame them, but for us its really really depressing

 

[Amo]

Man City & Chelsea owners are nowhere near this lot though

I think it will happen very fast

What do you mean? If the City owners had a chance of signing Haarland for 300m at the time, they would have. Chelsea broke football in one window when he first came on.

At the levels they're talking about, ten billion here or there is no object.

 

[spursfan77]

Wonderful times for Newcastle fans, but what could the PL do? They want this to be a Rich league, and now with the additions of the Saudis it is. Just another entity trying to launder their cash/imagine in the UK, just another UK asset in the hands of a foreign investor.
I can see the like of Liverpool, Arsenal & ourselves being concerned at another Club with endless cash.
I am sure the likes plastic SSN will be loving this morning.

I suspect they were all on the phone to each other yesterday along with the Manchester clubs and Chelsea. None of them will be wanting this. In regards to the three you mentioned, the first thing to do is to refuse to sell them players just like we did with Man City and Kane this summer.

Plus all the other 19 PL clubs will be shitting themselves that wages and transfer fees are about to be artificially inflated again just at a time when lots are recovering from the effects of covid. If it has to be ratified by the other 19 clubs, the questions, will they do it?

 

[Dov67]

Interesting thought - would this deal have happened if the Super League had gone ahead, with Newcastle locked out?

 

[Deleted member 29446]

If our owner was Mike Ashley, i'd probably be buzzing to.

 

[Amo]

Interesting thought - would this deal have happened if the Super League had gone ahead, with Newcastle locked out?

Probably factored into the calculations for City when joining.

 

[Marty]

Speaking to former Villa Director last night and he thinks this could end up being a good thing in the long run. Said the old guard of big clubs are pushing hard now to get wage caps introduced based on generated income. Of course they are only looking after themselves but they know they will get the backing of all but a small handful of clubs should they manage to get it to the table.

That would be a huge win tbh, let's hope it happens.

 

[luptic]

It will be interesting to see their transfer plans... But ultimately only the agents will benefit from this. With Mendes being involved somehow.

 

[Monkey boy]

I'd like to see a billionaire create a new league, tbh, with rules and regulations that reflect the real football fans' sentiments on the game.

It would be great if this benefactor built twenty 10000-seater stadiums across the country, located them in traditionally working class areas, made sure that each of the clubs were registered as charitable trusts with fan membership on the board, had wage caps and transfer spending limits, strict regulations on sponsorship and rules against political or social ideologies being promoted. Proper football again, open to all!

Ticket price caps would help as well, which would be made easier if the clubs were not for profit organisations.

If I was a billionnaire (he says lol) I think something like this would be more interesting than buying a PL club, tbh.

Or you could just go and support a lower league club?

 

[Metalhead]

Yeah I used to go to Dulwich Hamlet but it doesn’t feel the same when they win/lose/draw. I just shrug my shoulders and enjoy the social (beer) aspect to it.

No, you wouldn't because Tottenham are your first love. I don't honestly know how Dulwich are doing but say with Gateshead, they do actually play some great attacking football and are well placed for a promotion push to the conference so I do feel invested in them doing well. Unfortunately the one small drawback is that they use an athletics stadium, which is very big for a club their size but it's the same issue as West Ham have with the running track separating the stands from the pitch.

 

[wirE]

«The £300 million takeover, with Premier League approval, would almost certainly provoke a furious reaction from human-rights groups.

Newcastle supporters, however, have been celebrating the development, hoping that it will give the club similar spending power to Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain»

it is what it is, I guess ??‍

Newcastle takeover: We can be as big as Man City and PSG, insist new owners

Amanda Staveley declared that Newcastle United can become as big as Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain after the £305 million Saudi Arabia-financed takeov

www.thetimes.co.uk

 

[Monkey boy]

Speaking to former Villa Director last night and he thinks this could end up being a good thing in the long run. Said the old guard of big clubs are pushing hard now to get wage caps introduced based on generated income. Of course they are only looking after themselves but they know they will get the backing of all but a small handful of clubs should they manage to get it to the table.

As with anything FFP they'd just find a way around it somehow. Paying a massive signing on fee or something or employing a "family member" in some made up job.

I wonder what happens to the "normal" day to day staff like the admins in the ticket office etc. in a case like this. Imagine coming in to find that the owners have tripled your wages over night. In the grand scheme of things it would be very little outlay for them but a brilliant way of getting even more good publicity.

 

[Buggsy61]

Oxford United are my second team - one half of my family is from London and the other half from Oxfordshire, so I go and see them at least twice a season. It’s hard sometimes watching the drop in standard though - 5 yard passes going out for throw ins and pub standard defending and finishing.
Spurs will always be my first love though, and let’s face it most of us are hooked for life now, just not sure I want to keep pumping my own money into the top echelon of the game that feels rotten to the core. Even before all this I was thinking more and more every time renewals came around, when 20 years ago it was automatic.

 

[Tucker]

As with anything FFP they'd just find a way around it somehow. Paying a massive signing on fee or something or employing a "family member" in some made up job.

I wonder what happens to the "normal" day to day staff like the admins in the ticket office etc. in a case like this. Imagine coming in to find that the owners have tripled your wages over night. In the grand scheme of things it would be very little outlay for them but a brilliant way of getting even more good publicity.

Yeah, Newcastle United don’t need to break any potential wage cap if the Saudi Tourist board employ Neymar as an ambassador on £10million a month.

Wage caps and FFP are basically meaningless when you have a country that’s determined to fund this kind of thing.

 

[DanielJohnCosta]

the already difficult top 4 has just become a hell of a lot harder - let's see if our 'ambitious' owners have the balls to actually push the club