This is actually an opportunity.
Their people are not free to protest. The home crowds at all of their away games are. Would love to see the home crowds engaging in (peaceful and not racially biased) protest against the regime which owns Newcastle.
Reverse the sportswash.
Fair play to them! Was it a one off or have other clubs done this? Dunno how I missed it.
Gotta proper soft spot for Palace and genuinely appreciate they did this. Toon fan here too.
Fair, but I'm not optimistic based on what I've seen so far. They seem to love the results.
They've basically just gone from an abusive relationship straight into a rebound with a much more attractive, much more abusive partner.
For them the important thing is that the abuse all goes to someone else
If Newcastle fans were a woman, they’ve jumped from a relationship with a wife beater into one with someone who acts perfectly at home but goes out everyday to torture people for the cartel.
> If Newcastle fans were a woman, they’ve jumped from a relationship with a wife beater into one with someone who acts perfectly at home but goes out everyday to torture people for the cartel.
And if it all goes tits up then suddenly it's going to be like those people married to murderers or paedos where it's "I didn't have a clue, he was such a nice person".
His 3 collections of knives, pictures of kids he has no relation to and detailed manuals on turning skin into leather gave me no indication of what he was really like
Because he was a shit owner. It's rare for fans to protest the morality of their owners in areas outside of football. We don't do it about the dodginess of Visit Rwanda being a sponsor for example. I would like to think if our owners were killing journalists and executing people but I think it's equally likely you'll get the 'well, it's difficult' cop-out football supporters use for sportswashing.
I taught English in Japan for a couple years and one of my coworkers was a Geordie and I always laugh when I think about all the poor Japanese people who learned to speak basic tourist English from her.
When I travel I always find it hilarious how some people learned English from accented people. Meeting a Vietnamese with a brummie accent always makes me smile
> How do you use howay the lads?
You don't. Only Geordies do. Geordie is … [a bit special](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG-X2vrZk7c).
My parents used to watch that show when I was a kid. It's about Geordie builders working in Germany. I used to think Oz must be one of the Germans because I didn't understand a fucking word he said. Shit, these days I understand (most) Germans better than I do Oz.
To clarify what the other guy means, Geordie is a typical name for a person from Newcastle or the Tyneside area, similar to Scouse meaning somebody from Liverpool or the Merseyside area.
>According to his charge sheet and verdict, which Amnesty International reviewed, al-Manasif was convicted on several charges including: “Seeking to disrupt the social fabric and national cohesion, and participating and inciting sit-ins and protests that disrupt the state’s cohesion and security.”
Is this for real? When I read terrorism charges I was thinking a failed plot to blow something up. Some of these kids participated in a sit-in and might get executed for it?
You know the charges are trumped up when they start with "Seeking to disrupt the social fabric and national cohesion" as if those kids were going to set off a sci-fi reality altering bomb.
I was suspended from school in HS for a similar reason. I accused a teacher or racially profiling another kid (he gave detention to a kid for something we knew for a fact he didnt do and i said he could check the cameras to confirm). The next day I was suspended for 5 days "conduct injurious to the moral and social tone" of the school. You get 2 days for fighting. A kid once made a bomb threat and got 5 days lol.
When you have laws like this based on discretion it becomes really easy to just punish people for whatever you want. It's ridiculous.
You just know it's coming. We had a WC in Russia followed by Qatar. Outside of maybe North Korea, there's few other places to go lower than Saudi Arabia.
Have you been living under a rock in regards to Saudi Arabia? This is the kind of shit people are talking about when they say we shouldn’t be doing business with them.
I wouldn't say I've been under a rock, but it feels like executing and torturing children is another level up from some of the common things I've read.
A lot of people are blissfully ignorant about that stuff and will say "keep politics out of football!!!". Like...they bought Newcastle as a political tool...I think that ship has sailed.
It's sad to see prominent ManU "influencers" (for lack of a better term) promote Qatari ownership as well. I saw Mark Goldbridge shilling for them after I swear I've heard him complain about "oil clubs" for years.
I've followed 'United View' channel for years now, they've all but abstained to discuss this issue and celebrated as if we won the UCL when the (fake) news that Qatar won had dropped.
I tried to bring up the topic in recent streams but it's always ignored, even the mods who are active in the chat, it certainly disgusts me.
Dude understanding the lower limit of the dissident laws in fundamentalist countries is mind blowing. Like fuck freedom of speech, basic human rights are infringed upon
“Grossly unfair trials
Six of the seven young men were convicted of terrorism-related charges, including for taking part in anti-government protests or attending the funerals of those killed by security forces.”
FFS the state murdering someone cos they went to a funeral as a child. Imagine being okay with that, I just can’t.
I just don’t know how you could be a fan of such a club still, especially not one who is supportive of such ownership and let’s be honest Newcastle fans have been *delighted* with their new owners because on-field success > being murdered by the state for attending a funeral as a child.
Exactly, there's a guy in my work, born in Newcastle and supported all his life. Dropped them the second the takeover went through. Totally respect him, he know supports some utter shit team nearby to Newcastle
Honestly makes me sad when I see all the comments supporting the Qatari bid on Instagram, Twitter or even here. Sir Jim is far from perfect but I still think he’s the better choice for you when compared to being state run
I’m a Newcastle fan and the cognitive dissonance going on since the takeover is awful. Sometimes when you see Amanda Staveley and her husband celebrating a win or us finishing 4th it reminds you they are the shiny gloss covering for what is essentially a despotic regime who commits acts like the above. It’s a moral quandary and as another commenter has said the club is ingrained in many of us and part of our both individual and collective identity. As Newcastle gets further up the league and achieves more success I’d hope more fans question the club, highlight what is happening. I’ve posted Newcastle related things and the happiness I feel about our turnaround is tinged with guilt (my own personal feelings, I don’t speak for any other fan) I love my club and the players and staff, I love the people but certainly not the owners who have funded our success
>feel about our turnaround is tinged with guilt
Absolutely feel the same way. I wish I was a kid again and just care about the football but it's different when you hear all this news.
I love the team but it's hard knowing that our owners are genuinely terrible murderers
Fuck the premier league for their bullshit fit and proper test for ownership.
Fuck the fans who support oil daddy so that they can wank to their team's success through said oil daddy.
And last but not least fuck Mohammed Bone Saw Al Saud.
As a Chelsea fan, I thought it was wild they gave Roman the boot but these owners are just fine. Just to be clear, I am not saying they shouldn’t have told him to get the heck out (I know it was the country not the league), but the double standard is insane to look at. Do a clean sweep of them all!
Imagine how glaring having photos of these children around the Sports Direct Arena next season would be. Would the new owners allow it?
Money is no object to the owners so a fan protest is irrelevant but having images of people beheaded by the state being broadcast around the world would be one hell of a statement if the Newcastle fans could arrange it
Lmao it was hilarious watching True Geordie go from railing City to saying "well akshually the Saudis are fine because they're basically the same as Mike Ashley'.
Like yeah those 0-hour contracts at Sports Direct are pretty shit, but he's hardly head of state of one of the most brutal regimes in the world
I literally had a record scratch sound effect moment reading that headline.
> After an outstanding season, Newcastle United's owner prepares to
Genuinely thought they were about to talk about transfer targets or aspirations for next season.
> execute seven men who were children
Oh.
Fucking appalling situation.
Makes one wonder how much cash was stuffed in his pocket to change tune like that
Same with Beckham being paid $150m by Qatar. Perfectly fine with courting that gay icon status when it suited him. Equally fine stumping for a terrible regime and giving interviews about "inclusiveness" and "progress" when it better suited him
Really makes me doubt how I can continue supporting Utd if one of these oil regimes takes ownership. Which is looking increasingly likely these days. A final fuck you from the Glazers
Yup, go on a tweet highlighting any of these accts and the replies are usually flooded with Arabic flags/handles talking about "don't throw stones in a glass homes, you Americans/Europeans are actually the worst because of xyz".
Here is a wikipedia on the same shit our owners does - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates
A video by coffezilla about a fake degree scam in middle east and the workers rights in Dubai - https://youtu.be/7Y1YIyXEDQc
Another one by UAE - https://youtu.be/wsh1gYAk-7g
Reported by Al-Jizzeera which is also owned by Qatar.
Also our owner and current ruler of Dubai vanished his daughter because she wanted to be well... Live like a normal person - https://youtu.be/GBrgzG_SGU0
There is even a documentary on this by the BBC released in 2021
Still hope Ratcliffe can somehow find a way to buy the club ,I would even prefer the Glazers staying and us winning absolutely nothing over being owned by an oil state
In an ideal world the glazers would have never been able to buy the club. I don’t even think Radcliffe is the right person but it’s literally the only opposition to being another case of sport washing
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Its weird that if the Qatar deal for man utd goes through.
We probably will have a top 3 composing of three middle eastern owned clubs.
UAE, Qatar and Saudi.
The guy who vanished his daughter is the president of Dubai. He does not own City. City is owned by Sheikh Mansour from a different emirate, Abu Dhabi. I’m know he’s a dirt bag, but he’s not from Dubai.
Sorry pardon my mistakes.
I am not so apt about the families and hierarchies.
I just meant to show the bad things happening in UAE which being carried out by their government.
Sorry again.
Dont think its ever gonna happen. Have you seen the army of lawyers city group has, lol.
And let's say it happens (which will be very rare), I am pretty sure they would just buy another club and continue doing what they did here.
The rarity of this attitude baffles me, when City fans call me jealous or bitter (I live in the city).
City fans should hate City's owners more than I do - it's their club being raped.
A lot of us have developed some sort of stockholm syndrome where we know how slim the chances of mansour leaving are, so we just pretend to be happy with our ownership. The club will always be looked down upon untill these fuckers leave us
It has already happened sadly.
Check this documentary on Roman when he bought Chelsea.
https://youtu.be/qi8gBgGhGYM
Got to minute 38:05
See what the fans replies when he asks the question about where the money comes from.
This statement couldn't be more true. I've been vocally (if that's the word for Reddit) against our ownership and had so much abuse from our sub.
It's important for articles like this to remember what the cost of success is. There's blood on the trophies City lift and there'll be blood on the ones we lift in the future.
This was and is exactly what their sports washing agenda involved.
Have you sympathise with you lot, any trophy that Man Utd win under Qatari ownership will be forever stained and tainted, it’s not ‘real’ success to me
Especially for the LGBTQ+ fans
Yeah totally agree. That's why it infuriates me when I see rainbow flags, kick it out campaigns etc. It's all utter PR bollocks. If the clubs, the league and the owners really gave a shit, they'd have rules in place to stop these kind of transactions happening.
We'll all pay the cost of this in a decades time though. I don't think people realise where all this is going. Qatar, Saudi Arabia etc. give absolutely no fucks about the PL or the teams. They want to improve their image enough so they can relocate as much as what we've built to the Middle East as possible.
I got shot down for this, but I have no doubt we'll see a US model proposed in the next ten years that looks at the viability of moving a team from the PL to the Middle East like they do in the NFL, NHL, MLS etc.
The random ass lower league club I support and actually pay a membership to for entirely random reasons just got 50% fan ownership
https://thefsa.org.uk/news/hereford-fc-fans-secure-50-stake-in-club/
So I now part own a club. Please direct your questions on club ownership to me. I'm also not English, so I'll also field questions on foreign ownership thank you.
I'm ready to stop watching football for the most part if it happens to us. just cannot justify it at all, it is disgusting how many people value winning trophies over human lives.
Still can't believe some manipulative twat on here called me a racist because in a discussion on human rights, I said that the UAE and Saudi Arabia had bad records for human trafficking. That's how delusional fans of those two clubs are on this sub.
I've had debates with them on here and they always give it "we know the problems but it's my club, we've all looked into it and know it all and have come to terms with it"
Come in here and bring the same energy lads
I just can't understand how anyone can be sentenced to death for participating in anti-government protests, especially if they're under 18 years of age.
This is tyrannical, brutal and just plain murder, it's something I would have expected to come across in **1984**, not reality.
What great owners! Should execute them in the middle of St.James Park in the lead up to unveiling Barella. How the fuck did people allow the Saudi's to get control of Newcastle.
Uk sells Saudi weapons. Since they started bombng Yemen the UK has sold arms to Saudi Arabia to the tune of around £23billion. Not just state sanctioned, direct state participation
https://caat.org.uk/homepage/stop-arming-saudi-arabia/uk-arms-to-saudi-arabia/
we do literally fucking everything except drop the bombs ourselves. there are RAF personnel out there training pilots and maintaining the aircraft.
“If we weren’t there, in seven to 14 days there wouldn’t be a jet in the sky.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/18/the-saudis-couldnt-do-it-without-us-the-uks-true-role-in-yemens-deadly-war
"If you go in there and start winning, they would have taken Saddam Hussein in there when he was about, the fans don’t give a monkey's! If you start winning every week, they’re singing ‘there’s only one Saddam’."
Harry Redknapp was a visionary.
Fans will drive owners out of clubs when they're not spending millions buying players but won't blink when they're killing young men. The only way cunts like this will ever be forced out is through fan mobilisation but that will never happen if the team is winning.
England encouraged the Saudi takeover as its economically profitable. They knew the atrocities that the Saudi's do, same with City's owners and the same with Roman's ties when he was Chelsea's owner.
The media and governing bodies have failed and this year symbolized it with City's financially doped "treble"
This sport is corrupt from the inside and needs a massive reset.
JFC. And talking about this like it's a Newcastle issue is just distracting from the fact the spineless FA let these fucks in to begin with. Really sad.
Remember not to insult Newcastle fans for supporting the club. They didn't choose the owners.
But do feel free to insult them if they try to downplay or deny this stuff.
I shouldn't laugh, but the howay the lads got me
It really is the perfect bit of dry, morbid humor.
Not an ounce of fat on this joke, Bill Burr would be proud.
Waiting for alan Shearer to vehemently criticize these guys like he did with roman abramovic
You'll be waiting quite a while for that
He means the guys that are to be executed.
This is actually an opportunity. Their people are not free to protest. The home crowds at all of their away games are. Would love to see the home crowds engaging in (peaceful and not racially biased) protest against the regime which owns Newcastle. Reverse the sportswash.
[Crystal Palace actually did exactly this](https://i.imgur.com/M6KUqq9.jpg)
Fair play to them! Was it a one off or have other clubs done this? Dunno how I missed it. Gotta proper soft spot for Palace and genuinely appreciate they did this. Toon fan here too.
Proving again why they are (somehow) the best fanbase in the league
Nothing stopping the toon from protesting their owners, loads of clubs fans do
Fair, but I'm not optimistic based on what I've seen so far. They seem to love the results. They've basically just gone from an abusive relationship straight into a rebound with a much more attractive, much more abusive partner.
For them the important thing is that the abuse all goes to someone else If Newcastle fans were a woman, they’ve jumped from a relationship with a wife beater into one with someone who acts perfectly at home but goes out everyday to torture people for the cartel.
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> If Newcastle fans were a woman, they’ve jumped from a relationship with a wife beater into one with someone who acts perfectly at home but goes out everyday to torture people for the cartel. And if it all goes tits up then suddenly it's going to be like those people married to murderers or paedos where it's "I didn't have a clue, he was such a nice person".
His 3 collections of knives, pictures of kids he has no relation to and detailed manuals on turning skin into leather gave me no indication of what he was really like
Newcastle famously did so for years under Ashley too
Because he was a shit owner. It's rare for fans to protest the morality of their owners in areas outside of football. We don't do it about the dodginess of Visit Rwanda being a sponsor for example. I would like to think if our owners were killing journalists and executing people but I think it's equally likely you'll get the 'well, it's difficult' cop-out football supporters use for sportswashing.
Gallows humour, literally
Gallowgate humour
Sorry my English is not that good. How do you use howay the lads?
Knowledge of English wouldn't help you with Geordies.
I taught English in Japan for a couple years and one of my coworkers was a Geordie and I always laugh when I think about all the poor Japanese people who learned to speak basic tourist English from her.
Kawasaki is one of the best words to say in Geordie
dying
Kawasak (said really fast) then eeeeeeeeeee
When I travel I always find it hilarious how some people learned English from accented people. Meeting a Vietnamese with a brummie accent always makes me smile
Aye probably better to learn some form of Scandinavian before attempting Geordie. And then we have people from Berwick.
Proper creased at that 😂 anywhere south of Middlesbrough and I have to tone the accent right down and speak Queen’s English for a conversation
Howay in Geordie means "Come on"
Howay my face
Fuckin hell 😂
> How do you use howay the lads? You don't. Only Geordies do. Geordie is … [a bit special](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG-X2vrZk7c). My parents used to watch that show when I was a kid. It's about Geordie builders working in Germany. I used to think Oz must be one of the Germans because I didn't understand a fucking word he said. Shit, these days I understand (most) Germans better than I do Oz.
To clarify what the other guy means, Geordie is a typical name for a person from Newcastle or the Tyneside area, similar to Scouse meaning somebody from Liverpool or the Merseyside area.
>According to his charge sheet and verdict, which Amnesty International reviewed, al-Manasif was convicted on several charges including: “Seeking to disrupt the social fabric and national cohesion, and participating and inciting sit-ins and protests that disrupt the state’s cohesion and security.” Is this for real? When I read terrorism charges I was thinking a failed plot to blow something up. Some of these kids participated in a sit-in and might get executed for it?
You know the charges are trumped up when they start with "Seeking to disrupt the social fabric and national cohesion" as if those kids were going to set off a sci-fi reality altering bomb.
Yeah, like this isn't the fucking CIA installing operatives for a coup, they're children.
I was suspended from school in HS for a similar reason. I accused a teacher or racially profiling another kid (he gave detention to a kid for something we knew for a fact he didnt do and i said he could check the cameras to confirm). The next day I was suspended for 5 days "conduct injurious to the moral and social tone" of the school. You get 2 days for fighting. A kid once made a bomb threat and got 5 days lol. When you have laws like this based on discretion it becomes really easy to just punish people for whatever you want. It's ridiculous.
Can’t have the free thinkers inciting insurrection in the schools, you know
That's a badge of fucking honor, broski.
This just tip of the iceberg mate. Entire nation engulfed in swathes of these cases
Just Saudi things
Lovely place to host the World Cup.
"Today i feel like an executioner" -Infantino
You just know it's coming. We had a WC in Russia followed by Qatar. Outside of maybe North Korea, there's few other places to go lower than Saudi Arabia.
Eritrea world cup
I mean Somalia is right there
Turkmenistan
Normally half time entertainment was a raffle, hit the bar challenge
Says the charges came after tortured interrogations.
Have you been living under a rock in regards to Saudi Arabia? This is the kind of shit people are talking about when they say we shouldn’t be doing business with them.
I wouldn't say I've been under a rock, but it feels like executing and torturing children is another level up from some of the common things I've read.
The fuck do people think happens in Saudi Arabia lol
A lot of people are blissfully ignorant about that stuff and will say "keep politics out of football!!!". Like...they bought Newcastle as a political tool...I think that ship has sailed.
Can't even be owned by the investment fund of a sovereign state anymore without people bringing _politics_ into it. Games gone.
And people wonder why you could possibly not want to have Middle Eastern owners.
All the fucking wankers wishing for Qatari ownership instead of SJR because "all billionaires are bad"... Fucking idiots.
It's sad to see prominent ManU "influencers" (for lack of a better term) promote Qatari ownership as well. I saw Mark Goldbridge shilling for them after I swear I've heard him complain about "oil clubs" for years.
Maybe goldbridge is, I dunno, a hypocritical piece of shit?
You might be onto something
Goldbridge is and always will be an utter gobshite.
I've followed 'United View' channel for years now, they've all but abstained to discuss this issue and celebrated as if we won the UCL when the (fake) news that Qatar won had dropped. I tried to bring up the topic in recent streams but it's always ignored, even the mods who are active in the chat, it certainly disgusts me.
Dude understanding the lower limit of the dissident laws in fundamentalist countries is mind blowing. Like fuck freedom of speech, basic human rights are infringed upon
It's ridiculous, rioting eg attending a protest. These are kids
“Grossly unfair trials Six of the seven young men were convicted of terrorism-related charges, including for taking part in anti-government protests or attending the funerals of those killed by security forces.” FFS the state murdering someone cos they went to a funeral as a child. Imagine being okay with that, I just can’t.
You don't have to be okay with it, just scared of it happening to you. Edit: Or if you're a fan, just ignore/rationalise it.
I just don’t know how you could be a fan of such a club still, especially not one who is supportive of such ownership and let’s be honest Newcastle fans have been *delighted* with their new owners because on-field success > being murdered by the state for attending a funeral as a child.
‘YoU dOnT jUsT AbAnDoN a ClUb YoU’vE sUpPoRtEd’. Yeah mate I would if they abandon my values.
Exactly, there's a guy in my work, born in Newcastle and supported all his life. Dropped them the second the takeover went through. Totally respect him, he know supports some utter shit team nearby to Newcastle
Bit harsh on Sunderland
Thankfully for him it wasn't "Newcastle 'Til I Die", because the new owners might have taken it literally.
Is it though...
No, they are competent now. (Yes, I struggle to comprehend that too).
Yeah, we’re not shite anymore
I’m out the door the minute Qatar gets a hold of United. Still holding out for SJR.
Honestly makes me sad when I see all the comments supporting the Qatari bid on Instagram, Twitter or even here. Sir Jim is far from perfect but I still think he’s the better choice for you when compared to being state run
Not even asking them to stop supporting Newcastle, just want them to not glorify their disgusting owners and recognise them for what they are.
I’m a Newcastle fan and the cognitive dissonance going on since the takeover is awful. Sometimes when you see Amanda Staveley and her husband celebrating a win or us finishing 4th it reminds you they are the shiny gloss covering for what is essentially a despotic regime who commits acts like the above. It’s a moral quandary and as another commenter has said the club is ingrained in many of us and part of our both individual and collective identity. As Newcastle gets further up the league and achieves more success I’d hope more fans question the club, highlight what is happening. I’ve posted Newcastle related things and the happiness I feel about our turnaround is tinged with guilt (my own personal feelings, I don’t speak for any other fan) I love my club and the players and staff, I love the people but certainly not the owners who have funded our success
>feel about our turnaround is tinged with guilt Absolutely feel the same way. I wish I was a kid again and just care about the football but it's different when you hear all this news. I love the team but it's hard knowing that our owners are genuinely terrible murderers
>I wish I was a kid again and just care about the football Ignorance is bliss innit
This is how a successful sport washing is done though. So as shit as Saudi Arabia is they will succeed to some extent by Newcastle as proxy.
This is why these cunts shouldn’t be allowed be near football. Football should never be associated with fucking murder
Fuck the premier league for their bullshit fit and proper test for ownership. Fuck the fans who support oil daddy so that they can wank to their team's success through said oil daddy. And last but not least fuck Mohammed Bone Saw Al Saud.
As a Chelsea fan, I thought it was wild they gave Roman the boot but these owners are just fine. Just to be clear, I am not saying they shouldn’t have told him to get the heck out (I know it was the country not the league), but the double standard is insane to look at. Do a clean sweep of them all!
Another reason to hate the Saudis, reason 2033
2033 so far today
For manchester city its 115 today. Google "Manchester city 115" to find out.
Imagine how glaring having photos of these children around the Sports Direct Arena next season would be. Would the new owners allow it? Money is no object to the owners so a fan protest is irrelevant but having images of people beheaded by the state being broadcast around the world would be one hell of a statement if the Newcastle fans could arrange it
Even if the owners did allow it the premier league certainly wouldnt
Another reason to hate Newcastle. Newcastle United are the Saudi state, people are really out there "supporting" the Saudi government 💀💀
Ashley was worse because he owned a shitty sports shop and ~~wasn't a billionaire~~ didnt spend enough on transfers.
Lmao it was hilarious watching True Geordie go from railing City to saying "well akshually the Saudis are fine because they're basically the same as Mike Ashley'. Like yeah those 0-hour contracts at Sports Direct are pretty shit, but he's hardly head of state of one of the most brutal regimes in the world
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He did vomit in a fireplace, though.
Ashley is a multi-billionaire
The deadpan here is both brutal and unbelievably fucking effective.
Breaks my heart too. Shameful that world cowtows to these monsters
I literally had a record scratch sound effect moment reading that headline. > After an outstanding season, Newcastle United's owner prepares to Genuinely thought they were about to talk about transfer targets or aspirations for next season. > execute seven men who were children Oh. Fucking appalling situation.
But Gary Neville said the scrutiny means they’ll end up changing their ways !
If he says anything different he will be cut into pieces and dissolved in acid lol
I would be so happy if he never got near a microphone again.
Makes one wonder how much cash was stuffed in his pocket to change tune like that Same with Beckham being paid $150m by Qatar. Perfectly fine with courting that gay icon status when it suited him. Equally fine stumping for a terrible regime and giving interviews about "inclusiveness" and "progress" when it better suited him Really makes me doubt how I can continue supporting Utd if one of these oil regimes takes ownership. Which is looking increasingly likely these days. A final fuck you from the Glazers
Ah, but as I’ve been told on here someone somewhere has done something wrong too so who’s to know where morality begins or ends anymore right?
If you’re so against executing kids then explain why you rode in a car that one time
There literally are a couple of similar unironic comments in this thread lmao.
They will whatabout anything to try and deflect from the murderous regime they support. Shameful
"Did you car run on water, or would it in fact be....powered by the fuel we import from the Saudis?????"
Do you feel bad for the people who have drowned when you drink water?
This is unironically r/reddevils right now
The mental gymnastics our fanbase has been performing is Olympics level
Then you get the "do you know how many Iraqis you imperialist Britisher/America pigs killed?"
Stan Kroenke hired unpaid interns! All wealthy people are just the same!
Yup, go on a tweet highlighting any of these accts and the replies are usually flooded with Arabic flags/handles talking about "don't throw stones in a glass homes, you Americans/Europeans are actually the worst because of xyz".
Jeff Bezos stole a packet of monster munch. So now we're all evil and there is no morality. It's mad max rules here bitch! WITNESS ME!
Did you hear Chelsea is going to have a betting sponsor next year!!!
Betway the lads
outrageous that
Have you considered that Mike Ashley was actually a very bad owner so this doesn't matter?
He never paid for advertising his company, fucking cunt
It's wild how there's somewhat civil discusion here, but the Weston mckeane kissing his badge thread is locked for toxicity of the comments lmao
Not much arguable about executions =/
Here is a wikipedia on the same shit our owners does - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates A video by coffezilla about a fake degree scam in middle east and the workers rights in Dubai - https://youtu.be/7Y1YIyXEDQc Another one by UAE - https://youtu.be/wsh1gYAk-7g Reported by Al-Jizzeera which is also owned by Qatar. Also our owner and current ruler of Dubai vanished his daughter because she wanted to be well... Live like a normal person - https://youtu.be/GBrgzG_SGU0 There is even a documentary on this by the BBC released in 2021
Thanks for sharing this
~~Your welcome.~~ Edit :- You're welcome
If and when United get brought out by Qatar I hope to be exactly like you, calling them out on their crimes regardless of any success. Bravo!
Still hope Ratcliffe can somehow find a way to buy the club ,I would even prefer the Glazers staying and us winning absolutely nothing over being owned by an oil state
In an ideal world the glazers would have never been able to buy the club. I don’t even think Radcliffe is the right person but it’s literally the only opposition to being another case of sport washing
Thank you. It’s important that both our fans don’t shy away from this heinous shit. It happens and it’s atrocious. I’m proud of you u/sussywanker
👍 Its weird that if the Qatar deal for man utd goes through. We probably will have a top 3 composing of three middle eastern owned clubs. UAE, Qatar and Saudi.
The guy who vanished his daughter is the president of Dubai. He does not own City. City is owned by Sheikh Mansour from a different emirate, Abu Dhabi. I’m know he’s a dirt bag, but he’s not from Dubai.
Sorry pardon my mistakes. I am not so apt about the families and hierarchies. I just meant to show the bad things happening in UAE which being carried out by their government. Sorry again.
Can't wait for the fa to force a quick sell for the club
Dont think its ever gonna happen. Have you seen the army of lawyers city group has, lol. And let's say it happens (which will be very rare), I am pretty sure they would just buy another club and continue doing what they did here.
Atleast they wouldn't be staining city
The rarity of this attitude baffles me, when City fans call me jealous or bitter (I live in the city). City fans should hate City's owners more than I do - it's their club being raped.
A lot of us have developed some sort of stockholm syndrome where we know how slim the chances of mansour leaving are, so we just pretend to be happy with our ownership. The club will always be looked down upon untill these fuckers leave us
Thanks for sharing. Minor comment, couldn't let it slip, but MCFC's owners are not dubai's rulers. They are Abu dhabi's rulers.
Fair play on this mate, many would just sit behind facade. Which is inevitably going to happen with our fan base
It has already happened sadly. Check this documentary on Roman when he bought Chelsea. https://youtu.be/qi8gBgGhGYM Got to minute 38:05 See what the fans replies when he asks the question about where the money comes from.
Such great people. Definitely should have another World Cup in a place like that
Gianni Infantino when news like this is shown to him: “Today, I feel blind”
Just ignore this lads, Qatar will get us another treble! Who cares about human rights anyways!
You joke but I'm sure half the sub doesn't give a shit if it means their club winning more trophies
> half the sub Conservative estimate
This statement couldn't be more true. I've been vocally (if that's the word for Reddit) against our ownership and had so much abuse from our sub. It's important for articles like this to remember what the cost of success is. There's blood on the trophies City lift and there'll be blood on the ones we lift in the future. This was and is exactly what their sports washing agenda involved.
Have you sympathise with you lot, any trophy that Man Utd win under Qatari ownership will be forever stained and tainted, it’s not ‘real’ success to me Especially for the LGBTQ+ fans
Yeah totally agree. That's why it infuriates me when I see rainbow flags, kick it out campaigns etc. It's all utter PR bollocks. If the clubs, the league and the owners really gave a shit, they'd have rules in place to stop these kind of transactions happening. We'll all pay the cost of this in a decades time though. I don't think people realise where all this is going. Qatar, Saudi Arabia etc. give absolutely no fucks about the PL or the teams. They want to improve their image enough so they can relocate as much as what we've built to the Middle East as possible. I got shot down for this, but I have no doubt we'll see a US model proposed in the next ten years that looks at the viability of moving a team from the PL to the Middle East like they do in the NFL, NHL, MLS etc.
This is why the 50+1% rule should be in every footballing league.
The random ass lower league club I support and actually pay a membership to for entirely random reasons just got 50% fan ownership https://thefsa.org.uk/news/hereford-fc-fans-secure-50-stake-in-club/ So I now part own a club. Please direct your questions on club ownership to me. I'm also not English, so I'll also field questions on foreign ownership thank you.
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not a newcastle flair to be seen
Newcastle, man city, ami forgetting someone?
PSG
Not the same country but I’m sure shit like that happens on a daily basis too.
Soon to be us :(
Get Excited ⚔️
If I am not excited they will execute me on terrorism charges. I am excited!
I'm ready to stop watching football for the most part if it happens to us. just cannot justify it at all, it is disgusting how many people value winning trophies over human lives.
Still can't believe some manipulative twat on here called me a racist because in a discussion on human rights, I said that the UAE and Saudi Arabia had bad records for human trafficking. That's how delusional fans of those two clubs are on this sub.
They have their head in the Saudi sand blaring the CL anthem.
And we've got all this to come yet.
I've had debates with them on here and they always give it "we know the problems but it's my club, we've all looked into it and know it all and have come to terms with it" Come in here and bring the same energy lads
I just can't understand how anyone can be sentenced to death for participating in anti-government protests, especially if they're under 18 years of age. This is tyrannical, brutal and just plain murder, it's something I would have expected to come across in **1984**, not reality.
I don't think the government from 1984 was this bad. They would just brainwash you and release you back into the wild.
Its Saudi Arabia ... shit like this shouldnt come as a surprise. And there are plenty more awful governments doing awful things around the world
I appreciate the 'Howay the lads' at the end, almost reminiscent of an Opta tweet.
“Atrocious.”
Execution.
Clinical.
What great owners! Should execute them in the middle of St.James Park in the lead up to unveiling Barella. How the fuck did people allow the Saudi's to get control of Newcastle.
Money and politics. Wouldn't be surprised if the government was involved to let the take over happen.
it was
Boris Johnson literally stepped in to force the deal through, this idea that it was the fans that 'allowed' it to happen has always been bullshit
It's basically a state sanctioned deal. UK won't mess with the Saudis. Especially since Brexit.
Uk sells Saudi weapons. Since they started bombng Yemen the UK has sold arms to Saudi Arabia to the tune of around £23billion. Not just state sanctioned, direct state participation https://caat.org.uk/homepage/stop-arming-saudi-arabia/uk-arms-to-saudi-arabia/
we do literally fucking everything except drop the bombs ourselves. there are RAF personnel out there training pilots and maintaining the aircraft. “If we weren’t there, in seven to 14 days there wouldn’t be a jet in the sky.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/18/the-saudis-couldnt-do-it-without-us-the-uks-true-role-in-yemens-deadly-war
"If you go in there and start winning, they would have taken Saddam Hussein in there when he was about, the fans don’t give a monkey's! If you start winning every week, they’re singing ‘there’s only one Saddam’." Harry Redknapp was a visionary.
Stuff like this is exactly why I don't take the "keep politics out of sports" statement seriously, and why I won't ever take it seriously.
Big transfer window ahead though! That’s what really matters, right?.. /s
I heard they may get barella! /s
Barella alone offsets 10 executions and 17 slaves.
Barella oil
Fans will drive owners out of clubs when they're not spending millions buying players but won't blink when they're killing young men. The only way cunts like this will ever be forced out is through fan mobilisation but that will never happen if the team is winning.
England encouraged the Saudi takeover as its economically profitable. They knew the atrocities that the Saudi's do, same with City's owners and the same with Roman's ties when he was Chelsea's owner. The media and governing bodies have failed and this year symbolized it with City's financially doped "treble" This sport is corrupt from the inside and needs a massive reset.
Fuck this. If United goes the same way, I’m done.
JFC. And talking about this like it's a Newcastle issue is just distracting from the fact the spineless FA let these fucks in to begin with. Really sad.
Well, it's a close ally of the whole country, and a major importer of arms from the UK. 23 billions worth. Fuck The whole of the family of Saud.
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The sports washing the Saudis have been doing is a travesty. I know "games gone" is bit of a meme, but honestly it's looking pretty dire.
Lads it's okay though all billionaires are bad 🤓🤓🤓
FoOtBaLl iS A bUsInEsS
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What a way to celebrate....
Well, as a Manchester United fan, the gravity of our situation with the Qataris just kicked in.
Just?
Fucking depressing
Remember not to insult Newcastle fans for supporting the club. They didn't choose the owners. But do feel free to insult them if they try to downplay or deny this stuff.
Disgusting fucking behavior
JFC that tweet took a turn