Is anyone else enjoying the moaning about the Saudis signing players purely for financial reasons? Oh the irony and people like Neville calling for a halt is just wonderful.
Do you not feel agitated when you’ve been price gouged with oil prices set by Saudi OPEC cartels? Neville is biased for obvious reasons, but surely the revolt should be targeted at those directly impoverishing us and then distracting us from it all with the football…
Well the BBC have given him the perfect place to highlight this even more when he becomes the new Dragon. Just think of him and Touker facing off when Touker suggests that someone needs to outsource it to China to reduce their costs!
Those pesky Saudis, they should be giving it away for free rather than exploiting the good old west and its perfectly natural healthy obsession with the motor car.
The Saudi money is slightly different to other mega rich people investing.
They're doing it as part of this constant Middle Eastern battle with Qatar. It'll also get to the point where unless you're owned by a petrol-funded state, top clubs can't compete.
Also, it runs into shady agreements as Chelsea currently have. No surprise he went over there and struck up a part ownership deal with the PIF, who are in charge of Newcastle, and has been able to sell lots of unneeded players on big fees to the Saudi league.
With all due respect football has been bank rolled by dodgy cash long before the Saudis opened their chequebooks. Just these guys have bigger chequebooks and that is what is pissing people off.
It will be fine soon. Lineaker and Neville will get a pundit job for the Saudi league soon and it will be re-branded as a great way to grow the sport whilst at the same time opening up honest conversations about human right$.
There are some donuts on twitter who have no idea whats happening / happened. This guy is giving his opinions on every team and their transfer dealings and isn't aware that Wing has already left!
There will always be the opportunity to compete, but it'll take a really magic set of circumstances, such as what happened at Liverpool.
Right manager, luck getting an outrageous high fee for Coutino, getting all the major recruitment decisions correct, and unleashing a really high energy system that totally complements the strengths of the team but hides the weaknesses of the likes of Trent Alexander.
But even Liverpool have "Only" come away with one league and one Euro cup of the biggest prizes over a 6 or 7 year span, with their best team and manager combo in 35 years. Over years it can't compete with infinite money resources of a City.
Now we see Rice going for 105m matching what Chelsea paid for their Enzo geezer.
If that's the price for above average holding mids you're worried to see what the creative mids and strikers will go for.
We're not quite at the peak of the nonsense either, that surely comes in a few years when they finally open the floodgates of allowing every game to be bought and seen live. The tv deals will be off the scale then.
No @drcongo I simply don’t rate the lad. He may be a nice lad and does a lot of running but for me he doesn’t actually do anything. I sincerely hope he proves me wrong but my belief is if we settle for that standard we will be going backwards.
He gets a few assists, but I think he'll need to develop massively to be a starter level player for the aspirations we have.
However, most of us would have put him above Al Hamadi, who has now shown he can onion bag regularly, albeit in a lower tier, so maybe he can have an emerging season?
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But at least he won’t be scoring against us this season.
There's always cup games
I've just seen that. Moving to a club that only just survived last season. Such a waste of a talent if that goes ahead
Havnt they got a new owner who's throwing a load of money at it to get them up the leagues
Yes. It’s obviously financially-driven
Perhaps we haven't got enough of the new shirts available to sign any more players?
That is, indeed, depressing.
Well at least we have TJ 🤦
Did TJay run over your cat or something?
Is anyone else enjoying the moaning about the Saudis signing players purely for financial reasons? Oh the irony and people like Neville calling for a halt is just wonderful.
Do you not feel agitated when you’ve been price gouged with oil prices set by Saudi OPEC cartels? Neville is biased for obvious reasons, but surely the revolt should be targeted at those directly impoverishing us and then distracting us from it all with the football…
Well the BBC have given him the perfect place to highlight this even more when he becomes the new Dragon. Just think of him and Touker facing off when Touker suggests that someone needs to outsource it to China to reduce their costs!
He was born in Gravesend, 10 or so miles from Gillingham so you'd imagine that has a decent factor in it too?
Those pesky Saudis, they should be giving it away for free rather than exploiting the good old west and its perfectly natural healthy obsession with the motor car.
Derby?
The Saudi money is slightly different to other mega rich people investing.
They're doing it as part of this constant Middle Eastern battle with Qatar. It'll also get to the point where unless you're owned by a petrol-funded state, top clubs can't compete.
Also, it runs into shady agreements as Chelsea currently have. No surprise he went over there and struck up a part ownership deal with the PIF, who are in charge of Newcastle, and has been able to sell lots of unneeded players on big fees to the Saudi league.
Saudi and Qatar both ultimately have the same motives, though - it's all sportswashing.
Same goes for Abu Dhabi
With all due respect football has been bank rolled by dodgy cash long before the Saudis opened their chequebooks. Just these guys have bigger chequebooks and that is what is pissing people off.
It will be fine soon. Lineaker and Neville will get a pundit job for the Saudi league soon and it will be re-branded as a great way to grow the sport whilst at the same time opening up honest conversations about human right$.
Day Three photos: Still no Forino on the, er...training pitch. Mystery player still with us.
Do I not recall this conversation going on last year and the year before ad infinitum?
There are some donuts on twitter who have no idea whats happening / happened. This guy is giving his opinions on every team and their transfer dealings and isn't aware that Wing has already left!
There will always be the opportunity to compete, but it'll take a really magic set of circumstances, such as what happened at Liverpool.
Right manager, luck getting an outrageous high fee for Coutino, getting all the major recruitment decisions correct, and unleashing a really high energy system that totally complements the strengths of the team but hides the weaknesses of the likes of Trent Alexander.
But even Liverpool have "Only" come away with one league and one Euro cup of the biggest prizes over a 6 or 7 year span, with their best team and manager combo in 35 years. Over years it can't compete with infinite money resources of a City.
Now we see Rice going for 105m matching what Chelsea paid for their Enzo geezer.
If that's the price for above average holding mids you're worried to see what the creative mids and strikers will go for.
We're not quite at the peak of the nonsense either, that surely comes in a few years when they finally open the floodgates of allowing every game to be bought and seen live. The tv deals will be off the scale then.
Hey, he thinks we'll be top 10, so we'll take that!
We'll need to start winning Saturday games to get near that!
From the stuff I’ve read twitter is a donut factory.
No @drcongo I simply don’t rate the lad. He may be a nice lad and does a lot of running but for me he doesn’t actually do anything. I sincerely hope he proves me wrong but my belief is if we settle for that standard we will be going backwards.
Prove me wrong TJ!!!!!!!
He gets a few assists, but I think he'll need to develop massively to be a starter level player for the aspirations we have.
However, most of us would have put him above Al Hamadi, who has now shown he can onion bag regularly, albeit in a lower tier, so maybe he can have an emerging season?
I do hope so @Malone
I'm really hoping we don't stake our hopes too high in that direction though.
I'm really hoping we have 3-4 midfield/attacking signings who will slot in before him.
Hope we can we get this thread to over 1,000 posts before signing anyone.