They were bought by a fund owned by the Saudi Arabia government. They are richer than Manchester City! Will it become a top team in the next 2-3 years?
shareWill soon be hated by other fans etc because going from utter shite to probably becoming as successful as man city due to a sugar daddy wont sit well with other fan support !
shareEvery Club in the Premier League is owned by Bilionaires. The current owner of Newcastle is a billionaire.
Just because they have money doesn't mean they will be willing to spend it.
The Saudi involvement in the Newcastle takeover is about buying a prestige asset for state-branding purposes because the investment does not contribute to the PIF's mission to assist in economic diversification or job creation in Saudi Arabia
If they want prestige,they will have to spend money. Lets see who they will hire as sport director and what the project will be. Even if they make a project about young players,they have the money to buy the best ones!
shareYeah. It's sportswashing. They'll spend. They'll likely follow the Manchester City model rather than the Mike Ashley one. Otherwise there's nothing in it for them.
Newcastle United fans will enjoy the ride. And rightly so. But they'll also be slightly baffled in ten years' time when everyone else shrugs at their achievements, because they don't mean a damn thing to anyone outside of Tyneside.
Yes they do. But currently Newcastle won't win or challenge anything. If the top players have the choice of man city or newcastle in January window they will goto Man City.
It will take about a decade or more before they will evenbe able to challenge and that is if these saudis are willing to spend the billions needed to catch up.
Will be interesting to see. Personally I think it is another nail in the coffin of English football. Money over ethics seems to always rule.
you mean soccer?
shareFootball
shareyou mean Fut Bol?
https://youtu.be/Q4qJghUa3VY?t=236
Only fucking Yanks call it that all the time. But they pronounce it "sacker". I realise it's because football to them is NFL but the rest of the world doesn't give a shit about that sport.
shareSacker, thats funny. Its weird that 2 different sports can be called Football, or is it Futbol?
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There's a few of them:
Gaelic Football.
American Football.
Rugby Football. (2 types)
Australian Rules Football.
Association Football. (Soccer is an abbreviation of the Association part.)
In most of the world, we just call association football 'football', because it's the most popular sport. But Australians tend to call their Aussie Rules version 'football' and the other game 'soccer'. And the Americans obviously call American football 'football' and the other one 'soccer'.
In short, there's nothing wrong with the word 'soccer'. It's just a convenient way of distinguishing between the games in those (scarce) areas of the world where a different game also called football is more popular.
And it isn't even an Americanism. The British coined the word 'soccer' in the nineteenth century when Rugby Football and Association Football were more equally popular... And I'm pretty sure that if Rugby Football had emerged as the more popular game here, we'd be calling it 'football' instead of 'rugby' now. And calling association football 'soccer'.
So... you say to-may-to and I say to-mah-to... let's call the whole thing off.
Soccer doesn't have a monopoly on the word football.
The actual origin behind the word is to distinguish a ball sport played on foot, as opposed to one played on a horse.
So it has nothing to do with the act of kicking the ball with your foot.
And by the way, most of the English speaking countries on the planet call English Football soccer.
But whatever.
I love a good game of horse ball.
shareWill become a top team in 2-3 years years?
That would make a great 100th anniversary
shareIt would, I've always felt a bit sorry for their fans, they had such a good team under Keegan in the 90's and were great to watch but failed to win a title or FA Cup.
shareFuck their fans. Entitled fucks see it as an injustice they aren't winning the treble every season. They dominated everyone as recently as the 90s and spent loads of money then but won nothing. It's not fair that it's happening again so soon to the same club.
shareMackem?
shareFrom Sunderland?
shareTheir soul just got cancer.
shareNewcastle today: https://youtu.be/MLgIVYkbVz4
shareDon't think their rise will be as quick as City's, as they won't be allowed to spend quite the same as that. But yes eventually they'll be banging on the door of the top clubs.
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