Newcastle Utd (and Viz)

[MikeH72]

It might be possible Bruce has done well too.

Try telling that to @The Fish

 

[Connor]

Let's face it though lads, if we were getting bought by oil rich Saudis there'd be a lot of our supporters defending it too, because that's what club loyalties do, they blind you to things because you've got the blinkers on

I’d like to think our fans with view them with contempt for everything they’ve done until they signed Jan Oblak

 

[Lloydystark]

Still can’t get my head around this, crippling a man as part of sentence, WTF

Saudi Arabia court sentences prisoner to be PARALYSED unless family raises £177,000 “blood money”

After 10 years in jail, he faces surgery to have his spinal cord cut for stabbing a childhood friend when he was just 14, leaving his pal paralysed

www.mirror.co.uk

eye for an eye and all that

 

[The Fish]

If you write for a living and are able to blithely dismiss the state sponsored murder of a journalist because the football team you like will have money the you are a scumbag.

People who "contribute" aren't paid to write for a living.

 

[Billysgingham.]

eye for an eye and all that

Ye but it's not 500BC it 2020.

 

[Lloydystark]

Ye but it's not 500BC it 2020.

It is there country, I know it’s absolutely crazy but they actually allow women to drive in there country these day

 

[longers]

It is there country, I know it’s absolutely crazy but they actually allow women to drive in there country these day

god damn progressives

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Ye but it's not 500BC it 2020.

You’ve clearly never seen the Gallowgate end at St James’

 

[The Fish]

Yes it's certainly a good time to put money into football. However if the general impression was around £150m a season, certainly pre-crisis you won't be moving up the league substantially on that alone.

The reference to post Covid, as anything is possible. £150m a season could quite quickly become massive money.

I do wonder what the impact of oil price collapse will have on City/Newcastle though.

Saudi Arabia is the winner from oil's historic price plunge, analysts say

Saudi Arabia will be best positioned to weather the impact of an unprecedented collapse in U.S. oil prices, analysts told CNBC on Tuesday.

www.cnbc.com

Other pieces paint a bleaker picture. I would assume that the wealth of the Sovereign Funds is so stratospheric it won't be damaged too much, but their income may be?

 

[The Fish]

Try telling that to @The Fish

You point to where I've said he hasn't done well? Or are you just after some sweet sweet internet points?

 

[MikeH72]

You point to where I've said he hasn't done well? Or are you just after some sweet sweet internet points?

Here

I think you're being harsh on Benitez there. He's spent a lot of money, but he had to overhaul a team to prepare it for a return to the Premier League, then add to it to try and keep us up, which he did. Bruce has played some of the worst football I've ever seen watching Newcastle and that anecdotal claim is born out by whichever performance metrics you care to trust. We've got more points this season, but the entire league has been weird so I wouldn't praise Bruce too much.

And here

Bruce wasn't welcomed by the Newcastle fanbase because he's been proven to be one of the worst Premier League managers of all time. The performances of the team this season have born that out. The reception has warmed slightly as results have ticked by, but he remains a poor football manager at this level.

 

[The Fish]

Here



And here

His football is awful, but he's done well to get us 13th when pre-season expectations were relegation. It's a fairly low bar he's cleared, but he has cleared it.

 

[LEONARD]

Hat's off to Sky again this morning, they were supposed to be discussing the proposed Barcodes takeover, but after 2 minutes of waffle, they asked Souness and Carragher,

'Where Do Liverpool go from Here?'

It's become absolutely embarrassing.

 

[MikeH72]

His football is awful, but he's done well to get us 13th when pre-season expectations were relegation. It's a fairly low bar he's cleared, but he has cleared it.

Why does the fat man get lauded for clearing the same low bar while playing the same atrocious football?

 

[LEONARD]

Why does the fat man get lauded for clearing the same low bar while playing the same atrocious football?

Fish won't have it, but if the entire RS squad decided to take a dump, during the warm up at St James Park, 50 thousand obese replica shirt wearing mutants, would give them a minutes applause.