Premier League season 21/22

[DeeCee]

10 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

Ugh, the newcastle take over is back on and it will make them the richest club in the world by some distance.

Absolute, pure nightmare fuel.

I can see this being a huge firework that fizzles out. If it happens, it will be an interesting ride for them.

[JHRover]

It will be interesting to see what all the equality and diversity people have to say about it. Or just like Qatar next year will it be a different story when the money starts flowing in.

[SuperBrfc]

I might be in the minority here, but I'm happy for Newcastle. Maybe it's nostalgia, but I've never really disliked them or their fans. I'd much rather see them up there challenging than somebody like Chelsea, for example. If this takeover is making the big boys squirm and feel nervous, good! They need shaking up.

[rigger]

6 hours ago, SuperBrfc said:

I might be in the minority here, but I'm happy for Newcastle. Maybe it's nostalgia, but I've never really disliked them or their fans. I'd much rather see them up there challenging than somebody like Chelsea, for example. If this takeover is making the big boys squirm and feel nervous, good! They need shaking up.

I wonder if they would get an invite to the Euro super league, if the deal goes through ?

[matt83]

I must admit I’d like to see the chelski’s knocked off their perch. But as we all know - foreign ownership. No guarantee it’s a Sheik mansoor could easily be the Venkys.

[Mattyblue]

If it’s the Saudi’s I’d say it’s very much more likely to be a City - all about regional rivalry, they don’t want to be upstaged by their Arab neighbours - Abu Dhabi and Qatar (and especially Qatar).

[AllRoverAsia]

We are in for a major power shift in the PL. Good.

I, for one, am tired of the usual suspects, more so after the ESL shenanigans.

So the Saudi PIF is separate from KSA and the extended 'family'. Well I never, someone has rewritten fact as fiction very well. Nevermind, there are a lot of other shysters around in the PL.

And we missed out on the Qataris ...... thanks Vs.  

Edited October 7, 2021 by AllRoverAsia

[davulsukur]

My disliking for Newcastle is more at a personal level as a lot of my mates that i grew up with are all Newcastle supporters and it was unbearable at times with some of the crap they came out with.

So seeing them become the richest club in the world is a nightmare for me. I've always had the fact that we have won the PL to fight back with but they might very well get bankrolled to the title soon.

Happy to see the status quo get disrupted, just not by Newcastle.

Edited October 7, 2021 by davulsukur

[Bigdoggsteel]

I like Newcastle and think their fans are gas. A huge purchase for them and to be honest, they probably deserve some joy. 

[JHRover]

I'm a bit of a selfish so and so. I couldn't really care less who does what in the PL whilst we aren't part of it. That would no doubt change were we to get back there but that isn't something I need to worry about for the forseeable.

The only interest I have is ensuring the dingles get relegated. So I suppose if Newcastle can strengthen in January and get away from trouble that is one less side for the dingles to finish above.

[Mattyblue]

‘Their fans DESERVE success’, don’t ya know!

[davulsukur]

3 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

‘Their fans DESERVE success’, don’t ya know!

Where has this myth come from? Just read a tweet saying "No other fan base deserves success as much as Newcastles"

Wtf?

[Mattyblue]

Because they get 45k crowds. End of.

They are no more ‘passionate’ than any other fanbase. Are they more passionate than the 4,000 watching a club in non league or the Carlisle fans travelling to an away game at Exeter?

The fact they are a one club city, one of only a handful of pro clubs in the whole north east of England doesn’t seem to compute to the media and the lemming football fans that lap it up around the country. Indeed there’s been 10 thousand empty seats most weeks at SJP both this season and in 2019/20.

The REAL hotbed of the game is right here in old Lancashire, twenty odd pro clubs.
 

Edited October 7, 2021 by Mattyblue

[rigger]

7 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

Where has this myth come from? Just read a tweet saying "No other fan base deserves success as much as Newcastles"

Wtf?

And as long as the Geodies keep believing that, they will not have success. It's the quality of the team on the pitch that determines your success level. For another example, see Scotland.

[Silas]

12 hours ago, davulsukur said:

Ugh, the newcastle take over is back on and it will make them the richest club in the world by some distance.

Absolute, pure nightmare fuel.

Seconded.

They were insufferably arrogant fans when they were crap, imagine how unbearable it will be when they get good. 

[Bigdoggsteel]

I would take Brucey here all day 

[rigger]

4 minutes ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

I would take Brucey here all day 

Forsythe ?

[Bigdoggsteel]

11 minutes ago, rigger said:

Forsythe ?

It would be nice to see a new manager next summer, to see them nice 

[riverholmes]

If the deal goes through, from one perspective, it is more of the same rather than a disruption of the status quo. After all, it will be more financial inequality in the game and the richest owners buying success.

Given how much talent and money is in the Premier League, goals like Salah's against City, and dribbles like Bernardo Silva's, in the same game, should be commonplace. Instead, they're rarities in a game which is so commercialised that it is dominated by fear and profit and, the engine for its growth is hyperbole and the super rich. The Grealish and Ronaldo signings are the epitome of this, in my opinion. 

I don't think Grealish and Ronaldo were signed primarily to help the team long-term. Rather, they help to create narratives around the club, as archetypes. Grealish is the 'everyman genius' and Ronaldo, the prodigal son and hero. Whether intentionally or not, the rich clubs are turning to knitting stories which, actually, take precedence over the reality on the grass. I think it's part commercial branding and part collective hysteria. By the time the reality emerges, they're onto the next signing.

 

Edited October 7, 2021 by riverholmes

[Mattyblue]

The Geordies don’t seem to think he provides a good game too often…

Edited October 7, 2021 by Mattyblue

[rigger]

29 minutes ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

It would be nice to see a new manager next summer, to see them nice 

At least we would get a bonus.

[roverandout]

2 hours ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

It would be nice to see a new manager next summer, to see them nice 

Will he get a bonus 

[roverandout]

2 hours ago, rigger said:

At least we would get a bonus.

Didn't see that 

[roverandout]

Some clubs get everything.  Meanwhile we're stuck with these lot 

[Waggy76]

4 hours ago, JHRover said:

I'm a bit of a selfish so and so. I couldn't really care less who does what in the PL whilst we aren't part of it. That would no doubt change were we to get back there but that isn't something I need to worry about for the forseeable.

The only interest I have is ensuring the dingles get relegated. So I suppose if Newcastle can strengthen in January and get away from trouble that is one less side for the dingles to finish above.

I agree with the Dingle bit , I can see the Man U and Liverpool objecting to this big style  , the premier league will come under great pressure to reject this deal , will be interesting to see , personally any team that prevents those two clubs from getting silverware , wil;l be a benefit ..