So, Mike Ashley then?She will be Mike Ashley with tits.
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So, Mike Ashley then?She will be Mike Ashley with tits.
Do you understand anything about the Saudis? Do you care?Debatable. Owners who care about the football side of things and provide a challenge to the traditional big clubs, whilst hugely developing the local area of the teams they take over? I'm sure Newcastle fans would prefer that to a leech like Mike Ashley sucking the club dry.
And billionaires are nearly all to a man corrupt and morally vacuous individuals who would do anything for profitability, so some more terrible people as owners will fit right in. All this 'artificial cash' will be part of all the major clubs in some way or another. None of these owners care where it comes from, Mike Ashley especially doesn't. As far as most Newcastle fans are concerned they'll be swapping one terrible person who doesn't care one bit for the club, for a group of terrible people who do care.
Imagine you're the owner of Barcelona, Real Madrid, Juventus or Bayern Munich. You're pretty fucked off that the European Super League has crumbled now. In the near future you're about to have another financially doped club armed with Premier League TV money taking your Champions League TV and prize money, raising transfer fees and wages and stealing your best players or transfer targets.
It is bad for PL clubs, but we wont be the only ones pissed off with it. I really wouldn't be surprised if the ESL is resurrected in some guise after this news. If anything, the uproar over the ESL should be inconsequential compared to this takeover.
View: https://twitter.com/SkySportsPL/status/1717813538540945918?t=FHsAOzBJsLOKDIB7LK6iTA&s=19
To no ones shock.
Fair few of us called this. Perfect way round FFP