FU Stan - potential Arsenal takeover

Why? FFP is dead so therefore aspirations to be run like a club under FFP must be dead as well?

 

Northbank still thinks sports is the same way it was when he was a youth.

 

I hope it is real and goes through. Time for us to be on a level playing field again with the competition.

 

They weren’t actually like that then, either.

 

They’ll probably just use us as a farm team for PSG.

 

I know, but he doesn't think that. Things are always better "back in my day," while ignoring that those days were pretty shit.

 

Football sold its soul decades ago

happy to be sport washed

 

We would become bigger than PSG very quickly.

 

Agreed, traditional club in the EPL, PSG would become our feeder team.

 

I've never been much of a fan of Stan Kroenke or KSE as our owner, but the alternatives could be a whole lot worse.

For example, I'd much rather be owned by KSE than the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund, as if that is somehow disconnected from the human-rights violating country, which is directed by the atrocious murdering Mohammed Bin Salman himself.

Them buying Newcastle is troubling on quite a few fronts, but the fact that it might push us lower down in the table and further away from Top 4 or the Title itself, is not the most troubling thing.

If anyone like that were ever to come in to buy my Arsenal, I'd have a mighty hard decision on whether to continue my 47 years of support for this club. Crossing fingers I won't ever have to face that decision.

p.s. Daniel Eck, from what little I know of him, is a lot less likely to induce that kind of existential decision in me or most other supporters?

 

Sportswashing is when countries or states use sports clubs or events to airbrush past human rights abuses and improve the image of their country by hosting a global sporting event such as the Olympic Games or a big world title boxing fight.

Or buying a football club. Except I don't know how buying Newcastle improves the image of Saudi Arabia in anyone's eyes other than Newcastle fans. Pouring money into City so other clubs struggle to compete has not improved my opinion of Abu Dhabi.

I would argue "sportswashing" often has the opposite effect. Would there be as much coverage of human rights abuses in Qatar if they weren't hosting the World Cup next winter?

 

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Aliko

 

I absolutely agree, I never knew much about Qatar but would fly with them back in the day because of the quality of their airline, now I know all about their human rights atrocities I refuse to have anything to do with that country.

 

So Newcastle will win a premier league title before arsenal?

 

There is going to a lot of nervous journalists probably unwilling to criticise the Toon ownership going forward.

 

Football is dead and has been since the PL started. When Aliko buys Arsenal, the fanbase will celebrate since he worth over 20 billion dollars and ignore his corruption and horror over West African people.

 

Arsenal are suddenly fashionable again.

 

I did a 4-mile run this morning with a Liverpool fan, and it's weird what kinship there suddenly is between clubs who operate in a fiscally responsible manner, and those who don't give a $h*t. I didn't expect that at all, but here we are.

Listening to the AV podcast last night, they did a good job assessing what this means for our club's expectations, what it means for the league, and what it means on a continental and global scale. This really does look to be a game changer with substantial ripple effects. Most interesting to me is that they put out the idea the Premiership could be so deep that either UEFA would need to allow more Prem teams in their tournaments, or even the possibility that the Premiership could become it's own super-league on it's own.

 

The Premiership is already a Super League.

 

They will need to revive some version of FFP that doesn’t crumble under the first court challenge.

 

Alternatively, not only will a rapid conversion to renewable energy help save the planet for human habitation, it will help save football.