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08 Oct 2021 15:22:25
I was also advised to ask questions about this purchase on the Newcastle page, but scrolling down there doesn't seem to me activity on it?

Anyway, good points Quo Vadis. I guess I have long ago resigned myself to EPL football as big business, and to international owners who are multibillionaires. I am after all a Chelsea fan! But I have been prodded into action by the fact that this latest purchase moves us beyond the pale.

The Saudi PIF sovereign wealth fund now owes 80% of Newcastle United. Yes, there is supposedly a difference between direct Saudi state control and the control by the Saudi Crown Prince of the country's Public Investment Fund money. In reality, this would still seem to be a whole country's wealth - and a country with the appalling track record on human rights (women's lack of them there, thieves having hands cut off etc) you called out - behind ownership of a football club?!

What next? Norwich bought by North Korea? Brighton by Brunei? Torquay by the Taliban?

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