Platinum Plated Newcastle United

As the Manchester City hearings blaze away possibly to nuke English football headed by City’s Sheikh Mansour and owned by the United Arab Emirates, has to be the case, so it’s time to call out Newcastle United owned by an Arab state the Saudi Arabia Kingdom window dressing into the PIF (The Public Investment Fund) and the Saudi impact on English football, to be serious players in football’s global table?

Newcastle United under the ownership of the despised Mike Ashley for fourteen years to be heading to a sunshine state has been shackled by the financial fair play regulation, wings clipped and cannot operate in the transfer market as they would so wish, an 80% stake in the club initially fronted by one’s puppet Amanda Staveley with gaslighting to distort reality making statements that the PIF is not connected to the sovereign wealth of the Saudi state classing the Newcastle hoards as the naivety bunch, insulting the intelligence of the supporters, quote Staveley “Our partner is not the Saudi state, our partner is PIF”, all consigned to spitting image, Staveley scripted. Time to set the true billboard. The UK government sells arms to Saudi, so why shouldn’t Saudi Arabia be in the Premier League? The sighting of no moral idealism that’s for sure. Staveley has since been elbowed out of the club heading to Tottenham Hotspurs to buy up shares and make a fast buck.

Manchester city for their part flag ownership under the banner of the City football group, alongside Paris hopping to Paris Saint-Germain FC boarded up as owned by the Qatar friendly investment group to be not owned by the Qatar state, hogwash of course, contentious issues and thought provoking. At Liverpool FC the ownership values come under the Fenway sports group not the JT Henry’s of the American dream to franchise not to be owned by a country, billionaires reaching for the stars without being dirty, no chance on that concept, to late script of course JT Henry owns Liverpool Football Club.

The Saudis PIF fund has stakeouts in a mass of companies, Boeing, Marriot International, Bank of America, The Soft Bank Group, the list can go on and on, small holdings on the investment portfolio but for Newcastle United the Saudi’s have gone big on passing the test to cross the line on club ownership should not have been the case but ushered through the door they were. But to take the line of regenerating the area akin to the Abu Dhabi group on the redevelopment of the Eastlands area surrounding the Etihad Stadium is to suggest a non-starter with the arena stadium, Saint James Park being of a close proximity to the city centre. Good can be served, but to white wash war crimes to launder the states reputation cannot be airbrushed away, but trophies being won and headlining with the elite is the end game for the Newcastle supporters, that’s their dreams, platinum lighted.

The City Hearings

Day nine at the Manchester City v the Premier League hearings left waftings from the chambers that City had taken an early lead, but was that really the case? The crystal ball revolved around the ATP the associated party translation rules linked to inflated sponsorship deals at the club owner’s discretion, Manchester City being the case in question, this is the central core to the 115 charges with City stating it being as unlawful having been introduced in 2021.

The Premiership clubs in total were asked to submit commercial contracts to the commission panel classed as database which is kept in storage. The databank as also termed can have information retrieved with manipulation of information, a heading which City could come under as one of the key areas to be probed, computer data whichever way you can dress it up. The Premiership clubs did not provide the requested information, perhaps all sweating in the same sauna, clubs running shot shy of becoming too embroiled in the City case but seeking justice from a distance.

The City gunslingers the lawyers came in swinging to challenge the Premier League’s ATP rules as stated in their quest to overthrow the entire proceedings and invoke freedom on the handcuffs, to sing acquittal, to believe they could slam dunk the charges within a week, not the case for the City lawyers as they put their vibe of buoyancy to filter through to the public domain, fake or real whichever way to be a thin foil of buoyancy with the odds stacked against, 115 is a big score to dismiss my lord. The clubs were to vote on whether to make an amendment to the Premiership rules under the ATP umbrella, if a vote was taken to make change with fourteen clubs being the number to do so then City could have theoretically walked free. It was to revolve on whether clubs wanted restrictive access to the databank to prevent prying eyes, if a yes vote became of note, then City’s murky sponsorship deals would put City into a clean dawn. The ruling set in place was to restrict clubs like Newcastle United from expanding on their commercial activities, this is according to the Manchester City regime described by City, quote “A tyranny of the majority”. City’s claimer is that the rules are unlawful but without the fourteen sitting club heads to give the nod to that leaves City barking into the wind with no one listening. The fact that City want their own play book which would damage the Premiership significantly but to fight dirty will be the City way, as Dirty Harry would say, “Make my day, punk”. Eat the Magnum ‘44’ on the Blue Mooners acts of betrayal or innocence to shit on one’s own doorstep would leave a huge stench through the annals of English football.