NSWE Investment

[Sexual Ealing]

You are not alone.

[Simon Page]

Thought we're far apart, you're always in my heart.

And Bubbles'.

[Dante Lavelli]

I disagree with the idea too. 

Isn’t the PL about to vote against clubs loaning players between sister clubs?  The benefit of having a family of clubs must diminish considerably if you can’t easily swap players so I’m surprised we are investing in more.  What is the benefit of the extra clubs that one of the others couldn’t already provide?

[Chico Hamilton III]

Not sure where else to post this but Arsenal tickets went on sale to members yesterday and I paid £95 for an adult and under 18 ticket on the Lower Holte. Fuck me!!

[john e]

Not sure where else to post this but Arsenal tickets went on sale to members yesterday and I paid £95 for an adult and under 18 ticket on the Lower Holte. Fuck me!!

Good job your proper loaded then chico

[algy]

Am I alone/very much in the minority in thinking no-one should have any kind of stake in more than one club at a time? Ditto for reciprocal deals?

Not alone at all, but I think it's fairly inevitable of our aim is to be near/at the top of the food chain. We're going to have to compete with the Manc City/PSG type sportswashing clubs, and the least morally repugnant way of doing that is to develop youth players and sell them for big profit$.

If that's our aim, then we have to be able to do it on a scale that will allow us to compete with the sportswashing clubs, and that probably involves doing what we're doing I'd guess. Not nice, not good for the game IMO ... but probably less bad than covering up an atrocious human rights record and all that comes with it.

[Dave P]

Not alone at all but, sadly, this is another way to keep revenues up to ensure we at least compete. There is a feeling in football that morality went a long time ago and if we don’t benefit, someone else will. Be it multi club partnerships or Middle Eastern ownership. Doesn’t make it right, mind.

[Risso]

Egypt is (partly) Middle Eastern. I guess you either accept that we're a Premier League club and suck up everything that comes with being owned by billionaires, or you have nothing to do with it and go and watch non-league.

[Monty]

The difference is state ownership. That breaks things. It would be bad enough if it were Norway but, to put it mildly, it is not.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Not sure where else to post this but Arsenal tickets went on sale to members yesterday and I paid £95 for an adult and under 18 ticket on the Lower Holte. Fuck me!!

Good job your proper loaded then chico

Good job only one of my kids is interested in football or we’d be watching from home on the telly. Too fucking expensive.

[Nev]

The better we get the more costly it will be.

I was thinking about next season's ST price while I was watching the highlights of Sunday's game and starting to put money away now.

[garyellis]

To compete (while staying within the rules that now operate) with the likes of Chelsea and City who cheated their way to the top we will have to use every lever there is.
It really is that simple.

[pablo_picasso]

To compete (while staying within the rules that now operate) with the likes of Chelsea and City who cheated their way to the top we will have to use every lever there is.
It really is that simple.

And then closed the loopholes they used so they cant be caught.

Although Chelsea have still managed to fuck themselves despite spending over £1B...

[chrisw1]

So the PL teams have voted to allow loans between linked clubs.  7 clubs voted to allow it and I'm guessing we will have been one of them.

So much for doing the right thing.

Talksport:
Premier League clubs have voted not to block loans between teams with the same owner in a boost to Newcastle, Chelsea and Manchester City, talkSPORT understands.

Plans were drawn up ahead of the latest Premier League shareholder meeting to create a temporary block on related-party loans.

It would directly affect the January transfer window - and especially Newcastle, who have been linked with former Wolves star Ruben Neves.

The motion needed 14 of the 20 clubs to vote in favour during a meeting between Premier League shareholders that was held on Tuesday, but talkSPORT understands that only 13 clubs voting for the measures, meaning that the plans will not go ahead by one vote.

It means that Newcastle will are free to sign players on loan from the PIF-owned clubs in the Saudi Pro League in January.

That includes Neves' current club Al Hilal, and the Portugal international has been strongly linked with a loan move to Tyneside.

Newcastle are not the only club within a multi-ownership model, with eight other Premier League teams also working in a similar way.

A proposal had been fast-tracked ahead of the meeting to ban transfers between clubs with the same ownership.

The measures would only be temporary before a long-term strategy would be drafted up to preserve the integrity of the Premier League.

Whether that long-term plan will come to fruition now remains to be seen while the temporary measures are set to be knocked down.

Neves was one of the top names shortlisted by Newcastle this winter for a potential loan.

The Magpies had made Neves a top target to replace Sandro Tonali, who was handed a ten-month ban for breaking gambling rules.

But there has been outrage over how such a transfer could go ahead, considering that both clubs are owned by PIF.

Newcastle are not the only teams who could take advantage of the current loophole, though, with City and Chelsea also operating with multi-club models.

Under the guise BlueCo, Chelsea's Clearlake Capital owners purchased Strasbourg in Ligue 1 this year.

Meanwhile, City Football Group own a roster of clubs including New York City, Melbourne City and Troyes.

[Risso]

Great, Newcastle can now bring in Neves to strengthen them in January, while we're free to loan the cream of the crop from er, Zed FC. Fantastic.