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Was thinking about whether to start a separate thread for this, but I guess the arguments will end up being the same. Is Carra overreacting? And some of the replies calling him out for arrogant hypocrisy seem to be written by arrogant hypocrites. Surely the linking factor here is Jorge Mendes...

One of only 9 clubs to spend over £100 million this window and the 5th highest net spend. Still, plucky little Newcastle eh, doing it the right way on Smeddie's coaching.....

My God, the state of that Twitter thread :lolol:

As admirable as the sentiments are (and as much as we didn't even do a banner) it's just virtue signalling at the end of the day. The Saudis are hardly going to think "do you know what, we ought to get out of sports washing because Crystal Palace have done a banner". And the fit and proper test...

Well anyone who was at the Amex on Saturday has supported it or at least legitimised it. Lots of teams have terrible, terrible owners. You need a huge amount of money to buy a professional sports team these days. The sort of nation state that needs its tummy tickling isn't going to be a liberal...

I think that's an over-simplistic narrative. Like it or not the Saudis are everywhere now. They've formed an unholy relationship with Trump to try and take over golf. It doesn't really effect me as I can't think of anything duller than watching a badly dressed man walk round some grass carrying...

Yep, fair play to the ref for cracking on.

I saw it online earlier :lolol: Scrappy and much of Newcastle's own making, which is even funnier.