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They have you by the goolies but they also seem to be bailing Chelsea out. I wonder what will happen when the two interests clash, which they will :smile:

https://thefootballlovers.com/football-questions/is-chelsea-owned-by-saudi-arabia

I find some of those replies pretty depressing. It appears that football fans, in the main, won’t give a shit how it happens and the background as long as their club benefits :down: Not sure that the comparisons with how United and others have dominated are at anywhere near the level as what is...

Eddie Howe gets a conscience and walks? Nah

I‘d hope it would be more than a tiny few, but you may be right. Anyone who walked away would of course have a queue to take their place though, that I’m sure of. It may be anathema to me but people like me matter not, I accept that. Not convinced I’d even follow football any more tbh.

I imagine there are plenty of Albion fans who’d welcome a Saudi takeover and massive cash injection too, sadly I would walk away..FACT

This makes depressing reading, it appears the Saudis are bailing Chelsea out and aiding them in avoiding FFP which is enabling Chelsea to spend more millions on another raft of new players. It stinks but nothing will be done about it as we all know. Maybe Boehly is not the buffoon he has...

FFS

Am I reading this right, The company that owns Newcastle is also in bed with Chelsea and paying high fees for their unwanted players, presumably to bring them within FFP?

There really is no comparison to where we were and where you were though. I refuse to believe that you can’t see that :smile: Not sure we were as informed back in those days about atrocities either.

Complaining is acceptable, accepting a country like Saudi Arabia without the fans protesting big time as being an acceptable means to an end not so much imo. BTW we could have very easily have been a Bury but the fans did all they could to prevent it. We were lucky to have Fatboy Slim. Dick...

I think you have big club syndrome. United and Everton fans are justified in complaining? No club has a divine right to be good, you seem to think yours does. You were funded by Ashley to bounce back with a PL squad from the Championship and he spent a shitload on your players when you did get...

It's a personal thing but I would rather we got relegated twice than went down the road you have. I may be being starry eyed here but I think there would have been/would be large and loud demonstrations from Albion fans if we were ever put in the same position. Not saying it couldn't happen...

I was quite jealous of the way Bournemouth played when we first went up to the PL, didn't think of them as dirty, more about attacking at the expense of defending :shrug:

Now they are after Conor Gallagher

Be nice if we could manage to sign a young upcoming striker that is ready to go straight into first team football in that case. I am not convinced we’ll be signing Nunez/Isak type players as we will probably not pay the transfer fees others will and I doubt we’ll pay the wages either. This is...

I confess I thought it WAS Locadia when we signed him, I kept faith for a long time too :down:

Remind me of the last time we signed a young TOP striker, if they are top strikers in the making bigger clubs will win every single time, just like happened with Nunez :shrug: I imagine Isak would also have chosen Real Sociedad, even if we had been interested.

You up for a petrol state takeover of Tony Bloom’s Albion then? Only way we’ll be splashing that sort of dough Not for me Clive, even for a 100 million player or two I would genuinely be gutted

I am no Eddie Howe fan but I wouldn’t be vaguely surprised. Sacking the manager who blasted them to mid table whilst changing the away kit to Saudi colours and appointing Mourinho sounds like it could backfire spectacularly next season if they don’t hit the ground running :thumbsup: