• titchrich@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I would have thought that keeping all of the expensive talent in the Saudi league is the aim though right? Why pay all that money to raise the standard/profile of your league to send the best of them to Newcastle? Not sure how loaning a player for 6 months or even a year would help Newcastle really? Takes our new signings a while to get up to speed with Eddies training/tactics so not a great move really, it would be better to loan with an option to buy which might end up happening.
    Personally hope loans from Saudi don’t happen for any club but these are the rules that the clubs wanted… Along with no automated offsides, seems like the clubs aren’t capable of managing themselves anymore but seems to be the Newcastle fans getting the stick again instead.

    • TheSpartan83@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Doesn’t even need to be the expensive talent in Saudi. Get 4 players signed up to 4 different clubs in the Saudi league, with transfer fees of say circa £50m per player. All 4 are loaned to Newcastle on 2 year loans. FFP works in 3 year cycles (I think?), leaving a huge amount of breathing space for the club’s finances and you’ve signed nearly half an outfield starting 11 in the process. If you really want to push the boundaries of sporting integrity, those players sign for the Saudi clubs on 2 year contracts and have “gentlemans agreements” to sign pre contracts with Newcastle in the months leading to the expiration of their contracts.

      It’s open to plenty of abuse if they want it to be.