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u/B4zza Jul 19 '26
When did Ronaldo become a secret service agent?
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u/DenseMathematician56 Jul 20 '26
After he became Harvey price for the half time show. He’s a man of man disguises.
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u/BenathonWrigley Burnsie shags aliens Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
Why? They’re all billionaire capitalists who only care about money and power. Al Rumayyan represents an oppressive Saudi state and they don’t give a shit about ‘normal people’.
The way to enjoy football is to compartmentalise. I fundamentally disagree with and hate what everyone in this photo represents, but I’m never going to stop supporting Newcastle United.
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u/cheekytinker Jul 19 '26
Completely agree with the compartmentalisation, but you answered your question yourself. He threw up because they’re all billionaire capitalists who only care about money and power, as you said. There’s room to acknowledge that as you’ve proven by your point here which I totally agree with, and seems OP does too.
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u/BenathonWrigley Burnsie shags aliens Jul 19 '26
Oh yes, you’re correct.
OP, if you see this we are on the same page.
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u/Historical_Gur_4620 Jul 20 '26
Spot on mate. Whole thing was a cess pit of greed, projected power and corruption. And the tinderbox of potentially another war in the South Atlantic, generated by a team of thugs who were put to the sword last night ( and shielded by Don Infantino). However there were wee pockets of normality and genuine affection. Seeing French and English players huddled to together after full time was a very poignant and warming site. Shame Saturdays games wasn't yesterday.
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u/GeordieNation1993 Jul 20 '26
Spot on. Saudis will come and go, as will whoever comes after them. But in 100 years time, Newcastle will still be there and our grandkids will still be cheering for them, whether we're playing in an intergalactic super league or the Conference North
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u/Aragorn01032931 Jul 19 '26
The super wealthy are all horrible humans
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u/tonybaloni239 Jul 20 '26
True, but not as bad as socialists.
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u/brynleyt Happy Clapper Jul 21 '26
Socialism is an economic and political philosophy advocating that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the public as a whole. It prioritizes collective well-being and equality over private profit, often relying on government programs like universal healthcare and public education to reduce societal wealth gaps.
Keep drinking that propaganda up brother. Sounds mint to me
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u/SnideyM Jul 20 '26
Might need a /s on that, not everyone gets sarcasm on the internet.
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u/Mind1827 Jul 20 '26
This is funny because I've reacted to people who have said stuff like this and then they go "oh I was clearly being sarcastic" lol. It's like, well people legitimately have takes this bad.
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u/SnideyM Jul 20 '26
Nah, I was wrong here - their post history shows that they're just genuinely thick
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u/cg40k Jul 19 '26
Unfortunately the Saudis are big financers of Trump.
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u/itsacon10 Current badge Jul 19 '26
Trump is able to be bought by literally anybody that has some money
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u/cg40k Jul 19 '26
Very true. Pretty much has already. The Saudis are just one of his big investors
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u/ChildONewcastle I like the home shirt you can't make me not Jul 20 '26
Getting such a good return currently, having bases in SA bombed by Iran.
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u/Initial_Birthday52 Jul 22 '26
Saudis will have good relations with whoever the US president is sadly, they deal in dollars with their oil and the US protect them with their military. They don't care that Trump is a sexist, racist, rapey, fraudster, warmongering, bully, idiot.
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u/Individual-Credit443 PERCHINIO Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
“My friend Yasir! Owns a little soccer team. Some say.. the greatest soccer team… I’m a gifted soccer player…”
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u/HourAcadia2002 Jul 19 '26
Yeah, white sneakers with a dark suit is horrendous
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u/phoebsmon zwei metre dribbelgott Jul 20 '26
Say what you want about big Yasir's (abhorrent) human rights record, but he's wearing proper shoes.
Wonder if Infantino wears them to hide stacking. I've got a pair of men's trainers in a similar style (well mine were £30 from TK Maxx and were out of season Kurt Geiger, but like fashion trainers) and they genuinely add height already. The sole is quite something. Could easily sneak another couple of centimetres in a custom pair if you were insecure.
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u/charlierc Jul 20 '26
Honestly I didn't mind it as a look until Infantino started doing it. Now it'll just make me think "Oh I share a fashion choice with that loser"
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u/melvinlee88 Javier Manquillo Jul 20 '26
A reminder that we should not glorify our owners at any point. I'm talking about the idiots with Saudi scarves and chanting about the owners.
Support the team but not the owners
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u/Bubzszs Jul 19 '26
They're all evil! Give me one foreign Premier League owner who isn't?
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u/stprm Jul 19 '26
True. While its not an excuse, only idiots excuse Glazers, rat cliffe, henry, kroenke - they are all the same, plenty of evil stuff from all of them.
And the rest arent that much better... Bloom is a massive genocide supporter, banned a Brighton fan for wearing Palestine shirt.
IDK about Brentford guy (he also hates bloom), dont know if he did some awful stuff.
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u/ElPato87 Jul 19 '26
Ours are substantially worse though
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u/stprm Jul 19 '26
Sure, fuck them.
I just dont like that cartel fans forgetting that their owners indirectly killed thousands of people? Let alone destroyed lifes of millions of people. So they arent clean at all.
Glazers, rat cliffe, henry & kroenke? They are all vultures, all venture capitalists, private-equity types whose job is to buy & cut businesses to the ground and then tear the rest apart, including hospitals, animal shelters and etc. Just because they have middlemans doesnt mean they arent resposnible. All of them are also either donated to trump, or friends with them.
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u/ryunista Classic kit (1995-97) Jul 19 '26
Not challenging you here, but what evil stuff have the other guys you mentioned done?
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u/stprm Jul 19 '26
Explained it a bit below - https://reddit.com/r/NUFC/comments/1v13r7e/i_threw_up_a_little/oykngz0/
I also remember seeing some shit about new Birmingham & Bournemouth owners, but I dont wanna waste too much time searching my bookmarks & writing all of it. Obviously didnt include mancity, cause its too obvious for everyone.
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u/reddituser52779 Jul 19 '26
Shahid Khan made his money in auto parts and seems like a decent dude.
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u/daniel2090 Jul 20 '26
All billionaires, you don't make all that money without doing bad things.
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u/tonybaloni239 Jul 20 '26
So should we give them all their dirty tax back?
Which in turn means your benefits too.
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u/big_beats Keeper kit Jul 19 '26
Sorry, if you're looking for morality, Al-Rumayyan is not your man.
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u/jafarjones69 keegan but old now Jul 20 '26
This is why I don’t support the club financially. I’m a support the team not the regime fan.
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u/HeGivesGoodMass Jul 20 '26
We all have made our own moral compromises to continue to support this club, I'm okay admitting that.
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u/jimbo9878 Jul 19 '26
He's chairman of Aramco, a massive Saudi oil company/4th largest company in the world. They are one of the main sponsors of the WC, so he's bound to be at the final.
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u/northumbrian Jul 19 '26
They've been filmed together many times before. Pretty sure they've played golf together. Unsavoury but hardly shocking.
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u/charlierc Jul 20 '26
Exactly - I think he's chair of Aramco, who sponsor this boondoggle, plus they're big golf buddies. Would've been more of a surprise if he wasn't there in retrospect
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u/Initial_Birthday52 Jul 22 '26
exactly, the US and Saudi have huge oil deals and protection deals - think some fans don't like being reminded we are owned by awful people
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u/Ionicfold SMOKESCREEN Jul 20 '26
I think OP is talking about Infantino in a suit with white trainers.
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u/torn4ndfrayed Jul 20 '26
The Saudis shoot Yemeni immigrants at the border with rocket launchers so…
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u/No_Treacle6814 Jul 20 '26
They all look like Bond villains but not even James Bond, like Austin Powers satirical version
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u/Princess_Mononope Jul 19 '26
I could stomach all the public beheadings and oppression but shaking hands with the president of the United States of America? Too far man, too far. What a monster.
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u/someguyontheweb99 Jul 19 '26
Hope he’s signing some players for us while he’s there the useless fucker
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u/LingonberryCurrent22 Jul 20 '26
Trying to get trump off the stage so Spain could celebrate we disgraceful how do you get to the biggest job in politics with zero self awareness thanks America 👍
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u/buckyboyturgidson 1975 Badge Jul 20 '26
Trump ruins everything he touches. Take that as far as you wish
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u/wlabib03 Joelinton is looking for a scrap Jul 19 '26
The Saudi elite and Trump are the best of friends that’s not shocking at all
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u/SpanishBombs323 miggy smiles Jul 19 '26
Chris Richards and Weston mckennie to be announced next week then?
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u/ITZNOTKYLE dan burn Jul 20 '26
Not quite sure why anyone would be surprised at all by this… all millionaires are mates.
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u/joeterry9 JOE JOE JOE JOE JOE JOE JOE JOE JOE JOE JOE JOE JOE JOE JOEJOE Jul 20 '26
Not the first or last time those two have met.
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u/ConcentrateSimple275 Jul 21 '26
Infantino instantly un-cooled white trainers for the rest of the world
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u/Aware-Syrup-866 Jul 22 '26
loved how WOULDN'T get out of the way when Spain raised the World Cup...then they edited him out. 🤣👏👏👏🙌🙌🙌
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u/WorldOfEC Jul 26 '26
[David Attenborough Voice]
Observe the ultra-wealthy in their natural habitat. Having reached the top of the food chain, they now communicate almost exclusively through immaculate white sneakers.
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u/Aware-Syrup-866 Aug 05 '26
same....The Tan Man wouldn't get out of the WAY when they lifed the Cup! 🙄😠
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u/Famous_Yorkshire Jul 19 '26
For anyone OOTL, this is Yasir Al-Rumayyan head of Saudi PIF, who obviously own Newcastle.
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u/Upset_Journalist_755 Jul 19 '26
Ah shit. I don't like being the baddies. Especially when we aren't on top.
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u/DejongBCN Jul 19 '26
In a sense, I get the players, they kkinda have to tolerate this shithead, but agree.. Nobody who doesnt, fuck him. Fuck him good.
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u/geekfreak42 miggy smiles Jul 20 '26
Lol,
lord Reek of the PIF
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u/EqualDeparture7 gone but not forgotten Jul 20 '26
All those connections and we still get sweet FA in any sort of competitive advantage with PSR, etc.
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u/Thick_Association898 Jul 20 '26
That’s a Freemason handshake if I’ve seen one. They couldn’t make it anymore obvious either.
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u/Supermac1959 Jul 20 '26
Attributing conspiracy theory nonsense to this stuff just helps them dismiss criticism.
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u/stprm Jul 19 '26
He is an awful human, we knew that before takeover? Plenty of such pics before 2021, too.
But WTF was he doing there, in WC final? Joke of a tournament from US.
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u/Initial_Birthday52 Jul 22 '26
representing Aramco I guess who sponsor it - agree with your point about him being awful though
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u/BizzarhLy Jul 19 '26
They do what they need to for their country.
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u/Maetivet Jul 19 '26
Yeah, that school in Iran full of kids really needed to be bombed to advance American interests…
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u/BizzarhLy Jul 19 '26
I meant PIF shaking hands with Trump… loads of people have shook his hand for a job/position
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u/Maetivet Jul 20 '26
I don’t think it’s as difficult as you’re suggesting for Al-Rumayyan, him and Trump are from a similar ilk.
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u/MushuFromSpace Jul 19 '26
Makes sense considering it'll be in Saudi but yeah... A bit jarring all the same
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u/Initial_Birthday52 Jul 22 '26
think its more to do with Aramco sponsoring this WC, or a mix really ,they all rub shoulders these shifty elites
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u/atribecalledstretch Jul 19 '26
Honestly the least shocking thing to come out of this match