Yasir Al-Rumayyan on Sunday he will be with court and courtiers in St James’ Park for the first Saudi-style in the history of Newcastle United. It will be close to the banks of the Tyne, an area that the Emperors, in the days of ancient Rome, never liked. It will be a few feet from Hadrian’s Wall, which the good heart of the cheering Toon Army fans has already crossed. Anything can money, and let alone if it is the most important promise of Babylon in the history of Football. Newcastle Upon Tyne is a land of contradictions: it is that of the working class, the lost glory of the shipyards, the coal that comes up and the lungs that get tired. People who work and then toast, who said no to the stranger and in fact here, in the old days Aelius Pons, Brexit has won more than anywhere else. Long live England, but long live the pay of the Arab who promises the Champions Cup.
Newcastle ’till I Die
The years with Mike Ashley, fourteen, have been promises and little else. Many disappointments, ups and downs of emotions and no ancient thrill touched in the glorious era of Alan Shearer. He had promised those glories again and instead they were nefarious, so that the expulsion of the liar master father was seen as the liberation from the Tyneside fan. Because this is a land far from London and the England of our imagination. The Newcastle resident cheers Newcastle, here we work, toast, work and hopefully. Sunderland ‘to I Die is an extraordinary cross-section of society before football told by Netflix. Change the red to black, the story, the nuances, but the juice that comes out will taste the same as yards, coal and double malt beer.
Money wins
There is an ineluctable truth behind this story of rich dreams. Money wins. They do it when a diplomatic and political relationship has to be mended. A year and a few months ago, the negotiation between the Saudi Public Investment Fund and the Premier League, de facto, was blown because in the middle there was the chasm created in the Qatari accounts by the piracy of beoTQ. What the well-informed say is that, being the television rights for the retransmission of the Premier League in the Middle East of beIN Sports and being the blacked out channel in Saudi, the pirate retransmission in the Saudi kingdom caused losses for the two-year period 2018-2019 for almost a billion. Relations between countries have come closer, since the closure of the borders that had taken place towards Doha. And the arbitration between the parties, it seems almost a billionaire, has certainly helped the PIF to get closer to the doors of the Premier League. Where the money arriving for rights abroad, therefore also for the Middle East, weighs quite a lot. Money wins, even on the human rights issue. The Premier League nineteen are now raising their voices and highlighting the issue but there is no chapter in the League’s regulation that prohibits a state from acquiring a club. In a nutshell, just those: if the Sultan of Brunei, or whoever is very rich for him, tomorrow wants to buy Sheffield United, or Brighton, or Aston Villa, pounds in hand he could do it, seller permitting. Amnesty and humanitarian associations are calling for greater stakes on the admission of properties and presidents and executives in the Premier. Who explained in a statement that the Public Investment Fund, chaired by Prince Bin Salman, has no connections and ties and ties with the government itself and therefore with Bin Salman.
It is not a fairy tale
Fans cheer under St James’ Park. At the time of the announcement there were hundreds, mugs to the sky, hugging each other. Howay The Lads, they sang, dreaming of old glories and ancient glories. In the midst of this story, where ties seem almost ineluctable, there is also the figure of Amanda Staveley. Its story is that of a film, or a television series. He comes from Newmarket and it is thanks to horse racing that he establishes relations with the Arabs. She is a broker who has played a small but seems important role in the passage of Manchester City into Arab hands. She would have tried to do the same with Liverpool from FSG to an emirate property, she was among the protagonists of the Barclay case with Dubai. Seduces and abandons Queen Elizabeth’s fourth child, Andrew, Prince of Wales, now living in Dubai with her Anglo-Iranian husband, the financier Mehrdad Ghodoussi. Traces of him say that he was director of Deutsche Bank from 2011 to 2013, before that Head of Fund Placement Advisory Group in Deloitte in Dubai and since 2009 he has been Managing Partner of PCP Capital Partners LLP, owner of 10% of Newcastle United. The two, husband and wife, are the most overexposed in the story. Staveley does not shy away from speaking and making official statements on the new course of the ambitious and very rich Newcastle. From the Fund, for now, everything is silent. Al-Rumayyan will be in Newcastle on Sunday and perhaps from there, even the PIF will make its voice heard, the hope is pressed by the press to understand and learn more. A notice to sailors and who will be present, in case. He likes to be called exclusively “Your Excellence”.
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