[Confirmed] Abdullah bin Mosaad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

[Rustyblade]

Thing is Rusty, you've said that accepting such investment is tantamount to selling our souls, but you've not proposed an alternative plan or way in which we can move forward and compete.

Family clubs simply don't exist any more. Any I'm not being funny, but Mike Ashley has done more harm to Newcastle and incited more distrust, than Sheikh Mansour at Man City.

We were, and indeed still are, on our arses. If you think a guarantee of the club's identity is better than its long term security is better, then fair enough. But I'd rather be Sheffield Blades than Sheffield United RIP.

Et tu, Houso?

Okay, here I go again.

"Tantamount to selling our souls" are your words, not mine. What we have done is sell 50% of our brand to a Saudi prince. I am unhappy at what this means for the identity of a club which has been part of the social fabric of my family for generations. There have been many posts on here in the past decrying the state of modern football and mocking those clubs choosing to take the shilling from whomever. It always gave me comfort to know that no matter how deep in the mire we sunk, we weren't one of them.

Houso...please. According to your logic then, I cannot complain about anything (including Porter, Flynn, Doyle et al) without having an alternative plan to hand. I'm sorry but this is bollocks.

Family clubs? I didn't come up with this one. I was only pointing out that 'family club' and Saudi prince are a strange combination to find in the club's official statements. And why go as far as Tyneside in your search for a clumsy and inept owner? I would have thought you could have found an example much closer to home.

And in the end, yes. I do think the club's identity is important. Besides defining itself, it does to a large extent define us too. Cardiff Dragons? Hull Tigers? Franchise FC?

I guess the question really boils down to this. I think we all have a line beyond which we're not prepared to go. I presume for grafikhaus, this would mean Assad. Where we draw that line is a matter of personal ethics, morality, call it what you will. All I can say is that, for me, SUFC has crossed it and it saddens me immensely.

 

[FleaPitBlade]

 

[S5Blade]

I think the difference to this deal is that they have only bought 50% of the club meaning that they cant just change the name, rename the stadium, make us play in blue etc etc without the boards approval or is that far too simplistic of a view?

For all his faults, the last thing Kevin McCabe wants is for SUFC to go to the wall / turn into a joke of a club ala Cardiff Red Dragons FC or whatever they are called now a days and by retaining a 50% stake, means he can stop that from happening in the future.

I am excited by the news, investment has been long needed, I am sure we have had plenty of offers, all of which clearly were not suitable for us so I trust that Big Kev has made the right choice for the club.

 

[Selly]

Family clubs? I didn't come up with this one. I was only pointing out that 'family club' and Saudi prince are a strange combination to find in the club's official statements.

What?

How is a Saudi Prince being the owner incompatible with being a Family Club?

 

[broomhillblade]

Time will tell whether this is a good move.

I, too, have had my reservations about going down the foreign owner route - but this one appears on the face of it to be a promising move. British isn't always best. There have been a few dodgy British owners of football clubs, after all.

 

[stringjunior]

my old dad and I regularly discuss the english language. he morns the loss of english as he knows it and rejects wholeheartedly change to it. I say to him that the english language changes every day and has done since man set foot on british soil. what he morns is the change to the language of his lifetime, and there is nothing he can do to stop the change so he may as well accept it. its a bit like football really. im sure we'd all love to be owned by a sheffield bloke, playing sheffield players against teams from towns made up of local men, ensuring the town with the best playets always win. football hasnt been like that for a long long time. we have no choice but to accept it.

 

[Selly]

Top three princes

1 - The Prince of Tides
2 - Prince Abdullah bin Mosaad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
3 -

Disagree

1 - The Prince of Wales (from Blackadder the Third)
2 - Prince Abdullah bin Mosaad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
3 - The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

 

[grafikhaus]

Get with the message...

 

[FleaPitBlade]

Nah - its too detached from the original. If you want to incorporate the crossed swords, you're better starting with their national 'emblem'

 

[raul]

1) Prince Buster
2) Prince Charming
3) Prince

 

[davidpinder]

Whats the sponsor on the away shirt BTW?

 

[Selly]

Quite how common some of these assumptions would be to those of a Saudi prince, I am not entirely sure. I have spent time in Saudi and have seen at first hand some of their family values at work.

Ah so some Saudis don`t display Family values in alignment with your own, therefore all Saudis don`t display Family values in alignment with your own.

I think we can probably leave it there...

 

[Rustyblade]

Ah so some Saudis don`t display Family values in alignment with your own, therefore all Saudis don`t display Family values in alignment with your own.

I think we can probably leave it there...

Er...come again?

Can I just make it clear here that your conclusions are not my own? Thank you.

 

[mpjacko]

Not sure what to think about this one.

Why didn't this get announced yesterday or even last week and see some funds given to buy new players? Prob because this so call investment is code for "an investment in KM bank account or pension funds". Instead, the transfer window is closed so investment on the team will be nil so code for, I can be called c0-chairman /owner but won't have to invest anything until Jan.

Also, how will the new guy feel when KM sells our best players without telling anyone?

I do hope it works out, esp if it means we get rid of KM and likes of Porter, Doyle etc

I think we as Blades fans deserve a change in fortune. You see all these other small teams such as Cardiff with their investment so why can't it be us.

 

[Houso]

Not sure what to think about this one.

Why didn't this get announced yesterday or even last week and see some funds given to buy new players? Prob because this so call investment is code for "an investment in KM bank account or pension funds". Instead, the transfer window is closed so investment on the team will be nil so code for, I can be called c0-chairman /owner but won't have to invest anything until Jan.

Also, how will the new guy feel when KM sells our best players without telling anyone?

I do hope it works out, esp if it means we get rid of KM and likes of Porter, Doyle etc

I think we as Blades fans deserve a change in fortune. You see all these other small teams such as Cardiff with their investment so why can't it be us.

Oh do fuck off.

 

[bladeinspaceandtime]

Top three princes

1 - The Prince of Tides
2 - Prince Abdullah bin Mosaad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
3 -

I'll see your princes and raise you some kings:

1- Elvis Presley
2- Henry VIII
3- Larry King
4- Paul King

 

[bladesadviser]

Last week we were going nowhere more likely to leave this division by the bottom not the top. Now someone is putting money into the club which is exactly what we have asked for since we left the PL. No one with connections to the city, the club or even England seems to be in a hurry to invest. If this investor leaves us in two years and we are in the championship rather than this dead end league he will have been a success if we are still here in League 1 we won't be any worse off than we are now. We might as well embrace it and have a bit of fun guessing who we might sign etc It surely must breathe a bit of life back into the club

 

[JJ Sefton]

"Culturally sensitive" is fine by me but then I don't see why people go abroad to English resorts where they eat full English breakfasts, watching the Premier League on Sky in an English themed pub.

I don't see how that's different to people coming to Britain and carrying on just like they used to wherever they came from. When you see someone in a burqa waddling down Leyton High Road it's exactly the same as a bloke with a Rochdale shirt on the Costa Del Sol.

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack to the investment, I'm happy with it (usual United caveats like the bloke not turning out to be a penniless tranny notwithstanding). The Sheffield born and bred Henderson's Relish tycoon who had been watching the club since he was a boy and had billions to invest just didn't exist.

 

[South London Blade]

Top three princes

1 - The Prince of Tides
2 - Prince Abdullah bin Mosaad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
3 -

you missed this one:

 

[Selly]

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack to the investment, I'm happy with it (usual United caveats like the bloke not turning out to be a penniless tranny notwithstanding). The Sheffield born and bred Henderson's Relish tycoon who had been watching the club since he was a boy and had billions to invest just didn't exist.

I'm assuming that the bit that would annoy if this were true is the "penniless" rather than the "tranny..."

 

[DeepcarBlade]

I can't wait to hear Shoreham singing his name.

Prince Abdullah's Red and White Army ... S-U-F-C

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

With Walthy on this takeover. As Blades you are naturally suspicious of this sort of thing having had charlatans, criminals, skint transsexuals and worse involved at board level. But as long as this is on the level a steady investment for a few years can only be good.

 

[JJ Sefton]

I'm assuming that the bit that would annoy if this were true is the "penniless" rather than the "tranny..."

I wouldn't give a fuck if Dr Frank N. Furter rocked up from Transsexual, Transylvania as long as he had a few quid for a striker.

 

[UnitedBlade]

I can't wait to hear Shoreham singing his name.

Na na na na A's a Blade and A's a Blade

 

[Kenilworth]

What's the possibility of the approach to Bramall Lane looking like this in the future?

 

[Houso]

It's got to be said, he aint half showing moxy!

 

[Foxy]

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[1889]

With today's announcement of Saudi investment, my email to the club suggesting its about time Porter was flogged, now seems a little ill timed!

UTB

 

[IOM Blade]

Can't believe people are saying they don't want us to reach the Prem. What's the pinnacle then? 7th in the Championship?

My Dad's 60 and has seen us win sod all, I'd give anything to watch us lift a trophy of note with him. If that requires us to be bankrolled by a Saudi Prince so be it.

 

[Flatulent_Bob]

I wouldn't give a fuck if Dr Frank N. Furter rocked up from Transsexual, Transylvania as long as he had a few quid for a striker.

..and crawling on the planets face, some insects called the human race, lost in time, lost in space....and meaning