markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
Even if they do get the investment for January, who is going to go there apart from money mercenaries
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Saudi Sportswashing Machine for Sale.....
- Thread starter mephitis
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Gazza
Frederic Kanoute
A boat load of over hyped French players
Lemonade Money
Les Medley
Who they sell to us for 30mil.
Gazza Dazzla
Chris Perry
Touché
Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
never heard of him, any good?
Rorschach
Sonny Walters
French I believe. Good first touché.
He's had two good games in his career, at the world cup.
We should definitely break our transfer record for him.
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
3.02am post Greg has been on the sauce
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
Well you were loyal in the championship
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
K.D.D.D.D.Soc
Ian Walker
What else is there to do in Saudi Sportswashing Machine other than get tinkled?
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
Chat up the birds
They all love a good mockney accent
Get fat and live on benefits apparently.
Grays_1890
Chris Jones
She tried to hustle Ashley and failed. By all accounts she has not made a serious offer for the club and its questionable if she actually has the backing to make an offer.
She seems abit of a kn0bhead to me
She seems abit of a kn0bhead to me
Lemonade Money
Les Medley
Drunk him under the table?
Kandi1977
Garth Crooks
While West Ham United have overspent on forwards under David Gold and David Sullivan, it can be argued that Mike Ashley has underspent in charge of Saudi Sportswashing Machine, with just 24 strikers coming through the St James’ Park doors since 2007.
Here, we rate them all from the b̶e̶s̶t̶ least worst to the worst. But before we start, wingers and attacking midfielders aren’t included, Shola Ameobi and Andy Carroll get reprieves by being rare products of the youth academy, while Michael Owen, Mark Viduka and Obafemi Martins all joined prior to Ashley’s takeover.
24. Nile Ranger
Nile Ranger scored two league goals for Saudi Sportswashing Machine and, spoiler, some players on this list did not even make an appearance for the club.
However, during his time on Tyneside Ranger got more points on his driving licence than he did goals, spent more time in prison than he did on the pitch, and most of his shots came from imitation firearms.
=22. Fabio Zamblera & Jóan Símun Edmundsson
Zamblera and Edmundsson both failed to make a senior appearance for Saudi Sportswashing Machine, but they don’t have a Legal history section on their Wikipedia page that is longer than their Club career section and so are above Nile Ranger on that basis alone.
21. Facundo Ferreya
Facundo Ferreya, nicknamed Chucky, moved on loan to St James’ Park in 2014 and – despite an impressive career at Shakhtar Donetsk – failed to make an appearance beyond the reserve side.
20. Wesley Ngo Baheng
Ngo Baheng also failed to make it beyond the second string at Saudi Sportswashing Machine, but his exploits in scoring in every division for my Gateshead side on Football Manager 2010, resulting in me featuring in a documentary about the game, sees him placed here.
19. Alan Smith
It’s probably unfair to include Alan Smith in this list since by the time he joined Saudi Sportswashing Machine he had been converted into the new new Roy Keane (Liam Miller, of course, being the new Roy Keane), but seeing as though Smith once led the line in a Champions League semi-final then you would expect him to score at least one goal. He did not.
18. Luuk de Jong
Why have one disappointing De Jong brother when you can both? Saudi Sportswashing Machine did just that in 2014 when Luuk arrived on loan from Borussia Mönchengladbach, where he scored six goals in two years. At Saudi Sportswashing Machine he needed just 12 games to score six fewer goals.
17. Shefki Kuqi
In 2011, Saudi Sportswashing Machine had one of the most exciting English striking prospects in the country in the sizeable form of Andy Carroll – they then sold him to Liverpool for £35million. With that money burning a hole in their pocket, Saudi Sportswashing Machine signed 34-year-old Shefki Kuqi on a free transfer.
16. Seydou Doumbia
Basically the same as Facundo Ferreya, but he actually made an appearance or two and wasn’t just fleeing a potential war in Ukraine. They both scored the same number of goals, though.
15. Emmanuel Rivière
For most clubs, there would not be nine strikers worse than Emmanuel Rivière. Saudi Sportswashing Machine are not like most clubs.
Rivière actually managed to score one goal for the club, though – in the final month of the season in a 2-1 defeat to already-relegated Queens Park Rangers. Even then he seemed to be doing his best to miss – something he had plenty of practice in while on Tyneside.
14. Ivan Toney
Ivan Toney has, to date, made two appearances for Saudi Sportswashing Machine and not found the back of the net. Somehow he is still better than at least 10 players on this list.
13. Marlon Harewood
Harewood joined Saudi Sportswashing Machine on loan from Aston Villa when the Magpies won promotion back to the Premier League in the 2009-10 season. He scored five goals, and Saudi Sportswashing Machine were unbeaten in each of those games.
12. Xisco
Xisco actually scored on his Saudi Sportswashing Machine debut, and once played a sublime pass to Andy Carroll to complete a hat-trick against Aston Villa. And thus ends his YouTube highlight real from a time when YouTube was Saudi Sportswashing Machine’s chief scout.
Xisco, signed as part of an elaborate Ponzi scheme, turned out to be a better punchline than he was a striker.
11. Yoan Gouffran
Perhaps Saudi Sportswashing Machine thought they were signing Yoann Gourcuff when they bought Gouffran for the princely sum of £500k in January 2013.
A lack of investment in other areas saw him pushed out wide, and Alan Pardew’s masterstroke of playing him in central midfield worked out as so many of Alan Pardew’s masterstrokes do, but he always worked hard and chipped in with important goals when played centrally.
Here, we rate them all from the b̶e̶s̶t̶ least worst to the worst. But before we start, wingers and attacking midfielders aren’t included, Shola Ameobi and Andy Carroll get reprieves by being rare products of the youth academy, while Michael Owen, Mark Viduka and Obafemi Martins all joined prior to Ashley’s takeover.
24. Nile Ranger
Nile Ranger scored two league goals for Saudi Sportswashing Machine and, spoiler, some players on this list did not even make an appearance for the club.
However, during his time on Tyneside Ranger got more points on his driving licence than he did goals, spent more time in prison than he did on the pitch, and most of his shots came from imitation firearms.
=22. Fabio Zamblera & Jóan Símun Edmundsson
Zamblera and Edmundsson both failed to make a senior appearance for Saudi Sportswashing Machine, but they don’t have a Legal history section on their Wikipedia page that is longer than their Club career section and so are above Nile Ranger on that basis alone.
21. Facundo Ferreya
Facundo Ferreya, nicknamed Chucky, moved on loan to St James’ Park in 2014 and – despite an impressive career at Shakhtar Donetsk – failed to make an appearance beyond the reserve side.
20. Wesley Ngo Baheng
Ngo Baheng also failed to make it beyond the second string at Saudi Sportswashing Machine, but his exploits in scoring in every division for my Gateshead side on Football Manager 2010, resulting in me featuring in a documentary about the game, sees him placed here.
19. Alan Smith
It’s probably unfair to include Alan Smith in this list since by the time he joined Saudi Sportswashing Machine he had been converted into the new new Roy Keane (Liam Miller, of course, being the new Roy Keane), but seeing as though Smith once led the line in a Champions League semi-final then you would expect him to score at least one goal. He did not.
18. Luuk de Jong
Why have one disappointing De Jong brother when you can both? Saudi Sportswashing Machine did just that in 2014 when Luuk arrived on loan from Borussia Mönchengladbach, where he scored six goals in two years. At Saudi Sportswashing Machine he needed just 12 games to score six fewer goals.
17. Shefki Kuqi
In 2011, Saudi Sportswashing Machine had one of the most exciting English striking prospects in the country in the sizeable form of Andy Carroll – they then sold him to Liverpool for £35million. With that money burning a hole in their pocket, Saudi Sportswashing Machine signed 34-year-old Shefki Kuqi on a free transfer.
16. Seydou Doumbia
Basically the same as Facundo Ferreya, but he actually made an appearance or two and wasn’t just fleeing a potential war in Ukraine. They both scored the same number of goals, though.
15. Emmanuel Rivière
For most clubs, there would not be nine strikers worse than Emmanuel Rivière. Saudi Sportswashing Machine are not like most clubs.
Rivière actually managed to score one goal for the club, though – in the final month of the season in a 2-1 defeat to already-relegated Queens Park Rangers. Even then he seemed to be doing his best to miss – something he had plenty of practice in while on Tyneside.
14. Ivan Toney
Ivan Toney has, to date, made two appearances for Saudi Sportswashing Machine and not found the back of the net. Somehow he is still better than at least 10 players on this list.
13. Marlon Harewood
Harewood joined Saudi Sportswashing Machine on loan from Aston Villa when the Magpies won promotion back to the Premier League in the 2009-10 season. He scored five goals, and Saudi Sportswashing Machine were unbeaten in each of those games.
12. Xisco
Xisco actually scored on his Saudi Sportswashing Machine debut, and once played a sublime pass to Andy Carroll to complete a hat-trick against Aston Villa. And thus ends his YouTube highlight real from a time when YouTube was Saudi Sportswashing Machine’s chief scout.
Xisco, signed as part of an elaborate Ponzi scheme, turned out to be a better punchline than he was a striker.
11. Yoan Gouffran
Perhaps Saudi Sportswashing Machine thought they were signing Yoann Gourcuff when they bought Gouffran for the princely sum of £500k in January 2013.
A lack of investment in other areas saw him pushed out wide, and Alan Pardew’s masterstroke of playing him in central midfield worked out as so many of Alan Pardew’s masterstrokes do, but he always worked hard and chipped in with important goals when played centrally.
Kandi1977
Garth Crooks
10. Joselu
Sometimes at Christmas or just before your birthday your gran or your aunt will ask your mum what you like, then come the big day they will have bought you something vaguely similar but noticeably cheaper. Rafa Benítez wanted a striker and he got Joselu.
Still, he’s done what you would expect a £5million striker to do and Rafa Benítez seems to trust him – and who am I to doubt a man that won Djimi Traore a Champions League medal.
9. Leon Best
Just 10 different players have scored a Premier League hat-trick for Saudi Sportswashing Machine, and in amongst Les Ferdinand, Peter Beardsley and Alan Shearer sits Leon Best.
His treble against West Ham represents 33.33% of his total number of Saudi Sportswashing Machine league goals, and he represents 50% of the players on this list to have scored a Premier League hat-trick for Saudi Sportswashing Machine.
8. Daryl Murphy
Sometimes on Football Manager you just sign an experienced player as back-up with no intention of ever playing them, and that seemed to be what Saudi Sportswashing Machine did with Daryl Murphy.
However, the Championship veteran scored five important goals as the club made an immediate return to the Premier League before departing to Nottingham Forest – not once complaining about the role he was brought in to fulfil.
7. Aleksandar Mitrović
Faustino Asprilla, Temuri Ketsbaia, Aleksandar Mitrović. Saudi Sportswashing Machine supporters love a striker that plays on the edge, and Mitrović plays so close to the edge that he’s often in danger of falling off.
He has scored 14 league goals for the club, and missed almost as many matches through suspension. As ill-disciplined as he may be, he is a useful asset when he does play.
6. Peter Løvenkrands
He came on a free from Germany, and scored three times as Saudi Sportswashing Machine unsuccessfully tried to stave off relegation in 2009 before leaving the club in the summer.
However, his love affair with the club wasn’t over and he returned to score another 19 league goals as they returned to the top flight and established themselves in the division. He can still be found cheering on the Magpies on social media, presumably in his Danish-Glaswegian accent.
5. Ayoze Pérez
Ayoze Pérez was, allegedly, being tracked by both Real Madrid and Barcelona before Saudi Sportswashing Machine swooped in to sign him from Tenerife in 2014.
While he hasn’t shown the ability to usurp Dwight Gayle, never mind Lionel Messi, he has shown glimpses of class and scored some impressive and important goals while not really being an out-and-out centre-forward.
4. Loïc Rémy
Loïc Rémy is somewhat of an anomaly on this list – a loan signing that actually played for the first team. Turning down the club in favour of joining QPR in January 2013, he eventually ended up on Tyneside in August that same year when all was forgiven as he scored 14 Premier League goals in 26 matches.
The only issue was Saudi Sportswashing Machine forgot to agree a future fee for Rémy and he stayed in West London with Chelsea after his loan at St James’ Park expired.
3. Dwight Gayle
After being relegated to the second tier in 2016, Saudi Sportswashing Machine needed to reinvest some of the £90million raised in player sales. Step forward £10m Dwight Gayleillion.
Gayle, like Michael Chopra or Jordan Rhodes, is a player too good for the Championship but not quite good enough for the Premier League – but his time in the second tier saw him score 23 goals, making him the first Saudi Sportswashing Machine player since Alan Shearer to break the 20-goal mark in a season.
2. Patinkle Cissé
When Patinkle Cissé arrived from Freiburg in 2011 he was a footballing Midas, with everything he touched turning into goal(d) and Stephen Hawking still trying to figure out the physics of Cissé’s goal against Chelsea.
Towards the end of his time at St James’ Park he was more like Rufus Smalls from Mike Bassett: England Manager, being given penalties to try and give him a bit of confidence – but those few months alongside Hatem Ben Arfa and Demba Ba saw some of the best attacking play at Saudi Sportswashing Machine since Kevin Keegan was in charge.
1. Demba Ba
He came here to drink strawberry sauce and score goals, and he’s just finished his strawberry sauce.
Demba Ba joined Saudi Sportswashing Machine on a free transfer from West Ham thanks to a lapse-in-judgement-at-best relegation release clause, and went on to score 29 Premier League goals for the club before departing to Chelsea thanks to a lapse-in-judgement-at-best £7million release clause.
His time at Saudi Sportswashing Machine included a hat-trick against Stoke City, who decided against signing Ba due to his “ticking time bomb” knee.
Sometimes at Christmas or just before your birthday your gran or your aunt will ask your mum what you like, then come the big day they will have bought you something vaguely similar but noticeably cheaper. Rafa Benítez wanted a striker and he got Joselu.
Still, he’s done what you would expect a £5million striker to do and Rafa Benítez seems to trust him – and who am I to doubt a man that won Djimi Traore a Champions League medal.
9. Leon Best
Just 10 different players have scored a Premier League hat-trick for Saudi Sportswashing Machine, and in amongst Les Ferdinand, Peter Beardsley and Alan Shearer sits Leon Best.
His treble against West Ham represents 33.33% of his total number of Saudi Sportswashing Machine league goals, and he represents 50% of the players on this list to have scored a Premier League hat-trick for Saudi Sportswashing Machine.
8. Daryl Murphy
Sometimes on Football Manager you just sign an experienced player as back-up with no intention of ever playing them, and that seemed to be what Saudi Sportswashing Machine did with Daryl Murphy.
However, the Championship veteran scored five important goals as the club made an immediate return to the Premier League before departing to Nottingham Forest – not once complaining about the role he was brought in to fulfil.
7. Aleksandar Mitrović
Faustino Asprilla, Temuri Ketsbaia, Aleksandar Mitrović. Saudi Sportswashing Machine supporters love a striker that plays on the edge, and Mitrović plays so close to the edge that he’s often in danger of falling off.
He has scored 14 league goals for the club, and missed almost as many matches through suspension. As ill-disciplined as he may be, he is a useful asset when he does play.
6. Peter Løvenkrands
He came on a free from Germany, and scored three times as Saudi Sportswashing Machine unsuccessfully tried to stave off relegation in 2009 before leaving the club in the summer.
However, his love affair with the club wasn’t over and he returned to score another 19 league goals as they returned to the top flight and established themselves in the division. He can still be found cheering on the Magpies on social media, presumably in his Danish-Glaswegian accent.
5. Ayoze Pérez
Ayoze Pérez was, allegedly, being tracked by both Real Madrid and Barcelona before Saudi Sportswashing Machine swooped in to sign him from Tenerife in 2014.
While he hasn’t shown the ability to usurp Dwight Gayle, never mind Lionel Messi, he has shown glimpses of class and scored some impressive and important goals while not really being an out-and-out centre-forward.
4. Loïc Rémy
Loïc Rémy is somewhat of an anomaly on this list – a loan signing that actually played for the first team. Turning down the club in favour of joining QPR in January 2013, he eventually ended up on Tyneside in August that same year when all was forgiven as he scored 14 Premier League goals in 26 matches.
The only issue was Saudi Sportswashing Machine forgot to agree a future fee for Rémy and he stayed in West London with Chelsea after his loan at St James’ Park expired.
3. Dwight Gayle
After being relegated to the second tier in 2016, Saudi Sportswashing Machine needed to reinvest some of the £90million raised in player sales. Step forward £10m Dwight Gayleillion.
Gayle, like Michael Chopra or Jordan Rhodes, is a player too good for the Championship but not quite good enough for the Premier League – but his time in the second tier saw him score 23 goals, making him the first Saudi Sportswashing Machine player since Alan Shearer to break the 20-goal mark in a season.
2. Patinkle Cissé
When Patinkle Cissé arrived from Freiburg in 2011 he was a footballing Midas, with everything he touched turning into goal(d) and Stephen Hawking still trying to figure out the physics of Cissé’s goal against Chelsea.
Towards the end of his time at St James’ Park he was more like Rufus Smalls from Mike Bassett: England Manager, being given penalties to try and give him a bit of confidence – but those few months alongside Hatem Ben Arfa and Demba Ba saw some of the best attacking play at Saudi Sportswashing Machine since Kevin Keegan was in charge.
1. Demba Ba
He came here to drink strawberry sauce and score goals, and he’s just finished his strawberry sauce.
Demba Ba joined Saudi Sportswashing Machine on a free transfer from West Ham thanks to a lapse-in-judgement-at-best relegation release clause, and went on to score 29 Premier League goals for the club before departing to Chelsea thanks to a lapse-in-judgement-at-best £7million release clause.
His time at Saudi Sportswashing Machine included a hat-trick against Stoke City, who decided against signing Ba due to his “ticking time bomb” knee.
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jts1882
Dean Richards
She does seem to have a record of takeover schemes that go nowhere. She was supposedly involved with a takeover of Liverpool during the Hicks-Gillett fiasco. She did have some involvement with the Emirates Marketing Project deal, but she seems to be living off this since. If there is a takeover rumour involving a Gulf entity she inserts herself in the story.