Newcastle United: Fans respond to news of huge financial losses for Roma

Adam Clancy 19 May 2020, 7:40 2 minutes read

Soccer Football - Serie A - Juventus v AS Roma - Allianz Stadium, Turin, Italy - December 22, 2018 AS Roma's Cengiz Under in action with Juventus' Alex Sandro REUTERS/Massimo Pinca

Plenty of Newcastle United fans have been responding to the news that AS Roma may have to sell their best players after the Italian club suffered a financial loss of €278.5 m (£248.15m), as per Oddschanger‘s official Twitter page.

This information was shared by NUFC 360‘s Twitter page, with the caption ‘no wonder they want PIF to buy them’. Indeed, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) were looking to buy Roma if their prospective takeover at St. James’ Park fell through and it looks like the Italians may need that to happen now.

However, several members of the Toon faithful will be praying that this never materialises as they will be hoping for their own club to be bought instead. Saudi’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is hoping to use the fund to back his financial bid to take over from Mike Ashley in the northeast, with the aid of businesswoman Amanda Staveley and the billionaire Reuben brothers.

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These members of the Toon faithful on Twitter responded to the news:

More clubs will follow. Market could be there to steal good players at good price if takeover happens.

— Stuart Paterson (@Stui_86) May 18, 2020

Reckon we should get some of their players to help them out 😉

— Liam Blackburn (@lblackburn_18) May 18, 2020

Insane squad to be honest.

— B 2.0 (@JMAG1892_2) May 18, 2020

Justin kluivert get him in

— Kev Temp. (@kevin_temperley) May 18, 2020

PIF buy the club and bring the players over here for probably a massively decreased price for their talents ? If they agree to join that is

— James (@James07742976) May 18, 2020