Although the Saudi takeover of Newcastle United has not yet gone through, the expectation remains that, despite objections from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch; despite pleas from the fiancee of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi and from the Qatari TV company beIN Sports; and despite the potential for Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, to influence Abdullah bin Musa'ad, a lower-ranking Saudi prince who owns Sheffield United, it will in the end be ratified. And inevitably, alongside the qualms about another Premier League club becoming an agent of soft-power for a government with a highly questionable human rights record, that means speculation.
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