Richard Keys is at it again with Newcastle United.
Maybe we should feel honoured.
The thing is, Richard Keys has long been on a mission to get attention and at the same time, be an irritation to as many football fans as possible.
So when he targets Newcastle United so often, it is purely down to the fact that our club has one of the very largest Premier League fanbases. Which means there are a lot of annoyed people who will react.
We aren’t alone, Richard Keys does the same with all of the other major fanbases, such as Liverpool, Man U and Arsenal.
One of his main routes these days to deliver his wind-ups, is his personal blog.
He self-publishes his own nonsense, usually on a weekly basis.
Liverpool fans were the ones mainly targeted this week, however, Newcastle United fans were also given an honourable mention…
“I’m told the Saudi’s are looking to sell Newcastle. Regulars know I’ve been saying for some time the project was over.
Apparently there are interested parties, but the Saud’s want £1b. £500m is nearer the mark.”
The worst thing of all with this pathetic nonsense, is it then leads to numerous media picking up and running with it.
I have already seen headlines and reactions regarding these “Claims Newcastle United are up for sale…”, some of them mentioning Richard Keys as the ‘source’ BUT most don’t.
The more and more something like this gets repeated in the media, the more and more it gets totally lost that this is just one of the latest pieces of nonsense that Richard Keys has dreamed up.
Keys comes out with this kind of stuff all the time, about many clubs trying to make out that he has great contacts and puts out exclusives all the time.
The truth is a little different.
Like a broken clock, he will be ‘proved’ correct once in a while. After all, he claims ‘knowledge’ of so many things, so often.
If the Newcastle United owners sold the club in ten years time for £10billion, Richard Keys would no doubt claim that he was first with his ‘exclusive’ this week!
I can’t be bothered to give his daft claimed valuation much attention, as that is for sure just yet another layer of irritation that he is attempting. Safe to say though that if Newcastle United was to be sold at any point, the selling price would be £1billion+ (you could sell a number of current players which on its own would easily get you to half a billion, without even getting into all of the other things that make up the value of an attractive Premier League club, this current season’s revenues are going to be over £400m as well).