Anandakrishnan for Newcastle United FC

I was stunned when I read the news saying that our local tycoon is bidding to buy the Newcastle United Football Club. Yes, you heard that right. Newcastle United! While it does sounds great knowing the fact that one of our makkals is venturing into Brit’s football, I would say that would be one of the weirdest move made by our big boss.
Billionaire Malaysian media mogul T. Ananda Krishnan is the man reportedly behind an £80 million (RM460.6 million) bid to buy English football club Newcastle United, according to The Sun newspaper in the United Kingdom.
The Sun reported that Ananda, who controls Maxis Communications, gaming group Tanjong plc, Measat and Astro, is closing in on the deal to end Mike Ashley’s nightmare two-year “Toon” reign.
RM460 million? Well, if he fails in bidding for that football club, he might wanna consider donating a ‘small portion’ of that money to the Penang government so that they could use it to resolve the Kampung Buah Pala issue by buying over the land and for everyone’s sake, stop pointing fingers once and for all.
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