Getafe Deny Deal With Royal Emirates Group Complete

Suleiman al Butti, project manager for the REG, spoke with Reuters yesterday ending speculation about which La Liga club the group was planning to purchase but would not elaborate of the rumors that the club’s name would be changed to “Team Dubai”.

Meanwhile, Getafe’s president Angel Torres is adamant he has not sold the club to anyone, despite the fact he and several players are reportedly on their way to Dubai. Torres claimed the trip is to “look for solutions for next season”.

As bizarre as the story is, it’s not entirely clear whether the Royal Emirates Group will actually be allowed to go through with the name change. At any rate, I think they should be disqualified from owning the team in the first place based on their terrible choice of a moniker. ‘Team Dubai’ is both ridiculous and boring at the same time, and that’s frankly unacceptable. Here are some of my suggestions:

It’ll be really disappointing if the purported new ownership group gets the chance to rename a whole team and doesn’t have more fun with it than ‘Team Dubai’. Hopefully this is true and we get to see the We’re From Zaragoza And We Like Penguins in action next year.