Maybe Google Translate wasn’t best way to find out what Al-Ittihad fans thought of Newcastle United… | OneFootball

I was curious as to what Al-Ittihad fans were saying about Newcastle United.

Newcastle having beaten the Saudi Pro League club 2-1 in a friendly on Friday.

That game concluding a week’s warm weather training (players pictured above training ahead of Friday’s match) in Jeddah.

I wondered what the Al-Ittihad fans would be saying about that game / result, as well as about Newcastle United in general.

When looking around for news on Newcastle United these days, especially often in connection with potential signings, I find myself using Google Translate on Twitter, when media in other countries are talking about NUFC. You know you aren’t going to get an absolutely perfect word for word translation but usually I think you get a pretty good idea of what is being said.

So when it came to Al-Ittihad fans, I went on Twitter and found the Saudi club’s official account and then looked at the responses to them Tweeting about the Newcastle friendly.

Hmmm, maybe Google Translate wasn’t the perfect way to get a real feel for what they were saying, this is not any criticism of Al-Ittihad fans, more just an acceptance that maybe Google Translate struggles a ‘little’ more when translating from Arabic to English, compared to say Dutch or French to English.

I have gathered together a sample of the Google Translated Arabic to English comments from Al-Ittihad fans and there is the very occasional one where you can see the point that is being made BUT as for the rest, clearly something lost in translation!

Responses from Al-Ittihad fans to their club’s Twitter account talking about the friendly v Newcastle United, using Google Translate…:

‘Newcastle is a reserve player and you are alert and able to win, my young grandmother, this is your situation.’

‘Are you sure she knows Newcastle United?’

‘Let it loosen not explode

They can’t, for the official, their money is not friendly

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.’

‘Wasted young man, Al-Ittihad is a reserve player for Newcastle, but the name and the second thing, you think your club, if it comes to do something, splits 10, but you are deprived.’

‘Speak to God, let him like it early so that he does not see anything else, peace.’

‘You see me, the kingdom, don’t talk, and I slap you 6 times, 5, 4 times, and I slap you in the worst of my seasons, you came out of the King’s Cup.’

‘Almost in the third row against Newcastle

And we were better than them and finished 2-1.’

‘God does not expose us to a team that is at the bottom of the standings in the English Premier League and defeats the blown leader. God is a scandal, even if it is friendly. It does not look weak. The players who are looking for the team are not essential with the team.’

‘Your naughty is angry?! Who knows who can answer a goal?’

‘If the billionaire club played against your club, it would have given you a hexagon like the one your club used to give it. When was the time to go back and write about it? It is the truth. What is a story like the story of 17 League?’

‘All the small Riyadh fans who are left behind after a shot, thank God.. Our date is with you on February 11th after the match.’

‘A team that plays every day with City, United, Liverpool and Chelsea is the strongest league in the world in many respects, and you see the squawk.’

‘The one who says Newcastle ranks 18, you are playing with a team in the English Premier League, the ram and strength differ, guys, first-class teams are strong, let alone a team in the Premier League. Think about it, may God guide you, hahahaha.’

‘The youngsters came out of their burrows gloating at the union in a friendly match. Three quarters of the union’s players in which are oppressed reserves.’

‘God is strong for us, we are defeated and then the Newcastle fans come and say we beat the Saudi league leader.’

‘Leave us from Newcastle, who will bring Jebo down to us, the axis of Yabshir, if we are from the Kuwaiti League.’

‘Your goal is incorrect and you whipped Newcastle, and this is the Al-Ittihad team without arbitration support for its truth.’

‘Haha, they said the great grandfather of servants, even in friendships, lose, and this arbitration helps them.’