Matt

A sensible choice would be 30 June, being the club's financial year-end.

On what basis are we all concluding this guy has no money?

Maybe that's what's happening? Of course PCP/MA can agree to extend that date but if the PL believes (or has come to understand) that an extension would not be mutually agreeable then procrastination would be a very useful way of avoiding an uncomfortable decision.

Somewhere in the sale documents there'll be a long-stop date beyond which the deal will only proceed if both sides agree to waive or extend it. Normally that date contains a fair bit of leeway but you don't want it to be too long in order to protect both parties to material unforeseen events. We must be edging closer to it.

Doesn't change what he gets paid.

That would almost certainly not be allowed by the sale agreement and if it were, the agreement would command a corresponding adjustment to the final consideration paid.

Why?

I travelled up from London 2007-2011 and probably missed as many games as I got to. Too many shifted for TV, Championship season was a nightmare as it was usually last minute when I'd bought train tickets months ago. You can't get the same cheap tickets these days either. Probably have to drive to make it work.

The only way someone else can buy us is if the premier league reject PCP/PIF And Rubens / PCP won't even blink if someone else is to drop in. They have got Ashley's sale price, that's 90% of the work.

Surely these organisations aren't labouring under the impression that the PL have total discretion on this matter? Perhaps it's simply a case that they are looking to ramp up as much pressure as possible to give PIF the impression that this will become a reverse-sportswashing and will bring abuses under much greater international scrutiny and influence them to withdraw the bid?

Nope, Mort was replaced by Llambias.

Ashley does that every year, dicking about with financial year ends- seems to allow him more time to submit the paperwork.

They own the plot at the bottom of Pilgrim St where the old Bank of England building was and much of the derelict land around it. Not sure if they own all the way up to the container park.

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I'm always a beliver in 'never go back' but Benitez has so much unfinished business here. Plus the first 2-3 years are not about winning trophies it's about building a good story while the club gets its infrastructure in order following years of neglect. He's just the man for the job. He probably already has a ring binder containing exactly how he'd rebuild NUFC ready to go.

Oil prices could collapse to negative eleventy, if a contract has been signed it's been signed. And in any case, if you are trying to diversify your assets so they're less dependent on oil, deciding against buying a totally uncorrelated asset in a depressed market environment because oil prices are down would be a pretty dumb move.

It's likely that in the short term the club's retail will continue to work through SD as it would take time to re-organise distribution channels. The share of resulting profits isn't something that would be publicly disclosed, although a lot of people got excited by the deal with Rangers where the club got 5% / 10% (can't remember which) of sales and that was spun as SD taking 90% of the money- ignoring that they'd also be bearing all the costs of sale. In the grand scheme of things, it probably doesn't add up to much, but as posters above comment- that's partly due to lack of ambition on the retail strategy.

You can't do much without knocking down Leazes Terrace, it just makes everything else too complicated. And you can't do that because it's listed. But you could dismantle it and move it into an big vacant plot in the middle of the city, where it would sit alongside buildings of similar heritage and style. Maybe east of Pilgrim Street, now who owns that chunk of vacant land?

If anyone is actually curious about what we know so far from public docs, this just about sums it up: https://ibb.co/WyNtqXz All the rest is guesswork or genuine inside intel.

And who was reporting that exactly? Sadly those lawyers on the podcast seem to run with some of the broad assumptions out there about how Staveley paid a deposit or that the vendor loan agreement relates to novation of the intercompany loan owed to SJHL. Maybe they've seen something I haven't but nothing in the public domain suggests this is the case. I've just read that Samuel article, pure conjecture. Anyway, I'm off to sell him a tenner for twelve quid because he's reasonably well off.

The only obvious site is the arena and surrounding area, much of which seems to be sitting vacant waiting for the day a developer swings by.

Saudi Arabia airlines most likely. You're assuming their business plan is similar to Man City / PSG and we don't know whether that will be the case. There are easier ways to get a name on a shirt than buying the whole club.

For those that want to know- below a chunk from the PL Owners and Directors Test:

Accept it Mike. Let it flow through you. Not until I see the signs on fire. Aye, them being in skips turned out to not be enough last time. Burn them.

I think it means he's making it up as he goes along.