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It’s still £5m compared to £300,000 to charity which is a shame
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Before today my ITK ranking was: 1. Ando07 - very specific ITK but up to now infallible 2. GolfMag - clear access to interesting people who can provide useful context, but is only ever able to report on one mans version of events 3. Mimms - interesting stuff has a ring of plausibility to it but needed to have something pulled off to confirm this. Safe to say Mimms is now number one.
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They all met yesterday at SJP to watch the match on TV and agree a transitionary relationship with it looking like the lawyers will eventually do their stuff. That’s why Ashley wasn’t there yesterday. Statement will be to announce Jamie Reuben as Executive Director (Commercial and Property) who will be working alongside Charnley. That’s my prediction.
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My theory is the PL are dragging it out as long as possible in hope it still goes away. They don’t want to approve it. It’ll get to xmas and near the window, we’ll be hanging around the bottom and with no sight of any movement from the PL the buyers finally call time. Ashley will sue the PL in 2021 and win, but they’d rather go through that and lose money than upset so many other parties. That’s possible and obviously our worse case scenario. We have to hope a potential legal settlement of 300 million plus is what pushes it over the line. This was Liam Kennedy’s take on a certain someone’s show last night. He said: “I wish I could tell everybody everything I know, but you can’t do that in these situations. “Things are ticking away. The legal cogs are turning, and things are happening. “That doesn’t mean we are all going to get the result that we want at the end, but it’s a positive in itself that everybody is still at the table. “Everybody [who] is part of the consortium, the legal team [and] other legal bodies [are there]. “Everybody is there, and they’re talking; the Premier League, Newcastle United, and Mike Ashley [and] Justin Barnes. “Everybody is there, and things are moving; I want to give more, but I can’t, unfortunately.” When he says we might not get the result we want at the end, I honestly think he was talking about them being forced to reject it. That obviously is not the result we'd want but at least it would be open to appeal. Not sure we have to remember that the club has effectively declared the bid rejected on constructive grounds.
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I'd be happier if Staveley employed other people to pick the manager tbh. Not sure she's a football "expert". Don’t take that use literally, I see Staveley as a figure head of a team which I’m sure incorporates football experts
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Best option would be to let Staveley pick the successor but install a break clause at end of season to allow all parties to get out of arrangement if takeover hasn’t happened
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Bruce will be gone soon. Staveley will have someone employed in an analyst capacity assessing the club and its match performance data. With Ashley’s permission they may even have unrestricted access to the training ground and medical data too. This analyst assuming they exist will be telling Staveley that Bruce is an increasing problem and this stuff will be getting fed back to Ashley and Barnes. This maybe the real source of Bruce’s outburst about his tactics before Burnley. This analyst would get Bruce gone eventually.
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Random Morecambe fact that despite that 12-0 turn around in both the league and cup, Morcambe are the first team in England for 27 years to top the league with a negative goal difference.
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Any agents we need to butter up?