James

The Athletic podcast said Caulkin is on holiday in France earlier so it may be you don't get an update this week. Where do all the buyers meet and mingle? South of France

Think the whole twitter thing will fall flat. Unless the media pick up on this and ask direct questions to the sponsors then it’s an annoyance but it won’t escalate.

Has it been established definitively that Luke Edwards is Penn?

When’s the transfer deadline, October? Will continue to then if nothing progresses.

I think Ashley’s core legal argument goes back to when he bought the club and when O&D was introduced. When he bought the club, did he have any idea that the organisation would introduce rules that would prevent him from selling to whoever he wanted to in the future. When O&D was introduced did he vote for it? Is the application of the test consistent with what was communicated to members at the time?

Same (Nick Brown) emailed him stating how good potentially this could be for the river tyne area his area covers, 4+ businesses involved in the oil & gas sector. Don’t worry about him, by convention whips don’t get involved

My MP, Lucy Powell, Shadow Business Minister has also written to Masters, I got quite a generic response so she must have gotten more than one email here in Manchester.

About the new price had assumed that it may just have related to being safe from relegation by that point

So easy to do. Sent mine. 2,500 now. Mines gone to Manchester Central and given Ms. Powell’s shadow position I extended my email a little: Finally as an aside away from the generic email above, and in relation to point 2 above - in your view given your role as shadow business and consumer minister do you believe it is appropriate (if what other reports have stated is true) that the so-called top six football clubs are able to influence the Premier League’s review of other club’s takeovers. This could be a sign of the larger football clubs unfairly dominating the market to the detriment of the other 90+ football clubs. Could there be a need to investigate the PL through the CMA?

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Aye, but he thought it was going to be good news. Some backfire, that. I actually cried. All the information I received '**** says biggish news tomorrow for NUFC' and then a celebration smiley face. Fair to say that she made her own tea when she came in from work. Cunt. Jesus. You speaking now though? Maybe his friend thought he was an Ashley-loving Saudi-hater

There was a time when I worked in the then Highways Agency in their planning department and we had the authority to force the local authority to refuse planning applications. However there was a separate option which we could fill in a form and it prevented councils from making a decision one way or another for the next 28 days and we could repeatedly file this indefinitely. Could keep a case in limbo as long as we wanted but there was also an expectation that we had to work with the applicant during that period or refuse it or else the applicant had grounds to appeal/sue

January? What calendar is Ryder using?

Note that it’s not actually from the Reuben’s directly but from a regional business that is impacted by the decision

Sounds like they are trying to really nail the PL here

Greg, these are my ideas: 1. Ask the CMA to investigate anti-competitive behaviour by the PL and member clubs in colluding to prevent the takeover. 2. Create a stock email that members from throughout the UK asking them to support Chi’s correspondence with Masters and to support an investigation into the PL by the CMA 3. Actively engage Alok Sharma, Ed Milliband and Lucy Powell to persuade them to push the CMA to investigate the PL. be sure to point out that this issue creates a precedent which has ramifications for 90 other clubs, not just our own 4. Through the FSA engage with other supporter groups. Remind them of times that NUFC fans have helped out their clubs and then ask club groups to engage their own clubs to tell them that interfering in another club’s takeover is not cool. 5. Ask the PL whether they have investigated the information provided to them by C4 about Everton not disclosing Usmanov’s involvement in their takeover. 6. Engage with the Chronicle to run some highly negative stories on the PL on their front page. 7. Draw up a long list of ex-players in terms of their national stature and invite them to become involved in NUST and get involved in the critique of the PL. 8. Need some sort of responsible protest. A front door boo for the PL throughout Newcastle maybe? 9. Accept that moving forward it is going to be hard to run protests and constructively engage with PL and NUFC. Choose which you want to be an open the door for a non-affiliated group to take the other role. Excellent constructive feedback. I'll add them to the list. I’ve edited them slightly as a few typos and wasn’t clear on a couple of bits.

10. A city-wide PL sponsor boycott

Greg, these are my ideas: 1. Ask the CMA to investigate anti-competitive behaviour by the PL and member clubs in colluding to prevent the takeover. 2. Create a stock email that members from throughout the UK can send to their MPs asking them to support Chi’s correspondence with Masters and to support an investigation into the PL by the CMA 3. Actively engage Alok Sharma, Ed Milliband and Lucy Powell to persuade them to push the CMA to investigate the PL. be sure to point out that this issue creates a precedent which has ramifications for 90 other clubs, not just our own 4. Through the FSA engage with other supporter groups. Remind them of times that NUFC fans have helped out their clubs and then ask club groups to engage their own clubs to tell them that interfering in another club’s takeover is not cool. 5. Ask the PL whether they have investigated the information provided to them by C4 about Everton not disclosing Usmanov’s involvement in their takeover. Or any other similar post takeover O&D infringements. 6. Engage with the Chronicle to run some highly negative stories on the PL on their front page. 7. Draw up a long list of ex-players in terms of their national stature and invite them to become involved in NUST and get involved in the critique of the PL. 8. Need some sort of responsible protest. A front door boo for the PL throughout Newcastle maybe? Another one would be a citywide boycott of PL sponsors coupled with online disruption of sponsor social media activities. 9. Accept that moving forward it is going to be hard to run protests and constructively engage with PL and NUFC. Choose which you want to be and open the door for a non-affiliated group to take the other role.

People really need to understand the really challenging tightrope that NUST are on. They need to work constructively and professionally with organisations such as the PL and all the same time be seen by its own fanbase to be taking action

Well I for one will be writing to my MP who also happens to be Shadow Business and Consumer Secretary asking her to support the letter Chi sent Masters but also to encourage an investigation of anti-competitive cartel behaviour via the CMA. I think as fans we should be writing letters to our MPs, with a particular need to target the MPs of Doncaster North, Reading West and Manchester Central as these are the three who are in a real position to push an investigation.

Some great suggestions there but why didn’t you attempt to engage with NUST and make these suggestions while they had a chance to do something?

PL clubs are in a position of strength this summer due to the TV money. Other clubs will have to sell at greatly deflated prices this summer and there are deals to be had. Therefore I think the bottom half of the table will not be dictated by net spend, it will be dictated by who makes the smartest deals, who have the best coaches, and which teams have the best determination.

Think we need two things really on top of fans. Need a figurehead who can lead the fight against the PL. Only two people can do this, Shearer or KK. And you need some supporting media who are going to put Masters face all over their newspaper with words like incompetent all over it. The Chronicle are too weak in this regard

One interesting thing for me is hat they supposedly met to discuss putting harder pressure on the PL but instead decided to pull out. Almost like it’s preemptive to the claims that they are just calling the PLs bluff. Think by the skin of my teeth I remain a Manorparkian