Kanj

as if the PL are going to say that off the record they had a million and a half objection letters and phone calls from other clubs or BeIn sports etc.

Why would you blame the PIF for getting fed up with the process? They’ve spent considerable amount of time and money, they’ve been asked to provide info and they responded as commercially reasonable to them. They provided assurances from their royal court and yet the league still was not satisfied. At some point you have to weigh risk and materiality with respect to a major transaction. They walked. They spent 17 weeks waiting for a decision that played out in the public domain.

Winkler.

Henry is fucking class man.

Aye Liverpool can kindly fuck off.

It’s almost like the O&D test should be looking to protect clubs from a group like BN who nobody have really heard of or there isn’t a very clear line what the source of capital or overall plans are...

The question was number 9 though, so should it just be about the position? Think it’s a bit ambiguous.

Surely the best outcome is her to get paid a massive wedge and immediately buy the club on her own so she can ensure Sean is banned from every aspect of the club and city. this.

Had a special love for Oba Martins and Cisse but Rondon for me.

Nah. https://www.esquiresg.com/talking-to-nelson-and-terence-loh-founders-of-the-novena-global-lifecare-about-president-obama-and-the-education-benefit-gala/ Ok so the Esquire pics are legit. But the ones posted on the press release is photoshopped.

Obama pics seem photoshopped right? Press release in July. Doubt Barrack was flying over there to meet with them.

I love a company’s website that tells us nothing.

right on Neesy I was thinking same. Chopra hates Bruce.

All of this still reeks. We keep getting false hope and strung along. Pitting fans against eachother yet again. This whole saga can fuck off.

Where has MBS been named as the key mastermind or knowing of the piracy? Certainly you mean the KSA as a government had potentially turned the other cheek and allowed it to happen?

WHat are you talking about

that article is such crap.

Rocker is one of us NO old timers. Penn can get kicked into the sea sale or not. No loss here. Arrogant and offensive in most posts. Wind up nerd.

So a larger scale domestic project gets shelved; but not a smaller scale more globally public marketing style investment. Entirely plausible why the Newcastle purchase could happen given scale and public perception its gained?

Diversification and allocation of risk. Getting the Saudi brand(s) out there. Friendly competition with Man City given ownership. Fuck off Qatar competition with Paris if possible too. Fun vanity investment for the sov wealth fund. Al Rhum is a massive sports fan and likely massive reason this is still kicking around.

Good kits imo. Saint Max def had his hand in the 3rd kit.

You actually think this Disco or just being sarcastic

All the kits aren’t bad. The away and third would look decent in a video game

I don’t know what people expect about transactions these days but the Unicorn owner that some may seek won’t be able to buy this club at the current discount to pre covid values and pump 2-3x purchase price in equity to get the club functioning properly via the needed staffing, faculties upgrades. Further clubs likely need additional support until fans return and match day revenues return. We literally had one who would have the cash to turn us on the offensive and take advantage of cash flow burn. That true faith article is so stupid to me because it doesn’t really apply the transaction landscape at all.

That’s fair enough but the PL also need to accept by bundling their rights for the MENA region, it is also unreasonable to expect a nation to accept an offshoot of Al Jazeera into their country. Yes there’s no excusing the piracy and let’s be honest we all know their guilty of that. However, say the NFL bundled the rights for Europe and a Russian broadcaster got the rights, would it be reasonable for U.K. to say where not allowing them to broadcast in our space, I would suggest yes it would. If I’m not mistaken there is something in test that allows for corrective action to be taken, they have introduced new anti piracy measures, and it will be interesting to see how serious they are about this when there is no legal way of watching the PL. I would have loved them to have allowed bein to broadcast to get this through, however either it was just to big of an ask for them, or they genuinely miscalculated and thought they could buy the rights. I agree on MENA. Kanji has brought it up, too. Just seems like the league were asking for it having a politically volatile region grouped together for rights purchases while also allowing nation states to purchase football clubs. They've created their own issue and now it's on them to deal with it not ignore the wellbeing of one of their shareholding clubs.