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It’s got nothing to do with takeover. It’s closely related to the takeover. If takeover is imminent then why would Ashley care about the terms after the sales? The contract negotiation itself implies the club will not be sold.

I have had a second thought: may be this was the last obstacle for the takeover, and now we will be sold very soon There was always one big question in my mind throughout the takeover: why would Ashley sell us if Rafa is here? Rafa has been performing magic and able to give Ashley minimum 30m (rough figure) profit per year. You may not grasp how significant it is but I can tell you assuming the club is worth 350m, it’s close to 8.5% return per year (and excluding the advertisement) which is f***ing attractive. Newcastle United is close to a cash cow under Rafa. No businessmen will sell such a cash cow unless other party offered astronomical money. We all know that a big reason for Ashley to sell the club was because if Rafa left, the cash cow status will be gone and he needs to provide a lot of new funds for the new manager to improve the squad. So it’s a great timing to cash in and quit, hence the BZG story. In other words, why would Ashley sell the club if Rafa is willing to stay and help to generate 30m per year into his pocket? And if the club was to be sold shortly, the new contract was meaningless because surely BZG will negotiate with Rafa separately in relation to the working condition between Rafa and BZG. Those terms (50m all inclusive per year etc) only applies when the club was not sold. So to me, the negoatiation of the new contract itself always contradicts with the news that Ashley has agreed to sell the club to BZG. Hence I always ignore these news. However, the statement issued by the club today suggested otherwise. It’s real that the negotiation was carried between Ashley and Rafa, which means the club would not be sold to BZG shortly. However, again this contradicts with the statement issued by BZG, which claimed that the price has been agreed between BZG and Ashley. So what was Ashley doing? On one hand agreed the price with BZG and on the other hand persuading Rafa to stay and work on his own terms (I.e. the club will not be sold)? The only logical explanation I can think of now is, Ashley priority was to retain Rafa / the cash cow status (the terms offered would still generate huge profit to Ashley, I guarantee you this). The BZG takeover was the plan B in case Rafa decided to quit. Which is, Ashley has agreed the price with BZG but he would not finalise the deal until his first priority is gone. This was also in line with recent development of the BZG story. After the proper test no more news has come out and it appears to be hold up by someone till now. Hopefully the club will be sold shortly now as Ashley’s first priority has gone. And again, thanks Rafa.

The takeover won’t happen now. Crystal clear imo.

Rafas departure basically confirms that the takeover is dead. Just think, if the takeover is imminent, why would Rafa and Ashley truely engage in contract talks? The contract would void or become meaningless once the owner becomes BZG. Who cares about the 50m budget if the owner is not Ashley? In other words, if the contract terms is serious, that means Rafa expected that the takeover would not go through. Or may be, it simply won’t happen as long as Rafa stays. Fucking devastated. That’s also the end of me as a black and white.

Happy for Rafa. Thanks for your work and best wishes for your next job. You deserve a much better club. Devastated not because of losing Rafa but this kinda confirmed the takeover has collapsed.

I can’t get it, may be I missed something How could it be possible that the EPL proper test was carried out before the price / payment method / sales itself has been agreed?

Both will be gone.

Muto probably “too old”. This team is for testing the young talents for Qatar 2022. Lots of U23 players. Their starting striker is a 20 years old university student. That said, the “Japanese Messi” is really impressive. Kubo Takefusa.

If he got complacent at this stage he should end up somewhere in Russia

Great thanks Odin

I hope golfmag comes back. It’s time to start a new page for everyone who are black and white. The fat cunt era should end and all memories should be deleted ASAP.

I will take 10m. Much more realistic

Outstanding contribution. Thanks and best wishes Mo. Really should have stayed for one more season imo.

It doesn’t make sense. I mean, if takeover is imminent, why would the Fat Cunt retain Rafa? Similarly, why would Rafa listen to the Fat Cunt? Those are empty promises anyway. The only possible scenarios I can think of are 1. We ain’t getting sold, the deal is off; or 2. The takeover depends on Rafas decision, but not the direction we thought. That is, the Fat Cunt would sell the club only if Rafa decided to quit. It looks more and more likely that it’s 2 to me.

I see where you come from but I think Spurs deserved to lose for playing Kane who was obviously not ready for final. Pochettino has to take the responsibility.

Today could be the day of reborn after the dark age since SBR I can’t breathe, help me

They can only reply “no comment” before the deal was completed I think? I know everyone here is fucking desperate lol

no way Rafa was not aware of this if due diligence was done three months ago?

If the timeline is real, it makes sense that someone claimed “the deal was done” a few days ago

Source close to the club Fuck off then

We have been sold, just a matter of time for final confirmation If the statement is correct.

Technically yes The club confirms that “the first statement” is correct First statement = terms agreed

By the way I think the next statement (from either side) would make or break the deal. Probably the most critical moment for the whole take over is now

I dont think they are making everything up but I dont see why they'd release these if the deal was a matter of days/a week from completion. They are playing something, probably trying to push Ashley. Think we'll be waiting for a while to see if anything happens. E; I mean it wouldnt make sense to be that annoyed if they knew they could complete the deal soon. Then none of this would matter or be remembered. Because people outside UAE are shouting for further info from them

I don’t quite get it. The club is belonged to Ashley (or his holding company). So the bid should be to Ashley instead of the club itself?