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Haha aye, as everyone knows that's how the law works ?. I know Edwards is only reporting this and it was actually written by some special lad at the Telegraph. But to even report it as fact is bad enough, the guy needs help.

Of course they could challenge. The idea that Qatar's belief or claim of guilt would somehow bar a challenge is the logic of an absolute mong.

No chance if the PL reject it. Back to Ashley. I think there would be a very good chance of a legal challenge. Potentially from both buyers and Ashley. This is a unique situation so I wouldn't be surprised if it ended in court. Another thing the PL will be considering. Because if their is a case and the PL lose, that would set a precedent that could effectively end the owners and directors test outside of the basic tests requires by UK law.

Thought the premier league didn’t announce anything ? I think they will on this one, it's so high profile. I reckon they've already rejected it. You wouldn't be having all this stuff coming out like confetti by BEIN and Qatar if that was the case. They are obviously shitting themselves by the amount of stuff coming out. Ahh sorry, my prediction is that they've rejected it in the last day or two, not previously. Should probably just say "I reckon they're gonna reject it". The last day or two is when Qatar have really lost the plot. Releasing statements about refunds and that they won't bid for another TV deal if it passes and getting a QC to send a opinion to the PL that the takeover should be rejected. It does seem like Qatar have gone from quietly working in the background to get the takeover cancelled to desperate public flailing in the last day or two. I don't want to assume anything, but it doesn't look like the actions of someone confident things are going their way.

Yeah that's how I read it.

From that FootballLaw article: If Qatar are basing the opinion on this report it certainly is desperate The opinion of a slik > a solicitor on twitter, although I'm sure PIF have Queen's Counsel giving exactly the opposite opinion. It's not from Twitter, it's from the FootballLaw website, its written by a Barrister with experience in sports law. I'm sure other opinions can be found, I'm just saying that reading him go through the report in that article it's hard to see what in their is against the tests.

From that FootballLaw article: If Qatar are basing the opinion on this report it certainly is desperate

It really doesn't, it points to multiple possibilities. For instance waiting for the report to be public so that everyone can see it's not a reason to stop the deal before they go ahead and give it the go ahead. Or they received only parts of the report from Qatar and were waiting to judge the full report in its entirety. Or they merely used the release to delay for more time to decide and/or hope for less scrutiny once the season restarted. Or there's your theory that they've used it to delay while they look for other reasons to reject the deal. I'm sure theirs even more possibilities.

How the fuck does a dentist know so much.... Whether he knows anything or not, you can bet they will be behind it. As Wandy said, it's worth throwing in there for them as it does give the PL an out to reject the Saudi bid. "Look there's plenty of interest in NUFC, if we reject this bid, you can easily sell to someone else!" I doubt the Premier League give a shite about NUFC or Ashley so I don't see why they'd need any excuse for them. The only outs they need are for Qatar or the Saudis if they reject or accept and one or the other sues, and this does nothing for that.

Yep, the WTO report was nothing like they claimed and now embarrassing for them. So they've done a quick sweep under the rug with that and moved on to some other bullshit as fast as possible.

Course it is, wouldn't surprise me if the guy didn't even exist. Pull his mask off and it's fat Mike.

PL test hasn't failed yet like, and still might not.

So why do you think someone would outbid a deal that has failed due to PL tests? Its just typical paper nonsense.

Lance Percival from the Carry On films?

The report certainly never claims that the Saudi government were behind the piracy. They sat they didn't do enough to stop it and didn't allow Qatar to challenge it in court. Perhaps you can say that makes them complicit. But that's nowhere near the same thing as saying they are actually behind the piracy, as in they themselves pirated the streams. I mean I haven't seen Look North myself. But if it is saying that the WTO report claims the Saudi government are behind the piracy, well I don't see that quotes anywhere from the WTO report.

"The World Trade Organisation has ruled that Saudi Arabia was behind a pirate satellite TV and streaming service that illegally broadcast sporting events" But they haven't though, have they? They've established that Saudi Arabia didn't do enough to stop it, not that SA was behind the illegal broadcasts. The same people would be complaining if the Saudis had caught those behind beoutQ and chopped their arms off (or whatever they do to pirates over there). Can't win. but the premier league wouldn't give half a s*** and would have rubber stamped the takeover months ago You don’t want this takeover to go through do you, now you’re straw clutching. quite frankly I would rather almost anyone else be trying to buy the club preferably someone without one of the worst human rights records in the world Careful now with that sensible opinion. Sensible? To see the club destroyed for 12 years and then think "whey I'm not sure I like these new owners lets wait it out and see if better come along". It's obviously a very sensible opinion. In a rational world people dying due to a horrendous regime "should" be more important than a football club. However, sport and football especially is tribal and is more important than anything else to a lot of people so it is also understandable that people will care more about that than human rights issues in a faraway country From my perspective the club isn't worth supporting under Mike Ashley. That's why I don't see it as a option to take or leave any change of ownership. If I could choose the owners, I'd choose just Stavely and the Ruebens alone, even if it meant a club that wasn't super rich and just slowly built competitively, but I can't choose. I'm not going to entertain the fantasy that we can just turn down a takeover and along will come another.

I agree, which is why its not sensible IMO to not want the takeover because you don't want to be owed by Saudi Arabia. No bother if people don't want to have Saudi money in the club, but to want to pass this takeover up and stay with Ashley for god knows how much longer?

"The World Trade Organisation has ruled that Saudi Arabia was behind a pirate satellite TV and streaming service that illegally broadcast sporting events" But they haven't though, have they? They've established that Saudi Arabia didn't do enough to stop it, not that SA was behind the illegal broadcasts. The same people would be complaining if the Saudis had caught those behind beoutQ and chopped their arms off (or whatever they do to pirates over there). Can't win. but the premier league wouldn't give half a shit and would have rubber stamped the takeover months ago You don’t want this takeover to go through do you, now you’re straw clutching. quite frankly I would rather almost anyone else be trying to buy the club preferably someone without one of the worst human rights records in the world Careful now with that sensible opinion. Sensible? To see the club destroyed for 12 years and then think "whey I'm not sure I like these new owners lets wait it out and see if better come along".

"The World Trade Organisation has ruled that Saudi Arabia was behind a pirate satellite TV and streaming service that illegally broadcast sporting events" But they haven't though, have they? They've established that Saudi Arabia didn't do enough to stop it, not that SA was behind the illegal broadcasts. The same people would be complaining if the Saudis had caught those behind beoutQ and chopped their arms off (or whatever they do to pirates over there). Can't win. but the premier league wouldn't give half a shit and would have rubber stamped the takeover months ago You don’t want this takeover to go through do you, now you’re straw clutching. quite frankly I would rather almost anyone else be trying to buy the club preferably someone without one of the worst human rights records in the world You've suffered the same never ending death of supporting NUFC through the Mike Ashley years and still think we've got the luxury of who we'd rather buy the club?

I doubt the Premier League even saw the end of the report, more likely they were given the worst possible snippets by Qatar and have been waiting to put it all into context when their lawyers read the whole thing.

Basically just seems to be saying that Saudi Arabia haven't kept to their obligation of allowing Qatar to chase BEoutQ in their courts. Then concludes that Saudi Arabia should allow those proceedings. How the fuck was this made out to be some kind of nuclear bomb for the takeover??

Yeah it wasn't from the WTO report, he had spoken to lawyers from Saudi and Qatar and had it confirmed by them that PIF is separate legally.

Whose chairman owns the fucking country. Why are people so blind to this being an issue? Do people just have their heads in the sand? There's not a chance on earth this goes through. Zero. The directors' test says anyone who might have an influence over the club has to be squeaky clean, and not "reasonably" thought to have done anything like, I dunno, be involved in piracy. Can you think of anyone who has connections to PIF who this might apply to? I've been saying this for weeks. You might think it should be considered the same but if, as has been reported, it's a separate legal entity then that's what counts here. We'll have to wait and see.

Well if you post a tweet, leave it for a bit, then delete it you get the misinformation out there but never look like you posted utter shite to begin with, win win. People should start posting pictures of tweets so it can't be deleted.