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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.

Exactly. WTO now at the top of the list. Err think he means BBC like considering the WTO mention is complete nonsense from them.

If it’s a fail, there’ll be an appeal, if that fails I would think potential legal action. It could go on a bit longer. Do you think they would definitely appeal. My worry is they'd try elsewhere. Where, it’s the PL they want into, biggest league in the world, global coverage. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk It's only the biggest league in the world because it has the most money and the best players. But if both of those go elsewhere.....? No reason for that to change, PL is the richest and biggest for a reason. You're not suggesting that the Saudis buying a club in another League would be enough to even begin to dethrone the PL are you? I don't know the answer to that. But things are not beyond being able to be changed. It's only what, 25-30 years since Serie A was at least as big if not bigger than the PL. They certainly had all the biggest players. I remember watching Football Italia and being astonished that Italian spectators were being charged over £30 per ticket when I'd rock up at Newcastle and pay £3 on the door, admittedly as a 14-year old in the second division. They had the players, they had the spectators, the grounds, the money, the exposure. Then Sky came along and everyone came to the PL instead. I'm not for one second saying things will change, but things can change, we're not above being dethroned as the self-proclaimed biggest and best league in the world and the world's richest consortium buying a club in a different league and whilst it won't tip the scales entirely on its own, it can't be overlooked as something which may alter the balance of power between the different leagues at least a bit. The French league has already gone up in everyone's eyes because of what's happened with PSG. Anything can change over the course of 25-30 years, but with regard to the Saudis they aren't buying well into the future they're buying now. If they want a club in the biggest league then for the foreseeable future that means the PL.

Fuck it, he deserves it What did he expect being such a twat on Twitter, I mean the place is a fucking cookoo nest.

If it’s a fail, there’ll be an appeal, if that fails I would think potential legal action. It could go on a bit longer. Do you think they would definitely appeal. My worry is they'd try elsewhere. Where, it’s the PL they want into, biggest league in the world, global coverage. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk It's only the biggest league in the world because it has the most money and the best players. But if both of those go elsewhere.....? No reason for that to change, PL is the richest and biggest for a reason. You're not suggesting that the Saudis buying a club in another League would be enough to even begin to dethrone the PL are you?

Yeah seen that, that's the only legal view I've seen and its that they are a separate entity legally. Now there might be more views, but I haven't seen them anywhere.