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More cold water. Doesn’t mean it’s imminent, No exclusivity, other bidders at play blah blah https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/newcastle-united-takeover-monochrome-acquisitions-16384984.amp?__twitter_impression=true

Downie just replied to me with this. Bellend

Can’t see Ashley fixing it up just before he sold it either so who knows

That’s what I thought too

Our press are a joke. That’s embarrassing from Downie, he genuinely can’t fathom the whole lawyer thing

I believe it’s a case of when and not if now

If we take Caulkins cryptic tweet earlier & the timeline for registering & completing the last purchase, my guess is Tomorow / Friday Missed this, what tweet? This one I think

I know it Twitter bollocks etc but someone on another nufc forum (what?) Claimed that he'd seen texts from Midhat saying that it would be done (PL checks) this weekend, with confirmation next week. The person was reliable... apparently. I think I posted that tweet a few pages back if anyone wants to look Edit

Announced Friday. Rafa sorted Monday is my guesswork

Douglas and co are so behind. They find everything from twitter then desperately get on to their sources. Completely useless

The chronicle/Douglas Holding company apparently set up - what does it mean? So a new company has been set up at Companies House with two registered directors: the Sheikh linked with a Newcastle takeover and Mihat Kidwai, Bin Zayed Group MD - whose name was attached to the statements sent out last week. It is called Monochrome Acquisitions Ltd - which is a clear play on black and white, the colours of Newcastle United. It is set up with the registered address of Pinsent Masons, the London law firm that has previously worked with Newcastle and they have drawn up the documents on behalf of the Sheikh and Kidwai it appears (we are checking the veracity of this). If it is genuine - and again, we’ve got calls on - it would mean a holding company has been set up to acquire the shares of Newcastle United, which is significant in itself but doesn’t mean the deal is necessarily imminent. It means that things are being set up to do the deal - which adds meat to the bones of the statements we got last week. FWIW, when I checked yesterday various sources said no major developments. Bin Zayed said last week they were “closing in” on Newcastle....

As someone said the Staveley one was about something else and I think someone a page or two back said the company is turning a profit

This is it. I can feel it. Project Monochrome gents

Let’s be honest tho the SD signs isn’t going to be in the first 100 things the new owners will do so it unlikely means anything

Could go the other way and think if they are going to bother of doing that then looks like they’ll be there for a while yet

Probably just getting a good scrub. Probably but would they really have to take them off to clean them

Probably a good reason for it

He didn’t say it wasn’t to do with a takeover. He said it was separate to the bzg bid. Wonder if there’s something in another interested party I was listening to the live true faith podcast event with caulkin and luke Edwards in London the day before the Fulham game. The last thing luke said was “there’s things we can’t write and things we are not gonna write but interesting times hopefully”

Wonder why he can’t go into more detail? He means he can’t go in to any more detail coz he doesn’t know anything. His first 8 words indicate that

Probably nonsense and should go in the twitter nonsense thread but I’m bored

Yeah I’ll be gutted if Rafa goes but I’ll get over it if there’s new owners. If Rafa goes and Ashley gets someone else in to try keep us up on minimal investment then I just can’t be bothered any more

I’m heading that way too

His hair looks nothing like on the tv on Saturday imo.