Kasper

The whole point of the consortium was that the biggest party had other things to gain from investing than making it a profitable business. Without that party it makes no sense at all.

I think they are saying he’s an idiot. Not sure what the food has to do with it mind.

Only a few idiots who are spamming the same shit.

Mansoor is the deputy Prime Minister and as such could be regarded as the head of state when the Prime Minister is out of the country. For all we know he could have ordered the deaths of any number of people who were actively opposed to the state. Granted this is unsubstantiated supposition on my part, but the only difference is that MBS was caught out, and lets not overlook that this is what heads of state do, granted its usually based upon intelligence and/or military advice, whatever that might have been in the case of Khashoggi, but I recall a certain Barak Obama sat in the incident room in the White House with a nice cup of coffee watching a Seal team execute Osama Bin Laden on his orders, does that make Obama a murderer? Not that he would want to, but I can't see the EPL refusing to allow him to buy an EPL club on that basis, can you? Nap time for you son.

Good idea, I'll do it. I'll report back shortly what they answer to me.

Think we should retire his number when he leaves.

Good to see manorpark and chopey betting their accounts on that. Brave boys.

Could get chopped to pieces.

By the way...can someone try to explain to me why KSA couldn't wait a month or so to block Bein? What on earth was the point of doing it while this whole thing was in progress? Are they just a bit thick?

Doesn't the Bein deal only last for one more season? Hardly something to hang your hat on especially if it pisses off the richest potential bidder for the next round due to start in the not to distant future. Don't think it's very likely that Saudi Arabia would set up a company from nothing that would buy the bundled MENA rights and start setting up broadcasting all through the region. Yes they probably would be bidding for KSA rights but that doesn't seem to be how PL want to sell them. Plus I'm not sure how well the Saudis come out of this as potential broadcasting partners. I'd be a bit wary. Qatar aren't coming out looking too good either! Come on lads, be big boys and settle some differences. Qatar could probably do with KSA onside for their broadcasting/income and KSA wanna do a bit sports washing. And Scrooge McMasters would like to dive into a vault of middle Eastern spondoolies. From PL's point of view, what are the bad things Qatar have done here?

Doesn't the Bein deal only last for one more season? Hardly something to hang your hat on especially if it pisses off the richest potential bidder for the next round due to start in the not to distant future. Don't think it's very likely that Saudi Arabia would set up a company from nothing that would buy the bundled MENA rights and start setting up broadcasting all through the region. Yes they probably would be bidding for KSA rights but that doesn't seem to be how PL want to sell them. Plus I'm not sure how well the Saudis come out of this as potential broadcasting partners. I'd be a bit wary.

Yeah, the Chief Executive of PL is a fool because he sided with one of their biggest broadcasting partners over a country that is blocking it's population from watching the same league. Cool cool cool...

Captain obvious he is.

What a weird comparison.

- back room staff linked = some nonce to run the youth team - agents getting twitchy = Saint Maximin linked with more clubs - new players strongy linked = from Motherwell - Monday announcement = "Ashley is strongly committed to run the club for the foreseeable future"

It's not a company from SA it's SA. The PL themselves described PIF as a company in SA like. whose chairman happens to be the crown prince of saudi arabia (and as far as I understand he's been making more and more decisions for the country the last few years) and its literally the public investment fund of saudi arabia how the hell can it not be considered an arm of the KSA goverment But what difference does it make if it's a company, the crown prince or the king himself! Just because bein is banned in SA, they can't own a PL club? Still a totaly different question. By blocking Bein, the value of the broadcasting rights just decreased considerably in the MENA region and they are fucking with a massive partner of the PL. Obviously the PL will take all that into consideration.

Well sure, but companies in those countries have no "right" to buy the broadcasting rights in a way that suits them. PL decides how they want to sell it and then its up to you if you want to buy them or not.

Feels clear enough that they dont give a shit how shady the buyers are or what kind of human rights violations they do. All they care about is money and their product (piracy).

"info"

It was done a long time ago but isn't approved? Not sure how that works. It really isn't done like. It was done a long time ago, contracts exchanged, Ashley sold to the Reubens/PIF/Staveley, but the governing body of the sport needs to 'approve' the commercially already done deal, before our owners can play football in their league. That is why approval was always definite, as the PL cannot change history, but they are extracting as much as they can from the deal, while they have this period of 'leverage'. Nope it's pending PL approval

Makes no sense unless they know/feel like this will drag on for a couple more months at least. Or isnt happening.

According to Caulkin they’ve had an answer for everything so far, and so far it hasn’t been rejected. They’ve gone through all that just to fuck it up at the final hurdle and stop their country from viewing their new team. Ok, then. Didn't Caulkin also say the decision to block Bein from broadcasting in KSA wasn't something PIF were asking for or aware of? People making these decisions are the same who thought it was a smart idea to chop a journalist to pieces in an embassy. So let's not give them too much credit... No he didn’t. He said the uk side weren’t aware. Can’t remember members of pif giving the green light on the assassination. Which branch of pif is that in? I'm talking about the decision to block Bein. I dont think PIF was involved in that?

According to Caulkin they’ve had an answer for everything so far, and so far it hasn’t been rejected. They’ve gone through all that just to fuck it up at the final hurdle and stop their country from viewing their new team. Ok, then. Didn't Caulkin also say the decision to block Bein from broadcasting in KSA wasn't something PIF were asking for or aware of? People making these decisions are the same who thought it was a smart idea to chop a journalist to pieces in an embassy. So let's not give them too much credit...

As a not so know all, they wouldn't have known a country was going to pull out as Saudi Arabia have know, when they bought those rights. I bow to your superior knowledge in these things, just putting a suggestion out there. Pull out of what? Pull out of a deal made between Bein and PL? How? Someone earlier said Saudi Arabia had pulled of the Mena deal, no real idea if that was true but it was part of the nonsense conversation we were all having. Mena deal? Isn't that just an acronym for Middle East and North Africa? Are they joining Europe or South America? No idea, told you earlier I'm just one of the not so know alls, just discussing nonsense. You know more than me, read a back a couple of pages, the discussion and suggestions are there. We have to move our island 200miles away from France when we leave the EU. We’ve also been booted out of the Euro’s, European club competition and most sadly, Eurovision Song Contest. Christ. MENA isnt an union, it's a region.

Yes they clearly have great plans and know exactly how to sort it out. No reason to worry. That's why its taken months for the deal to be confirmed. No issues at all with anything.