Decky

If they did the deal anyway couldn't the PL expell us from the league?

Crest looks like a bird has just noticed that its about to get cracked with a hurley bat.

Didn't one of the Sky Sports guys reply to a tweet yesterday saying they are going to do a bit on this later today or this week?

They are dirty as fuck.

He should have been playing for Bruce next season only for the PL ffs. His loss I suppose.

£560k a week. Surely thats not real?

I'm really not sure the EFL would approve it tbh. There'd be pressure behind the scenes to follow in the PL's footsteps incase we get promoted, and lets be honest, we'd be back after one season.

I'm actually loving Wraith calling him out for loving Bruce too much.

And? Hence just saying...you thick?

The irony of you calling people kids with that cry baby post. The club is going nowhere and has zero ambition, it doesn't want to compete for trophies and it as far as the league goes, True Geordie said it, we get relegated and come back up to just wait to be relegated again. We're probably the only club in the Premier League that behaves like it doesn't want to be play football. The owner wants the cash from being in the PL but if he could get away with losing every game and not being relegated we'd have a load of Sports Direct workers getting tanked week in week out for minimum wage. Can you not see the fucking state the clubs in and you're on here giving it the big one to fans who have just had enough? Bet you can't wait to get back in to watch the dogshit football Bruce throws out every home game.

How can the PL sit back and watch the PIF buy Milan like? So they will just want £100s of millions get pumped into a rival league instead of their own then? Also did I read that right that the PL rights are up for negotiation in the middle east in 2022? What happens then if the PIF gets the rights or are the Saudis not allowed to even bid for them? Honestly its pathetic.

I agree, the fans need to stick together - but this does not mean that the fans should be shouted down for criticising their representatives. Organisations get better for listening too, taking on board, and evolving based on the criticism they receive. In reference to your question, "what more could they do beyond what they tried?" I refer you to my previous post, about 2 up from your post, where I listed 7 other things they could have done. But your list is essentially get the backing of the likes of famous footballers, politicians, even the Royal Family. That is far from easy and in some circumstance (the Royal Family), nearly impossible. It's unrealistic. Some of the footballers you've listed, the likes of Harper and MacDonald would have as much influence to the PL as the man in the street, the others like Shearer are known to do work for the PL and might be cautious about actively backing a takeover which could have serious hiccups behind closed doors that we (and him) aren't aware of and it might be damaging for him to be putting the PL under pressure to approve it and perhaps its just easier to not do it. Other clubs in the league don't want the takeover to go through, I think I seen somewhere yesterday that about 10 clubs actually wrote to the PL saying they didn't support the deal? Why would PL clubs write to support us when we're going to improve and push them out of European spots and extend the big 6 to a big 7? Championship clubs couldn't give a toss either, again, why would they? If they get promoted there's another huge club costing them 6 points each year, it benefits them to have another shit team in the PL. Big businesses in the north east. I agree with you there, but again, how much influence will that have to the close minded PL executives in London? Is it worth the time and effort putting it together? Major sponsors won't want to touch it either. Their allegiance is with the PL and certainly not us so they won't be putting them under pressure. The sponsors will still be there reaping the benefits in 12 months if we're relegated. They simply don't care. Members of Parliament and the Government. Well apparently a lot of the Gov mps were against the deal if reports a couple of weeks ago were true, roughly around 100 of them. A lot of MPs in Parliament don't support the Saudi regime either. Again it might just be a case of it not being worth it for most of them to put their name out there and back the Saudis buying a PL club. I'm sure there is some support there and maybe there have been MPs being vocal about it. The Royal Family. That's just not going to happen. There's also the fact that the NUST is run by volunteers. How many people there would they have to chase up for a statement backing the takeover and how many of the successful signatures would carry any weight? How many hours would be spent chasing someone who just rejects the idea for arbitrary reasons? You're asking volunteers to put countless hours into something that for all we know will be pointless. The PL are arrogant bastards and I doubt there's anyone out there who could influence them to push this through. The amount of the investment into the league this takeover would have produced still wasn't enough so I think in the end letters and statements from whoever are meaningless.

We have to stand by the Trust like. Fans need to stick together and in fairness to the Trust what more could they do beyond what they tried? The PL were always going to give a generic response, they don't give a flying fuck about us and this whole farce proves that. The Trust is one of the only organisations out there that genuinely cares about the club's future and will be here backing us long as Ashley has finally fucked off.

Feel like a £100 bet on us to go down will be a nice lift next year.

The PL don't care what we think anyway because if they know anything about football they know we won't be under their jurisdiction anymore after next season.

Bet Ashley can't wait to trouser the profits when we sell him. Maybe he'll give Bruce about 3 mill to replace him with.

10, and I couldn't give a fuck. Hope the club rots as long as Ashley is here and he's forced to sell for a fraction of what he was gonna get this summer. And fuck Steve Bruce as well. Gravy drinking prick.

Cant say I'm too concerned by the thoughts of a shite, peado supporting, third teir nothing club tbh.

The offer has been withdrawn. There is no deal now.

They have to try again when we're in the Championship like. Worth significantly less and no PL to deal with.

Haven't been since Rafa left and I won't be back as long as Ashley is there.

That's me done with the club completely now. There's no way I'm sticking around for the shit show season with Bruce and Ashley. Honestly man we just cant get anything can we? Still stuck with that fat fucking cunt Ashley, fuming.

The text in that tweet is really positive isn't it? They must surely be confident.

3 mins 15 seconds in.

Ah, our next relegation kit. At last. I'll never watch a single game with them wearing it if the takeover doesn't go through so I don't care what it looks like.