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I'm glad you have finally got off the fence with your views. I thought you were never going to tell us what you thought on the takeover.

Didnt realise everyone had already shot down Gallowgate End, good but he wont stop.

Its definitely takeover or bust for me. Benitez staying with Ashley changes nothing for the direction of the club other than reapplying the plaster on the axe wound. Rafa staying with either owner or bust for me. The club will drop down the leagues like Sunderland otherwise. The takeover is the absolute most important thing by an absolute mile. We have had 12 years of the club being totally devoid of basic investment and improvement. No person manager or player is more important than the future of the club. How can you know that when you have absolutely no idea what the new owners will be like The man that can offer Newcastle the most guaranteed security for the future of this football club is Rafa Benitez. Nope you sure as hell will realise when Tim Sherwood is manager and we drop down to League 1 though. Rafa Benitez is not bigger than the club, however much I love him. Hes worked wonders but ultimately hes hit the ceiling of what this club will let him do. I want a takeover and the fat cunt gone. Even if that means losing Rafa but if your happy playing relegation football every year, good for you.

Looks like we are back to positioning, monitoring and looking at.

What's worst is that Douglas didnt give any reason for that article, basically saying it wont be done before the end of Rafas contract. The other thing is that the NE journalists are putting emphasis on Rafa, as if his situation is more important than a takeover. If a takeover happens, I couldn't give a flying fuck about Rafas contract TBH. A takeover IS everything to the future of this club.

Sean man, be sceptical, that's fine because we all are to varying degrees. Believe it's not going to happen, I can understand that too but please, oh please stop talking nonsense. You have been shown up, more than once, we understand your viewpoint, just leave it.

Sean in WUM shocker. He didnt even know that BZG had provided proof of funds until yesterday.

:lol:

Caulkin is by far the best but as far as I'm concerned he, along with all the rest, didnt know about the BZG until we did, so why are we going to presume that they know what's going on now? MA is saying nowt and club sources are either clearly out of the loop or are giving the infamous "no comment" (which adds weight to BZG's claims). One thing is for sure, BZG think that they are buying the club but do they know who they are dealing with?

Funny how someone mentioned the media being quiet, the thought had occured to me also that they had been told to keep quiet. I've always thought that if something were to happen, it will be next week, the end of the month.

Steve Wigley knew.

:lol: I forgot it's a weekend and the kids are off school.

no , i haven't seen a single thing that convinces me in truth, so much blah blah but in truth its all just rumour as per. i dont think it will ever happen and Rafa will be off, theres literally nothing to suggest otherwise, just speculation. Quite the opposite for me. The only concrete stuff that has came out, suggests it's on. All the blah blah blah and speculation has come from journos with no clue trying to fill their pages. Spot on. I know it's been said a thousand times but the silence from the club is golden.

Loves a thumbs up. Shows that LondonMag and Odin weren't bullshitting. Hes only really confirming that they still are in the process of trying to buy the club.

In theory, could the BZG start bidding or at least enquire about players while a takeover was going through. I'm not daft enough to think that such wonderful forward planning would exist for us but it's a nice thought. That would be presuming contact with Rafa had been made and a list had been drawn up.

Was reading through happy faces thread on Twitter thinking we still had a chance with Strawberry Place, then some nob head called Greg brought things crashing down. Damn you Greg.

iirc it wasn't so much missed in due diligence but never did it in the first place, anyone who did do due diligence before MA ran for the hills once they saw the books Why, because we were run like a normal club with ambition, who offset what they spent on what they saw as probable income? I can see why a sportswear tycoon might see us as ran badly but ultimately, we were run like a football club should be, where profit wasnt the be all and end all. The whole "doing a leeds", thing was a scaremongering tactic from Ashley at the time to stop spending. To stop ambition.

Honestly, some right dafties in here at the moment. The conspiracy theorists out in force. If they want to educate themselves on the club's finances, they should read Chris Holts stuff on Twitter.

I think the end of the month is supposition, as is the rest of the article. It's not a negative article though, which is good.

Exclusivity isn't essential anyway is it? With MA he isnt going to limit the period of time in which another party could come in with a better offer.

You have a source or been on the sauce?

Bit like you then You have been waiting for that moment for a long time.

Anyone who takes what supermac says at face value is a dunce, talkshite of the highest order.

Fulham getting their money back.

Stopped reading after the first couple of paragraphs. Absolutely shite writing, catering for the thickos. It's written terribly but the points that are brought up are what we all know Its says Rafa is gone and that hes too good for us, in virtually the first line. Its absolute tosh. Most of us are resigned to the likelihood he is gone and how our club has been ran and who oversees it all with his minions he is too good for all that bullshit and nonsense The fella deserves a professional ambitious setup not our shambles man Never said otherwise. He hasnt gone, that article say it as fact, therefore it's a shite article. It goes without saying that Rafa deserves better.