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And surely if it wasn’t a red flag it would have been sorted quite early on in the process since they have known about it for months.

Would be a great move under Ashley and his rudderless ship, but if the takeover goes through, hanging around would be the better move I would think. How long can he hang round for ? His contract may be up before the takeover is sorted, and who knows how long the offers he has will be on the table.

No and it’s what Caulkin’s said from the start, it’s a two way discussion. If they were going to fail it they would have by now. They’re ensuring all bases are covered and it’s legally bottomed out. You could also argue after this time that if they were going to pass they would have done by now. Wouldn’t really listen to Caulkin anymore since all along he has said no red flags, when clearly the piracy issue is a big one.

Back and forth over piracy suggests they are trying to iron it all out. It's not a negative to me at all. George even said this morning, confidence is still high. It’s surely still a red flag which we have been told since the start haven’t come up.

He also said they had been told 4 weeks in April. Looks to me what he's being told is probably assumptions made by his sources. It's been quite noticeable that all the bullish media banging the drum on checks completed, no red flags etc. etc. have started to backtrack the last couple of weeks. Yep, looks like piracy is a major issue and still possible it could block the deal.

He will probably be out of contract before it.

But of backtracking from George there? He has said all along no red flags, this seems to be one.

You would assume that the buyers are absolutely certain in them being separate before going through with all of this.

So going of what Jason Burt said and from Caulkin, are we right to think the checks are done and now waiting for the executive board to meet ?

I wonder if whenever this is finally done and if it does pass, we find out if there ever was any issues or it literally was just slowed down because of covid and project restart

In my line of work we wouldn’t put anything in front of the exec board until we were certain we had what we think we would need to get waved through. In this instance it won’t go through to the exec board until those doing the core work were certain about their recommendation. But regardless the exec board could still go against a decision. Or ask for more information. No I would say it can fail, but would still have to go through the Executive Board for confirmation. This decision would then be sent to the seller/buyer with the reasons why and the articles of any appeal process included. Cheers ?

So I may be wrong here, if it goes to an executive board, does that mean it can’t fail before that stage regardless? As in they my well have found proof of piracy, but it would still go to the executive board ?

Surely though this would be different, this is an evidence based decision isn’t it, either they have a reason to block it or they don’t ?

What is the premier league executive board?

Anyone got the full article ?

You'd think it should be done by now but it could be something like the money just hasn't been transferred yet. When I mentioned this last it was dismissed but they have just come out of their EID celebrations so that could possibly have had an affect. It could also be something like them (NUFC + PIF/RB/AS) all agreeing on the wording and timing of the announcement. Either way if any of those where causing the delay, then we would hear this week and I still don’t think it would get to that stage without it leaking.

The whole delay due to project restart wasn’t even mentioned as an issue until the checks had gone over the 4 week mark.

Think the Southampton one did.

Who knows, maybe the mess is being sorted out now after the PL rejected it? I think that becomes a more likely possibility with each passing day. People keep saying chill, we're a day closer but there's a good chance its over and everyone is planning on how they save face. This wouldn’t be a shock if it is the case. I agree. There'll be a collective 'knew it' from us all. I think of this but then I flip back to Caulkin's tweet where he mentioned about 'choosing his words very carefully'. That seemed very much to suggest that an informal approval had been given by the PL. I keep asking myself what the chances are that the PL could have gone back on a verbal 'yes' I had a bit of a gentle dig at Caulkin right at the beginning (before the Companies House stuff) because I felt that writing articles on yet another takeover unfairly got fans' hopes up. I'm tending to lean back towards that because his subsequent positive and then seemingly cryptic tweets appear to have unfairly given hope to fans. I'd rather he just said nothing. I can cope with the idiot ITK's but having so much trust in his commentary has made this whole things painful. I think the whole no red flags thing is bullshit as well, that coupled with what you said about the unofficial confirmation would surely mean this would be done by now. Keep referring to the Southampton takeover as well which took 8 weeks, in that time their owner manager to fail and then pass the test.

Who knows, maybe the mess is being sorted out now after the PL rejected it? I think that becomes a more likely possibility with each passing day. People keep saying chill, we're a day closer but there's a good chance its over and everyone is planning on how they save face. This wouldn’t be a shock if it is the case.

Some guy on twitter said it, probably not reliable so don’t get excited

“No red flags” “It’s a process” “It takes as long as it takes”

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