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Ambassador roles would be best for any ex players I think, think the ones mentioned such as shearer have to big a personality to worm alongside a top manager and we don’t want fall outs and fans kicking off and siding with ex players over managers.

Shields gazette are saying next week.

Fwiw, Mark Douglas has said that the information on their site ties in with what he has heard as well.

Supposedly it has been run for years and is supposedly pretty accurate.

Same article says they won’t get passed the prem checks as well

Why would we hear today if it was done last Friday ?

If it was done on Friday as Tsunami was told, surely we would hear today ?

No he is saying he was told was the case last Friday.

Believe i read it was about 25th May...after that there is no compensation payable to Spurs 31st of may according to SSN, appoint him before then and whoever does owes sours £12.5 million

Pretty sure we beat them under Pardew, may have been 4-2 or something close.

Monday I think he said.

Reliable source or you actually know? From the risk team at Barclays. It's second hand info I concede but I 100% trust that I'm not on the end of a wind up myself. Reason they would be informed is in the covenant for the loan/overdraft - change of ownership in the business is a material event. Does nothing for the timing mind, still got to keep glued to SSN for that That timing kind of fits in with what I was told on Friday. Charnley I’m told rang the club on Friday after the PL meeting to say that it was all approved and that they were waiting for the rest of the funds to be released. I’m aware of who was told this by Charnley and it came to me via a chain of only 2 other people, no friend of a friend type of chain either. I’m still hoping we hear something this week but if Friday was the approval day then the money transfer may not have started any process until Monday. Here’s hoping, I’ll be gutted now if this gets stopped. Weren’t caulkin and others told checks where still ongoing this week though ?

Yep if it’s true sounds like the tests where finished today.

Isn’t Barclays the bank Staveley is suing?

Also fwiw Duncan castles says on his podcast he spoke to the buyers side this week

From that podcast

Because he can’t.

Seems very unlikely. If I wasn't a Newcastle United supporter I would KNOW it will be approved, it would never occur to me that it wouldn't be approved. That includes if I was a Sunderland FC supporter, I would KNOW it would be approved . . though I would probably continually say the opposite !!! I honestly believe in my mind and heart that it will get approved, the tests will be tightened, and Saudi Arabia will show a heavy handed corrective measure as it relates to piracy in their country. Further, I’d imagine a fuck off offer to bid for PL rights in the future as well. I just think if it was going to be rejected it would have by now, the premier league has know about the piracy issue for a while now, I think they are working with the Saudi to get something out of it.

What would be a wonderful gesture from the new regime is if those folk who gave up their season ticket because of ashley are given priority if they reapplied after he leaves. How would they know Ashley was the reason though ?

If this had failed or was expected to we would have had strong leaks from Ashley’s side by now I think.

Seems more than anything from Craig Hope’s tweets that the premier league trying to get the football back is the reason that this is taking so long more than anything.

He also says he doesn’t expect our takeover to go through

Good way of looking at it is that we would no if they had failed by now so the process must be progressing despite how long it is taking.