Chris_R

Whichever side you're on in this, the same rules apply: If posted words do not meet your agenda, they're fucking nonsense. If posted words do meet your agenda, then I fucking told you so.

Really, you watched government-broadcast streams in all these countries?

Because as time goes by, they're getting more "evidence" sent to them. Some of that will be utter bullshit, but some of it might stick. More time passing is a bad thing because there's more chance of something genuinely damaging landing with the PL.

I'm convinced this will fall through. Convinced by what? You're not. You think it will fall through because it's the most Newcastle thing to happen, which isn't based on anything going on right now. Well aside from us, nobody wants it. Literally every other club, pundit and fan wants this to fail. Not because its us, but because they don't want another rich club and because they genuinely don't want the Saudis involved in the league either. The piracy concerns are genuine, and that could put a spanner in the works depending on what has been handed to the PL. Likewise, the Sheff Utd conflict of interests thing could be used against us. It's pretty fucking obvious that if the PL want to block this, there's some ammunition around for them to do so. And they will be under enormous pressure from all the people listed above to do just that. I think our only hope was that it went through quickly. Now that it hasn't and that furore has gathered around it in all quarters, I think our chances diminish every day. And those days keep ticking by. I'd be delighted to be wrong, utterly overjoyed. But I am at this stage convinced this will fall flat on its face, yet another in our catalogue of times something nice nearly happened. So yeah a tiny bit "Most Newcastle thing to happen", but largely based on what I'm observing. This will fail.

I'm convinced this will fall through.

Nobody's bothered about waiting, we're bothered about it falling through. The longer it goes on for, the more likely that is to happen. At this stage, with the new information from yesterday, it's fairly likely.

If it's cancelled due to failing the director checks, does Mike keep the deposit? Guesswhowinsagain.jpeg

If the PL block this deal, heads will roll.

Said all along I'll not believe this is happening until it's done.

I was there for Keegan's return as manager against Bolton, and even though the match was shit the atmosphere was unreal, especially at the start and before kickoff. If this goes through, it'll be like that again, I'm sure.

I swear that every day that passes moves the completion date 2 days further away. Even Sisyphus would have gone "Nah, this is just getting silly" by now.

Fucking hell, what time's that? Does he expect #cans?

That's exactly where I'm at. I cannot enjoy any of this until it is confirmed. Which is a shame because I'm DESPERATE to enjoy it. I want to crack open a few beers and do cheesy shit like play Local Hero at an inappropriate volume and watch YouTube clips of our best moments, welcoming my long lost club back to my heart, but I just cannot yet because the fall if it fell through would be too great. And I'll admit, this waiting is fucking killing me.

They played well together but created nothing for the strikers. 2 great athletes who could bomb up and down all day and put a shift it, but when it came to getting the ball to anyone else it just wasn't happening.

Fixed Well, yeah. There is that.

Here that goal against wolves was fuckin tremendous, was still rising as it hit the net, I reckon it could have feasibly left the atmosphere. Let's not rewrite history. He scored 12 goals in 205 appearances for us. In his whole career, he managed just 19 goals in 454 matches. His crossing was awful too. I loved his passion, his industry, and his running with the ball, but his end product was fucking woeful.

Loved Jonas as a person and for his workrate, but fucking hell he was abysmal at crossing and shooting.

So the takeover's broken down and we have to get the bus from Four Lane Ends?

Photoshopped some WhatsApp messages he said he'd exchanged with someone close to the buyers in a previous takeover. Once you spotted how badly they were photoshopped, the whole thing was farcical. Problem is, everyone was too tits-gone with the takeover talk to even notice. I reckon with hindsight Odin expected everyone to just laugh at how (probably) deliberately bad his photoshops were, but when nobody did he had to double-down.

You're not helping.

This May or next?

Yeah, the Bin Zayed one never reached this stage. I'm still supremely confident this will fall flat on its face because we're not allowed nice things, but this is the furthest a bid has ever gotten.

Nah, but it's fine through BeOUT. Crystal clear.

If they announce the takeover as complete, I suspect everyone will.

It's gonna go wrong quickly if everyone doesn't mute their microphones until they actually want/need to speak.