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:lol: "Just get out there and Hayden Mullins it!"

Yeah Pretty sure they have different departments fully staffed and qualified in their respective roles. Exactly - Caulkin spoke about an "unexpected delay" - hardly lack of staff due to Covid. You's lot are living on a different planet. Do you think the PL has a whole department dedicated to just takeovers? 9 story building with 12,000 workers all gasping to complete take over bids. They'll probably use an outside solicitors firm to go over the documentation for them. I'd presume they can read material while in lock down.

Yeah Pretty sure they have different departments fully staffed and qualified in their respective roles.

I HATE this quote! I am right in saying that the most of the debt Ashley inherited was in relation to the level seven expansion, aren't I?! It was secured against 40K season ticket sales up until 2015 but needed to be paid within 30 days IF a sale of the Club went through! Thats right, the loan was secured against the stadium expansion and extra ST sales. Iirc that loan had to be paid up in full when the club was sold which is why Ashley had to fork out the extra money. This should have been highlighted in due diligence for Ashley to consider. If due diligence was ever carried out in full of course. Why Ashley couldn't remortgage I dunno and why he refused to use the overdraft facility Barclays said he could have I dont know either, he basically strangled NUFC of cash flow. Cheers mate! That £100m figure is used by all of the media and those lot down the road to declare how Ashley saved us as we were going to do a Leeds etc - utter shite! Yeah we got bashed over the head by it a few times, they totally ignored that the extra ST money was paying this off with mortgage payments, Ashley also refusing the Barclays overdraft facility seemed very odd as well. I suppose he had a business model that he worked to but for a football club it basically strangled finances, even with the extra TV revenue. Remember he was also happy to sell players to other clubs with payments stretched over a few seasons but for NUFC he insisted that any new players had to be bought out right in one payment.

I HATE this quote! I am right in saying that the most of the debt Ashley inherited was in relation to the level seven expansion, aren't I?! It was secured against 40K season ticket sales up until 2015 but needed to be paid within 30 days IF a sale of the Club went through! Thats right, the loan was secured against the stadium expansion and extra ST sales. Iirc that loan had to be paid up in full when the club was sold which is why Ashley had to fork out the extra money. This should have been highlighted in due diligence for Ashley to consider. If due diligence was ever carried out in full of course. Why Ashley couldn't remortgage I dunno and why he refused to use the overdraft facility Barclays said he could have I dont know either, he basically strangled NUFC of cash flow.

On the face of it, it seems like the PL would have plenty of support if they denied the takeover. They would have plenty of support, but I don't think that's mojo's point (apologies if I'm speaking for you wrongly mojo). It's more about how deeply entwined foreign politics already are with every aspect of this country, including football. If they knocked this one back for any reason which was even vaguely political, then dozens and dozens of other investments in football and wider society would immediately be called into question.

So this has been a total waste of time then?

Wasn't aware we had a 'club hierarchy', isn't it just Lee, Steve & the tea lady? We dont, its all Ashley with little Lee doing the cleaning in the stadium.

Where has ashley leaked hes had doubts? Fuck knows

Poltics ebs into every thread

People need to stop telling other people what to think and do.

I don't even what it refers to. We had made minimal moves into the transfer market after promotion, Llambias pumped out the story of the bore hole as spending money here would save in the long run. They tried to spin it as a positive.

Superb game.

So many to choose from.

There is some middle ground lads, we will never have a crowd of 52,00 Henry Winters sat in the SJP making valid points on football. Some folk enjoy football on different levels.

Keegan Hughton Shearer Rafa Jonas Taylor

Everyone is getting take over cabin fever.

We cant compete with Swansea.

Wants it placed by hand into those fuckin jeans bottomless pockets. Brings a whole new meaning to "Trousering the money".

Ashley wants cash, delivered in a denim briefcase.

They are all golf and drinking buddies.

Project Dragon I don't want Bale, he has proven he is a mercenary. I would rather sign younger talent with a view to building a side to compete 3 years down the line. I know what you mean but im not going to turn my nose up at talent like Bale (if this is true), especially after some of the crap Ashley has picked up and put on the pitch.

Whilst in the background Ashley is filtering revenue streams from NUFC to SD.