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Ha. Wow. That’s your shortest post today. I’m claiming that as inspired by me. I know you know it’s on last page and many times before. So I’ll make you a counter offer, just to you... I’ll give £1,000 to the food bank if we get taken over before 15/6. You give £500 if we don’t. That’s only half a fixture in your new box ;-) This is a good deal. The food bank needs it atm. Just so I know we are on same page, hit me to a link and I’ll start off by giving £500 up front from N.O... then we can agree rest of bet tomorrow if HTT keen

Ha. Wow. That’s your shortest post today. I’m claiming that as inspired by me. I know you know it’s on last page and many times before. So I’ll make you a counter offer, just to you... I’ll give £1,000 to the food bank if we get taken over before 15/6. You give £500 if we don’t. That’s only half a fixture in your new box ;-)

Now, I’m 99% certain this takeover is going through, for all the reasons you say. But your statement is not a fact - it’s unlikely there is evidence linking PIF to piracy, but you’ll look a right dick if an email chain emerges between MBS, PIF, BeoutQ and ArabSat laughing at those Qatari cunts. I also note there’s no mention of Sheffield United ownership - again, I don’t think that will be an issue, but to say it absolutely won’t be is dubious at best... It will be raised, both issues, as a formality, but won’t stand up because there will be zero links or red flags over both and I mean legally alone, which if the PL were to rule against the takeover on that basis or both, would face a costly and damaging legal battle they wouldn’t stand a chance of drawing never mind winning. If there has been or is a holdup it will be concerning these issues which our would be buyers will eventually satisfy with sufficient proof that will lead to any checks being passed along with the rest. Amnesty letters, letters from the widow or rival club concerns will be met with nothing more than a curtesy generic response that for the PL will satisfy their own acknowledgement and receipt of correspondence TOS. This is not going to not go through, one way or another. The PL don’t want a lengthy legal battle that will open up likely cases where they’ve contravened, broken, neglected or compromised their own actual rules, regulations, law, policies and guidelines which will eventually become public knowledge and open them up to future lawsuits and scrutiny from above by the FA and the government. The PL right now are carrying out their own due process, they hope that our would be new owners tick every box because they want their money, their potential future business in terms of bidding for TV rights and the army of brands they own or have a share in who they could well partner up with in the near future. It’s all good, it’s all business. Gonna take my bet that you offered, kidder?

All I know, and I guarantee this, this deal will happen very soon, nothing in the media/what Wallsendmag says will prevent this going through, nothing! I’ll bet anyone on here £200 Any takers...? I’ll take this on a charity basis. Solely as an emotional hedge - more than happy to give up £200 if this goes thru. Close out date of 15/6? Gives six weeks from now ...

He has already paid There was a new one... a few days back I think

HTT - I took your £200 bet from an age ago but you didn’t reply. Food bank gets money either way. I give you til mid June for it to go thru and you win. Agreed?

You guys are literally looping back around again. What’s the value here? I genuinely don’t get it. I actually don’t have a particular dog in this race but it can’t be doing any of your sanity any good and no ones views are gonna change. I’ve stuck my head in on the politics board a few times and this now feels similar. Genuine question to anyone still arguing on both sides - what’s your aim? What do you hope the outcome is? People are so set on their view here and nobody is ceding. Can’t we just park it for a few hours, in this thread at least? Not my board and I can’t tell anyone to do anything but this has got ridiculous and insanely tedious. Surely most participating must feel the same. I admire the passion, but Jesus, give yourselves a break. It’ll help your own minds and personal wellbeing to step away.

Actually don't think it would be half as bad if people didn't keep carping about how bad the craic is in here. It’s becoming an episode of Rick and Morty. Meta all owa the place

I have been thinking about this and I can't see how the Premier League can block the deal. It would be a diplomatic shit storm. This is the kind of revelation I check the thread for. To be fair it’s in the top quartile of posts today

It’s like zealots v atheists in here. Spoiler alert - no one changes their mind.

All I know, and I guarantee this, this deal will happen very soon, nothing in the media/what Wallsendmag says will prevent this going through, nothing! I’ll bet anyone on here £200 Any takers...? I’ll take this on a charity basis. Solely as an emotional hedge - more than happy to give up £200 if this goes thru. Close out date of 15/6? Gives six weeks from now 6 weeks! Canny generous.. It would be the sweetest £200 I’d ever lost.

All I know, and I guarantee this, this deal will happen very soon, nothing in the media/what Wallsendmag says will prevent this going through, nothing! I’ll bet anyone on here £200 Any takers...? I’ll take this on a charity basis. Solely as an emotional hedge - more than happy to give up £200 if this goes thru. Close out date of 15/6? Gives six weeks from now

I’m sure this is already out there as a consideration and I’m late to the party, and purely conjecture on my part, but could there be any possibility the deal is getting delayed by the PL not making the decision on rest of season? A void season versus a finished season changes financials from TV revs materially, company valuations will invariably be based on both historic and future fundamentals such as revenues. Could there be a variable element to the price tied to this that means deal is waiting on ratification? I realise this goes against current reports and as I say, just a stab in dark, but each time the PL meetings don’t have a conclusion or get pushed, it seems our confirmation date does. Guesswork

Go back to Chi’s YouTube page, there’s a new stream

YouTube is just the same clip looping until it buffers. Refresh and same again. Notice that the MP isn’t on there at the time too, so I’m guessing that somehow the recording was stopped and we are just rewatching one looped clip somehow. If people on the zoom can post anything interesting that would be great

I heard swift is used for transactions of this size which takes no less than 2 days but often anywhere up to 5. And it might not be made instantly if they don’t have hundreds of millions of gdp on hand had need to convert currency first. I work in a firm where we take receipt of transfers as mentioned above. All use wire and all are done in minimal time with a wire reference issued from the sending bank allowing the receiving bank to locate immediately. I would also imagine the transaction will take place in USD, although if GBP then that again could possibly cause delay. I’d also think the funds would be lined up in escrow too. I just don’t see it being a multiple day job, but I may be wrong as I’m used to the US system and UK/international may be substantially different, it just feels unlikely that other developed banks would take so much longer. Ive no idea how the system works but you'd think large internationtransfers of this kind would be subject to a few checks and I'd also doubt they are going to Ashley's current account so could be headed to more complicated accounts. Yup, you could be correct, and definitely won’t be going to a current account. There shouldn’t be a great deal of AML or KYC work to be done if it’s coming from a major bank though. This is all done when an account is open, they will use World Checker or something similar along with internal checks to set up the account, require copious amount of docs etc (not to say the system is infallible, it clearly isn’t), then when transfers are made there will be call backs between signatories and the bank, confirming instruction and dates etc. Once this is done the transfer should be possible in fairly short order. Again, this is a US-centric view, so maybe a more complex system insisting on using SWIFT internationally that I’m entirely unfamiliar with that RobS referenced.

I heard swift is used for transactions of this size which takes no less than 2 days but often anywhere up to 5. And it might not be made instantly if they don’t have hundreds of millions of gdp on hand had need to convert currency first. I work in a firm where we take receipt of transfers as mentioned above. All use wire and all are done in minimal time with a wire reference issued from the sending bank allowing the receiving bank to locate immediately. I would also imagine the transaction will take place in USD, although if GBP then that again could possibly cause delay. I’d also think the funds would be lined up in escrow too. I just don’t see it being a multiple day job, but I may be wrong as I’m used to the US system and UK/international may be substantially different, it just feels unlikely that other developed banks would take so much longer.

Hmmmm... When wire transfers are used hundreds of millions of dollars can be transferred in seconds between accounts. I’ve seen this with amounts of $100m+ on multiple occasions so I’m really unsure what the several days piece is all about. Maybe that it’s shariah to western bank causes a delay as they operate on different platforms, but certainly major US bank wires are pretty much instantaneous. Stating the obvious but commercial and retail banking are very different beasts.

been thinking about this recently, are all teams fanbases as split between daft arsehole cunts and normal, sensible people? we seem to have soooooooo many dickheads like, it's untrue remember years back going home and away they seemed very much the minority to me then I think this is just societal. Happens as we progress to a later generation and those behind us come through who are wired differently. I'm gonna guess you're 30s/early 40s... I'm late 30s and see it everywhere. Example of a completely different environment but same effect is music festivals. From my perspective Reading in the late nineties was rough but friendly and had genuine feeling of community. Now it's a bunch of kids on ket burning down tents. I'm sure plenty of the kids who go would disagree.

Completely agree with all of this.

Breaking news on Sky - contracts exchanged and deposit paid, only fit and proper test to go. Not sure it's new news but they're yellow barring it.

Absolute nonsense. Since corona occurred everyone has known, the Saudis more acutely than anyone, that oil could end up at effectively zero as they run out of space to store it due to the huge drop in demand. Every economist and bank has been writing about $10 barrels for months. They also know that the price drop is temporary and will correct over the months and years to come with shale being far lower margin and there likely being a demand surge as lockdowns unwind. There is zero chance that what is happening now hasn’t been factored in and considered.

The differentiation is that Twitter / Uber etc are passive investments that I would guess involve very little interference at boardroom level, certainly not day to day even if they are taking an activist approach. With Newcastle, they will own us and they will use that ownership for their own means (as any owner would). I said the other day I wouldn't be surprised to see Aramco pop up on the shirts. I know airlines are common but Aramco have floated in the last 12 months, by total market cap are the biggest company in the world and you see Gazprom etc on shirts so no reason why wouldn't they want their biggest and most famous company getting some airtime, even if none of us will likely purchase directly from them - it's global brand recognition before multiple further float and funding rounds in future I'd guess. And of course, their chairman would be ours.

It's not hyperbole to say that the Saudis are one of the closest things on Earth at the moment to the Nazis is it? If you were going to pick the most brutal regime around, is there one worse? North Korea possibly but at least they're not bombing anyone. The UK had pretty good relations with the Nazi regime up until the outbreak of war, Edward VIII was a friend of Hitler. I don't think "our government likes them" is the most robust defence, you could say the same about Assad and Gaddafi, these people are always our "friends" until they're not. You missed the point. Take all that moral s*** stuff to the other thread, not this one. Jeez. This is the main takeover thread. It's going to be discussed whether you like it or not. Jeez. So what do you want to happen, Wullie? Another boycoutt? Not at all. A matter for the individual conscience this one I think. I don't think the FA/PL should be allowing any states to own football clubs but that ship's already sailed. So what will be your personal stance out of interest? Will you continue to support the club and would you go to games? Good question. Honest answer is I don't know. They've not even taken over yet so will just wait and see how things look once their feet are under the table I guess. Could be a long time before a ball is kicked at SJP but I don't have the aversion to giving them money that I had with Ashley. Out of interest, when was the last time you went? Late last season for me but I've not been regularly for several years now, particularly to home games. I must confess I'm desperate to go back, lots driven by sentiment. Telling my old man when Rafa left that I was genuinely done with it all and wouldn't watch or listen anymore was heartbreaking. When he text me about games or asked on the phone, every time he thought I was joking or going to change my mind. I suppose this is another reason why I'm probably also erring on the positives here; Newcastle was our bond and a huge part of my life. I spent several weekends this last year genuinely pleased to have time back, do fun stuff and not worry about the football. But that was because virtually every semblance of hope was lost. Just the idea of having that kernel of hope and those dreams of any form of enjoyment back kicks up all those feelings again.

It's this sort of throwaway trite nonsense that debases debate. You've just tarred three governments / populations over an indefinite time period with an unsubstantiated soundbite in under 30 words. You should apply for a job as a headline writer at the Mail (I edited my last comment, that was out of line and I apologise, I was frustrated but that's no reason to be rude)