Literally nothing has changed
This. Old quotes in the Chron, a rehashed article in the Sun, nothing new at all, and some bloke who may be a lawyer, but might be on the wind up giving thumbs up emojis to all and sundry. Who the f*** knows?!
It was reported briefly after the second statement from BZG came out that once papers have been submitted to the PL under takeover rules neither party can release statements to the press for 20 days while they are reviewed.
There wasn't more made of it because the press would be making it obvious that anything they publish for the next few weeks would be made up clickbait. Also explains why Midhat keeps sending people ? emojis and not much text and sent a message with the monochrome acquisitions company name - to make it obvious that they haven't pulled out and still mean business.