loki679

HTL

Krafth at CB Least we'll have some laughs in the match thread.

You're not going to sign a £300m deal to buy a football club without the caveat of regulating body approval. It's nonsense.

Small poor countries does fit with Saudi Arabia and the UK tbf.

As a not so know all, they wouldn't have known a country was going to pull out as Saudi Arabia have know, when they bought those rights. I bow to your superior knowledge in these things, just putting a suggestion out there. Pull out of what? Pull out of a deal made between Bein and PL? How? Someone earlier said Saudi Arabia had pulled of the Mena deal, no real idea if that was true but it was part of the nonsense conversation we were all having. That was my point. The deal is between the PL and Bein, SA are under no obligation to allow them to broadcast there.

Well sadly for them they cant as they dont own the rights and won't be able to buy them. You said 'there's no way a country can pull out of a deal they have no part in', that's clearly wrong. There's nothing to say SA have to allow Bein to broadcast in their country.

If they have no part in the deal they can do whatever they want. The PL packaged the deal this way, SA never agreed to it or had any part in it.

Could use a bit more power at the back.

Did they say which 5?

Well one thing's for sure, the PL may or may not have hated our guts before but they sure as shit do now.

From a purely pragmatic point of view Bein hold rights for KSA that are worthless, they'd be stupid not to agree to allowing the Saudis to buy out those rights and make some money off them. We don't seem to be taking the logical route in this takeover though so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

It's Newcastle, of course it wasn't just going to be a regular takeover

Bez > Jose

Acuna had a big square head too.

Ultimately it is the best solution. Neither Qatar or SA lose face, the PL get another wheelbarrow of cash, Bein get some wedge for something that was previously worthless to them. The only real losers are the people of Saudi Arabia who are gonna be forced to watch us draw 0-0 with Oxford.

Well, thinking of the stupidest, least productive thing you could possibly do and then doing it is on-brand for us at least.

It would solve a lot of problems if SA just annexed Qatar.

Bein have the whole middle east, no way they'd allow SA to be separated out.

They need to learn the word 'months'.

Hoy him off a bridge.

Should be ineligible for high profile jobs if your surname sounds like a playground insult.

Not a massive fan of his commentary but in his Covid tweet things he does come across as a pretty decent bloke.

Shame we can't have tobacco advertising. Embassy No.1 would be a great sponsor.

Worked his socks off though. I always liked him because despite being utterly rubbish at football he always tried his best. Genuinely thought Gavilan was going to be a world beater too