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It'll be things moving along, both sides hopeful.......

I've heard from a good source that we will be having 2 false teeth and a false leg, all on the centre forward

For some reason I sang that as fun loving criminals

I like the idea of 'my name is Bond, gender non-binary Bond and I like my Martini without having to identify the preference of shaking or stirring'

More evidence for De Marco and co to show our takeover was subjected to far stricter scrutiny than any previous. I would have thought the government would have pushed for them to accept the bid. Premier league went to them.... I think they would, but the point is why did they feel they had to go to them. It’s meant to be a confidential process and if scrutiny of our takeover has been shown to be different to others, it all plays into the narrative that we have been treat differently. I expect to tell them that they are going to reject the bid and wanted to explain why (Piracy) or get more info on the buyers. Also we probably have been treated differently but I can't think of any club being bought while at the same time running an illegal sports stations that steals games. I'm still confused by this. Is it PIF that are illegally streaming games? Is this still going on? https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2020/6/16/explainer-the-piracy-case-against-saudis-beoutq-channel Think we all know if the Saudis wanted to shut it down they could. Probably could have but its still got nothing to do with PIF. Separate legal entity which is what do marco is trying to prove. I suppose its a bit like having a limited company over here. I am the sole director and shareholder of my company, i earn its money, i spend it, i have complete control over the business, its direction and its finances. But legally, its separate to me. That's where a problem arises though surely. As the owners and directors test has to find the parties who are have control over said company. With PIF describing themselves as the sovereign wealth fund of the state then the state surely has control over PIF. So it doesn't really matter if it's a separate legal entity in itself in that respect. Exactly this. The Saudi state could turn round after the takeover and dissolve PIF and take over control of all the enterprises PIF entered into including control of NUFC! Lol. Righto. And you REALLY don’t think in that instance that the PL might have something to say, and invoke the yearly O&D Test again to throw the club out of the league? So Isn’t that why they are wanting to test the people who have the power to do that before the takeover happens, I.e MBS. The real question is why won’t he take the test? :lol: Really, so you want MBS to take a test to buy a shitty club in the UK that amounts to 0.00x% of the PIF investment portfolio. So should the Queen have to take various tests everytime the Crown estates want to buy into something? Insane. If the premier league came out and said - we have rejected the takeover bid due to alleged piracy of IP rights etc then fine. Most fans would accept it without a blink of an eye. This not making a decision is just a delay tactic because they know if they actually gave a reason for rejecting it, it could be challenged. Anyway this is old ground, covered so many times in this thread. I wont be writing in this thread again until we hear definitive news from the PL, the club or consortium as we are just going round in circles. Whereas NUFC is just going down (to the championship). Excuse me? Nothing wrong with saying we are a shitty club tbh. In fact shitty clubs may have a case for defamation

Closer to signing Gollum from Middle Earth apparently

Wouldn't relegation = dead deal mean that any takeover is after the season ends, which isn't the current mood music I'm sick to fucking death of all of this, the football, the politics, the speculation and the bullshit

My money is on Stifler

Well done mate,great gesture, slightly disappointed that your comment didn't overload the system or trigger a suspected DDOS attack, but seriously ?

No fight in this team mate

Don't know why but that made me chuckle ?

Went a longway to retiring Kevin Keeganas i recall. 4-0 at a field, I think it's johnston who ran past him like he wasn't there which prompted keegan to consider calling it a day

Slowvid 50

Do people really get wound up about words from people you will likely never meet on a football forum let's hope de marco isn't as fragile he'll before opening remarks

3.00pm Friday I’m hearing... Relentless

HTT seems like a top bloke but I have doubts about his identity of late. When his posts take less than an hour to read its not him

Doesn't seem to be a cunt imo. All mods are cunts Regularly said on Brighton beach in the 60's

Unconfirmed because it’s not true. He’s trying to buy Debenhams through Fraser Group. There’s a bread trail there. They have the money. If PIF were involved it would be known. It’s not their modus operandi anyway, the retail sector. Mark Douglas has confirmed the unconfirmed rumour So its now officially a rumour, wonder if it will move to unconfirmed report status

Yeah I did think that an unconfirmed rumour hasn't even formally reached the rumour stage

Are you familiar with the works of Aesop mate, boys wolves and crying ?

Replace shots with backpasses and its nearer the mark

They missed zaha more than we missed ASM, other than that turboshit

Looking forward to it, oddly enough. It’s lockdown, I don’t have anything else to do. Which still sounds miles more enjoyable than sitting through 90 minutes of Brucey ball. Yeah I've been putting off poaching my gonads in brine, but I'll do it tonight rather than watch that monstrosity of a fixture

Yeah, I've done it, Alison mcgovern is my mp and likely could not give a fuck but we will see. She got a shade put on the lamppost outside our house so she gets stuff done