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"Stuart Bruce" the level of "journalism" on display there, man. The Express quoting The Sun with an article that says the club "may" hold talks with Lampard but other names are under consideration. I did better compositions in grade school FFS.

And now people are thinking of snubbing Zinedine fucking Zidane cos “anyone could win trophies with Real Madrid”.

You just know that if Ashley buys over Derby and installs him as manager, his first interview will include: "It's refreshing to be at a place where the fans won't have unrealistic expectations"; "The Newcastle fans never warmed to me because I managed Sunderland."; "It's great to celebrate my thousandth match in charge here, it's clear the new owners at Newcastle didn't give me a chance to show them what I could do.". Dead cert.

"Out of work Dream Team" of Antonio Conte and Paulo Fonseca. One of them can be "Sporting Director", doesn't matter. Unveil Fonseca at the match against Tottenham for extra seethe.

Kudos to manorpark for sticking with the #WAIT - must be absolutely buzzing right about now.

https://youtu.be/SLWthImGFks You can hear Evangeline Shen speak in this video. A video about robots, and she comes across as the most mechanical thing in it. But hey, maybe Rob Elliott's replacement will finally become reality! https://media.tenor.com/images/82f24ba5cc572130a5e7a84963891437/tenor.gif

And for a taste of the men behind the takeover attempt. Turns out their uncle in China wasn't merely a car dealer - he was also Vice-Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Committee. In before the PL insists on having President of the Peoples Republic of China Xi Jinping named as the Director of NUFC.

Breaking my nine-year posting duck to offer some light reading on the cousins. https://www.thepeakmagazine.com.sg/interviews/roulette-spin-leads-cousins-leave-jobs-now-run-asias-largest-medical-aesthetics-chain/ Some other snippets: 1) Although Singaporeans, the Loh cousins are related to one of China's richest car dealers. President Xi Jinping attended the auld geezer's funeral when he passed on, which is saying something. 2) Evangeline Shen is the newcomer - from China and prior to the merger with the DORR group (named after Danny Ocean and whoever was Brad Pitt's character in Ocean's 11), she was running, get this, a jewellery distributorship. 3) The cousins were big in the healthcare market and very likely made a killing from the sale of PPEs and other medical essentials, especially in China, in the Covid crisis. 4) Their "publicist" (for the Bellagraph Novia group), Claire Jedrek, is quite well-known in Singapore. Married to an F1 driver and quite an active driver herself. She's on instagram if you want to venture there and maybe ask a few questions. Looking up the Lohs in their previous capacity as founders of the DORR Group throws up a good deal more insight than looking up "Bellagraph Novia". This new entity sounds dodgy as fuck, and the standard of English sounds like it was cooked up in China. Does that give any insight as to the seriousness of the gang in buying NUFC and taking it forward as a club and city? Fuck knows. The only potential positive is that they could be flush with Chinese money, or acting as frontmen for minted (but shadowy) Chinese interests. If you read the article the cousins seem like the types to gamble on unorthodox investments. If you ask me though, it certainly does smack of the lady partner showboating for attention, then thereafter lowballing Mike to scupper the deal.