Tiresias

Get almiron on ffs against tired legs best chance

Wonderful pass to make it, wonderful run and great goal

Bruce never going to trust fancy technical defenders tho he did seem a bit poor following last injury

A bit different since Owen refused to do it while still a Newcastle player, Fraser wouldn't sign an extension to keep playing after his contract was up. Important distinction but still shithousey by Fraser. No fan of Jordan btw (be that simon, eddie or the slag). Agree was a bit of a dick move but not comparable really, he isn't actually obligated to return to a job his contract was up in, still think would have been the decent thing if he loved the club as much as he claims.

Any legal action will be for compensation not for the takeover to be approved. That's what I mean. It's just a bit of a shrug from me

Seriously? Did you read the club's statement . . . "This conclusion has been reached despite the club providing the Premier League with overwhelming evidence and legal opinions that PIF is independent and autonomous of the Saudi Arabian government." "The club and its owners do not accept that Premier League chief executive Richard Masters and the Premier League have acted appropriately in relation to this matter and will be considering all relevant options available to them." Yes. I have read it. It will all depend on whether their lawyers think the case is winnable. The problem is that PIF is clearly not autonomous and independent of the Saudi Arabian government. I know it’s complete hypocrisy when compared to Man City etc. but hey this is Newcastle United, what do we expect? But do you not think he'd have taken that advice before making such a incredibly strong statement? "overwhelming evidence" saying the top guy at the Premier League has "acted inappropriately". It's pretty strong for someone who's not yet decided his position. By the way we're is your evidence that PIF are clearly not autonomous? The PIF board: Ibrahim Abdulaziz Al-Assaf - Minister of State and member of the Saudi Council of Ministers Majid Abdullah Al Qasabi - Minister of Commerce Mohammad Abdul Malek Al Shaikh - Minister of State and member of the Saudi Council of Ministers Ahmed Aqeel Al-Khateeb - Minister of Tourism Khalid Abdulaziz Al-Falih - Minister of Investment Mohammed Abdullah Al-Jadaan - Minister of Finance and of course: Chairman of PIF Mohammad bin Salman - The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia... I can imagine you’d have to be a pretty bloody good lawyer to convince anyone that they are independent of the Saudi state... However maybe it is possible, or maybe they hope they can force the PL into submission through expensive litigation? I’m just not feeling positive about it. Where's the evidence PIF aren't autonomous get real this. Now we don't know what the assurances that were handed to the league about MBS and co not being involved, maybe they are completely credible and premier league not listening was unreasonable, however, PIF is the saudi state and claiming otherwise is willful blindness.

Any lawsuit will drag on for ages and if it has any outcome in favour of ashley it will probably be long past teh consortium still being interested. Unless the league caves immediately at the threat I am not sure this will really impact anything

Yep one of the least impressive managerial performances from a whole plethora of them

fyp

Why play pickford?

Why are you excited about a player, Bruce will ruin him and turn him into a clogger

The world of agents is so obviously massively crooked surely at some point they will all get rounded up in some major sting, on the other hand may be rich enough to be untouchable at this point

The amount of money being paid for the premier league is clearly inflated, the cost of players has ballooned to be £20m for a relegated striker, something has to give. What we could do with though is less a collapse of funds to all clubs and more chelsea man city and man united imploding completely and disappearing

And talent

Probably was at that anti-mask rally at weekend

Mandy will be trying to find another billionaire to join and there won't be one

I've seen tenet and the deal is going to go through last week

How have they changed the checks? I thought they were considering doing that after the PIF bid, but it hasn't happened yet? A while ago wasn't it just between man city and now

Also they've changed the checks to be more rigorous since. And of course it is us that fall victim

yes imo trying to claim the defacto head of state of saudi arabia would in any way be meddling in the affairs of nufc is disingenuous at absolute best and a fucking joke He's literally the chairmen of the investment fund trying to buy us. Even if it's only yes they can have that amount of money that is still 'meddling' isn't it. And even if no he wasn't going to have any say and the guarantees were all above board I can't see how it is unreasonable to assume the person in charge of an investment fund has some kind of say on the investments said fund makes.

It's definitely finished, both the PIF bid, and the club

I don't think anyone thinks the amount of time it took for any information on this to be released was positive. I assume the premier league's position is they are under no obligation to make any step of the process public and they probably want to paint it as the consortium just endlessly sending them documents that were of no help (and not taking up the third party arbitration offered), however I dont think this never actuall reject it is a helpful policy, instead should have said rejected until they submit MBS for a fit and proper test much earlier on. What isn't clear still is the nature of the communications from premier league to consortium as in the early days the consortium seemed convinced they had unofficially heard it was going through without any red flags. Did the premier league only work out who MBS was late in the day? Did they basically decide to ignore it then use it as an excuse to avoid the piracy clusterfuck? It is mentioned how unimpressed the pl were with the saudi reaction to it (basically doubling down) and yet it is not clear whether ultimately that was sufficient to block it by itself (although I do hold that the conspiracy minded people who paint pl as victim of completely unreasonable interference from Bein is nonsense, Bein pay the PL a lot of money, their opinion is always always going to carry weight, try running a big business and ignore your big customers. In the end i thought that would have been overcome ultimately probably in SA coughing up enough money compensation or something).

As i understand it is is much more specific about Mohammed Bin Salman who is director of the investment fund coughing up the money. The consortium had some nominated directors who they said had authority and were running the money for NUFC but the league essentially did not believe that MBS wouldnt have authority over them and thus asked that he go through a fit and proper person test (which I dont know if plausible he would pass). The consortium gave over as I understand it a lot of written guarantees that MBS would not have any say in teh running of it but essentially the league did not believe it, and that was the end of that.