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So the WTO report isn't final as it allows time for both parties to appeal, but as it apparently supports Qatar's claims we can assume they won't. Then if the Saudi's appeal, it would delay the report which would the PL then use to drag out their review? If the Saudi's don't appeal against the report, is that tacit acceptance of the claims which could then be used against them by the PL? Or am I over reaching?

New information (WHO report) has come to light though which may need to be taken in to account. That was also informal so they may have to wait for the published version (mid-June)? Maybe.... WHO ? World Health Organisation this time ?? ? Oooops, you'd think they'd be busy elsewhere

New information (WHO report) has come to light though which may need to be taken in to account. That was also informal so they may have to wait for the published version (mid-June)? Maybe.... Why would they await the published version when they have already had the draft version for over 3 weeks? And what in your opinion would that suggest as to the reason into waiting for the published version? There was a maybe for a reason. I don't have a fucking clue Have any of your multi-million projects started on a draft business case? They're clearly waiting for something.

New information (WTO report) has come to light though which may need to be taken in to account. That was also informal so they may have to wait for the published version (mid-June)? Maybe....

You don't see the point at all, particularly as you're trying to frame people hurling abuse, spitting at, and literally starting on other supporters as 'people with different opinions' Shit, I didn't realise that they started on you! Yeah, that's fine then, they probably deserve financial ruin during a global pandemic. Hope their families end up on the streets too, the little cunts. Yes, laughing at cunts not getting their season ticket money back is the same as wishing them and their families complete financial ruin. In the same way being positive about the takeover is being desperate to be owned by baby bombers? He really doesn't understand it does he. He does, he's sitting at home stroking himself in to a frenzy at all the attention he's getting. Ignore him, it'll hurt him more.

Nah, shows a complete lack of decency in the current situation to say something like that. You know that most likely there are people here struggling financially who could use the money yet you decide to write that instead of just keeping your opinions to yourself. Err, it was ManDoon making the comment not me, I'm saying why some of us can't stand sections of our support. And yeah, keep talking about 'decency' in a thread where everyone's frothing at the gash for their football club to be owned by baby bombers. My heart bleeds. To be fair to Kasper, he hasn't been "one of those frothers" at all, quite the opposite. He just knows the comment was lifting. The relentless pearl clutching over our stoic and noble fans, man. You know fine well there are cunts in our support who were openly antagonistic towards Sack Pardew/Ashley Out and its members. If it's disrespectful to not give a shit about those same people losing out after you watched the way they went on, then it's disrespectful. Who cares. What have the cunts who abused Sack Pardew have to do with any of this? We're just talking about people who've renewed season tickets and might now be in financial difficulty because of covid and needing that money back. You seem to be talking about something completely different. Unless I've missed something ManDoon's was talking specifically about those people. Genuinely love the fact they aren’t getting ticket money back. He didn't specifically mention sack Pardew or Ashley out, and you're the only one who brought up the new owners (agenda). There are a whole middle ground of people who didn't abuse the original protests but also still carry on attending (rightly or wrongly). You have now labelled them as cunts who deserve to lose their money, and also support baby bombers.

I'm sorry, I can't agree with this. It's 2-4 weeks, historically all deals have taken that kind of time to ratify. The Man City one with 3 owners, one from the middle east as a major holder and 2 other minor holders, took what, 22 days? It is a process, yes. It is a complicated process, yes. But it's one with an expected timescale which has been massively exceeded and I don't agree that we cannot infer there might be problems from this. Similarly, people mention "project restart" as if the PL is an organisation of 3 people who all have to do any work that comes in, like they'll down tools on this to prioritise work on that when in reality the PL is a massive organisation with dedicated teams for different things and in this case they're two entirely separate things. This is taking way longer than it should, way longer than we'd expect it to, and that is worrying. Where would this dedicated team dealing with project restart have come from? I doubt they have teams just sitting there in case of once in a generation pandemics. More likely the team would have been sourced from other departments. Plus they may have people off work etc. Not saying that is the case, but it's not improbable.

Why do people think they are delaying? What benefit is there for them to take their time, other than to make sure they do a good job? They're going to come under significant scrutiny either way so I daresay they're taking as much time as they need.

People also have to understand that the Premier League isn't a criminal court and they won't need absolute proof. Even a civil court is on the balance of probabilities and they might not even have to be as resolute as that...who knows? Likewise, they might not have to reject on either basis anyway.

Love the way he can't take his eyes off mobile scat sites even mid rant

They rave that we can't take 6 in a row away from them, completely oblivious to the fact that the reason we can't is because they're in the 3rd fucking division. It's a classic pyrrhic victory.

Yeah, assuming the human rights issues have no impact on the D&O tests, which it appears they don't, doesn't mean they aren't going to discuss it afterwards with any interested parties. He may just be referring to these conversations....there is already talk of them tweaking the tests going forward.

I wouldn't read too much in to it. i think he may have just been hammering the confidential point and to be fair if he'd used the past tense it might have been seen as accepting it had been dealt with.

With London having Chelsea, Spurs, Arsenal and West Ham, its hard for any one of them to have a special feel about them and none of them really eclipse the others totally. You talk about he North East and it's only really us with that presence and where that's been nothing to really cheer about last 10 years, we're going to be absolutely giant within a couple of years.

I wish your face was silent

I'll go with the latter I think. How can he possibly stress the confidentiality around it and then state his direct involvement with the specifics of piracy regarding the bid. If all that was real, you better believe this person is getting a smacked arse right now. "I've done everything to hide my identity" *Uses real name for his Twitter account* Why are you sure that's his real name? He might just be a big fan of Gavin Peacock and Michael Chopra. I'm sure it isn't - just looks a little funny

I'll go with the latter I think. How can he possibly stress the confidentiality around it and then state his direct involvement with the specifics of piracy regarding the bid. If all that was real, you better believe this person is getting a smacked arse right now. "I've done everything to hide my identity" *Uses real name for his Twitter account*

Paul Smith Edit - I don't really know

UK only gets approx 3% of oil from Saudi Arabia anyway (might be a little out of date). You'd have to be particularly militant to avoid all petrol in that basis.

I've just bought an electric car, cancelled my Disney subscription and burnt any of my kids associated paraphernalia so have moral superiority over most of you. Still gonna support the toon though.

It's absolutely right that we as supporters should judge the takeover with a different view to the other investment. However, doesn't mean fans can't raise the hypocrisy of other peoples selective criticism if they want to (I can't really be assed to frankly).

They may have but its nothing new. The question over beautq and bein was going to arise and they'll have to have more proof than when the French courts knocked it back. Will they need more proof though? They aren't a court but if they do operate on a burden of proof scale (no idea if they do) I daresay it would be more in line with the civil side which is on the balance of probability. If they do refuse, would any appeal end up at CAS? If another body did force them to approve the ownership, at least the Premier League could just go "hey, we tried everyone" and then change the tests if they wanted. Of course that could all be bollocks. I don't have a clue but it's fun making up scenarios

Sod his own health and sanity, what about his impact on the rest of us!!

I'd like to say thats the worst thing I've read in this thread but it's not even top 10

True, but he's only getting those questions so much because Staveley told him she was gonna pass the test imminently, nearly 3 weeks ago now. So he should be annoyed at her surely There is no definitive proof that Staveley is his source or that he does even have a source It's just about obvious that she is, she's done an interview for him previously. My biggest concern with Caulkin is that his source previously led him down the garden path with the BZG deal which george nicely described afterwards as 'bollocks from the start'. If a source has previously given information which turns out to be false or incorrect I would not be so quick to use any future information from them He probably has more than one source so might be someone completely different.