Sir Toon

May be worth adding the year as well.

I would take that. I even said so last month. http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,90600.24600.html

She may well be as Liverpool are at home to Southampton.

Not that I hold out much hope of us being rid of Ashley whilst there's still money to be diverted but I did say that if it did happen that it would be on something like a damp, dark Thursday out of the blue. Well today meets them requirements ahead of the sunrise so over to you, karma.

He's using an alias to hide his real name. Warwick Hunt.

His nappa was alright. Nee issues

There's no denial from The Chronicle as they know nowt like the rest of us. Would be a daft thing to deny and then it actually happen. 7 weeks till the window opens and whichever kitty Rafa has to work with. Clock is ticking.

The issue is the Ltd companies not any specific person. The Ltd company will have the liability not Ashley personally. This isn’t fraud or opaque wrongdoing per say. It’s a grey area of tax law that we will have been advised upon. It may well be challenged in the courts and found to be legal. Sounds like it may not be anywhere as bad as we fear then. Even then with court challenges and the legal or tribunal route, it could be years before anything sticks anyway. Hope it isn't this holding things up as we'd be stuck with Ashley for another decade.

I dont see how Ashley or whoever is carrying the can for his decisions can swerve the HMRC. Yes the club may be liable to pay fines if proven guilty of anything dodgy but the people who did it will be at risk of legal action, not any future MD or owner.

The lad minding the 'Why Q' bin beside the middle of the Gallowgate exit will have been too busy getting over the shock of my drunken Brother dumping his empties in it.

Bearing in mind any deal will have to be ratified by the premier league etc, it makes littler sense to confirm something which will mean minimal change at present. The closer this is done to the window opening should mean the momentum isn't lost. It would be like winning the lottery on a Saturday night and having to wait until Monday when the lottery offices open. As I said a few pages back or on the other thread, what an anniversary present it would be especially if it was announced on the 9th December.

This makes no sense. The world's media have reported that PCP signed a non-disclosure agreement. If that's simply untrue, why wouldn't anyone say so? Maybe Ashley is giving them all free Donnay socks and a Karibor hat to keep schtum.

Ha! That was my first thought too, would be typical! f***s going on in Saudi, it would be just our luck like. All strange goings on as it was reported earlier that a ballistic missile was shot down by their defence system.

Based on Ashley's joke of a tenureship here, it would be remarkably naive to put all the eggs in the optimistic basket of anything good happening for us. Although having said that, there are many things happening that would be totally illogical if it was just to trouser the January transfer kitty cash. I now firmly believe that it'll be an announcement out of the blue of the club being sold on the official website on a dark, damp Tuesday or Wednesday when you want to go out and stock the fridge full of tins but daren't due to the working week being in full swing.

Neither does many of the things he's done here.

Excuse my impatience and desire to get the fraud away from the club and city but regardless of the fact that It may take months to sort out, it takes a split second for Ashley to not turn up for a meeting to sign the completion paperwork as has been speculated in the past. Just hope this isn't yet another chapter in the Mike Ashley 1000 ways to con a football crowd just ahead of the transfer window book. Rather than things go quiet, it needs to be reiterated that Ashley has failed on the football front and he isn't welcome here any longer.

Like most of the sale rumours, this one seems to have dried up. Just wondering how long we can hide behind the due diligence spiel?

There's obviously fuck all happened and we're as much as up for sale now as we were before. It'll happen when it happens, not when some indirect comment is passed on a message board saying we're sold and then we're not. It's like the BBC news insinuating a big murder story before changing their stance a day later to cover their arse.

Ashacon Thu Publikagin

To think, some folk will actually be watching the Stock Exchange.

Could be true as it's Mark Douglas that has done the latest regurgitated one. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/newcastle-united-takeover-timeline-whats-13834135

Funny as there's 8 weeks until Santy comes.

People can answer this question themselves as any bid, which hasn't come yet or may not come at all, has to go past the fit and able test at the premier league. Tomorrow is all about pumpkins, read into that what you will.

Wonder what tonight's Sunday headlines will bring? Usually get the good rumours.

Getting ahead of myself considering I have long given up the hope of the club being run on an honest potential but St James' has a lot of scope to be improved. Whilst the Tat Direct ads being ripped down would improve things 100%, the fact that technology has advanced should and could mean big changes. The 32" plasma's down in the food kiosk areas for a start need telescopes to be able to see properly. Probably need £50m alone just to bring the ground back up to scratch.