jonny1403

When the entity is a newco, would the lawyers still run the insolvency checks on the morning of completion? I'm guessing they need to have at least been incorporated the day before to allow a clean search. You would run the searches on the day of completion - they take ten minutes.

Brilliant. Cheers for this. Ashley has been using Dentons so you’re no doubt right about these being the buyers lawyers You would definitely expect the buyer, not the seller, to set up the bidding company, so it would point more towards Pinsents acting for the buyer, yes. I am not sure where all the twitter chatter is coming from regarding Pinsents acting for Ashley tbh - I'd always thought he used two other firms. One thing to stress - we have often set up companies (only costs £90) purely to hold on to a name for our client. This suggests that something is definitely happening, and could happen imminently, but shouldn't be a guarantee that any deal is going to be completed.

As a lawyer in this area: - It's impossible for that company to be fake. It is possible for it to be fraudulently incorporated but you'd need a lot of personal information about the two directors, and would need to fraudulently impersonate Pinsent Masons, the law firm that has submitted the documents. The company is using PM's own, bespoke articles rather than the model articles, so any fraudster would need to have somehow obtained these as well. In short, it's real. - The two directors are not directors of any other UK company, so whatever they are involved with is something new to them and not run of the mill. - Companies established to acquire assets are often done so one or two days before completion of a deal. In other cases, they are established to ensure they have secured the name they want and then left on file for months while the deal is completed. - It is common for businesses to have more than one law firm acting for them in the M&A sphere, often on different deals. I know that MA has used different law firms in the past. It could well be that Pinsent Masons are acting as UK counsel for the buyer, not the seller. They would need UK lawyers themselves regardless.

I work in corporate M&A - heads of terms are not typically understood to be legally binding. It's an understanding of the general agreement between the parties but this can often be one or two pages max with the actual share purchase agreement being 100 pages plus. Often the terms in the HOTs themselves are tweaked slightly as issues arising with the drafting of the SPA.

Not this season they haven’t Jeremy Factsman. Should’ve checked this with your world leading psychopath mate. Ok then, well last season they sold them at £15 each to uni students. The club was not selling tickets to Liverpool fans for £2,000 ffs He's obviously either (i) bought from a newcastle fan and paid a massive mark up or (ii) bought corporate tickets from the club which were never on sale for £15 in the first place.

With all due respect, most of the above is bollocks.

Rivière wins this hands down. Joselu is shocking but at least has contributed something (and scored a really good goal at the start of this season). Rivierie literally only managed to score by accident.

If you add in Saivet we've actually got 7 senior CMs on the books. Two of which have no future here, one wants to leave, one is out of contract in the summer and questions over the future of Shelvey. A lot of work to do in the summer...

No he hasn't. Yes he does - Colback confirmed it himself in Feb: https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/jack-colback-back-newcastle-summer-15859122

No he's not, Colback's got one more season.

Neither of those are true

That team would get absolutely destroyed

There's a pub called 'The Cow' in the outdoor area of westfield - soulless as you say but huge inside and will be a good atmosphere.

They do great pizzas there. More hipster than an away fans bar though

Very odd comment on his Wiki page

Quoted for a few months time...

Not many teams would name more than a striker, winger and two cms

Leicester waiting until the end of the season to appoint a new permanent boss - looks ominous

This quote has aged beautifully

While I agree with this, I'm pretty sure Rafa would also have not used him too much.

Exactly what they need Just signed a new 3 year contract.

Darlow/Woodman Manquillo Fernandez Clark Dummett Barecca Ki Diame Almiron Muto Joselu

You have literally no idea if any of that is true

Can people stop going on about the added time? It's already been pointed out the goal was scored on 94 mins 34 seconds. There was 4 minutes of added time plus we made a sub in that period which adds another 30 seconds. There wasn't a problem there.