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Well this is nonsense.

It's hard not to be pessimistic with the latest news, but I truly don't think anything the club does is indicative of anything takeover wise. The club will continue to operate as it always has done which is literally how any other business would operate under the same circumstances. You just don't amend you're strategy based on a situation which is totally out of your control. With the arbritation case still active, we have clear indication that the takeover is still alive (literally 0 reason to have this case without PIF) and any notion of Ashley spending money to keep up a fake over ruse is beyond delusional. You are a fucking idiot for thinking that. The optimist in me still thinks there's still good reasons for PIF to still want this takeover and until AS says they're all out, I don't see any reason why they wouldn't wait until something solid comes out the arb case.

I DON'T FUCKING WANT GUITAR LESSONS

Caulkin gets such an unfair pasting for his takeover talk last year. People seem to forget it's on record that even the government were under the impression a decision was imminent, so not sure why Caulkin's held to a different standard to them. Seems obvious to me the information coming from the PL has been consistently deceptive. Not Caulkin's fault, that.

Will never understand why'd you bother engaging in a topic you 'know' to be false.

There's nothing in my comment which speaks to whether I beleive you want the takeover to go through or not. All it says, is that on a personal level, I just can't fathom why anyone wouldn't cling onto the 1% chance (based on the fact we have 2 active legal cases), as the alternative is just so futile and renders supporting the club pointless.

If there's just 1% chance of this takeover happening then that's enough to keep me engaged, because accepting the alternative is not an option for me, dunno why it would be for anyone else.

Last page is probably the highlight of this thread

Nailed that imo!

Ahhh after he was prompted for comment but not part of his original thread. But fair enough. Not exactly the most committed commentary though seeing as though it's the salient part of the club and AS's statements.

No comment on the need for transparency either.

Perhaps, I guess it depends on the type of argument the PL are putting up. I'm more sold on the idea that rejecting a public hearing puts the PL in an incredibly poor position when it comes to the fan led review.

This latest move seems quite incisive, imo. I'm actually quite buoyed by the latest developments. I just don't see how it's possible for the PL to demonstrate they're looking after the interests of the fans whilst rejecting their calls for a public hearing, which as @Jackie Broon has said plays right into the hands of the people who are looking to establish independent regulation.

Aye, at this point I'm just as invested in dragging the PL through the mud as I am getting this takeover done.

This is a great point.

Arguing for the Arbritation to be held in public view undermines the PL's argument to have the CAT case held in private.

Safe to say this account is legit.

Not necessarily leaks but the media releases were only done so by SSN and local rags. There seems to be a public interest, or at least we're lead to beleive that, so surely trying to engage as much of the public as possible aids their cause?

The thing I don't understand is why the club haven't really pushed this for national coverage? If this is as sensational as they're implying, then surely they'd have the reach to stir up interest in it via the national rags too?

If only

We ought to have a seperate thread for those that want to to mindlessly speculate in whatever rubbish is out there to keep this thread from being derailed every couple of hours for the sake of those that don't want to speculate on the rubbish.

Yep. Already seeing alot of posts referring the hypocrisy when the focus should be on exactly what the club is trying to achieve.

Decent enough statement, but they missed a trick not involving the wider football fraternity by alluding to the ESL and disconnect with fans. Also, whilst they're right about Ashley's hypocrisy, I don't think now is the time to provide an alternative narrarive to the club's statement when we should all be laser focused on what's at stake, imo, of course.

This is what I couldn't make fit, but that does make alot of sense. One point of note though, is that it seems the PL are no longer arguing for it to be 'thrown out' because of both cases being materially the same, but now arguing it should be absorbed into the arb case (I suspect to avoid public scrutiny) which does suggest a different tact and a significant come down from their initial positioning which was that this case shouldn't even be heard in the first place.

I'm personally not invested in the idea of a settlement. Think this takeover depends entirely on the outcome of the arbritation case which could be nearly a couple of months till we hear of a decision.