BennyBlanco

This. Yet another call to action to sit and discuss how we can disagree about what step not to take next. We may as well all walk around with our trollies round our ankles and a lanyard with lube attached.

Fantastic - more money for the club that won’t go on the squad. Ya love to see it.

Liked him but he didn’t half get his arsehole out for us to have a go. The desperate little sod???

But surely uk law overrides unfairly applied terms or very loose definitions in said terms. You can just shut down a legitimate sale because your personal terms vaguely outlay who is and isn’t deemed acceptable to buy the club. They were that confident in their own rules that instead of flatly rejecting the deal they just offered arbitration let’s not forget.

off his tits

The premier league have entrenched themselves too far now to ever let the Saudis take over. The whole thing is absolutely dead on it’s arse. We’ve been shafted but as usual, nowt will happen. We are the battered wives of English football.

Kurwa!!!!! Idiotic manager chasing an idiotic ideal of reasonable football. this clown doesn’t give a shit.

Come on Keith, stop messing about?

Or just answer the question.

So why are you asking the gullible for money then Keith?

Dead as disco. Anyone giving that cunt Keith any money needs their bumps feeling. The minute he started knocking about with the racist and that slug of a dentist he started believing his own bullshit.

Jesus Christ. What the fuck has Bruce said at half-time there? Shambolic performance.

I’m gunna say it - that is absolute fuckin pap like.

Some top replies here and the ideas of apathy definitely resonate. I keep coming back to the idea that there must be a straw that breaks the camels back somewhere. When that will be though, I don’t know.

With respect I’d disagree there. There were literally tens of thousands of fans in the city protesting. It was way beyond your usual hundred or so hardcore element.

Thought this might be the best place to ask this question as it’s been nagging at me for a while now. Why are we so bad at organising protests and mobilising when the club is clearly in the doldrums? Man United organised not only a storming of the training ground but a mass protest at the ground that ultimately got a game postponed and their message was televised all over the world - Im not condoning that sort of action but you have to admire the speed and precision in which it was planned and acted out. What have we done in relation to both Ashley’s mismanagement and the Premier Leagues blatant attempt to pull the ladder up? Absolutely fuck all. A couple of hundred down to london that barely made the news. For a so called passionate and loyal fan base we ain’t half shite at organising action. Is it apathy? Are we too split as a fan base to organise anything effective? Suggestions are most welcome.

Just spat my tea out when I’ve read “not setting any unnecessary limits or barriers”. That’s pretty much all they’ve done to us during this whole saga

Isn’t there meant to be some sort of half arsed protest before this. Ya know, the sort where only 4 fans turn up, Steve Wraith hijacks the event to flog his books about criminals and we get made to look like a total shower of cunts?

Those scumbags will never appreciate that absolute gent of a man.

Dunno if he himself has done anything but Monzo seem to be smack bang in the middle of a serious money laundering investigation. As chairman he’ll have been responsible for oversight of this sort of shit. Hard to see how he clings on to the role there. If he’s implicated deeper then it becomes very very interesting for him in regards to his other roles. Ya just couldn’t fucking write this shit.

It would just be our luck as fans of this clusterfuck of a club.

absolutely zero chance of the Saudis putting all of their footballing investment eggs into this frothing basket of sheer fucking lunacy. They’ll invest elsewhere, in another league that will be more welcoming and some other bastarding team and city will reap the benefits of their bottomless pit of cash and investment know how.

But but but but but Keith said it would be fast tracked and that the Saudis would stay as part of the consortium. In my opinion this is dead and gone now lads, the premier leagues lawyers are infamous for their delaying tactics and it seems they’ve succeeded again. Can’t say the Saudis can really now be keen on investing into a sport in which the governing body have made it blatantly obvious that they aren’t wanted.

Tbh I think, after the super league debacle, that there’s already a consensus and even general acceptance that the premier league panders to the top 6 and their sponsors. I honestly don’t think they care that this is even proven in court either. What can the other clubs do about it? Absolutely nothing. The premier league will argue, with some merit I need add, that its these top clubs that are fuelling the increase in tv money and sponsorship that trickle down throughout the league. In short I’m of the opinion that this “exposure” and collusion to keep it a closed shop isn’t quite the silver bullet that some think it is. A stronger Newcastle is just as bad for the clubs at the bottom as it is for the ones at the top don’t forget. The more I think about it, the more I think the premier league really do have us by the short and curlies. I’m fucking done with football.

What are the rules on posting articles behind a paywall? I’m happy to do it if it’s not an infringement of the rules. People can make their own minds up then. I definitely didn’t see it as a positive article. It was critical of PIF and brutal when it came to what CAT could mean for the real.