Dr Jinx

I’ll be very surprised if they announce it before the last game is played. At this stage what would be the point?

 

To put this forum out of its incessant relentless misery and mindbending circular discussions about whether a takeover will happen or not

I get that, obviously and I’ve had my doubts too. We’ve had to weather a full blown media campaign against the club, supporters and our new owners. What should have been sheer joy has soured over the weeks.

But I’m firmly in the camp that this is happening. It’s just a matter of time. Now if this was dragging on through a transfer window I’d feel differently.

But apart from your above point, it makes no real difference to us and the club if the takeover happens today or in 3 weeks.

Am 100% confident now compared to 50/50 a month ago.

I’ll be very surprised if they announce it before the last game is played. At this stage what would be the point?

They say there’s no deadline for the process etc but I don’t believe that for a minute. The PL will be looking to get as much as they can before the transfer window opens. They (both sides) will want to have things in place before then.

I’m guessing the 4 remaining games of the season will happen before the takeover does.

I’m fairly relaxed about that anyway, what could they get done before then? Plus with the season tapering out under Bruce, I think the timing will be like a fresh start once it’s done.

They’ll replace Bruce. I reckon Poch is just waiting for the nod, the agreement is already in place and maybe for a few players too. It would be naive to think they haven’t been doing a tap? ?‍♂️

Mental the age of that kid, from Birmingham as well. Villa supporter presumably?

Online abuse, whether racist, sexual or paedos would all but stop if online anonymity wasn’t a thing. If you had to sign up for the likes of twitter or whatever with a national id, they would think twice surely.

An absolute legend. He was for Ireland what Keegan was for Newcastle. Raised our expectations of what was possible.

The stories around Italia 90 and USA 94 are brilliant. You won’t hear one player with a bad word to say about him.

RIP

I'm just posting this because it is interesting to watch already and would only be even more interesting if it lands in the UK - looks like MBS himself is taking a trip to Europe:

 

https://www.flightradar24.com/VPCKH/24e5c731

 

(luxury Airbus A318 registered in Cayman Islands, operated by Saudi airline "National Air Services" whose fleet consist of 2 A318's. And the Royal KSA family officially own at least one A318 but with a different livery)

Hamza Al-Kholi

A prominent businessman in that region but nout to do with this.

Cannot see an end to this mess me like.

 

The Premier League are f***ing spineless. I was hoping to watch the remaining games knowing that we’d soon be getting rid of manager of the year Stephen Roger Bruce and on the verge of going on to greater things but it is just s****.

 

Quite the opposite my confidence is growing by the day think where very close. The Saudi announcement re intellectual property today feels significant.

 

Everything feels significant, until it’s not. 

 

So many events looked like being the catalyst to spark the final push, then it just fizzles out time again. If we’re not careful it’ll end up being a documentary on Netflix.

“Takeover after we’ve all died”

Um ... so how about what Ole is doing with these boys? Playing some pretty outrageous stuff at the minute. Lovely football.

 

Against Aston Villa...

Give credit where it’s due. He identified the player he needed the transform things and they’ve been unbeaten going back to February including a convincing win against City.

They are going to be right in the mix next season.

Listen, it’s all done. Chill.. they’re just waiting for this thread to reach a thousand pages before they announce it so everyone can all pretend this cringe fest never happened.

It’s the best thing for everyone involved!

It’s one of those Rafa signings that just made no sense. That’s 20 million + between Muto and Murphy. We’ve seen nothing of either of them to suggest they can ever make it at the club.

 

Gayle paid for his fee by the goals in the championship the first season. Got a bad injury and hasn’t quite been the same since. Probably has a chip on his shoulder about being loaned out when he saw how s**** his replacements were.

 

Muto needs to show some personality if he gets any game time between now and end of season. He’s been here over a year and we know f*** all about him

 

Nahhh. Muto was what, £9m?

 

EDIT: Thought you meant Daryl, completely forgot about Jacob.

Daryl was a real pleasant surprise to be honest. A bang average player but he did very well for us when it counted. Total respect for the lad.

Again, re: my point about Muto, Jacob Murphy has basic qualities that should contribute to being a good footballer. But just seems overwhelmed by any opportunities he gets. He needs to show who he is, play with some personality unlike the robot we’ve seen.

It’s one of those Rafa signings that just made no sense. That’s 20 million + between Muto and Murphy. We’ve seen nothing of either of them to suggest they can ever make it at the club.

Gayle paid for his fee by the goals in the championship the first season. Got a bad injury and hasn’t quite been the same since. Probably has a chip on his shoulder about being loaned out when he saw how shite his replacements were.

Muto needs to show some personality if he gets any game time between now and end of season. He’s been here over a year and we know fuck all about him

So what’s going to be the hold up this week?

This is a fairly decent piece on the fallout between Qatar and Saudi, if you want to know the full background to it..

Interesting to know Saudi wanted to invade but were talked out of it by the Americans.

https://www.cfr.org/blog/just-how-important-rift-between-qatar-and-saudi-arabia-led-quartet

Deleted it. Apologies.

 

Why?

 

I didnt want to p*ss Golfmag off. Even though anyone can see this forum, it's not really my information to throw around.

 

It would just be handy if we didnt have to get our information from ITKs and the journos could do their jobs.

Golfmag around to kick your front door down as we speak ?

This is the first week where I forgot about the takeover. Don't know if that's good or bad.

That’s exactly what Qatar and Bein want. I do feel Saudi and the other members of the consortium could be doing a bit more in terms of PR. The Reubens for example could easily exert some influence.

I’m actually fuming with the articles being written there today. Pure shit stirring. Where did it originate? London press or local? And people think we’re paranoid about an agenda!!

If you look at his instagram or Twitter you’ll see he’s happy as a pig in shit here.

Ultimately I think Steve Bruce could have us in or about the top 4/6 if he was given a massive amount to spend. Mark Hughes did it. But I also think he would come up short in the same manner when it came to winning trophies, but that’s just my opinion, I haven’t a clue how well he could do.

Any manager is only ever a couple of signings or a couple of sales away from being brilliant or total dogshit.

Take Ole for example. Ridiculed for much of the season. Did a shrewd bit of business in Bruno Fernandez and suddenly that conversation is a thing of the past.

With NUFC, throw in a decent striker, a proper holding midfielder and a playmaker as well as a new left and right back and things could suddenly start looking very different.

Case in point.

One of Klopp’s first Liverpool XI.. how far do you think he could have pushed this lot? Top 8 maybe? If that’s all Liverpool ever allowed him to use, would that have made him a shit manager at PL level?

The players know as little as we do. As much as I enjoyed the match yesterday, I think the result was just a fair reflection on the league table.

I’m actually fully expecting the form to dip when the takeover goes through as you’re going to have a bunch of these guys worried about their future.

He was a risk that’s paid off. Aside from his ridiculous pace and skill. His attitude and general attributes as a person are top rate. Irreplaceable actually. But we had no way of knowing that when we signed him first.

Teams are terrified of him.

He can be for us what Eden Hazard was for Chelsea. He’s already becoming more efficient with his energy and knowing when to carry the ball.

Put some better players around him to give him more space and he’ll destroy the league.

In another life I could imagine Steve Bruce having a career as a buxom drag queen.

Carroll and Lazaro

That was beautiful

Richard Master's literally wrote to the legal counsel acting for Hetiz Cengiz complaining their correspondence had been leak into the media.

 

If we never want to speak to them again, and not use this as an opportunity to build some sort of dialogue with the CEO of the Premier League beyond the takeover e.g. on other matters, then we could throw it all away for some likes on Twitter.

 

But that would be very stupid.

 

I'm 100% in agreement. However, playing devils advocate, how long do PL CEO's actually last? Isn't Masters meant to be out some time fairly soon?

 

He's only been in the job for a few months.  The previous one was there for 26 years. 

Yes but he’s been with the PL since 2006, started off as their head of sales and marketing before being promoted to Chief Executive.

Before that he spent 5 years as the commercial director for the football league.

He’s not some blow in they took off the street.

Richard Master's literally wrote to the legal counsel acting for Hetiz Cengiz complaining their correspondence had been leak into the media.

 

If we never want to speak to them again, and not use this as an opportunity to build some sort of dialogue with the CEO of the Premier League beyond the takeover e.g. on other matters, then we could throw it all away for some likes on Twitter.

 

But that would be very stupid.

Agreed mate and fully support the stance. Don’t mind any of the shite being spouted here or on social media. It was the right thing to do.

It’s far more use having a trust representing the fans that either the club or other organisations can trust to have a dialogue with.