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the long anticipated gifs will be more like

protip: don't put any faith in anything you read until an official announcement is made one way or the other

although I would also + vaccuum of anything else happening because of killer disease This was never going to happen any other way

Over the last few years the internet has turned us all into very convincing economists, epidemiologists, politicians and now lawyers, as the various situations demand

Basically this I don't know how he has the patience tbh

Even if they had named the day and hour that they thought it would be done, it should be self evident to everybody with an interest in this that it's not up to the buyers or the press how long it takes

It's the vaccuum that's killing people and causing them to amplify dozens of little fuck-alls into seismically important considerations. None of us are entitled to know anything that's going on, not sure why people think we are or that they have the first idea how long this could be expected to take

'Newcastle Online hosts worst thread in Internet history, again'

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This is a fine observation

Aye

I can live with stories like that tbh, it's fuck all to do with any other club and everybody involved in the bid knows this. Stuff like that will only ever come across as fear of a resurgent Newcastle.

Obviously these delays are all smokescreens while the authorities are coming up with a plan to deal with the 85,000 who will attempt to descend on Gallowgate as soon as this is formally announced

Richard Keys submitting a dossier to Barclays as we type, filled with incriminating details linking PIF with base rate fraud, insider trading and going unauthorised overdrawn

I genuinely don't know where people are pulling these expected timeframes from

It's all just supposedly though MSF, we have never actually had the first idea what's involved or how long this should take in normal conditions or anything. People have said every week for the last three weeks, "I don't know how it's taken this long" - it's because none of us know how long it takes

It's almost like it's a massively complex and detailed legal process involving multiple parties occuring during a totally unprecedented international health crisis.

I find it most satisfying that the two posters I associate most with sounding notes of caution are Sean and Penn. Will never watch any of his films again without thinking that he's just had an offscreen moment in which he tells someone the sale's not going through

RS has been steadfast on this middle of May thing, like. I reckon we're now into Middle Of May territory myself.

Ashley wants it finished and done with because the PL are going to claim television money back and he wants to be gone and clear of things before it comes up (imo)

Sky Sports take, not sure if it's been posted already. Nothing new in there, the buying consortium "remain confident their bid will be given the green light by the Premier League, despite this latest report" https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11678/11986873/newcastle-united-takeover-premier-league-refuse-to-comment-on-illegal-tv-streaming-links

Saudis leaked the documents themselves hoping to stall this until Mike has paid back the TV money which the bbc says is going to be owing, imo

Can't believe that any material fact about the piracy hasn't already been worked through by the legals, particularly if it's already gone through the French courts. Some of you lads really need to just stop reading and wait for the thread title to change one way or another, it can't be good for you to be so up and down