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Aye. Which is a situation that most of us (maybe? maybe not) made our peace with some weeks ago.

He couldn't have written anything less useful if he tried

The tweet is the same. I'm not sure how "not clear whether they will get approval" and "if it was they would have it by now" follow each other

Of course the buyers will know stuff as they will be having to provide info, answers and documentation. Its at the owners and directors test stage and as yet there's little to ref flag it.Quite literally at the minute, beyond saying its done, no news is good news.

I reckon we're about as close to mid-May as it's possible to be

Which June?

Yeah, that's one of the indicators for me. Not a peep from him indicates to me that it remains ongoing.

Still hope and think it will but I'm perfectly prepared for it not to go through. I'm not going to make any judgements just because Amanda isn't sending me personal emails to keep me posted, though. I know nothing, I'm entitled to know nothing, I'll just wait and see

Sky Sports are still running with fairly positive noises, although nowt new

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