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to be fair, they might have had to spend five minutes or so thinking about how they can safely restart one of the most high profile and high value leagues in world sport in the face of a hideous global pandemic

I like this tweet so I believe him. I don't like this tweet so I no longer believe him. I don't think that second one is any sort of assurance for Bruce, it's just saying that no prospective purchasers are likely to be actively sharpening the knives before it's signed and sealed and all they've offered him are the usual banal platitudes that come with a takeover. He'll be peddled.

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Good owld George I reckon there's a pretty good chance that the people involved in this bid had anticipated everything that's been thrown so far, like

Lack of articles can only be the result of hitherto negative journalists winding their necks in because they've realised they were wrong Literally no other explanation

Chronicle saying could be done in the next ten days it's always the next ten days

Such as sports ministers following us on twitter. This is the thing for me like, there's so much ancillary evidence to suggest it's well on its way but the instant some fucknugget on twitter posts a bit of speculative thick-as-whale-spunk shite everybody's in the pit of despair again

#cans if another bid is successful People who haven't already fallen in love with the journalist murderers are going to be very, very pleasantly surprised. It's a more socially acceptable multibillionaire? Tremendous news

Reckon it's big mike doing his best used car salesman shtick, 'take it or leave it love, I've got somebody else on their way over now who's been on the lookout for one of these for years'

stand off what a fucking knacker Nobody with any actual professional interest in the deal has said a word

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Nothing could be further from my mind, like. The world has always worked on dodgy football feeds and there's only ever the occasional sacrificial lamb in the form of some fucker selling the equipment to get connected.

Richard Keys is just jealous that our proposed new chairman is a bloke who looks like Richard Keys (but a happy, successful, and content with his place in the world, version of Richard Keys rather than the real version who got peddled from a dream job for being a sex pest and no longer looks that way)

Yeah, heard that on R4 early this morning and was going to post it but didn't want to start another argument about charm offensives

Time and a half for reading letters about Saudi Arabia's human rights record from addresses in Manchester and Liverpool

Good advice. Is there any way to just get notified of significant updates? Wait until the thread title changes to something conclusive

Fifa are proper paragons of virtue like, that's a concerning development

I blame jinky jim and the shields gazette

I'm a nice bloke but I don't deserve to be anywhere near Newcastle United on that basis like

Dalai Lama press conference at 15:00 UK time tho. Trying to get the thoughts of Ban Ki Moon as well, I think, before they go any further

The Queen hasn't weighed in yet, to be fair

I can't believe that people are stressing about these letters influencing the decision, like. "Dear Sirs We write in respect of the Fit and Proper owner and chairman tests which we've been undertaking prior to your proposed takeover of Newcastle United. While we're delighted to inform you that you have passed the tests, we have unfortunately received a couple of moany letters from entirely unrelated third parties which do not approve of this deal and as such we regret to inform you that we are not in a position to authorise this takeover. Thank you for your interest in the Premier League. Yours sincerely The Premier League" I get that there's an argument which says the investors themselves might be spooked at the amount of negative publicity, and maybe there's more concern there - but I cannot imagine that Saudi Arabian investors aren't aware of the level of opprobrium that this was 100% going to attact from some quarters.

Yeah, it looks like we will be losing quite a few people from the football section if this takeover goes through. Chat is the superior section anyway. I predict that Chat will not remain safe from the fallout tbh

cheers, didn't bother to look it up after I read it