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I guess it's more a threat about future bidding. Reasonable bet that somebody will pick up the rights though, so not a very good threat

I don't think there's any maybe about it, that's exactly what it looks like

Although Keys has said once already that it'll go through, feels like about four hundred years ago

NEW POLL ON WHETHER THIS WEEK IS THE WEEK FWIW I think this week is the week, but I've thought the last eight weeks were the week too

I can't remember the last time that everybody was positive and mostly friendly about this on a Sunday night

I'll be honest, I'm looking forward to seeing what negative spin Penn can pull out of the bag

I reckon there'll be an eight part dramatisation of this takeover at some point in the next couple of years. Who will play Ashley, Charnley, Staveley and Richard Keys do we reckon?

That Times tweet seems to me to be deliberately provocative in pointing out that the PL are basically allowing themselves to be pushed around by one of their partners. Not sure why, and a tweet doesn't leave much room for subtlety of expression or nuance so maybe I'm just seeing what I want to see

Somebody at the PL is going to have to grow a pair and tell Qatar that they're a long way past the remit of their fucking television deal, like

How the fuck does a dentist know so much.... Wondered that myself There's only so much gossip you can get from your client if you're a dentist, like

where are redbird capital in all this

I can't see any image associated with this tweet because I'm at work, but if I had sent it it'd be a picture of either Richard Keys or Mike Ashley

If it's legit I feel bad for the American who will be reviled as a second rate chancer by a significant proportion of the fanbase only because he came in after Being Owned By The Richest People In The World could have been a thing I reckon we'd have given him a run (if he can afford it, like) if Saudi Arabia were never in the frame

Wew, Saudi Arabia were just a stalking horse all along. This American lad has got some pull

Should have made clear that I agree with this really, I'm not personally clamouring for handicapping and a level playing field. Practically I don't see a significant difference between state ownership and ultra rich private ownership but if investment concerns people then FFP is one way to address it

Other clubs would definitely whinge, just like they and we have in the past about Chelsea and Citeh. I know what you're saying but ultimately whether it's Saudi Arabia or Google that are buying a club, the ones who aren't bought are going to moan. Needs properly implemented FFP to make it less of an issue.

The same unfair advantage that any other clubs that got rich solely through investment have enjoyed for the last couple of decades?

Yeah, that's how I read the limited bits that have come out Not so much about the piracy as the lack of response to the piracy

Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jun/16/newcastle-takeover-latest-saudi-arabia-tv-piracy-ruling-released-by-wto-premier-league-pressure

Aye, the link was just an article from football law like

Want to see what Richard Keys has to say tbh