Whitley mag

This is old news Joey, gdm beat you to the punch earlier. Welcome aboard though choo choo, I won’t tell Fanny if you don’t.

Just had word from Keith he’s also en route to Nice. The legal bills have cleaned him out though and the meeting has been delayed 24 hours. All the major players will soon be round the table though. HTFL

I recognise people can change their mind like anything in life. However I just beg to differ on some of the information people have put weight on in here to constantly change their position on whether it’s happening.

Go on gdm lad keep this going !!

I’m just not used to seeing positive tweets from you, no dig intended just light hearted fun ?

Don’t beat yourself up it was nice to see you spreading positivity for 30 seconds. In future stick this kind of bollocks in the positivity thread though, and leave this thread to the realists gdm. I’d hate to see your reputation as the gLOOMINdOOMmERCHANT getting tarred with a major faux pas like this.

I want in on this Plane spotting shit.

If only Ashley and PIF said fuck them.

It’s hard to believe the PL, Bein and top 6 won’t have fallen foul of this highlighted article. If the bar is set that low the PL lawyers must be twitchy re CAT case if it gets the go ahead.

Who’s said their statement is damaging apart from Jacobs ? I’m not sure anyone knows if that will be the case or not. Once again your hanging off Jacobs every word.

So what should happen when rule F.26.1. cannot be satisfied. What you have quoted there only details what is required at - F.24.1.2. submit to the Board a duly completed Declaration in respect of each Person who will become a Director upon the proposed acquisition of Control; So when this has not been complied with what should happen next. You still haven’t shown a reg that satisfies your argument.

There statement wasn’t going to read we’ve pulled out because the PL think we are basically the Saudi state now was it ? No it hasn’t been explained, show us the reg in the PL rule book where they have acted accordingly.

PIF pulled out to save face and embarrassment, simple as that. The PL had basically took the piss for 17 weeks, and the price of the deal had gone up as a result. In their eyes there was no way forward and what the PL we’re asking in relation to the state was unreasonable. They obviously believed arbitration wasn’t the answer a the time, but due to support of fans and persuasion from Ashley they agreed to wait in the background until pathway to deal was cleared. To an organisation like PIF this could be damaging to reputation if linked to state, I would also think in their eyes they we’re hugely insulted by the PL’s behaviour in the end. The PL did not act in accordance with their rules but we’ll agree to disagree on this, even though you still haven’t referred to the guidance where they did follow their rules.

I think it was the journalist Rob Draper wrote an article at the time where he claimed the PL we’re quite happy to keep asking questions and never make a decision. I think the whole point is that they thought the PL would never make a decision and basically stalled the whole process with arbitration. Obviously the consortium weren’t happy with arbitration on the one single point of separation and thought they had no other option. The PL instigated the whole situation knowing fine well in my opinion that the deal had a sell by date, remember Ashley actually put the price up when the deadline passed. If the PL had followed the rules and made a decision, the judiciary panel would have heard the case much quicker without a years delay. For whatever reason they didn’t fancy the judiciary panel route and banked on arbitration instead. Ben Jacobs believes that the PL we’re acting fairly by offering arbitration, however I just don’t think that was their motive somehow.

Aye, think he ties himself in knots at times. Stand to be corrected, but I can’t even see anywhere that allows the PL to make a provisional determination on who should be tested ?

To be honest I can’t recall I where it was said that test hadn’t started. This guy is right about the DCMS correspondence though contradicting that.

Very true this, Caulkin always reported that the consortium felt they had answered all questions asked. It’s quite incredible to believe that the PL are implying that the test hadn't even started after 17 weeks.

Not a lot of content but it’s a nice headline.

I mean a PIF plane is in London, let’s just get totally fucking carried away.

Probably the best way at least we have some dates set now, it should all start playing out finally.

Sounds good let’s hope we’re on the brink finally.

Fresh weekend headlines, which talked of Ashley's confidence of the sale being pushed through "within a month" and the tycoon telling Amanda Staveley and her Middle East consortium to be "ready to go", emerged on Friday night. But the message has been a consistent one from those close to Ashley now for some time in that he feels the Premier League can't win either the CAT legal battle or the arbitration fight which will unfold next month.

Good thread if you can be arsed on a Sunday morning.