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I’m amazed that we are not tying to sign this lad. I have watched him at QPR quite a lot and he is a real talent - right up Mike’s street with the future sell on value. The lack of ambition at this club

Mike would be desperate for a sale now to take advantage of Debenhams collapsing

I am actually feeling more confident than ever before given the MP backing and the country’s financial stats revealed yesterday. I just can’t see the government let this type of investment slip through their fingers when the country is well and truly screwed for the foreseeable

Was that the news you alluded to earlier mate?

True. He seems to have changed his tune by that tweet....

It’s absolutely insane that this would happen

That’s not strictly true. I’m sure he spent relatively little in comparison to quite a few teams around the top and got pretty close to winning both the Premier League and Champions League. Also, just compare the way Spurs now play under Mourinho and you can see how good Pochettino is

Why? I assume because they’re generally terrible and he made them look good?

Top trolling as usual I just don't happen to think he's quite as good as most on here seem to think. This place does get a bit silly when anyone expresses anything but mainstream opinion. I think he has all the tools needed to be a world class player, but needs some help to focus in on areas to improve his all around team game. It would have been interesting to see how Rafa would have handled him

Can’t wait to see him lift all the trophies #Saudioptimism

When is this legal case done?

He can do better than Arsenal in their current state

"The World Trade Organisation has ruled that Saudi Arabia was behind a pirate satellite TV and streaming service that illegally broadcast sporting events" But they haven't though, have they? They've established that Saudi Arabia didn't do enough to stop it, not that SA was behind the illegal broadcasts. The same people would be complaining if the Saudis had caught those behind beoutQ and chopped their arms off (or whatever they do to pirates over there). Can't win. but the premier league wouldn't give half a s*** and would have rubber stamped the takeover months ago You don’t want this takeover to go through do you, now you’re straw clutching. quite frankly I would rather almost anyone else be trying to buy the club preferably someone without one of the worst human rights records in the world Careful now with that sensible opinion. Sensible? To see the club destroyed for 12 years and then think "whey I'm not sure I like these new owners lets wait it out and see if better come along". It's obviously a very sensible opinion. In a rational world people dying due to a horrendous regime "should" be more important than a football club. However, sport and football especially is tribal and is more important than anything else to a lot of people so it is also understandable that people will care more about that than human rights issues in a faraway country From my perspective the club isn't worth supporting under Mike Ashley. That's why I don't see it as a option to take or leave any change of ownership. If I could choose the owners, I'd choose just Stavely and the Ruebens alone, even if it meant a club that wasn't super rich and just slowly built competitively, but I can't choose. I'm not going to entertain the fantasy that we can just turn down a takeover and along will come another. Agree - all my future feelings of support for the club are pretty much centred upon new owners being in place that believe we can achieve something

Watching the BT Sport champions league goals show and they’re replaying the Barcelona victory in 97. It’s got me excited and dreaming of those European nights again. It can’t be a coincidence that this is on right now when it’s 01 June tomorrow.....

Didn’t know that Matt Hancock was a Newcastle fan - that’s the only new piece of information that I would consider to be in that article!

Pretty bold statement that.... For all our sakes, I hope that his source is correct and this isn’t some made up ITK situation

He is such a weirdo, I just don’t understand his issues

The football was the best seen I have seen in years. Free flowing to some extent whilst retaining that organisation we come to expect from a Rafa team

We’d be lucky to see this current season finish before August! I agree with youR point to some extent, top managers want time to get things in place and the current pandemic situation poses us some problems with someone like Poch or Allegri. That’s why I’m hoping Rafa comes in now more than ever because he knows the situation that the club is in and can hit the ground running.

I can see a lot of those logos on a black and white top tbh Probably Aramco on the strip. We just need the one that gives us the most access to the Saudi wealth...

Would be an absolutely dreadful signing, even for our current squad I always believed there was some talent there and he just needed to stay clear of injuries and work under a manager that coach away the negatives in his game

We really should go for them both regardless of the takeover.

Jordan Ibe is available on a free. Could do a lot worse than him, but seems to have gone backwards at Bournemouth. I am sure Rafa wanted him instead of Ritchie back in the Championship because he could see his raw talent and knew he could turn him into a player.