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Hahahaha back to 5-4-1

Keep the pressure when we lose but also when we win that's the crucial thing. It gives the impression Bruce is getting on alright (until the next game) if we ask him for a wave unironically etc if we do better than the norm

If beIN used our takeover as leverage to wave through the broadcast deal that's significant from our end to allege

One of the claims made during the jurisdiction hearing. beIN were in the middle of renegotiating their deal which was announced December 2020, Masters holding meetings which was in the media (Financial Times I remember?) with beIN who were lobbying against the deal. On the surface this has substance

Another half an hour for Adam Lewis! (it'll end up being an hour)

Footy Insider, mixed bag... https://www.footballinsider247.com/sources-bruce-tells-friends-he-could-quit-newcastle-united/ Steve Bruce has told friends he is feeling “lower than ever before” and has given thought for the first time to quitting Newcastle United, Football Insider can exclusively reveal. The 60-year-old’s public stance is he won’t walk out on the job he craved for much of his managerial career, which he reiterated again earlier this month. But a source with knowledge of Bruce’s situation has told Football Insider he is feeling “really down” and “lower than ever before” as the pressures of the job mount. Bruce is tired of taking the brunt of the supporters’ anger and continued dissatisfaction at the ownership of Mike Ashley, who has failed to sell the club to a Saudi Arabia-backed consortium. As the public face of the club, the manager believes he is taking all the flak from the fans and the media despite doing the job with one hand tied behind the back. Ashley’s stance is that he has no intention of sacking Bruce while Newcastle are in the Premier League.

Pretty much, it's using the words "control" and "director" in section A of the PL rules to apply those terms to KSA to see if it meets the criteria. PIF would refuse to proceed as it stands if KSA needed to be a director, it opens up piracy talk and it gets complicated at that stage. But it is the KSA's sovereign wealth fund so it'll take some proper manoeuvring to get around the definitions

Expect the worst but hope for the best. Anything to do with Newcastle! Good things never last and remember tomorrow is just a jurisdiction hearing. It'll rule whether the competition court case should go ahead in the first place eventually, although the ruling on that shouldn't be tomorrow if I'm not mistaken?

10 games in that season, losing to 5 of the traditional big 6 2-1

The club website has this as a 5-4-1 https://www.nufc.co.uk/matches/first-team/2021-22/watford-v-newcastle-united/

I put it here because the other tweets were, but I imagine (speculation so not fact!) it's both sides, as was the case with disclosure. Transparency only goes so far... "So the Club has invited the EPL to agree - as the claim raises such important issues of sports governance, transparency and openness - that it should be held in public. The Club is prepared for every stage of the process to be in public: the public should be able to see the parties’ evidence and arguments as well as the full decision of the Tribunal when it is made." - 1st July statement by NUFC (Ashley) (PL arbitration not CAT case)

In short, Fun88 are most likely gone from 2023

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10018601/No-betting-firms-sponsor-football-shirts-governments-review-gambling-laws.html The Government is set to ban betting firms from sponsoring football shirts following its review of gambling laws. Sportsmail understands that outlawing front-of-shirt logos of gambling companies is almost certain to be one of the proposals included on a white paper to be published this winter. This season, nine of the 20 Premier League clubs have gambling companies as their front-of-shirt sponsor, as well as another six teams in the Championship. Those deals are estimated to be worth a combined £100million a year. (There will then be a three-month consultation period before the bill goes to Parliament, meaning any changes affecting sports teams are unlikely to come into effect until 2023 at the earliest.)

https://www.90min.com/posts/newcastle-news-mike-ashley-confident-takeover-2022 The Saudi PIF do have interest in other clubs, with Inter being one of those to have come to their attention. The Milan club look to be available with their current Chinese owners moving away from football - despite the Nerazzurri claiming the Scudetto last season. However, it is understood that this does not affect PIF's interest in Newcastle. 90min revealed last year that the sovereign wealth fund was keen to look towards the models adopted by a host of ownership groups around the world, such as City Group and Red Bull, who have a number of teams from different countries working under one umbrella organisation. Edwards retweeted it hence me finding it, confidence is meaningless but anyone who wants to hear it, here you go

A mock coffin you say?

We'll be alright tbh just enough individual quality to keep us "ticking along" - it was enough in 19/20 (Dubravka + ASM mainly) and 20/21 (Willock, Wilson) and so long as Ashley's here it's alright for him and Bruce

He's just not a goalscorer and we shouldn't be asking him to play in that position ever. Rather Gayle than him there, it's increasingly worrying how weak our backup striker position is - most fans could have pointed that out but according to Bruce we've like 5 options there?

Few planes scattered but they've been moved away, whistles I hear faintly on a stream but nothing more