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Manager of this team, S Bruce (£4m). At least Pardew and Kinnear were on a free.

I just got this too ?

It's interesting that he is considering a coaching role. He must realise his playing days are over - they probably were a long time ago to be fair. I might be doing him a massive disservice, but he doesn't strike me as coaching material. At least partly because his skillset as the big target man is so out of fashion, and probably will be more so over the years as I'm guessing heading will be increasingly phased out from youth level upwards for health reasons. Of course, you don't have to coach the things you were personally naturally good at. In fact in some ways doing that can be a disadvantage, as you're not able to understand why someone can't do what you can. Anyhow, that brief article was by Henry Winter, so I'm guessing it was right. According to it, he'd wanted an extra year, but no dice. Best of luck to him, you do wonder if he could do a job in the championship (or dare I say it League One) off the bench for 4 or 5 goals a season.

Brief article in the Times today saying he has in fact been released, and will be looking for a new club, but is also open to a coaching role. You wonder how his career might have gone if it hadn't been for his injuries.

Whilst there's literally no comparison between Benitez and the oaf, I'm not sure the spending comparison really works. £100m yes, but how many of those players did Fatboy Fat actually choose? I know he claimed they were all his choices, but... Joelinton for one thing was clearly already on the way, so it seems he just told a big stupid lie about that to pretend he was in charge. After all, he's 'head coach', not manager, though his ego can't seem to accept that. In the same vein, I'm equally not giving him any credit for St Max or Wilson, so I'm not defending the walloper either. Of course no manager gets it right every time on transfers, and Benitez wasn't immune from making the odd mistake obviously. I recognise he was hamstrung by the club, but even so I'd also be quite pleased to start with a clean slate and with somebody new, assuming Ashley does finally go. I wish him all the best at Everton, as long as he doesn't raid our few decent players. I wondered if he might go back for Perez, who was a big favourite of his but wasn't pulling up any trees for Leicester last season. Better yet, perhaps Agent Benitez could do us a favour and blow £100m on Jonjo Shelley, Dwight Gayle and Andy Carroll.

Didn't Grealish come out and say he wanted to take a penalty, and it was Southgate who decided on the order? In which case, no criticism at all to Saka who was prepared to put his hand up and take one. But there's only one person who was responsible for putting a 19 year old in for the final deciding penalty, which could either win you the whole thing, or mean you're knocked out and likely have to be reminded of that for the rest of your life. No pressure either way, for sure.

But in one case, this was the government intervening to prevent a takeover, not the premier league. In the other, it seems like the premier league have intervened and not the government. So, isn't this a completely different example?

But what I mean is, why wouldn't they want the decision and the reasons behind it to be transparent in that case?

Also, the statement refers to the legality of the decision making process. That's a clear reference to the CAT case, I'd have said. It's like a penalty shoot out!

Why?

I thought we'd agreed there was a perfectly valid reason to delay those accounts?

To prove they aren't hiding anything?

Luke Edwards now seems to be saying these are desperation tactics. As opposed to yesterday, when there was no takeover at all, and this was all just a smokescreen to avoid spending money on transfers. Regardless of what that click-baiting fool thinks, I'd like full transparency on all of this too.

Yes, I can actually see a valid reason to delay the accounts in that case. I mean, it could have been done a lot earlier, but still, that's just admin. It will probably just be Charnley struggling to work the fax machine, or else people just generally thinking about Covid instead. But actually, it probably makes sense. I was thinking it could be to align with MASH Holdings or somesuch. But that runs till the end of April, so it's not that. I don't think it's to impress anyone takeover wise, because they'd have to be thick to fall for that. Perhaps Mike is up with Good Governance and financial transparency now, and if so, good luck and well done to him.

Oh agreed.

It shouldn't do, no. In theory, it could be more complex, because sometimes a transaction price is based on unaudited numbers and projections, and can then flex based on actuals or revised forecasts, and that flexing would be built into any agreement. You often also want to know if there are any hidden liabilities that could creep out of the woodwork, so you give yourself some price flex for that too -i.e. you can go back and recoup some of what you've paid. But that's just general stuff. It's likely totally irrelevant to changing the accounting period, because, as I say, that doesn't change your underlying business. One thing it does do, is change when you have to file your accounts with Companies House. There are plenty of valid reasons to do that as well, as I say.

There are dozens of reasons why you might change your financial year end, some may be takeover related but many / most will not be. The suggestion by that twitter guy that it may be an attempt to inflate your results for the benefit of a buyer (whether a new or an existing one) doesn't really make any sense though. The idea that you can make yourself seem better off by adding an extra months worth of revenue would be seen through by any half capable accountant which any serious or even prospective buyer would employ a team of. So, I think that particular line of argument makes no sense as to the status of any takeover, yes or no, and isn't worth arguing about.

I'm not sure it would really mean anything. The PL were trying to argue that the courts had no jurisdiction in an anti-competition claim, if i've understood it correctly. I may well not have. If they do have the authority to look at the claim, then the challenge can go ahead, but it says nothing about the strength of the actual case on either side. The positive would be, if that rumour was true, that the PL don't get to pick the judges in this one, unlike with the arbitration.

I tell you what I find interesting about that disclosure re the premier league's position in their accounts. The fact that they made it at all. If you're confident the chances are remote, you don't need to say anything about it. Wasn't it about that time they were asking for financial details of the extent of Newcastle's claim? Because if you know what you're on the hook for, you're supposed to disclose that too.

If he has really done all of that deliberately, then I for one would like De Marco to be the next manager of NUFC. Imagine how he'd signal his pre match team selections through the spectrum of artistic photographs, or perhaps interpretive dance. What a press conference that would be. As opposed to Steve Bruce telling us what he once thought whilst he was on the toilet.

Perhaps Bruce has planted this story with his brother, to see if it comes out. The great detective is still trying to find the mole.

The other thing I remember about that Doncaster game was finding out about Carroll's broken hand on the coach on the way down there, and that all the coaches were diverted to pile into Ripon until the police would let them head down the motorway to get to the actual stadium. It was a midweek game, and so some random midweek afternoon, a few sleepy country pubs in that town got absolutely flooded with fans. I remember there was one local old fellow sat on a stool by the bar, when suddenly he was surrounded by people singing and downing pints at a rate of knots. The funniest part was when the landlord burst out of the toilets like there had been a murder, yelling "Right - everybody stop! Who's done it? I'm calling the police!" "Who's done what?" came the cry "Who's done it? Own up! Who's nicked the bogs?" And sure enough, a whole urinal trough had gone missing since we'd got there There was a pause. And despite the fact there was still only that confused old local man sat on his stool who was not wearing a Newcastle top, someone piped up with "How dare you, you're only blaming us because we're from Newcastle" I still have no idea how someone stole a toilet in plain sight. Or why.

He had phenomenal talent in the air, some of his headers were out of this world. Obviously injuries took a huge toll, but I do wonder if we'll see a player like him again. The big man centre forward has gone out of vogue (but would clearly appeal to someone living in the past, like Bruce). But in general, with all this talk of heading the ball leading to brain injuries and being discouraged at youth training level, you can't see that style of player coming through again. Wish him all the best, though. He clearly wanted to play for us and did his best. I'll always remember the championship promotion season, where we won 1-0 away at Doncaster with him scoring, when he'd got a plaster on his arm after a punch up ?

All I could find in English was a hilarious report from a news site called "Newsbeezer", which I'm assuming just takes reports and then throws them through Google translate. Here it is; Who will be Fenerbahce’s new coach? How old is Rafael Benitez June 5, 2021 Sports It has been alleged that the yellow-and-dark blue team, which ended last season disappointed and failed to end their yearning for the championship, faced Spanish coach Rafael Benitez. According to the news in A Spor, Fenerbahce will bring Rafael Benitez to Istanbul on June 16. While the news did not reveal any information about the deal and contract, it said the 61-year-old veteran teacher would be coming to Istanbul for Fenerbahçe in the coming days. HE WORKED GIANTS Rafael Benitez was born on April 16, 1960 in Madrid, Spain. Benitez, who sustained an injury shortly after starting football in Real Madrid’s infrastructure and was unable to recover, left football at the age of 26 and focused on coaching. Rafa, who started his career in Real Madrid infrastructure; He coached giant clubs like Liverpool, Inter, Chelsea, Valencia, Real Madrid. MUG COLLECTORS The Spanish coach, who celebrated his greatest success by reaching the Champions League Cup with Liverpool, also won the Europa League with Valencia and Chelsea. Benitez, who won 2 league titles with Valencia; He also won cup titles with Liverpool, Napoli and Inter. WHICH TEAMS DID RAFAEL BENITEZ TRAINED? Rafael Benitez’s teams and season information during his coaching career are as follows; 1993-1995 Real Madrid B 1995-1996 Valladolid 1996 Osasuna 1997-1999 Extremadura 2000-2001 Tenerife 2001-2004 Valencia 2004-2010 Liverpool 2010-2011 Inter 2012-2013 Chelsea 2013-2015 Naples 2015-2016 Real Madrid 2016-2019 Newcastle United 2019- Dalian Yifang (In June 2020 the website newsbeezer.com was on the 48,584th place in the ranking of the most reliable and popular sources, that's according to Wiki) MUG COLLECTORS ?

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