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Those two planes at NCL airport today are used exclusively by the Dubai Royal family:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_Royal_Air_Wing

 

 

Time to get a little excited?

 

Apparently that was quashed this morning. They're here for grouse shooting or something.

No one knows that :lol: They sometimes do that so they're definitely doing it again now...  apparently. 3 plane loads of them (2 today, 1 last night). Canny shooting party they have

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Those two planes at NCL airport today are used exclusively by the Dubai Royal family:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_Royal_Air_Wing

 

 

Time to get a little excited?

 

Apparently that was quashed this morning. They're here for grouse shooting or something.

No one knows that :lol: They sometimes do that so they're definitely doing it again now...  apparently. 3 plane loads of them (2 today, 1 last night). Canny shooting party they have

 

Could be on to something here. Invite Ashley over for some drinks and shooting....

 

A: A pissed Ashley bets the club on a game of clay pigeon with a semi-pro tee-total

 

B: They just shoot the fucking cunt.

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i'm totally out of news action at the moment but every time i come in this thread and find that we've not publicly ruled out a sale/buyer i'm basically the is this real life monkey

 

Basically, it's Amanda or nobody, and it's looking serious.

 

is this from the FT?

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There’s a country house near Blanchland that’s owned by some Arab royalty and they come over now and again to shoot birds.

 

Ain´t that the Maktoums place.. ? The family that rules Dubai and are involved in horseracing and such.

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Those two planes at NCL airport today are used exclusively by the Dubai Royal family:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_Royal_Air_Wing

 

 

Time to get a little excited?

 

Apparently that was quashed this morning. They're here for grouse shooting or something.

No one knows that :lol: They sometimes do that so they're definitely doing it again now.  3 plane loads of them (2 today, 1 last night). Canny shooting party they have

 

Well there's Ashley, Carr, Bishop, Barnes...

 

Shooting Carr for the fuck of it :lol: They'll most like take Charnley as their BBW concubine who can feed them grapes.

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A decade ago, Amanda Staveley helped save Barclays from the clutches of a government bailout. On Tuesday, the independent financier was working on a plan to weave her Middle Eastern connections into a different kind of rescue deal: one that could save the supporters of Newcastle United and the club’s owner Mike Ashley from each other.

 

Ms Staveley, who acts for investors based in China as well as the Middle East, first triggered speculation over the Premier League club’s future this month when she was pictured in the stands at its St James’ Park ground. The financial fixer, through her PCP Capital Partners vehicle, is one of four potential bidders for the club that was officially put up for sale on Tuesday, according to people briefed on the process — a level of interest that has surprised some outside observers.

 

The financier was due to meet Newcastle representatives on Tuesday, according to one person briefed on the talks. PCP and Newcastle United declined to comment.

 

Mr Ashley believes the club is worth £300m-£400m and needs up to £200m to invest in new players on top of that, according to people familiar with his thinking. Newcastle has said it hopes a deal can be struck by Christmas, although some say that could be a tall order.

 

An HMRC investigation into the tax affairs of the club and its players “is one of the elements involved”, says Dan Jones, head of sports business at Deloitte, although he says it could be overcome in time to meet the January transfer window.

 

The match Ms Staveley attended involved another northern side she has shown an interest in buying — Liverpool. The game ended in a 1-1 draw.

 

Newcastle seems to have the edge in capturing Ms Staveley’s attention, although she may not have given up on the prospects of striking a deal to buy Liverpool instead.

 

Newcastle’s reverence for its past has been overwhelmed by bad feeling since Mr Ashley paid £244m in 2008 to take the club private and pay off its debt.

 

It is a fiercely tribal club, even by the standards of English football; fans tend to regard their allegiance less as a choice than a demand of family history and geography.

 

Many of them took it as a personal insult when their side last year endured its second relegation of Mr Ashley’s 10-year reign.

 

When the team clawed its way back to the Premier League at the end of the season, they revelled in a communal triumph — and returned to watching televised matches in such large numbers that broadcasters Sky and BT registered audience growth approaching double digits.

 

Since then, Mr Ashley has been trying to condition fans to temper their expectations when the transfer window opens in January.

 

“Just for this season I’d like to be mid-table, safe, back on that path of growing this football club,” he told an interviewer in August. “I know the Newcastle fans won’t want to hear it.”

 

Since buying the club, Mr Ashley has shunned the expensive path taken by other wealthy football proprietors.

 

A typical route was that of Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Abu Dhabi royal who bought Manchester City with Ms Staveley’s guidance in 2008, and then funnelled in tens of millions of pounds in a race to sign new players.

 

Mr Ashley, the majority owner of retailer Sports Direct, has extended only modest loans to Newcastle, preferring to spend his personal cash on property investments such as The Clearings, a former John Lewis depot in fashionable Chelsea that is being redeveloped into luxury apartments.

 

His reluctance to spend money created ill-feeling in the ranks of the Toon Army. Mr Ashley once said he had been advised to stay away from games for fear he might be assaulted; he has not been seen at a home game since the end of last season.

 

Frictions are likely to intensify in January, when Newcastle watchers say a threadbare team that has this season outperformed its potential will need to be patched up with expensive new signings.

 

Mr Ashley has signalled that he intends to do no such thing. Instead, he has held out the possibility of new ownership as supporters’ most likely salvation, offering to defer payment of a chunk of the price tag to enable a new proprietor to invest in the team.

 

“Potential buyers will approach it as a proper business transaction not an emotional investment,” says Mr Jones. “It’s not Manchester United. But it’s a Premier League club, even if not perennially, you would expect to be in the Premier League vastly more often than not.”

 

Mr Ashley could stand to gain from a visible effort to orchestrate a sale, even if negotiations ultimately go nowhere.

 

Addressing fans in 2008, a year after he bought the club, Mr Ashley said: “You want me out. That is what I am now trying to do, but it won’t happen overnight and it may not happen at all if a buyer does not come in.”

 

No buyer materialised. “We’re stuck with each other,” Mr Ashley later said. It is a verdict that Newcastle’s proprietor may yet have to deliver again.

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Since the ‘for sale’ signs have gone up, journalists have done a superb job of writing lengthy articles that tell us absolutely nothing :lol:

 

Full of ifs and buts and without any sort of credibility.

 

:thup: Been noticing that as well, most if not all the articles have been just loads of words about absolutely nothing.

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“Just for this season I’d like to be mid-table, safe, back on that path of growing this football club,” he told an interviewer in August. “I know the Newcastle fans won’t want to hear it.”

 

Infuriating cunt.

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