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Frustrating how literally no one knows anything at all for definite.

 

One minute the deal is pretty much off and next minute Ashley and Stavely are going for an Indians and leaving the restaurant all smiles.

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I’m of the opinion that know one knows jack other than AS, MA and their people and I don’t mean Charnley and his ilk either.

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Staveley (2 weeks ago): I’m thinking of a figure between £250m-£300m for the club, let me know within 2 weeks.

 

Staveley (last night): Mike, I’ve not heard anything back from you about my offer, want to discuss it over a curry?

 

Ashley: Here Amanda, hurry up, I’m sat here waiting to order, starving here.

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Meeting personally in such a public open place is f***ing encouraging.  That means both sides did want to make the deal and they want to give another party the impression that such discussion is "friendly" rather than as bold as newspaper suggests. 

 

In addition, the key element for this take over, in fact, has to be solved by Amanda and Mike personally.  That's the potential loss of relegation. In short, both sides want the other parties to take the loss, which actually in such a situation (middle of season) this should be shared among them. But this isn't easy and things can go very negative as paper suggests. However, surprisingly, and fortunately, both sides were able to arrange such a curry and solve this out themselves.  f***ing awesome.

 

Things never look as bright as now.  f***ing hell.

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Deals of this size take time. Due Diligence takes time. Especially when you have investment banks on either side. It would not be entirely unsurprising for it to be extremely quiet during a diligence period as they examine the books, assets, contracts, etc. I’m still optimistic

 

 

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Good to see the journos have no fucking clue what is going on. That meeting coming out of the blue and suddenly all these journos coming out with their own story and tidbits about what happened in the meeting. I like the way PCP have done this 'keeping the lid shut' of this whole deal away from the media and journos. They're not going around selling their stories. Not sure if Fat Mike is doing it the same way but sensing that the 'leak' of the first bid could have come from his side to invite other interested parties to come in.

 

And that bit about the deal not getting done until February, couldn't they come to some kind of agreement that Ashley or a 'loan' party could have to invest or at least help Rafa in some way in January or else PCP can pull out of any pre-agreed details? I can only see it being delayed until February due to the Premier League needing to ratify the deal and with the holidays coming up, it just won't be completed in January.

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There's no picture of the two parties together, could just have been a random coincidence that they were at the same restaurant as each other.

p*ss take, surely? :lol:

 

Yeah but the wierdo middle man is confusing the situation, someone obviously leaked their meeting to the press, otherwise why would a photographer just be there. If this guy owns a paper or two why is the Sun running with the story and not one of his own.  Unless this isn't the real story and exclusive will drop soon .....

 

It's a public place, in London. Don't you have any idea how the paparazzi work? :lol:

 

Yeah the paparazzi is just hanging outside a high class curry shop whose most expensive dish is a massive 15 pounds. They were probably hoping to catch Will and Kate, but happily settled for this story. Clearly tipped off, probably by the guy in the shot himself, who conveniently hung around the doorway long enough chatting to Amanda for the photographers to get a good snap. Like I said this is not the real story, one of his shit rags will break it in the next couple of days no doubt.

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Geez christ, are people on this board so f***ing think they can't see what's obvious ?

 

I will try to spell it out. These two meet, this Desmond guy or whoever he is gets them together, he owns a paper or two. There is a story here, he could just run it himself right now, he's there at the meet, so knows what's going on. Instead he thinks, I can stoke the fire a little before releasing my story. I'll call one of my free lance photographers I know, tell them where this is going down and be ready. Lets make sure I'm predominantly snapped in the shot. A few days later I'll give an exclusive to one of my rags, spilling the beans.

 

I honestly despair that I had to write all that out, the whole freakin world is about spin and how to maximise publicity ffs, this is a staged sideshow, the first pump ffs!! Something is coming soon, lets hope the fist pump was well founded and he's not a Mackem !!

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Or maybe someone either working in the restaurant or dining there tipped off the press.  Notice how it's only pictures of them coming out and not going in so the paparazzi guy probably wasn't there when they arrived.  In fact it's probably a good way for the owner or manager of the restaurant to get some decent free publicity, they even stuck the menu in the article :lol:

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Geez christ, are people on this board so f***ing think they can't see what's obvious ?

 

I will try to spell it out. These two meet, this Desmond guy or whoever he is gets them together, he owns a paper or two. There is a story here, he could just run it himself right now, he's there at the meet, so knows what's going on. Instead he thinks, I can stoke the fire a little before releasing my story. I'll call one of my free lance photographers I know, tell them where this is going down and be ready. Lets make sure I'm predominantly snapped in the shot. A few days later I'll give an exclusive to one of my rags, spilling the beans.

 

I honestly despair that I had to write all that out, the whole freakin world is about spin and how to maximise publicity ffs, this is a staged sideshow, the first pump ffs!! Something is coming soon, lets hope the fist pump was well founded and he's not a Mackem !!

 

I honestly despair you wrote that out as well.

 

The guys a billionaire media mogul, not sure he goes about rustling up a couple of column inches for one of his rags.

 

"This Desmond guy or whoever he is"  Pretty sure it's been established that's his name  :lol:

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