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Are folk still seriously being strung along by this horseshit?

 

"A fee has been agreed"

 

"They're going through the Fit & Proper person test"

 

"A statement will be released in the next 24 hours"

 

"No wait, in the next few days"

 

Just one load of garbage after another from random 2-bit "journos", ITKs and fucking dentists and radio hosts  :lol:

 

Honest question here, at what point do you accept this is all bollocks? How many days? Another week? Two? Deadline day?

 

Think only 3 or 4 people on here still think it’d going to happen to be fair

 

I still there’s a fair chance

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Are folk still seriously being strung along by this horseshit?

 

"A fee has been agreed"

 

"They're going through the Fit & Proper person test"

 

"A statement will be released in the next 24 hours"

 

"No wait, in the next few days"

 

Just one load of garbage after another from random 2-bit "journos", ITKs and fucking dentists and radio hosts  :lol:

 

Honest question here, at what point do you accept this is all bollocks? How many days? Another week? Two? Deadline day?

 

Think only 3 or 4 people on here still think it’d going to happen to be fair

 

I still there’s a fair chance

 

Almost certain he was including you in the 3 or 4. It's fairly obvious who those posters are.

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A takeover failing can happen and I don't doubt it's actually just as likely as a sale in this scenario. But just because Ashley's a cunt.

 

What I do doubt reject - and I repeat myself with this, I know - is the silly notion (now, thankfully, mostly quashed) that any failed takeover was all some scooby-doo scheme by Bishop; like if you pull off Midhat's mask it's one of Keith's cronies and the ghost that chased off Rafa was just a sheet on some fishing line.

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I’m spitballing here but maybe sales of players and agreement from buyers that these deals and their fees lower the price  (and MA keeps the money from these sales) in lieu of agreeing to advertising rights etc could help effectuate a sale.

 

In other words MA thinks his SD advertising is worth 30m of value. Buyer does not agree. He sells Ayoze for 30m. Agrees to adjust price accordingly and keep said incoming fee or portion there-of. Buyer pays less at closing.

 

Absolutely desperate post I know. 

 

Crossed my mind too Kanji[/member]. Would be a very sensible way of killing any of the add-on type clauses he'll inevitably want. It would, however, raise a fairly large question mark around the buyers resources if they were willing to cede this.

 

Ya or they want to lower their up front investment to spend that cash on players and infrastructure.

 

Am I imagining it or did they say they are still going ahead but in a different way, could be this ? Or was that from a photoshopped Midhat text ? 

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Are folk still seriously being strung along by this horseshit?

 

"A fee has been agreed"

 

"They're going through the Fit & Proper person test"

 

"A statement will be released in the next 24 hours"

 

"No wait, in the next few days"

 

Just one load of garbage after another from random 2-bit "journos", ITKs and f***ing dentists and radio hosts  :lol:

 

Honest question here, at what point do you accept this is all bollocks? How many days? Another week? Two? Deadline day?

 

When it's official and nobody has done that yet. Wait for an official statement from the club, BZG or joint. As someone posted a few posts ago it came out about both Staveley and Kenyon. You can rant, say garbage all you want but you haven't a clue what is actually happening and until something comes out (and it will soon) everyone is in the position of not knowing.

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Are folk still seriously being strung along by this horseshit?

 

"A fee has been agreed"

 

"They're going through the Fit & Proper person test"

 

"A statement will be released in the next 24 hours"

 

"No wait, in the next few days"

 

Just one load of garbage after another from random 2-bit "journos", ITKs and f***ing dentists and radio hosts  :lol:

 

Honest question here, at what point do you accept this is all bollocks? How many days? Another week? Two? Deadline day?

 

Think only 3 or 4 people on here still think it’s going to happen to be fair

 

Weather different today is it  :lol: :lol:

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Are folk still seriously being strung along by this horseshit?

 

"A fee has been agreed"

 

"They're going through the Fit & Proper person test"

 

"A statement will be released in the next 24 hours"

 

"No wait, in the next few days"

 

Just one load of garbage after another from random 2-bit "journos", ITKs and fucking dentists and radio hosts  :lol:

 

Honest question here, at what point do you accept this is all bollocks? How many days? Another week? Two? Deadline day?

 

Think only 3 or 4 people on here still think it’d going to happen to be fair

 

I still there’s a fair chance

 

Same man. Far more likely than Ashley staging an elaborate hoax, involving arabs and Companies House, that he didn't need to stage

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Are folk still seriously being strung along by this horseshit?

 

"A fee has been agreed"

 

"They're going through the Fit & Proper person test"

 

"A statement will be released in the next 24 hours"

 

"No wait, in the next few days"

 

Just one load of garbage after another from random 2-bit "journos", ITKs and f***ing dentists and radio hosts  :lol:

 

Honest question here, at what point do you accept this is all bollocks? How many days? Another week? Two? Deadline day?

 

When it's official and nobody has done that yet. Wait for an official statement from the club, BZG or joint. As someone posted a few posts ago it came out about both Staveley and Kenyon. You can rant, say garbage all you want but you haven't a clue what is actually happening and until something comes out (and it will soon) everyone is in the position of not knowing.

 

This. So many people saying it's bollocks, likely just to soften the blow when it falls through. I still think something is going on, and while I'm not 100% that a takeover will happen (obviously), I am cautiously optimistic. Idiotic, I know....

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I think the reason Ashley desperately wanted Rafa to stay was precisiely because he really, really does not want to sell, and as long as Rafa was here he knew he would always have a mid-table club, thus allowing him to stay on the gravy-train. Rafa eventually realised this and stopped communicating with the club. Ashley realises he has "lost", spits out his dummy and promptly "sacks" Benitez by releasing the statement without telling Rafa it was happening. Now he is in a postion where he has 1 month to find a manager, sign new players and try to steer through a media shit-storm and supporter revolt as he has allowed the takeover story to rumble on without comment.

 

If Rafa had signed that contract we would have been taken off the market, I am certain of it. Now that he is gone though I think the chances of us being sold to BZG have increased. It just depends on if Ashley can use the logical side of his brain or if his inner man-child will once again run riot.

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Are folk still seriously being strung along by this horseshit?

 

"A fee has been agreed"

 

"They're going through the Fit & Proper person test"

 

"A statement will be released in the next 24 hours"

 

"No wait, in the next few days"

 

Just one load of garbage after another from random 2-bit "journos", ITKs and fucking dentists and radio hosts  :lol:

 

Honest question here, at what point do you accept this is all bollocks? How many days? Another week? Two? Deadline day?

 

Think only 3 or 4 people on here still think it’d going to happen to be fair

 

I still there’s a fair chance

 

Same man. Far more likely than Ashley staging an elaborate hoax, involving arabs and Companies House, that he didn't need to stage

 

Yep, that’s full on tin foil hat territory

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Ashley will not invest the clubs money in anything other than assets on the playing field that have a resale value, that's why our training ground is in the state its in and St James looks like a dirty prison.

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I think the reason Ashley desperately wanted Rafa to stay was precisiely because he really, really does not want to sell, and as long as Rafa was here he knew he would always have a mid-table club, thus allowing him to stay on the gravy-train. Rafa eventually realised this and stopped communicating with the club. Ashley realises he has "lost", spits out his dummy and promptly "sacks" Benitez by releasing the statement without telling Rafa it was happening. Now he is in a postion where he has 1 month to find a manager, sign new players and try to steer through a media shit-storm and supporter revolt as he has allowed the takeover story to rumble on without comment.

 

If Rafa had signed that contract we would have been taken off the market, I am certain of it. Now that he is gone though I think the chances of us being sold to BZG have increased. It just depends on if Ashley can use the logical side of his brain or if his inner man-child will once again run riot.

 

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Are folk still seriously being strung along by this horseshit?

 

"A fee has been agreed"

 

"They're going through the Fit & Proper person test"

 

"A statement will be released in the next 24 hours"

 

"No wait, in the next few days"

 

Just one load of garbage after another from random 2-bit "journos", ITKs and f***ing dentists and radio hosts  :lol:

 

Honest question here, at what point do you accept this is all bollocks? How many days? Another week? Two? Deadline day?

 

When it's official and nobody has done that yet. Wait for an official statement from the club, BZG or joint. As someone posted a few posts ago it came out about both Staveley and Kenyon. You can rant, say garbage all you want but you haven't a clue what is actually happening and until something comes out (and it will soon) everyone is in the position of not knowing.

 

This. So many people saying it's bollocks, likely just to soften the blow when it falls through. I still think something is going on, and while I'm not 100% that a takeover will happen (obviously), I am cautiously optimistic. Idiotic, I know....

 

If I'm being honest, the whole thing is driving me crackers but that's only because it's the final bit of hope to cling on to.  Hopefully no news is good news, but it'll become far more problematic the longer it drags on as time is running out to get both a decent manager and quality players in. We must now be, at the very most, days away from a point where either the sale goes through or the plug is pulled.

 

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Are folk still seriously being strung along by this horseshit?

 

"A fee has been agreed"

 

"They're going through the Fit & Proper person test"

 

"A statement will be released in the next 24 hours"

 

"No wait, in the next few days"

 

Just one load of garbage after another from random 2-bit "journos", ITKs and fucking dentists and radio hosts  :lol:

 

Honest question here, at what point do you accept this is all bollocks? How many days? Another week? Two? Deadline day?

 

Think only 3 or 4 people on here still think it’d going to happen to be fair

 

I still there’s a fair chance

 

Same man. Far more likely than Ashley staging an elaborate hoax, involving arabs and Companies House, that he didn't need to stage

 

Yep, that’s full on tin foil hat territory

 

Aye, the shite about it being staged by Ashley/Bishop is exactly that...Shite.

 

I think there's a chance we get taken over still, until I hear a definitive statement saying otherwise.  However I think it's definitely the less likely outcome, the other being Ashley just puts a block on it all soon.

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Are folk still seriously being strung along by this horseshit?

 

"A fee has been agreed"

 

"They're going through the Fit & Proper person test"

 

"A statement will be released in the next 24 hours"

 

"No wait, in the next few days"

 

Just one load of garbage after another from random 2-bit "journos", ITKs and f***ing dentists and radio hosts  :lol:

 

Honest question here, at what point do you accept this is all bollocks? How many days? Another week? Two? Deadline day?

 

When it's official and nobody has done that yet. Wait for an official statement from the club, BZG or joint. As someone posted a few posts ago it came out about both Staveley and Kenyon. You can rant, say garbage all you want but you haven't a clue what is actually happening and until something comes out (and it will soon) everyone is in the position of not knowing.

 

This. So many people saying it's bollocks, likely just to soften the blow when it falls through. I still think something is going on, and while I'm not 100% that a takeover will happen (obviously), I am cautiously optimistic. Idiotic, I know....

 

If I'm being honest, the whole thing is driving me crackers but that's only because it's the final bit of hope to cling on to.  Hopefully no news is good news, but it'll become far more problematic the longer it drags on as time is running out to get both a decent manager and quality players in. We must now be, at the very most, days away from a point where either the sale goes through or the plug is pulled.

 

Totally agree it is getting to the stage where if there is a takeover, it has to be completed soon to have the necessary impact. We have to wait for that official announcement and it will come soon in my opinion either way.

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I think the reason Ashley desperately wanted Rafa to stay was precisiely because he really, really does not want to sell, and as long as Rafa was here he knew he would always have a mid-table club, thus allowing him to stay on the gravy-train. Rafa eventually realised this and stopped communicating with the club. Ashley realises he has "lost", spits out his dummy and promptly "sacks" Benitez by releasing the statement without telling Rafa it was happening. Now he is in a postion where he has 1 month to find a manager, sign new players and try to steer through a media shit-storm and supporter revolt as he has allowed the takeover story to rumble on without comment.

 

If Rafa had signed that contract we would have been taken off the market, I am certain of it. Now that he is gone though I think the chances of us being sold to BZG have increased. It just depends on if Ashley can use the logical side of his brain or if his inner man-child will once again run riot.

 

I'm pretty certain Ashley had no intention of keeping Rafa. Ashley doesn't change and he doesn't budge - it's a case of do what he says and don't kick up a fuss or jog on.

Rafa was too popular, had too much power and held too many cards. That was never going to work for the fat man.

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I think the reason Ashley desperately wanted Rafa to stay was precisiely because he really, really does not want to sell, and as long as Rafa was here he knew he would always have a mid-table club, thus allowing him to stay on the gravy-train. Rafa eventually realised this and stopped communicating with the club. Ashley realises he has "lost", spits out his dummy and promptly "sacks" Benitez by releasing the statement without telling Rafa it was happening. Now he is in a postion where he has 1 month to find a manager, sign new players and try to steer through a media shit-storm and supporter revolt as he has allowed the takeover story to rumble on without comment.

 

If Rafa had signed that contract we would have been taken off the market, I am certain of it. Now that he is gone though I think the chances of us being sold to BZG have increased. It just depends on if Ashley can use the logical side of his brain or if his inner man-child will once again run riot.

 

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Every dog has it's day.  :lol:

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I don't go on Twitter, have people just been relentlessly harassing him about the statement? :lol:

 

I get that people are desperate for good news, but do people really think they're going to get anything extra/some sort of exclusive by hounding him?  Or if people are calling it bullshit, at least give it till the end of the week.  Like the whole Midhat Whatsapp carry on, I just don't get it.

 

I’m with you mate. It’s utterly embarrassing, especially the Midhat stuff. Potentially very counter productive as well.

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Are folk still seriously being strung along by this horseshit?

 

"A fee has been agreed"

 

"They're going through the Fit & Proper person test"

 

"A statement will be released in the next 24 hours"

 

"No wait, in the next few days"

 

Just one load of garbage after another from random 2-bit "journos", ITKs and f***ing dentists and radio hosts  :lol:

 

Honest question here, at what point do you accept this is all bollocks? How many days? Another week? Two? Deadline day?

 

Think only 3 or 4 people on here still think it’s going to happen to be fair

 

Weather different today is it  :lol: :lol:

 

My opinion has been the same for last few days and will remain the same until we get some definative positive news

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Are folk still seriously being strung along by this horseshit?

 

"A fee has been agreed"

 

"They're going through the Fit & Proper person test"

 

"A statement will be released in the next 24 hours"

 

"No wait, in the next few days"

 

Just one load of garbage after another from random 2-bit "journos", ITKs and fucking dentists and radio hosts  :lol:

 

Honest question here, at what point do you accept this is all bollocks? How many days? Another week? Two? Deadline day?

 

Think only 3 or 4 people on here still think it’d going to happen to be fair

 

I still there’s a fair chance

 

Same man. Far more likely than Ashley staging an elaborate hoax, involving arabs and Companies House, that he didn't need to stage

 

Yep, that’s full on tin foil hat territory

 

Nobody actually believes that it's a hoax/setup etc, just that there's no way Ashley is going to sell.

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Are folk still seriously being strung along by this horseshit?

 

"A fee has been agreed"

 

"They're going through the Fit & Proper person test"

 

"A statement will be released in the next 24 hours"

 

"No wait, in the next few days"

 

Just one load of garbage after another from random 2-bit "journos", ITKs and fucking dentists and radio hosts  :lol:

 

Honest question here, at what point do you accept this is all bollocks? How many days? Another week? Two? Deadline day?

 

Think only 3 or 4 people on here still think it’d going to happen to be fair

 

I still there’s a fair chance

 

Same man. Far more likely than Ashley staging an elaborate hoax, involving arabs and Companies House, that he didn't need to stage

 

Yep, that’s full on tin foil hat territory

 

Nobody actually believes that it's a hoax/setup etc, just that there's no way Ashley is going to sell.

 

Read the thread.

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