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The Public Investment Fund (PIF) is the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia. It is among the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world with total estimated assets of $320 billion.

 

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

 

Why would they need partners to complete a £350m purchase of NUFC? No doubt they'll drop out when Mike Ashley raises the asking price by £10m even though they probably make that much money in 10 minutes from oil.

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The Public Investment Fund (PIF) is the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia. It is among the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world with total estimated assets of $320 billion.

 

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

 

Why would they need partners to complete a £350m purchase of NUFC? No doubt they'll drop out when Mike Ashley raises the asking price by £10m even though they probably make that much money in 10 minutes from oil.

 

Yep doesn’t stack up for me. It’s clearly bollocks.

 

Some are saying they need people in the UK to set up companies and stuff but I refuse to believe they couldn’t get one of their own people to do it for them here without involving the likes of Staveley and the Reuben brothers.

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The Public Investment Fund (PIF) is the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia. It is among the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world with total estimated assets of $320 billion.

 

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

 

Why would they need partners to complete a £350m purchase of NUFC? No doubt they'll drop out when Mike Ashley raises the asking price by £10m even though they probably make that much money in 10 minutes from oil.

 

Yep doesn’t stack up for me. It’s clearly bollocks.

 

Some are saying they need people in the UK to set up companies and stuff but I refuse to believe they couldn’t get one of their own people to do it for them here without involving the likes of Staveley and the Reuben brothers.

 

Guardian one sort of answers that. She approached them and wants a stake, they want her to be the public face which sort of makes sense if they're trying to improve the image of the country.

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The Times is saying Big Mike is furious that the story was leaked by the WSJ and that could lead to the whole deal collapsing. My reading of that is he is the one who probably leaked the story.

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The Times is saying Big Mike is furious that the story was leaked by the WSJ and that could lead to the whole deal collapsing. My reading of that is he is the one who probably leaked the story.

This wouldn't surprise me at all. He doesn't want to relinquish ownership in my opinion.

Plus the last takeover was 'definitely happening' as well. I won't be getting excited.

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Aye I don’t get that. “You leaked it? Fine, I don’t want your £340m”.

 

If he wants to sell (ha), being in the press won’t stop it.

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Wonder if it will all collapse just as the loan window closes and season ticket renewals have gone through?  :rolleyes:

 

I don’t believe a word that comes out of the club and I’m ignoring it until something actually happens. I’ll not hold my breath.

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Why would the story leaking cause it to fall apart anyway? Absolute bullshit.

Just guessing here but as MA hates media coverage and scrutiny to a pathological degree, that's two things he gets if the sale is leaked instead of completed quietly and quickly behind closed doors.
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Grimly its just hit that we are exactly where we were 12years ago.

Club just waiting to get relegated (when not if), fakeovers and not an inch further forward.

Its not hard to imagine saying the same thing in 12years.

 

This 'leak' stuff - its just any excuse for Ashley not to sell and for the apologists to put that reality another way and pin the blame on anybody but the common denominator Ashley. At this point only trolling or insanity can excuse it.

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WSJ don’t post bull shit PR spin or favors or fake news from Keith Bishop or an Ashley crony. For ANY and ALL who think this, please have a word with yourself. This isn’t the NE Media or friends at the London office for the national papers.

 

Ashley “furious” is 2 and 2 together because he always gets annoyed with things playing out in media. Just because deals leak it won’t mean dick about the actual deal getting done if the buyer and seller act accordingly. It ain’t collapsing all of a sudden either.

 

The 20% UK stake with AS and Reuben brothers is clearly that 1) public face 2) they approached the Saudis and 3) they have done a considerable amount of local work and planning and can offer plug and play. They will be doing all the heavy lifting.

 

I think this one has legs. Let’s hope Ashley doesn’t fuck this up for the millionth time.

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