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Could see the Saudis actually splashing a multi-million pounds, multi-year deal with the PL to get the rights to show the league in Saudi. PL can't possibly turn it down since it would stop piracy and ensure money keeps flowing into their accounts. They could cite this as a special case that involves complexity and geo-politics for granting Saudis its own rights.

 

An in your face statement to the Qataris too of course.

 

And also a clear and obvious bribe for which the league could be prosecuted

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Window opens in 12 days. Ownership of the club needs to be sorted by then surely?

 

 

Yes, I mentioned this a while back.

 

I see the 27th July as the very last day approval will be given, hopefully it will be before that, otherwise we could really lose out on some top players.

 

As if the premier league care if we miss out on top players.

 

 

The Premier League are not our enemy, though I can understand why some may feel like they are at present!

 

We are one of their clubs, and we are about to become one of their major clubs.

 

I do think they will want to try and get this done in the interests of fairness, before Deadline Start Day of 27th July, and (logically) I think that this is what will happen.

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Could see the Saudis actually splashing a multi-million pounds, multi-year deal with the PL to get the rights to show the league in Saudi. PL can't possibly turn it down since it would stop piracy and ensure money keeps flowing into their accounts. They could cite this as a special case that involves complexity and geo-politics for granting Saudis its own rights.

 

An in your face statement to the Qataris too of course.

 

And also a clear and obvious bribe for which the league could be prosecuted

What bribe? The PL are selling their product, the Saudis buy it. And beIN get compensated for the rights they lost plus no more piracy.

 

Its not like the Saudis give money for free to the PL and get to takeover us.

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The latest actions by the saudia arabia goverment seem to make sense now.

 

https://www.themag.co.uk/2020/07/in-the-last-throes-of-this-newcastle-united-takeover-with-now-all-hurdles-removed/

 

So here we now are.

 

The two criteria, pointed out at the time, standing in the way were, the points total for Premier League Survival and the ongoing geopolitical war of words over Piracy.

 

The first hurdle was passed with time to spare and in hindsight, it would seem that triggered the next phase of the takeover.

 

The biggest hurdle being Piracy, was dealt with by passing anti-piracy laws within the KSA, this move satisfied the WTO who in a letter passed to the Premier League, give the thumbs up to KSA. It did not however satisfy Qatar, they continued with their rhetoric and left with few options open to them, effectively threatened to sue the Premier League should the takeover go through.

 

In what I believe to be a legal master stroke that hurdle has now been removed.

 

BeIN Sports have now being held to have broken the competition laws in the KSA, the result of which is they have had their rights to broadcast in the country removed.

 

This is good news on two fronts as far as the Newcastle United takeover is concerned.

 

Firstly, they now have no legal say over the takeover since they now have no involvement in the KSA.

 

Secondly, and more importantly, they have broken the law in another sovereign tate so cannot now take legal action against the Premier League.

 

The case would be thrown out since it is they who have transgressed legally in all of this.

 

We are therefore in the last throes of this Newcastle United takeover with now all hurdles removed.

 

It only remains to say over to you Premier League, let’s get this over the line.

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Premier league survival was never a hurdle.

It most likely was.

 

It definitely wasn’t, you don’t spend a 17 million non refundable deposit for it to rest on survival. You also wouldn’t even attempt to buy a club at the time they did when safety wasn’t secured.

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Premier league survival was never a hurdle.

It most likely was.

 

It definitely wasn’t, you don’t spend a 17 million non refundable deposit for it to rest on survival. You also wouldn’t even attempt to buy a club at the time they did when safety wasn’t secured.

And we have no idea if there was any clauses in the deal regarding PL survival.

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in the grand scheme of things it wouldnt of cost much for them to byu their way out of the championship had they needed too. i can certainly se it beingthought about and them not being overly concerned. this is along term thing, one year in the championshiop wouldnt of affected their purchase IMO.

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The deal was done and with the Premier League well before survival was secured, had survival been a issue it wouldn't have.  They would have waited to complete the deal.  Think that article is just poorly thought out guess work, IMO.

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Could see the Saudis actually splashing a multi-million pounds, multi-year deal with the PL to get the rights to show the league in Saudi. PL can't possibly turn it down since it would stop piracy and ensure money keeps flowing into their accounts. They could cite this as a special case that involves complexity and geo-politics for granting Saudis its own rights.

 

An in your face statement to the Qataris too of course.

 

And also a clear and obvious bribe for which the league could be prosecuted

What bribe? The PL are selling their product, the Saudis buy it. And beIN get compensated for the rights they lost plus no more piracy.

 

Its not like the Saudis give money for free to the PL and get to takeover us.

 

Artificially inflating a fee is a fairly common way and fairly sure was it Rolls Royce who got done for the same thing with...Saudi Arabia I think...

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The deal was done and with the Premier League well before survival was secured, had survival been a issue it wouldn't have.  They would have waited to complete the deal.  Basically that article is just poorly thought out guess work.

 

It may be poorly thought out guess work however, what they are saying would make sense of this whole mess. Why would they suddenly call a halt on the broadcast deal they had. It Would be suicidal of them to jeopardise the approval of the premier league. To me they have had there heads together with the premier league on how they could get out of the contract with Qatar, and render them with no legal say over the takeover. job done.

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Nobody knows anything. Thinking up positive scenarios in your mind to fit the lack of updates positively will only lead to disappointment. We will find out when we find out.

Are you claiming to know that nobody knows anything?
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Nobody knows anything. Thinking up positive scenarios in your mind to fit the lack of updates positively will only lead to disappointment. We will find out when we find out.

Are you claiming to know that nobody knows anything?

 

I think he’s saying that we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.

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Nobody knows anything. Thinking up positive scenarios in your mind to fit the lack of updates positively will only lead to disappointment. We will find out when we find out.

Are you claiming to know that nobody knows anything?

aye, but some of us know it louder than others.

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PL just giving everyone else a head start.

 

Well if rumours are true then it'll be us that sparks the transfer market in to life. Bet there are a few teams praying for our newly found money.

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PL just giving everyone else a head start.

 

Well if rumours are true then it'll be us that sparks the transfer market in to life. Bet there are a few teams praying for our newly found money.

 

Like post relegation Villa, when Brucie offers £25m+ for Elmo...

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