Scoot Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 I have hope but I am expecting the worst. The reason I have hope is because that's all that I have left after 28 years supporting NUFC. If as expected it does go tits up, that is me finished with football at this level as there is literally no point in supporting it. The premier league exists to protect the top 6 and nobody else is allowed to challenge them (long term). Everyone is expected to just be happy with finishing 7-17th every single year. It totally makes the whole thing pointless for every other club. I'd probably start following one of my local sides. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Is anyone actually still confident of this going thru? not particularly, but I still live in hope that the legal stuff might end up getting it done. I wouldn't put money on it though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pons Alias Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 This is why the PL has never acted against Ashley clearly playing weaker cup teams on the past - when they have done so against other teams. They like where he keeps us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest reefatoon Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Aye, we are all just left with blind hope really, but we all know deep down that it isn’t going to happen. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgarve Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 This is why the PL has never acted against Ashley clearly playing weaker cup teams on the past - when they have done so against other teams. They like where he keeps us. huh? loads of teams play weaker sides, and haven't had anything done to them Exactly makes little sense Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWN Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Is anyone actually still confident of this going thru? Nope , haven’t been for months , I rarely check this thread now mate.Saves a load of hope building up . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 I was confident but the silence has been a bit too long tbh. And Liam Kennedy has gradually toned down the deal's inevitability, saying it could happen, he hopes it will etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collage Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Is anyone actually still confident of this going thru? Nah, I find it very hard to believe at this point. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Absolutely nothing has happened to suggest this is going to complete since about 2 weeks after it was called off. All there has been is invested journo talk, making a nice little career out of stringing along punters for their own gain. Burnley have shown how quick a takeover goes through. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitley mag Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Hope not confidence is probably the right way to view things right now. However, it’s between xmas and new year nothing is happening, it will ramp up again early Jan and we’ll all be in and out again. Whilst the legal action and political pressure is ongoing, and Staveley hasn’t hoisted the white flag we should all have hope. An early cessation in hostilities between Qatar and Saudi in January, and possible reinstatement of Bein may give the whole process a big shot in the arm. If the PL so called big 6 can’t hide behind piracy anymore, they’ll have to find a new avenue to object. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pons Alias Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 This is why the PL has never acted against Ashley clearly playing weaker cup teams on the past - when they have done so against other teams. They like where he keeps us. huh? loads of teams play weaker sides, and haven't had anything done to them They used to before 2011 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/14166038 - but I'm just shouting into the wind, really. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdm Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 The silence from the football365 guy & mimms is deafening Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitley mag Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 The silence from the football365 guy & mimms is deafening Does the 365 guy not post in a group away from the forum, hence why no one can see anything. If Mimms had access to the group, then maybe people should have thought about this before commencing a witch hunt and trying to out him. His info wasn’t always 100% but certainly a lot of stuff was accurate. If some folk weren’t so obsessed with trying to catch people out, we might have still been getting info. Maybe a lesson for some ungrateful cunts for the future, however I doubt it somehow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manorpark Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Is anyone actually still confident of this going thru? I cannot see the "Big Picture Six" stopping Staveley, PIF, Ashley, Reubens and their high-end legal teams getting this done. Our success will be slow, and hard-earned, but is also INEVITABLE. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdm Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Is anyone actually still confident of this going thru? I cannot see the "Big Picture Six" stopping Staveley, PIF, Ashley, Reubens and their high-end legal teams getting this done. Our success will be slow, and hard-earned, but is also INEVITABLE. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlymouthGeordie Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Is anyone actually still confident of this going thru? I cannot see the "Big Picture Six" stopping Staveley, PIF, Ashley, Reubens and their high-end legal teams getting this done. Our success will be slow, and hard-earned, but is also INEVITABLE. You can't see something that has already happened? The PL/Big 6 did stop it; they forced PIF to withdraw their offer. I have know idea how the legal action will play out, nobody does, but hopefully it'll go in our favour. To claim the PL/Big 6 can't stop the consortium when they've already stopped them once is just naive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 There has been no reason to be confident since May. The info Caulkin was getting proved so far off the mark that he stopped being their mouthpiece months ago, rather wisely I might add. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 There has been no reason to be confident since May. The info Caulkin was getting proved so far off the mark that he stopped being their mouthpiece months ago, rather wisely I might add. This. Long waits is signs of death not life. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shearergol Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 I am interested to see what happens with Ashley's legal action though. No doubt he'll do fairly well out of it and we'll still be left in the shit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlymouthGeordie Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 There has been no reason to be confident since May. The info Caulkin was getting proved so far off the mark that he stopped being their mouthpiece months ago, rather wisely I might add. If anyone is confident at this point they'd be hugely naive imo. However, that said, it clearly isn't "definitively off" as there is legal stuff in play and while that remains I'll always be hopeful. The biggest threat to it collapsing completely is relegation and that threat will grow stronger the longer Bruce remains in charge. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hhtoon Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Feel no different to when the legal stuff kicked off - was always going to be months not weeks. My only confidence is based on the QCs involved and the assumption they'd have advised Ashley it was worth proceding. Which probably is more like hope to be honest Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty66 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 We all know what's going to happen. The legal action will allow the takeover, but due to our free falling in the PL, PIF will wait until we mathematically avoid relegation, that won't happen and they will walk away for good.... Apologies for being so negative Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest reefatoon Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 We all know what's going to happen. The legal action will allow the takeover, but due to our free falling in the PL, PIF will wait until we mathematically avoid relegation, that won't happen and they will walk away for good.... Apologies for being so negative Sounds more truth than negative. There is every chance Mike Ashley will still manage to somehow f*** it all up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzz Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Is anyone actually still confident of this going thru? If/when we get sucked into a relegation battle I think PIF may well just withdraw anyway. Whole thing's just taken too long. Needs to go through next month or else that's it imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdm Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Imo if it’s not done by end of January they’ll walk away until at least the summer. They won’t take us over with no ability to affect the team for the remainder of the season bar changing the manager. They just won’t risk it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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