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March to June 2020 - NEWCASTLE UTD fc

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Black Cat Gypsy said:
Do you feel that maybe someone was leaking news to the media and saying the deal is further along than it is?

Personally I think that it only seems longer because nothing else is going on in regards to football and sports news are dragging it out.
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I think journalists need to get people clicking their links and engaging with them on twitter. I think the deal is as far a long as some are saying (In the O&D test), because if it were further along it'd be exchange of funds and there'd be some announcement, even it's just to say the O&D test had been completed.

Definitely think the lack of football news is focusing more attention on this. Aside from COVID, it appears to be the only football story getting attention from the journalists I follow. There must be plenty of stories out there, but few have Bond villains buying a football club from a Dickens villain, I guess.
 

Charmless Man said:
My last one was of an audience member from either a South Shields or Sunderland (can't remember which) recording of Question Time. Old bloke with a noncey moustache and straw hat.

I now don't have avatar priveleges :lol:


Same old then.

Do you feel like no news is good news or get a bit more anxious with each day? Or just not arsed?
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FFS :lol:
 
Stevie Freestein II said:
If there is an extended travel ban then how will Ashley sign the contract at the same time as the Saudis?

If shops can open again soon then will Ashley no longer be desperate for £££s?

If oil prices tank will the Saudis need to save their shekels?
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Dunno, but I'm assuming there are ways around it, not sure they have to be in the same room.
Even if Sports Direct open soon, he's taken enough of a pounding from the Belgian tax authorities, the market, the press and possibly the British courts (if these rumours about making his staff work while furloughed are true). I'm confident we'll be sold, even if it's not to the Saudis.
I don't understand enough about long term market strategy to tell you, but the Saudi Royal Family remain indescribably wealthy and the whole point behind diversifying their wealth away from oil is so that their economy isn't reliant on a volatile market.
 
Benjamin said:
Beardsley didnt serve jail sentence.

Barton you not going to find any sympathy from me. Would say though that even in prison structure assault is far fr


My take on this is prior to Premier League both clubs were regional clubs relying on past glories few had seen and a fan base who had few alternatives or reason to swap support. John Hall changed that by recognising how the Premier was going to change football.And how Newcastle could benefit. We rode the wave of early Premier glamour and it has never truly disappeared for all the years we have failed to match the promise of those years. It is now embedded in Premier media coverage that we are a club who are favoured. Which obviously most fans hate especially those who have won as little as us. Either way Sunderland have for some time now been reliant on beating Newcastle & nothing more to address the imbalance. The 6 in a row has become the whole reason for celebration & upmanship-never mind when Newcastle set own record of 5 in a row as recently as 2008 it is just a footnote which never became a subject of exaggeration at the time. Incredibly Sunderland have allowed a massive gap to appear when Newcastle were at most mediocre.
Nobody will read this all the way through anyway.
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Newcastle fans still write 5under1and referencing an event that happened almost 10 years ago you absolute whopper.
 
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AndyH said:
Best guesses from people are sometime this week.
Yes there is a chance it could collapse, it's Newcastle, takeovers not happening is something we have become accustomed to.
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Do you literally live on here? I check this message board every now and again daily and no matter what time it is, you’re posting, on your rivals message board. Seriously mate, fuck off man you sad twat.
 
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