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Brilliant. I love the “time to sell up Donald” comments, who the fuck do they think is queueing up to buy a third division club with a constantly increasing debt?

She sounds like a charming person.

They’re definitely a classy bunch. It’s football for fuck sake.

You get the sense it’s going to get very racist on RTG when the takeover goes through.

Aye, I think if you go that route it makes more sense to only promote the ones in automatic places. They’re probably trying to cover all their bases and make as many happy as possible, as the team in 3rd would possibly argue they were close to 2nd, but tbh then 4th will have the same argument, so who knas.

“Remember he is a fan” That club cost him a fucking fortune. So they want the bloke to come back and bankroll them right out his pocket, again. That’s exactly what they accuse United fans of wanting Ashley to do if we say the club should spend what it generates. They ripped into our lot when we were all saying these two were a pair of chancers. Best get used to them as the Don will own them for yonks.

Aye the East stand is the problem, wasn’t there once plans (by Shepherd iirc) to build a big stadium on leazes park, and turn where St James’ is now into the park?

So they’d finish 8th. I wonder if they’re still going to be ‘a scalp’, and ‘everyone’s cup final’ in League One season 3.

Got it, I was taking it that the PL wasn’t part of the discussion since there’s that football league and PL split, so I had it that the 3 would have been relegated from the PL. It’s going to be mad like. I suppose it’s trying to have as many people at the top table as possible. So it’ll likely mean that PL tv money is more spread out, which I think is good for our potential new owners as it’ll likely lower the player market a bit.

Interesting, so the Championship could potentially be 27 teams next season?

You have to love journalists that just completely make something up.

I’d say it’s more for the document gathering, sending of information, getting questions answered as timely, sort of angle. I can’t speak to their process at all but I know things at my work have been slower and more disjointed than when people are in the office.

Think that’s fair aye, it’s also going to be a more time consuming process with it all being remote as well.

I think that mid May thing was only meant to be exclusivity, so even if it passes it doesn’t mean the deal is off.

Aye, along this vein I don’t know if it was posted here but someone had got a bunch of Keys tweets and did a comparison of the ones that are about topics other than the takeover vs his NUFC nonsense, he was getting about 9 likes and 2 retweets on the non-NUFC ones and hundreds/thousands on the takeover ones. As you point out they’ve found the story that’s taking and are hammering it to death.

It almost looks like they’ve created yet another perfectly indisputable argument to prove they’re the classy, incredibly moralistic ones. They’ll never get to make that choice so can always pretend they have the moral highground. I’m perfectly happy for them to have it, I hope they get a warm sense of pride as they have Newcastle v Barcelona on the tv on a Wednesday night while they listen to Scunthorpe v Sunderland on the radio. This is a fan base that genuinely said they’d take Lee Cattermole and Jack Colback over Cabaye and Tiote. They absolutely cannot talk rationally when NUFC is involved in the topic.

I see Delaney is back at it again today, the bloke seriously needs to give it a rest . It’s at the point where people are best off ignoring him tbh, it’s just circular at this point of him throwing bs out and then replying that it’s all about “giving perspective” etc, while he fobs off every bit of evidence he’s a total hypocrite with either ignoring it or saying it’s different with no explanation of why.

This bloke man.

This is what I don’t understand about pundits, they say absolutely outrageous shite like that and aren’t just ridiculed to the point of not having a job. His job is based on supposedly giving insights into football and he’s essentially said it would be a mistake to replace Jack Colback with Luka Modric. As Alex says the bloke shouldn’t be listened to tbh. I just don’t get why he has a job doing this, short of he’s mates with the people who gave him it, his opinions are absolutely farcical.

The clip of the song man, thank fuck Netflix has that skip feature.

Bravo on this PL, you’ve absolutely decimated the bloke . Glad he gets to actively participate in the sports washing that he reviles, but others who have less choice have to stand against it. I suppose it would have been way more of a shame if he missed out on “one of the biggest events of the year” than us not getting to follow football, all he’s asking us to do is turn our back on our football club and basically lose out on what is likely our biggest interest in life. I also love that people like him and Delaney aren’t grasping why we’re getting mad at them, and keep acting like it’s only the regime they’re going after. By linking the excitement of the fans at being rid of Ashley, the #cans craic, etc to the evils the Saudis do is not merely suggesting the regime have short comings, that’s having a pop at fans who have no control over the deal. You and Wykiki have hit the nail on the head that the people they would go after if they truly do care about this is people like AJ, the British Government, the Monarchy, and Mike Ashley. He has absolutely zero ground to stand on if he’s saying that him traveling to Saudi Arabia, and covering that boxing match is somehow less complicit in sports washing than an NUFC fan attending a game at St James’ (it’s clearly far more complicit seeing as he’s actively giving them press etc as well), same with Delaney and taking part of his pay cheque from them. Fwiw Holt had a choice to not cover it as you pointed out, the same that Delaney could work for another newspaper, both those things are far easier to do and have little to no real impact on those blokes lives than asking a Newcastle fan to stop supporting their football club. If they can’t see that then they should be ashamed of themselves as it’s essentially ignoring what it means to people to be fans of their club, it’s saying that fandom means less than a bloke having to go through the hassle of his changing job or missing out on going to a boxing event.

That might be the best bit of all this. They seized on our relegation so strongly that season, they didn’t go as far the prior time we went down, and it backfired so spectacularly. They’re a third tier team

Things you never would have expected to see.