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Aye, you have to love journalists like none of them had a clue an hour ago, this group releases a statement and the next thing you know Hope knows the whole family tree and who is worth what (despite what he’s saying make little sense if you just google that royal family). It’s pure click bait tbh, now the statement has been issued they have to switch from the “oooOoo is anything actually happening” to “oh turns out he’s a fraud” to keep the clicks churning, Ryder is already running a story about Hopes tweet

Craig Hope wanting to piss on everyone’s chips:

Aye because this bloke is going to be really concerned about money from turnstiles ffs.

If this goes through the 2019-2020 transfer thread is going to be fucking mental

Neither has Jack Ross tbf, he’ll have to go along to his local park run to find some lads that can run about a bit.

Could you fucking imagine losing to Lee Bowyer’s Charlton Athletic 6 seconds from the end resigning you to the third tier for at least another year, then on the same fucking day the mackems get bought by a bloke who is one of the heads of a family worth £150bn. That’s where they are right now. Going to take a lot of blue pop to make some nonsense up about NUFC now.

Aye I’ve seen that as well. They’re forgetting Moshiri is a fucking dick head, this bloke will have learned from what his cousin has been doing at City. As you say he’s not going to want to be second fiddle to his relative.

Perez and Shelvey must be rethinking their whole pushing for a move elsewhere stance.

Reporting on the statement by Bin Zayed: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48420387

BBC reporting it now

Poor old negative Luke

Also, they’re out of their minds trying to act like “well the FFP rules will cause issues for them in the CL” etc is a problem they need to give their heads a shake man

The FFP thing is all they have to cling onto if this happens tbf. We can either build over time or just go mad and take a ban, either way I don’t see FFP being an issue.

It seems to be a very definitive statement from what seems a very legitimate, professional (and rich) business. Would be a bit weird for them to put that out if it was bollocks. The club not refuting that statement in particular is massive.

Apparently he’s a fairly big Journo over there and broke the news of the ManCity purchase, then Pep to City, before any UK outlets.

Derby were shite tbf.

Luke Edwards seems pretty determined to dismiss this one. He’s tweeting the same information but making it more and more negative each time. Saying that he seemed pretty annoyed last night due to when it was breaking and is traveling to Baku today.

What was the keeper doing there you’d think there wasn’t anyone in the box the way he went to catch that.

His advantage is that he can read Twitter while keeping one eye on sky sports. All done while Lee cries into his pint about how Tavernier won’t answer his calls since Tav become the assist king of Scotland.

If Villa being promoted is the price we pay for a massive take over and a mackem implosion I’m more than happy to pay it. As Quiff says when Griezmann’s fourth of the afternoon flies in against them it’ll be worth it.

Some of them basically do it in the same post as well

Aye, I’m sure there’ll be a lot of that. If you’re an Arab lad it’s a dead easy chance to wind people up as you say I’m waiting for news from one of the journos I know of.

They’re too classy for that. Must have been mags pretending to be MLF’s, all the proper MLF’s were having afternoon tea and complimenting the Charlton fans.

It mostly seems to be UAE or Dubai based journos saying it’s done on my feed. Lee Ryder is of course following all of them and hoying paraphrases of their tweets into his ‘articles’

A Dubai journo apparently, the Chronicle crew followed him immediately As always I’m skeptical, the thing I’m clinging to is that this one has an actual buyer attached to it, there seems to be details and leaks coming from his side, and the club haven’t denied it and have now apparently said there are negotiations happening.