Short sighted the Saudis don't want an also ran come 2030 they'll want to be winning things. Yes it won't be like man City because you can't do that anymore.. The big clubs invented something to prevent that valle FFP, but if they get in the top 4 they'll crank it up... It can be done, but it just takes alot longer and is more progressive. I'm not saying they'll throw games im saying they'll play **** sides thus giving Fulham more opportunity to win.. They do this anyway. I'm saying nufc won't say they've won arbitration because you don't tip off the very same clubs that have been trying to stop it. Don't be fooled mate Saudi Arabia don't want a midtable club.. Eventually they want big things and the people that know them like Eddie hearn will tell you the same.
I have a feeling that arbitration is either not required or has been concluded. So there is no need to even announce anything. As you say. The point when we become mathematically safe is the point it happens. Looking at it another way Steve Bruce staying is actually bizarre proof to back it up. Bruce knows either way he’s getting 4m. If they sack him and replace him then that’s a sign of no takeover. So basically they have said to Bruce:::::.... your challenge is simple. Whatever you have to do to stay in the league do it. We don’t care who you annoy upset yada yada. Keep the club in and you get your 4m. Different angle but having Bruce see it through means everyone wins. Bruce keeps hammering this I’ve never walked away from a challenge. What’s happened over the past season is now irrelevant. It’s about this last 8 games. And if we get relegated. Who knows?
I'm not a flatearther, but I firmly believe football is far more sinister in the back ground than people think. I mean you've got 4 champions league places and you've got clubs like Arsenal, Tottenham or pool looking likley to miss out.. These clubs futures are built on top 4 money and TV money in general, so the last thing they want is a club like newcastle being reignited by a company with a bottomless pit of money. Everything I've said so far is just stating the obvious imo, but then you've got reports Tottenham tried to hijack the takeover and stavely saying other clubs didn't want it to happen when pif withdrew. If arbitration is won and it all rests on nufc staying up then there's no way they'd tip them off or the other clubs in the league. I'm not just talking the big 6 in talking the other clubs too. It's just not worth the risk of them getting upto any ****housery. Bruce's gone after a takeover he knows it too. I'm sick of bruce, but without a takeover he's here next season top because Ashley likes him and if the fans make demands he does the very opposite.. He doesn't like being pushed around.
Which is throwing games and exactly what you said, you were chatting ****e mate. https://www.not606.com/threads/takeover-covid-19-20.383026/page-1819#post-14778133
I'd much prefer Pallotta to the Saudi's to be honest. I just need - not want, NEED - Mike Ashley gone from this club forever. For me, it's never been about soul-less Man City oil-financed dominance (though I won't bemoan it, of course, I'm not stupid). It's always been about being reasonably well run, ambitious and having pride in playing for the City, the people and the badge. What outsiders just cannot appreciate is how soul-destroying it is to aim for 17th every season, to see commercial income - that should allow us to compete on transfers and in the league - completely flatline because of your owner (seriously, I'd ask anyone to think on that - the club, therefore the owner, would benefit enormously from better commercials, yet the owner himself has been the reason its been stagnant - blows the mind). We've had to see facilities, youth development, coaching, etc., be so diminished by an absolute lack of ambition that it gives you no hope. And whilst I know fans of Wigan, Sunderland, Bury, Forest, etc., will all say their gripes are worse, that doesn't make it right. There may be a cartel, but their influence is already having to change - whilst a rich Newcastle is another potent force, it's no more of a threat than a well-run Villa, Leeds or Everton. Leicester have already firmly infiltrated the little group. Wolves are capable of better than they've shown this season, West Ham, So'ton and even Brighton are doing a great job with scouting and coaching. The league looks like getting its competitiveness back and there's short shrift for tin pot bollock clubs like the current shadow of Newcastle United under Mike Ashley. So I don't think the same opposition will exist - FSG may moan, Spurs will certainly feel aggrieved, but with all the moves in global sports, etc., on the face of it most clubs and the PL itself will welcome any investment with open arms.
Perhaps it was an over exaggerated comment, but I've ironed it out several times since... I stand by it
@Roland Deschain I didn't realise pallota has all but confirmed he's intersted in the club. I'd take him yes.. No bad press or owt and better than Ashley
It’s the Sherman owned clubs (United, the red ****e & Arsenal) plus Spurs who are the ones trying to poison the game for their own ends. The Sherman’s don’t understand English football, they’re all American Sports Franchise holders. If they had their way the PL would be a closed shop, no relegation. There’d be a European SL for the chosen elite, and there’d be no opportunity for any other club to come in and smash the glass ceiling. They want to own clubs that make annual returns and clubs gate crashing their monopoly upsets that Apple cart, as they’re forced to spend money that they’d rather take away as profit. I agree with you about the Saudi takeover at Newcastle, it’d make you more competitive over time and bring hope to the fans, who are rightly ****ed off with the Ashley years.
Except if Arbitration has been won ( I think time wise there hasn’t been enough time for a hearing) or there has been a settlement (that’s a possibility) the PL would have informed the rest of the League and the so called Backstabbing Six would already know.
I want two things: a competitive Newcastle United and serious investment in the city of Newcastle. We have been left at the back of the fridge, along with a fermenting Sunderland, a rotting Hull and a stinking Bradford. Both the city and football club are proud, passionate and historic - and we deserve better. A Saudi-Stavely-Reuben takeover offers the best opportunity we've had in serious investment since Ashley vomited in the casino fireplace in Dubai, 2008.
I suspect given the fact that it’s legal then it would be closed doors. @Sheikh_of_Araby might clarify things but if a decision had been made then it would surely be kept behind closed doors. Especially if it’s a deal pre arbitration?
The 20 clubs are all stakeholders in the PL, as that’s how it works, so of course they’d be informed of the outcome of a legal case against the company that they form part of.
