What a stupid comparison. In this country you are only entitled to rent your land to the oil company for them to retrieve it, which is considerably less than the oil's value, the oil in it belongs to the state and would have to be licenced.
It just feels such a mess. For the first time in 17 years, I can't say I'm looking forward to the new season with all this uncertainty. You'd never think 10 years ago that many of us would not be looking forward to a season of Premier League football. That's the mess of things that the Allams have made and, what's worse, it is all completely unnecessary.
I am amazed at the negative responses. "If talks over a possible takeover were still on-going, all decisions on transfers would have to be agreed by both the current owners and the group closing in on a £100m purchase of the club. By putting talks on hold until after the transfer window closes on August 31, the Tigers are now free to press on with any recruitment plans." This works both ways, if an offer came in for a player the buyers could insist that it is accepted, we could have a series of complex transfer talks instead of just getting in the players we want and keeping hold of the ones we do not want to go. It may well be that the due diligence is taking longer than planned and that Assem Allams illness has not helped speed the process.
In my opinion I can't see them leaving any time soon. I think they have a lot more of ****ing the fans about to do before they eventually **** off.
Unfortunately our illustrious and honest owners are once again doing all they can to cause problems wherever they can. Fans aren't happy. SB obviously isn't happy and none of this bodes well for a successful season where we need a lot of investment into a team that has some quality but not enough depth and we will get found out next season and not scrape through games like we did last season. This should be a time of positivity and optimism but the general feeling is of anger and disappointment that the Allams are just being awkward and ignorant. They must know that the majority of fans are now against them and i fully expect more protests against them and if that is what it takes to make them sell up and sod off then sooner the better in my opinion because I think potential buyers will walk on past to other potential clubs if they feel dealing with the Allams is unworkable
The negative responses are because the Americans have now apparently walked away completely. If you look a few pages prior, I tried to put this positive spin on it, but I've since learned that was naive.
It's a bullshit excuse, the Americans were happy to complete the purchase and handle the transfers themselves, due diligence has already been done, completion was expected to only take two weeks.
Hang on, so if due diligence is already done, then what's left to be done? Surely Assem wouldn't make up that there's still due diligence needing to be done, since he seems actually keen to get it done.
