He didn't have to try hard. A bunch of skint time wasters give naive fans hope. What are the shocking claims from this Tugby, as I seem to be missing something.
Well, he never said it was close to selling, it was that ****ing group. I'm actually not even pissed at him, why are these organisations constantly saying they're trying to buy when they don't even have funds available.
Think somebody needs to start another takeover rumour - we have two weeks before the footie starts. How about a fans buyout?
They came back with a no comment to the groups claims though and had a pretty obvious transfer embargo in place, which was the opposite of what he did with Staveley. Its amazing how Newcastle are the only club who constantly have charlatans pretending to buy us. That's now Bin Zayed, Staveley (who brokered the City deal) and Kenyon (big history with English clubs) in the last 2 years and that's just what we know about. Chopra mentioned no interest to negotiate with his potential buyer and its widely documented MA ruined a sale to Arab investors time ago by disrespecting them There's one big fat common denominator every time. If you read MA's piece he doesn't mention Bin Zayed not having funds, he actually says they wouldn't go to another 10 million. My guess is that was 5 years sports direct advertising for free, which is a lot different to 10 million in terms of what it means to the fans. Either way, a price was set by Mike, bid by Bin Zayed Group matched it and Mike shifted the goalposts. From Mike- "The last bid, the one from UAE, he's a prince and he's got £38bn or £100bn, all these numbers — well, why would you even care what you're paying then? What difference would £10m either way make?" To cover his back Mike's making out he won't sell to anyone that can't make us into a top 6 club. Due to FFP nobody can make us a top 6 club, with whatever money they have, for a long long time. Clever Mike, using the tired narrative that we are deluded rather than just wishing we weren't in a relegation battle every year.
