Did anybody really believe that they weren't an instrument of the Saudi Government? It was pure legal chicanery that allowed the takeover in the first place.
It's either naivety or stupidity. You ask a question, get an answer and just believe it without any follow up? Be interesting to see if all the clubs involved in dodgy financial arrangements will get done in one fell swoop.
Probably more politicking and venality. They don't want to upset the Saudis, and they want their money - so just wave away any objections.
i think its getting the answer you wanted. they had to ask for a guarantee that the saudis laughed and and were happy to provide. This assurance allowed them to do what they wanted to do. approve the sale. now they have the opposite answer and will want to ignore it as its info in the usa not in the UK. They have no means to sweep this under the carpet or force a sale so they will just have to suck it up. look at malaga example. qatar owner. started well then lost interest when the spanish actively blocked them spending everything and anything. they promptly stopped invesment in the city etc, dropped the club in the **** etc. at PSG they could do anything they liked. It will the same with newcastle. If the FA start blocking them they will bust newcastle and the FA know it. the FA will hope this all dies down and gets ignored i na few days/weeks.
Possibly. The biggest surprise to me is that the other clubs in the league have kept silent. I understand Leeds and Burnley put up some sort of protest over the Everton situation when facing relegation but the protestations dissipated very quickly and you have to wonder why.
I'm not sure whether the protests dissipate or whether - like most things - they just stop being newsworthy and so you don't hear about them until something significant happens. Like the City investigations, all over the media one minute then seemingly gone the next.
I think the phrase used at the time was "legally enforceable assurances". So what does that mean? If that those assurances are broken, then the PL can take action?
I presume it means "well we could if we were mad enough to try but we are not" assurance. the Premier league rules seem clear and explusion is the only conceivable fair and honest outcome based on newcastle not passing the ownership requirements. however we all know nobody will enforce this nor demand a sale of the club as it will just be consigned to the scrap heap by the Saudis.
Strange one as PIF are trying to argue they are state owned to USA but not state owned to uk to suit their own needs. wonder if fact it was thrown out by usa will help when it comes to uk though? Wonder if they will have to weigh up what’s more important to them. Newcastle of liv golf?
maybe so. it does show how untrustworthy they are. They can happily state one thing on one side and the other on the other side of the atlantic based o the case they want to make. The best thing that could be done is to slap a punitive sponsorship block on Newcastle that no partially or wholly Saudi owned companies can sponsor the club. follow that in on many utd if bought by qatar and follow it in on city as well so they have to drop all thier fake sponsorship and the whole thing gets fixed. If a club has real genuine business based sponsorships where the company sponsoring makes actual money off the exposure then all is well. If you've every state owned body shovelling 730mil (city) in to artifically boost revune to buy trophies for sportswashing and rep points then its not good. Newcastle revenue is £179.8million. Half of arsneals but they can afford twice the players. nonsense. Man city revenue: 730million? increasing by leaps and bounds every single season since they got done by uefa for under the tbale hidden payments. Its all fake.
Everton seem a total mess. £45m loss for last year - 5th season in a row loss is recorded. Wage to turnover has gone down, but from 95% to 90% Covid apparently had 90m impact but they claim was impacted further due to player trading… no idea what that means? They expected to sell some players but couldn’t? Board are all putting in a brave face saying they’ll be fine, but can’t see how they don’t get heavily penalised and if they go down to the champ this season, could be in freefall. Would have to sell pretty much anyone if any value to get wages off the books or the wage to turnover % will skyrocket with the reduced tv money. If they stay up, will be huge fight next year when a likely point deduction will come in. Amazing how badly managed that clubs been. The wages being given to bang average players who are relegation level
well some of that is sacking rafa. 10million. there will be more for the sacking of lampard as well, next years accounts will show this. they have built the white elephant project in the docks but failed to do the basics well at the club before embarking on that. 90% wages to turnover ratio??? that's sinful. pickford, dacoure, calvert lewin, onana, mina, iwobi, mina, tarkowski all on 100k or more. players like keane, gueye, Holgate, Godfrey are all on better than 70k. to rebuild an 11, just an 11 to play prem is going to be all but impossible. the average premier league wage now stands at a shocking 60k a week. Everton need to cull that squad. they have millstones like gomes, delle alli and kean. they can't shift that and nobody will take those absolute **** players. they will lose a lot of players on frees this summer. mina, dacoure, coady for example. I don't know how they will even put a team together.
