Writing in a piece for the Chronicle, journalist Lee Ryder detailed his latest knowledge surrounding the potential Newcastle United takeover and why Mike Ashley ‘returned to the front row‘ during the team’s dramatic 3-2 extra-time victory at Oxford United – but many supporters have been left frustrated by the update.
Ashley, who has been in talks with Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the Saudi Arabian consortium over the last fortnight, returned to watch the Magpies last Tuesday in the executive area of the Kassam Stadium – with journalist Ryder detailing the fact that he hasn’t received a ‘concrete‘ offer for the club.
Despite a report from The Guardian detailing back in late January that a deal is ‘90%‘ completed, it appears talks have stalled since the negotiations were made public – with this latest update frustrating a lot of Newcastle fans who have just about had enough. Here’s what they had to say on Twitter regarding the news, including one fan theorising that talks have stopped due to Ashley’s annoyance with the publicity of it all.
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Ashley is annoyed because there has been too much narrative in the media’ about a potential takeover. Oh, the irony. Chronicle churns out article after article about the supposed takeover.
— ⚫️⚪️Fozzie⚫️⚪️ (@Fozzie94) February 6, 2020
Truth is you havnt got a clue why he was there…..
— Chris Brosnan (@juliewong9) February 6, 2020
Why do you guys always claim “Ashley isn’t happy about how things have gone public”, when you can’t be sure it’s not him that’s leaking information. He’s the only common denominator in all of these stories. Highly likely it’s down to him based on his track record!
— Bradley Sparkes (@DrBSparkes) February 6, 2020
This is exactly the same pattern as the last takeover with the BZG group from last https://t.co/ZNdw3DIbzB’s so obvious this isn’t happening. why don’t the chronicle actually just say it’s looking like another false dawn? Then the fans will have more respect for the writers ect.
— PAUL (@nufcneverdies) February 6, 2020
Howay Lee is it on the table or not? You said it’s on the table and up to Ashley last week but now they’ve not went past the discussion stage and theres nothing there yet.. It’s all confusing pic.twitter.com/WLZSpnmCSn
— Dayle Barron (@DayleBarron) February 6, 2020
Transfer window closed. No more takeover stories until the summer window opens.
— Steve Rudland (@SteveRAR) February 6, 2020
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