Many Newcastle United supporters have been responding to an update regarding the takeover, which has been provided by The Athletic’s George Caulkin via his Twitter account.
According to The Telegraph, the authorities began their checks around 9 April and indicated it is a process that can take up to four weeks. However, we are now in June and there is still no word on whether or not they have reached their conclusion.
When asked by a supporter of the club whether or not Amanda Staveley and her consortium were in contact with the Premier League, Caulkin replied: ‘Everyone is frustrated. But yes they are. They’ve been answering further PL questions this week.’
Here is how a sample of the St. James’ Park faithful have responded to his comments on Twitter.
Is the piracy issue over the past streaming that has now been stopped or the sale of the TV boxes? similar boxes that are sold on eBay in this country? In which case is this country complicit also by selling dodgy boxes?
— DB88 NUFC (@Hail2_the_king) June 4, 2020
What’s your gut instincts George? It will pass and just going through formalities or the PL holding off to find a way to say block it? Seems very odd they have expected sign off for weeks now and still nothing.
— Nikos ?? (@Nikos_NUFC) June 3, 2020
So imagine how this goes down across the world, if the PL fail the bid and accuse the ruler of a wealthy country with massive business connections to UK government etc…a dishonest pirate ….! Huge can of worms if they do
— Ricardo 1892 (@Ricardo1892) June 3, 2020
Are you concerned the takeover will collapse?
Yes
No
It’s clear from the variety of responses that this is an extremely complex case, and so perhaps we shouldn’t be shocked to see the process delayed. The Saudi-backed consortium have faced much opposition to their proposed acquisition of the club from one of the Premier League’s broadcast partners BeIN Sports and a number of the league’s stakeholders, amongst others.
They don’t want a northern powerhouse,it’s always been man utd this and man United that,we are not going to get it through,my thoughts this is.i fell out of all the takeover last week.
— Doug The clansman kerr (@dougkerr1) June 3, 2020
The longer this goes on the less confident I am of it happening.
It should of been completed by now and I fear the worst.
Ash will make a quick statement stating ‘no signings’ in summer as we have no researched targets#blamePIF
— Rence (@RenceGibson) June 3, 2020
However, one supporter was more optimistic in regards to the situation and believes the end of Mike Ashley’s reign is imminent. Meanwhile, another was worried that the events which saw the Bin Zayed Group fail to take control of the club last summer are about to repeat themselves.
The piracy issues are against the state, not PIF. Get the frustration but it will be cans soon. Haway the lads
— Jonathan Morley (@jons451) June 3, 2020
@GeorgeCaulkin i have been pretty optimistic upto now. This seems to be going in the direction of the BZ bid last year. All talking then goes quiet and fizzles out and nothing happens again. De ja vu all over again
— Chris (@chrisburrage) June 3, 2020
Judging by George Caulkin’s comments, in which he claims there has been communication between the prospective owners and the Premier League, in our view, that should be seen as an encouraging sign. It could be a case of the powers that be requiring further substantiation regarding certain issues as a result of the opposition the deal has been faced with. It could be seen as negligent if the authorities were to fail to investigate some of the raised concerns thoroughly but we don’t believe there is any need for panic just yet.