Sky Sports’ Keith Downie has weighed in on the takeover debate after new Peter Kenyon claims emerged last night, and he’s offered a very mixed assessment of it all.
As Sky’s North-East reporter highlights below, he believes the price (£300m), the advertising (keeping Sports Direct signs in place until the payments are completed), the instalments (paying the £300m fee over ‘three years’) and Peter Kenyon – the NUFC owner’s ‘preferred bidder’ – help ‘tick a lot of boxes’ for Mike Ashley.
That said, Downie has his concerns, questioning why Kenyon and co. have leaked their 46-page brochure – which details their plans for the club and the deal itself – before any bid has been accepted?
After what’s gone on over the past few years with Staveley, Kenyon and the infamous Bin Zayed Group, I think most Newcastle fans would struggle to even believe the most watertight of takeover stories – so I can’t see too many buying into this one.
The brochure is poor and outdated, appearing to be written by someone who barely understands English never mind football and I have my doubts about Ashley’s willingness to accept £300m across three years.
Kenyon may be a friend of Ashley’s and keen to buy the club, but this strikes me as a last ditch attempt to find more investors – not his big move to complete a takeover.
I hope I’m proved wrong, but I’m not buying this one based on the information that’s been leaked so far – not that we can rely on any of that after what was reported just a few months ago.
For a moment there i thought th were was a transfer window coming up
Harrogate mag(Quote)
Now that this is a non starter (again) can we just concentrate on the Toon and not this constant fake news about takeovers.
Dutch Docherty(Quote)
Mmm…their business model …50m immeadiate investment for day to day running, set up a scouting team to identify up and coming players to sell on at a profit. Sounds like Ashley!
LA Toon(Quote)