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[alfinyalcabo]

Anybody heard anything . . ? Rumours are there are two after us,the Yanks and the Saudis .

[oldcolner]

Anybody heard anything . . ? Rumours are there are two after us,the Yanks and the Saudis .

Not really, read elsewhere that it’s still ongoing and there’s a group of MiddleEast Saudis? and Egyptians also interested.

“it is not dead and that there is probably more chance of it happening than not”

Watched Moneyball film tonight on Netflix about the chief executive of Oakland Athletics Billy Beane who employed a young graduate who analysed players performance to spot unused talent. The start was him seeing the owner looking for money to buy players and being denied it I could see Dyche and Garlick And Burnley parallels. They identified one old player another who couldn’t throw but could hit and another. The coach wouldn’t use the New players the chief exec brought in The scout was sacked and they lost most games, so he sold the players who were keeping them out of the team. They then went on a 20 game unbeaten run.

Billy Beane is still at Oakland and part owns Barnsley - he hasn’t done much for them though.

[Altobelli]

Its the Burnley way. . . . . . . . . .

Slowly, Slowly lose the monkey

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Its the Burnley way. . . . . . . . . .

Slowly, Slowly lose the monkey

As usual Alto, the Burnley PR machine is a broken rust bucket.

I must say though OC's constant updates suggest to me the US consortium are trying to acquire BFC on the cheap, and we all know Garlick will not be going for that option, and why should he?

[sinkov]

I reckon this has about as much chance of happening as Nick Pope going to Chelsea.

[outwoodclaret]

Anybody heard anything . . ? Rumours are there are two after us,the Yanks and the Saudis .

Depends on the long term plans of the Americans. What is their strategy for the club? The Glazers keep siphoning off money from Manchester United. The Saudi’s for me is a no if it comes with the participation or involvement of the House of Saud.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I reckon this has about as much chance of happening as Nick Pope going to Chelsea.

I'll give you that one sinkov...

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Depends on the long term plans of the Americans. What is their strategy for the club? The Glazers keep siphoning off money from Manchester United. The Saudi’s for me is a no if it comes with the participation or involvement of the House of Saud.

Might be a coalition of Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and the Palestinians, that would strike terror in most other EPL boardrooms!

[Balanbam00]

As usual B T ,you are way behind on whats happening in the Middle East.

For the first time, it appears the forces predicated on militaristic anti-Israel ideology are losing ground. "Sudan received its independence in 1956. At that time, the Mahdi party wanted to forge ties with Israel, but the Nasser regime, following the nationalisation of the Suez Canal, was at its apex, and Sudan wavered on whether or not to join the wave of Nasser's pan-Arabism.
The word "Sudan" means "black" in Arabic (bilad as-sudan means "Land of the Blacks"). Over hundreds of years, Sudan was infiltrated by Islam.

Sudan was an important base of operations for al-Qaida, and the Sudanese government even armed al-Qaida terrorists with diplomatic passports. The sea-change in this regard is absolute. Sudan, where an American ambassador was murdered in 1973 under orders from Yasser Arafat, and where notorious terrorists Carlos the Jackal and Osama Bin-Laded found refuge, is now changing its colours.

The new Middle East is bustling with realignment in the face of Turkey's Ottoman ambitions and Iranian imperialism. For the first time, it appears the forces predicated on militaristic anti-Israel ideology are becoming isolated.
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....and from Lebanon

https://youtu.be/NumAOpQmX6s

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Palestinians make a big deal whenever a prisoner dies in Israeli prison, routinely accusing Israel of torture and neglect, and lots of NGOs pile on about the supposedly horrible conditions in Israeli prisons.

No one talks about deaths in Palestinian prisons, though.

An inmate at the Preventive Security detention center in Tulkarm died at dawn today. His name or age isn't released, the cause of death is merely referred to as "spontaneous." This happens quite a bit. Throughout the 2010s, an average of five prisoners died in Palestinian custody each year, according to the PCHR annual reports.

Yes, there is torture in Palestinian prisons. Every five or ten years an NGO will write up a report about it, and it gets buried among the hundreds of anti-Israel reports being published. If Palestinian lives matter, then there would be as big a stink over deaths in Palestinian prison as in Israeli prison. But even to Palestinians, their lives don't matter - unless they can blame the Jews.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Honestly, I'm with you Balan...

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