And So, And with Matt Ford on today's pods, a regular contributor to UWS and Deutsche Vela,

based out in lovely Bonn.

How's it going, Matt?

Sunny, 30 degrees today on the banks of the right.

Lovely.

So, pretty similar to Manchester.

I was just pulling your leg before we came on there and saying

yeah Bond is a very dull city but to be honest now I've ever visited corporate headquarters there so

I don't really know it very well. That's an argument for another day. Yes, yeah. So I heard you on the

UWS podcast a few weeks back talking about Qatar and the potential for its Tarot take over it.

It comes seems that, especially in the social media age,

that voices of reason are drowned out somewhat,

and it's important to have this discussion because if the

Qatari takeover happens forget quite quickly about the impact of the ownership and start thinking about the football.

So anyway, that was a long way of saying,

let's get into talking about the takeover a little bit.

It is

Thursday evening, 15th of July, and I'm just time sampling this because as we speak of, or a district report came out within the last hour saying exclusivity was going to be given to the Sheikh Jesse

fronted Katari bid. The club denied it immediately which I'm not surprised because

they basically have to otherwise help be shifting the share price.

Thoughts on where we're at with the takeover?

I mean, in terms of inside info, I'm about as cleared up as you and everybody else on this.

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