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You have to be pretty down on your luck as a 'writer' to be doing slay for pay at Fool.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/karl-loomes-64903711/

Maybe they will start the fight back campaign tomorrow 1st November.

Nice tasty RNS tomorrow morning.

I think people are over complicating the take over thing. Metro , without stating it, almost had their tongues out last week on the call .

They need to be taken over in order to progress. It's that simple. Which makes me think they will sell sooner rather than later but they need to ensure that any takeover provides enough capital and growth support, otherwise it's pointless and they may as well carry on.

Kind of rubbish but I can see you thinking.

Problem is you have to declare over 5%, so you could only accumulate so many before being forced to show your hand.

Even at £6, this bank is a bargain, especially when it was £40 not so long ago. (£1.5-2 bn peanuts in banking terms).

Also worth pointing out there is a 2 week grace period from leaving a BoD before you can buy/bid. So next Thursday/Friday.

that's not to say that someone within a Hill lead consortium couldn't be buying. May also see another bank take a holding or any number of other suitors. The news this week will be critical.

Hopefully The Count will show up later , all the way up to 350

Pretty common knowledge Barclays have an agenda here.

Goldman Sachs - 320p - Far more sensible and inline with market thinking.

Barclays have never had a good analytical team. Go have a look at their hit rate. Laughable.

Mav - These are showing on H&L as sells (as per one yesterday too), although buy would make more sense.

JTM - Spot on. Couldn't have put it better myself, although the 'bear in mind' is telling. Lol

gggg21 - Ever thought that they can't make a purchase because they already have something on the table?

https://uk.investing.com/equities/metro-bank

What are the chances it's Vernon loading up?

JTMac - That's been the form over the last 2-3 weeks, so it was a fair assumption. I think today has been a ClusterF due to the HSBC numbers and the Brexit announcement putting a bit of a hex on market liquidity.

Something that can suddenly lose 6p in the blink of an eye and then hold without dropping hasn't anything to do with the 'market' - It's algo suppression end of.

gggg21 - No director buys or sell.

1) They maybe still in a closed period if they have had an informal approach.

2) Vernon has not sold any shares (He's been buying all the way down) in a bank of which he is he no longer the Chairman. He has 6.2m shares.

https://www.sharesmagazine.co.uk/shares/share/MTRO/director-deals

PC - This is about takeover now. Pure and simple. The analyst call was all about how pretty and stable they could make the bank look in the short term and they didn't deny bids are out the question. Normally, BoDs flat out laugh those sorts of questions off but there was a sizeable pause before the CEO answered.

There is something clearly about to be put of the table and I'm sure we will hear about it sooner rather than later. Growth story is almost inconsequential

Theosus /Matt - I would assume that most are here waiting for the bounce. Lumping Metro in with other banks at this juncture is a little pointless. Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, RBS still have awkward clumsy investment arms which increase the level of regulation exponentially. Retail/High Street Banking isn't as affected in the same way.

Been on these boards long enough to know people's games.

You posts are not very constructive.

Had you been on the analyst call these questions would have been answered.

Customer numbers will increase. German is already in recession, the Brexit delay is more to do with German/France than the UK. It more likely going to affect Italian banks via Deutsche bank's problems. Not sure it will overly effect a small high street bank in the UK overly. Besides the stock is way over sold.

Why are you deramping now? Why are you constantly putting up negative subject headers?