Let's look on the bright side. If other clubs are handing over hard cash then they don't believe that we're about to go out of business or else they would wait and pick the players up for nothing.
Read all about it in his autobiography in the Times:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article6586158.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article6578727.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article6597000.ece
Always remember that it's having to live through the bad times that makes the good times so great. Great goals, injury-time winnners, last-minute escapes at the end of the season, memories are made of these!
1. Perhaps he is busy in meetings with all the parties concerned ironing out the last-minute snags? There again, he might be out on the town having a booze-up.
Everything has a price and everything is negotiable. I should have thought that the -10 points could be swallowed if there were a significant price reduction. It looks like a Mexican standoff.
Fry mishandled the Grant Thornton investigation that pushed us into the -10 points and he appears to be trying to sell something that, according to Pinnacle, is not exactly as described on the tin, all in my humble opinion, of course.
It was widely reported at the time and I saw it recently through a link somewhere on this forum but it seems to have disappeared!
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/4315772.Saints_to_appeal_Football_League_decision/
http://www.thisishampshire.net/sport/4316287.Football_League_chairman_defends_decision_to_dock_10_points/