SaintBobby

does there need to be exclusivity? isn't this now just an e-bay auction?

That's not right, is it? They can presumably retract their offer and make a new offer at any time.

You bloody fence sitter. I hate it when people put their case in such meely-mouthed, cryptic terms.

so, we're possibly down to one credible and interested group, the swiss (not mj!)

was Fry paid up front?

Yep.... It's definitely urinate or vacate the potty time.

Any chance we can block some of these threads and merge them? I'm hitting F5 and then having to look on 6-10 threads which are all about the same thing...

One tiny glimmer of hope is that perhaps Fry's statement will get a (funded) Pinnacle to sign. Otherwise, its pretty much Swiss or bust I guess....

Classic. LMAO.

Nope - certainly on wealth, this has been "confirmed". See other threads for TL's statement re: fame.

Wish that were so. I think - based on Fry's statement - that the problems with the Pinnacle bid are pretty damned intractable.

That - inter alia - the Pinnacle claim that the money man is an ultra-rich, very well known name has turned out, apparently, to be false......

Time for a put up/shut up update from TL.

Looks like Mark Fry has now joined the "scaremongering"! http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~1703627,00.html

So, do you think Fialka adds "weight" and "substance" to the Pinnacle bid??????? The fact that TL said it did surely raises questions about Pinnacle's credibility. That's just applying intelligence to the facts, not scare-mongering. Muppet.

What a load of rubbish. Have you been following the developments at all? What we've heard from Pinnacle and TL is unravelling fast. TL's last statement on here makes no sense. We've been told that Pinnacle will complete at any moment, that the backer is worth a fortune, that staff will be paid. That seems, for the moment, to be total b*llocks. I don't care if we're a L1 club or a second hand car, the Pinnacle bid is descending into farce.

On another thread, just a few hours short hours ago, you were saluting MLT given you now "knew" the identity of his mystery funder. Will your new info be from a more reliable source (for example, a source that doesn't provide you with info that is the 100% opposite of the truth?)

This is the thing though - once the bid starst to look shaky, people will pour over other elements that don't stack up. The Fialka unveiling has gone appallingly badly from a PR point of view. I do think Pinnacle need to complete today or pull out. Nothign is going to happen between now and Monday to change things.

I still don't understand this. Couldn't they make it explicit that the season ticket had this condition by, say, putting in very big, bold letters on the marketing material "BUY AT YOUR OWN RISK, WE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO COMPLETE ANY OR ALL OF OUR FIXTURES". Seems we have foregone c. £2m in revenue by not selling STs, so I guess there must be an absolutely compelling reason.

If administrators worked for nothing when they were handling companies in crisis, it wouldn't be a very attractive profession....

I guess they don't have to, but there isn't any money to pay them. Saints don't have their own sterling printing presses AFAIK.

Does this also mean the players have gone without pay? Am less bothered on emotional grounds, but are they now free to walk?

I'm interested in the possibility of some sort of AFC Saints option....

The lottery is terrible odds, cos only 50% goes into prize money. You're better off trying to predict an excat score in one of the Wimbledon matches today.