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Well it looks like he was right about one thing, I just hope he was right about the other. Who was it, a friend of MLT.

If Crouch put up the money to allow the exclusivity that surely should have rung alarm bells. I am fed up to the back teeth listening to people who have little in the way of wealth pontificating. It's time to shut up, stop digging and leave us to get on with our lives without relatively impecunious dreamers making veiled suggestions that they might be back. Either shut up or sign up we need no more pronouncements.

The Pinnacle backers have refused to put their money in due to the conditions imposed by the league. Jackson is reported to have said his Israeli backers have pulled out due to the narrow time frame. MLT has just been on Sky citing irreconcilable differences with the league. He sounded pretty disillusioned. The common denominator in these bids is the fact the front man doesn't have the money. Over the last year on every occasion there has been talk of a bid, it is always somebody trying to raise the money who has no real wealth but wants to be involved. Clearly these types of bids do not have the foundations to go forward. Proof of funds, due diligence, talking a good game but in the end a big climb down. Unless the bids are led by people who are demonstratively wealthy they shouldn't be allowed, as happened here, to stop the allegedly well funded Swiss group by scrabbling together a deposit possibly supplied by a third party, causing the possibly fatal waste of a complete month, and alienating a probably substantial bid. I just hope that the Swiss don't get impeded, if they are serious, by the mysterious group that has just surfaced.

Do they have an Isle of Wight connection? Serious question Dave.

It clearly is an issue because making inaccurate statements is unhelpful if not devious. When found out, it makes people think 'what else isn't accurate'. It does undermine the integrity of those involved and their project. I do accept that Tony Lynham may have been misled by MF, who may have been forced to concede after the adverse and challenging publicity, that he was a part of the group of potential investors and not the sole investor.

MLT on solent: MF is part of a group of wealthy investors. I wish they had got their position clear rather than spinning that there was a single investor worth several hundred millions.

I can see you've cheered up Ruth, more your usual self. I hope they deliver this time. Yes it was the Plaza.

Willingly, they now have to get on and do what they say.

Interesting you should say that. I asked a good friend of his this morning if he might be interested, he said no way as he likes publicity and would be doing it himself if he was. I mentioned Danny Feinstein who has left Arsenal I believe but he didn't know.

Buy yourself a radio watch, the Express were doing a decent Casio for about £30. It's accurate to better than a second updated by radio three times overnight. I'm one of those last second buyers.

I've found a lot of very smart people on this site, they may not agree sometimes but for detective work and information they take some beating.

I heard Fry today describe it as insolvency arrangements or something like that. A couple of months ago at a meeting with LMc, LC and Mary Corbett she said things were so bad with the club they couldn't fund administration.

I see that MLT is saying that they will meet the league on Monday and complete the next day. If they do that I take back the criticisms I have made of them. The league apparently gave them 8 pages of conditions, so maybe they have just cause to delay. I admit the thought of the club liquidating on Friday really wound me up, more so because there is no longer time to mount a public rescue. Although I would expect Anthony Salz to maybe try.

Simon, I understand there were 8 pages of conditions from the league. That sounds pretty damn complicated to me. Just maybe, Pinnacle do have a beef.

As long as somebody buys the club before Friday, or at least puts some money up to pay the staff.

The reason I knew something was simple. I was criticising you and a few others regarding attitude on the site to the person concerned at a match. He actually asked me to cut you some slack as you had personal problems. He wouldn't elaborate. As far as I am concerned you can fire as many insults as you like and it's water off a ducks back. I think you are contemptible. Why you don't give yourself a break is beyond me.

Because even a moron could work out that there was an apathy from the public and that after a million was pledged on the site less than £100k was pledged in 3/4 weeks once it went public. The only way to keep an appeal going would be to actually start collecting the money, which in the event of the club being bought would have to be returned, itself a logistical nightmare. All concerned realised we could not do this. It was clear that unless the people thought their club was going to the wall there would be no further interest. Because the parties concerned were vying for publicity and putting out the message that both were definite buyers it meant there was no interest in a public rescue. I have better things to do with my life than try to rescue something that the people clearly don't care about. Finally don't you dare criticise me or the people that at least tried to raise awareness. It is the vociferous do nothings like yourself that have nothing better to do than distribute your bile on this site. I personally did what I could and I really don't give a rats arse for your comments. I personally am very happy, comfortably off and can bloody well do what I like and I don't have to answer to you or anybody else.

Everything adds up but something has happened to change things because the administrator doesn't see it happening with Pinnacle. The reason for not completing doesn't stack up. They have said they are going to buy the club then why not buy it and continue the negotiations with the league. Unless I am wrong which is always likely, they have the money and they aren't going to blink until the club is 10 minutes from liquidation hoping the league blinks first, as there are no other takers.

Good advice. It does put it in perspective. Just maybe this thread may provoke a reasoned response from those concerned. But I somehow doubt it.

That was the first question I asked. It may have something to do with blaming someone so as to get the money spent back. If Crouch lent the money instead of donating it, that is if he did put the money up, there would probably be personal liability. The big one as you put it is not being able to mount a viable rescue. I just feel frustrated by the wasted two years and now the charade being staged that is going to leave a lot of staff in dire straits. That is unless the dream comes true and somebody buys us next week. If that happens I hold my hands up, unless it's somebody new or the Swiss. I just think it's like playing the lottery, all the bloody tickets end up in the bin.

Both, I was told last Saturday that they were looking to get out, but didn't want to believe it. The source was a good one. Also said the Swiss were a better bet. But who knows !

It just doesn't look credible any more and the publicity is bizarre.

Yes:(.

Don't eat the polos, after Friday you'll probably be able to get the lot in exchange for them:(

They may well be trying to close the deal, but they are going a funny way about it. The publicity of the last two days has been bizarre.