S-Clarke

You do make some good points there. The one thing we will miss, no matter what anyone else says, will be his vision and ambition. He drove that from the top right through the club. He wouldn't have been able to pursue those dreams or ambitions without KL's money though, so in that sense I don't think he's irreplaceable. But this is what I'm still not entirely sure about....there has been talk from his wife in the past that he's obsessed, all he did was pace around before a match, he couldn't sleep due to nerves etc. He lived this club for 5 years, literally.....I can't see him just turning away and resigning from that. There has to surely be plans from his side to come back in, especially given his comments regarding the family a year or so back...''If they don't want to fulfill the vision, I have people lined up who can'' etc. I think he's a bit of a nutter, with lots of good contacts who have lots of $$$4 - and he's not going to just turn away from that. Maybe someone is out there who will spend £500m to push us into title contenders? That's obviously always been his vision, and I'm to be honest we've achieved everything he said we would so far, so I'm not going to ignore those comments from a year or so back. Will be interesting to see what occurs over the coming months, but I fully expect the PR machine from both sides to be in overdrive.

Would be silly to let anyone go if we're honest. The squad is already quite thin when we have injuries, and it really doesn't look like we'll be doing any incomings in this window....so we'd end January weaker, whatever anyone says about Gaston. Let's hope this doesn't happen.

Not sure this is exactly relevant anymore to be honest. All this proves is that football can swing so, so quickly. Who knows where we'll be in 5 years from here!

The PR machine is working overdrive.

A lot of this rings true FF. For one, I'm fully grateful for what he did for us, he was the driving force for the purchase and the continued success over the past few years - but there were many parts of him which were far from perfect. The banning of MLT/Echo/national papers all ring loud and clear, and he wasn't the easiest person to deal with - to say the least!

Wayne Thomas.

I don't think that's allowed. I think he'd need to be an independent identity on the outside in order to buy the football club.

This will be quite a telling development, I think we'll then have a clear idea of their intentions and plans for this football club. My general feeling is that whoever is brought in, will be brought in as an interim measure with a specialty in managing takeovers and mergers. I feel the prime objective of our owners is now to sell the club and make a very healthy profit. If we had confirmation of that, we could all rest a little easier as we will know what the plans are. I hope we have some sort of direction in the next couple of weeks...

So the facts are as follows: Nicola Cortese has left. MP is staying Reaffirmed no intention to sell any players.

I think they need to get someone into the position, and then make an announcement on their intentions and plans.

I do get the impression that he is being professional enough to stay on until the end of the year. He made a comment going back to last years announcement, in the sense that the situation was different - i.e.. it was in pre-season and not in the middle of anything. He seemed to indicate that it's not right to do such a thing in the middle of a ''process'', or ''season''. So to me, it sounds as if he's going to re-evaluate things in the summer. But he's professional enough to see this through until then. I've got the feeling that this years summer is going to be anything other than boring.

How long before HelpMeRhonda returns? I've still got that mega-dome plan somewhere.

He's been pictured at training.

How many contradicting reports are there! She's not here according to some....and now she is here according to others.

There are some interesting bits flying around today, regarding how we were planning to win the league, how the ambition and drive is lost etc. But let's be honest for a second, ambition and drive is great, but that alone will not enable us to win the league. We would need to spend an utter fortune to even compete in a title race, and Cortese wouldn't have been going to his pocket to fund it - he'd have been going to the family. We've probably hit a bit of a stalemate in terms of progress. As a self sustaining club, we're probably top 10 - so in my personal opinion, to get to the next level we were always going to need that next notch up in terms of investment. Maybe this situation will push all of that to a head, I don't believe the family will provide that next level of investment if I'm honest. That could well be the crux of it all...who knows.

He's having a nightmare at the moment. Still trying to fish, but he's now in a pretty big lake what with all the online members at the moment. Bless him, he's getting lost out there.

The only thing we know is that NC has resigned. and as you said, everything else is as normal. Anything else is, at the moment, pure speculation and rumour.

In an ideal world, this would happen, but I just don't think it's feasible. I don't think we'll see Cortese involved here again.

Sky are often there, they just record it and play it out in segments prior to the weekends game. Just as they do with every other club. Taking it live is in the hope something sensational is said, don't be expecting anything though is my view.

It makes it more interesting for the mainstream. A back page headline saying the chairman has left a mid-table club isn't going to make sales. So throw in a bit of a meltdown scenario and include players + manager that general people/football fans would be aware of, and you have a sellable back-page story. Even though it's sensationalist garbage, people buy into it!

An agreement to make it permanent though, and he's done pretty well there.

lol.

Just sensationalist stuff in the papers, which certain people are picking up as FACT. As I said yesterday, the only fact is that NC has resigned. Everything else is waffle.

Isn't this just the normal pre-match press-conference, which Sky have decided to pickup live due to recent events? (in the hope of more live revelations) Wouldn't expect to hear a thing apart from what's happening this weekend. Would imagine a great big no comment on anything owner related.

He's clearly trying to fish in quite a big pond at the moment. He's being lost at the bottom.