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Remeber George Best's famous quote. "I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."

If it's in the Echo it must be true eh!!:cool:

I heard that the Kazakh state can't pay their bike riding team though. It's all smoke and mirrors east of Istanbul anyway.

Plenty would buy the club for no reason, problem is they haven't enough money to do that.

All out of contract players are "free" transfers, ie no transfer fee is paid. They're not usual free for the acquiring club though as a signing on fee is very much par for the course.

Well I don't think he actually had the money he was supposed to have or something basic like that. Here's 1 take on it http://www.twofootedtackle.com/2008/06/afc-bournemouth-15-point-deduction.html there are many others all in different shades and sizes. At the end of the day his part of the dosh wasn't forthcoming for whatever reason.

Jackson isn't an agent, he's a proven failure in relation to football club purchases. Doubt if any of his LLS posts are available for viewing now but he comes over as a rank idiot .

Could be that it's too expensive, could be that people will just turn up on the day. They'll get 15K I expect, same as always.

I get the distinct feeling that if clowns like Jackson are being considered as "serious" bidders over 5 weeks into the process it is all going to go tits up and the admin express isn't very far from ploughing into the buffers with massive casualties resulting.

No-one should have turned up at St Mary's or bought any clobber. That would have kept our tax bill down. 75K at St Marys=approx 300K in VAT,plus VAt on booze,pies,shirts, curtains and whatever have you.Wouldn't be surprised if they taxed the bucket collections as well, bunch of robbin bustards.Government will only waste it on handouts to illegal immigrants anyway.

Can't believe the cavalier attitude of the Windies batsmen though, 5 an over in a 5 day test is just suicidal, probably only here for the beer really.

Won't get a CVA with that though.Not if we owe HMRC 2 million and there are football debts.If we owe the taxman 2 million they'll want all of it before they let us off the hook.I believe there's a stadium payment due soon as well, thet'll be another 1.8 million on the ever increasing debt as well.

But Kevin we aren't actually any sort of option. We're in administration with massive debts and no secure future. There will be no signings until our very existence is confirmed. all speculation about signings is just a waste of time just now.Right now Brentford or Millwall or Swindon Town are better options because they'll still be there next season for sure.

But it wasn't so great as to accept it on the spot either was it? If the first offer had been any good it would have been accepted, it wasn't so that tells us a lot about it. I mean why would people want to buy the club,it won't interest serious investors because there's no money to be made and a big debt to be tackled. It's got to be people who are interested in Saints football and those aren't legion. We've been looking for investment for 3 years now and haven't found much.

Anyway if reports of the 'offers' are anywhere near correct he'd need to cut back to about 3K/week to be of any interest to us.Blokes like him with a year left on his contract at 12K (apparently) a week are just a turn off to any prospective buyer. So someone buys the club for a reasonable sum,there's no guarantee that we can offload him and in theory he'd be able to shaft us for 12K a week all next season as well,in League 1 if you please.Don't forget he signed fully under Wilde so probably doesn't have a relegation clause in his contract.

He can be cheap as chips and would still make no difference to us unless we get someone to buy out the club as a going concern.

Who thought he was great then he's just an administrator after all. We don't really know what he's been doing apart from a few soundbites. Don't see that he's any different from any other administrator really.

Won't damage them at all, they'll be plenty of Barclay's Bank clients who'll be as pleased as punch if we go under.It's only football and SFC isn't a global brand.

Having the funds doesn't necessarily mean they're offering them. I think the proof of funds stage was before we got relegated or hit with a 10 point deduction. The candidates have assessed the clubs position and potential and have apparently made initial offers. Other than that we know nothing. However going by some of the speculative posts on this forum it would appear that certain think that the whole affair could be obtained for 8 or 10 million £, which probably isn't correct.I'm sure that if push came to shove the stadium could be sold of for around 10 million and the other bits and pieces for another 8 or so. So no offer under 15/16 million would be accepted for total debt wipe out (IMO of course).After that it's all just posturing and negociation but it is taking too long (once again IMO) . The bank and the other creditors won't wait for ever, another month and it'll be all over, but then the admins know that, so do the bidders.

I think a lot of fans travel up from Milwaukee and Madison as well; 100K population is deceptive.There are over 1.5 million in Greater Milwaukee.

They might have gone to the cricket, or have more worthy pursuits today.

Do you know what's on offer then?? Could be derisory sums (for the time being). doubt if the admins will accept 5 or 6 million or silly figures like that.

Hooker probably told him, MB doesn't do plumbers, taxi drivers or hairdressers.

The rumour was that Rasiak ratted Burley out about drinking and wenching but it was just a forum story so probably not true.

They must think they'll get more if they wind us up then. 15/20 million was probably the ante, less than that they'll get by selling us up lock stock and barrel.