by bigmick » Tue Aug 10, 2010 9:22 am
Look, lets be serious for a second here and forget all the total b0ll0cks that those "in the know" reckon they know. Lets put all that aside, and just use our common sense for a bit.
You've got a bank who want their money back, two owners who are desperate to sell and a deadline rapidly approaching. Anybody who's serious about buying the club couldn't possibly have an alignment of circumstances more in their favour. That being the case, why the feck would anybody reveal their bid before they absolutely have to and risk getting involved in a struggle which will push the price up? Would you, if you wanted to buy it? Would you feck, you'd sit on your hands and let the clock tick towards October 1st. You'd probably save yourself a couple of hundred million quid. You might even wait until the bank repossess it if you can get away with it, they'll be looking to offload it fairly sharpish afterwards at a knock down price.
Broughton (who is doing a good job IMHO) can say "I want all bids in by Thursday" all he wants, he knows and everyone knows that an eleventh hour smash and grab job would almost certainly succeed, just as it does in any business sale. Providing any late movers get in before any agreements in principle have been signed (and these two c...s won't be signing any of them until every single avenue has been explored), they'll be happy to let all the skirmishing take place between the also rans.
That's my point anyway. The real buyer IMHO will be keeping their cards close to their chests. It may well be this Sahara lot from India if you ask me (although nobody ever does obviously).
"se e in una bottigla ed e bianco, e latte".