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The £17m currently on the books. Think the rest is now converted to shares now so thats not still sat in Otium.

All of it, its for buying the club (Otium) so all assets and all liabilities.

You'd be crazy to walk away on the promise of millions upon PL promotion! It also cripples the club giving away futures revenues. Needs to be a clean break.

Shows how bad Hoffman's offer is then. If he's saying £1.1m with the debt still in place and needing to be serviced by a new owner then Hoffman's offer for the assets leaving the debt behind is miles out.

Did you forget the part where they moved from London?

ACL also took the club to court on more than one occasion. And of course ACL also started the legal process that led to SISU placing the club into administration.

Great to see the players out and about with the trophy.

Not that I think we'll end up there (although I said that about Northampton) I think people are overestimating the work required to bring the Butts up to L2 standard. Whack a temporary stand opposite the current stand and you easily meet the capacity requirements. Similarly temporary turnstiles...

There was a good one at the weekend. Simon posted the link to the CT live feed on the Hoff potential takeover which said something along the lines of takeover latest and the accompanying tweet said they've done it. The tweet was apparently referring to the U18s win.

Did well to get a 3 year deal at 33. I'd be tempted if he did become available. 8 goals this season in a promotion winning team. His second promotion since he's left us.

#bakerday still lives here doesn't he?

Would the program not be covered by copyright? Surprise the CT can just lift out Fishers piece and reprint it.

There was a January one, Onye talking about how he wasn't answering his phone and then saying he'd been turning down bids. Promptly followed by selling Juke. Can't remember one at the end of the season but there could have been one.

Team GB have their second game of the IIFH Div1B Champs at 7:30 tonight and if you head to Premier Sports facebook page there will be a free stream. Got of to a good start in the tournament yesterday with Blaze's Liam Stewart making his full international debut.

That's why he's not trying to buy the club, he's just trying to buy the assets he wants. So he takes what we would class as the football club (golden share, players, Ryton) and places those assets in a new company leave behind Otium and the debt. Edit: Or just ignore this and read OSB above...

Its not that far fetched. There's been plenty of rumours that he has a financial stake in the club already. Perfectly illustrates the problem with faceless investors.

What if he was the new owner?

Depends what sort of shares they are. Ideally you'd be looking at shares that hold voting rights so people on the board are elected and accountable to the shareholders. No reason you couldn't offer both. Shares for people who are happy to put a grand in and novelty things for those who want to...

It does seem a bit turkeys voting for Christmas. The other thing that I find frustrating is when people will happily ignore facts. I have discussions with my Dad (a lifelong Tory voter) and you can present clear facts and just get something along the lines of 'that can't be true'.

Best way to do it is via a local solicitor. Get them to set up an escrow account and ask people for £100 deposits on £1000 shares. If and when a takeover is ready to proceed the rest is due, if there is no takeover you get your £100 back. Would also need to provide a finance option for people...