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Football clubs too to some extent. I reckon it’s the way they can pull at heart strings other businesses couldn’t so they get special treatment.

I proper love facts 🤷🏻‍♂️

Fadz out for a few weeks with calf strain Palmer still carrying knee injury that apparently he’s been carrying for a while. Walker I think new knee injury.

That’s my guess. Storey didn’t come through or his bid failed and then we switched tack to King.

The £21m is £7m to HMRC and £14m in Sport England Covid loans. It’s not council funds. Council were owed £230k business rates and another £40k or so.

Id think so, or someone Wasps related.

What’s interesting about Dawkins is news of him considering an offer came out well before the deadline, but he didn’t actually submit an offer until after it.

I wondered if Storey wasn’t A as one of the first bidders. But all those bids were in theory when he was in his own exclusivity period with Sisu so could have been him.

Damn you for pulling me back with an email notification!

Not quite. Though that’s a big thing, There’s 4 bids that weren’t withdrawn: A - £15m so not as high. D - £18m with no due dil and no interim funding. E - Ashley £18m with interim funding. F - £22m with no interim funding. F is the interesting one as technically the highest, I wonder why not...

OK one last one for those that don’t want to delve into the admin report, here’s the list of bidders. Who wants a game of guess who? (It’s explained elsewhere that the exclusivity fee was needed to keep the place running)

I think so. It’s not clear but it says the buyer will TUPE across the staff and they’re going to SDI Retail co 10. Though that looks like a dormant company. Someone smarter than me can look further I should be doing some work.

Page 34 seems to lay out all bids received. Just reading it now. Also mentions Dawkins and Kings bids as a note.

I think that’s right that they’ve only bought the lease. The administrators report mentions staff TUPEing across to “SDI (Retail co 10)” which seems to be an Ashley company. The administrators report is interesting reading though, page 26 goes into the sale process, seems Ashley was the only...

Must be 1601 again. (dammit sorry @Skybluecol I genuinely thought I was in the politics thread)

Id imagine at the first sniff they’d have done what they did in October just earlier.

OK pick any other exhibition centre. My point was it’s unlikely owning the club is essential to the entire operation. Now it’s debt free and with capital to develop it, I can see how there’s a business there. But as people keep telling me Ashley is a smart business man and his ways are...

Probably hoping for a new owner and not to put ACL into admin for obvious reasons.

I can’t see how it could be from my limited knowledge TBF. Would seem a slam dunk appeal.

The fact the club were happy to handle it internally until the press broke it is a pretty good sign things are in hand. They’d have been straight to the press otherwise.