Jaybako

As threadbare and rock bottom as we are, if we can get the new owner installed or at least ratified before the end of January, and get some embargo’s lifted to allow loans in, I’d ship Ugbo out on loan for the 2nd half of the season to league 1 or 2 as fast possible. Take him out the firing line and hopefully kickstart start him for next season.

Exactly this

It was mentioned sometime last week that one or more interested parties might be in attendance…… although, if we’re going to the lengths of NDA’s to protect anonymity there’s a good chance they might be hidden away in a box.

From memory, that “there is no current evidence that they are bidding”, (or words to that effect). I think that KW meant that the Waltons aren’t currently bidding. what are you thinking he meant?

Apologies, I didn’t realise you were asking a direct question

To suggest FH reporters can’t know for certain that the Waltons aren’t involved because they don’t categorically know who the 12 interested parties are is a bit of a logical fallacy. The admin team have openly stated the Walton’s aren’t involved. It’s perfectly plausible to know who isn’t involved without knowing who is actually involved. By the logic that you’re hinting at then Mr T, Ant & Dec and my old geography teacher could also all be involved because if they were they’d be covered by NDA.

And, daft as it sounds, the link to John Mclure might just be more telling than we’d think too. Other US parties had probably never heard of SWFC before being presented with the sale opportunity and so to them we’re an unknown project with lots of potential. But, for McEvoy to have spoken to JMc a d for him to have been assured first hand how massive we are and what a neglected opportunity we are, I’m not saying that’s his no.1 motivation but I bet it opened his eyes to the scale of what could be. Or maybe I’m just doing what I criticise others for and am putting 2+2 together and getting a wildly speculative 5

Agreed. Of the 2 I think that’d be McEvoy. Id expect Ashley’s plan would be to stay at Hillsboro and ‘update’ it to a better but minimal standard.

Because it had been done. It just later transpired that it was a rotten bid.

For what it’s worth, right from the start my gut has been saying it’ll either be Mike Ashley or John McEvoy. Not ITK and I’ve certainly got no info to back this up, but it just feels likely to be one of those 2. But the beauty and also the agony of this whole process is that we’ll have to wait and see.

KW literally said in an interview that there’s no evidence of the Waltons bidding. That’s not a hidden message or a clever secretive play on words on his behalf - it just means they aren’t one of the 12 bidders. Seems like there’s some confusion over the NDA status. NDA’s mean you can’t reveal the specifics of the deal and who IS involved. Everyone is at full liberty to discuss and even confirm who ISNT involved. KW could release a statement this afternoon saying ‘Neither the Waltons, Father Xmas, H from Steps or Col Gadafi are involved’ and no one would be breaking an NDA. The denial of any Walton involvement is most likely just to temper our expectations and avoid ‘disappointment’ when we finally do get bought by a billionaire, but not the billionaire we’ve all obsessed about.

I considered Mary Bad’un but i remember we had to get rid of her cos she was a trouble maker.

We definitely paid a fee for di canio mate. £3m plus Blinker if my old faded memory serves.

I always thought he was a free to be honest, that’s why I gave him as my answer. Then I read the other posts about the nominal fee. Transfermarket has him listed as a free for what that’s worth.

Ah. Reading upwards, maybe not