There's another angle to consider here too, although many will be unsympathetic toward it.
The Guardian and Telegraph and Mail have a duty of care to their sources, and even if the Esk is a willing contributor to their articles he is - when all...
The old “we don’t welcome any offers, but would quite like £x” approach will be employed again. Then we will accept a much lower fee with unattainable add ons, just so the press releases will say fee “could rise as high as £x”.
Obvious that we need to sell this summer, but I can't help feeling that him saying it out loud isn't helpful.
Is it going to be Richy all over again, with clubs low-balling us because we are desperate?
I’m with Esk on this one tbh. He’s disputing the claim that an outcome is expected by Saturday- we’ve been hearing that sort of thing from sources close to Moshiri / 777 for months. So it’s fair to be highly sceptical.
This situation could be resolved today IF…
If all the other main creditors - MSP, Metro Bank, Rights &Media Funding, Andy Bell and George Downing - were to get together and agree to in effect work together to force Moshiri’s hand.
With 777...