by Sutekh »
28 Mar 2024 11:08
Snowflake Royal WestYorksRoyal Stranded So if it is Chiron then what we have learnt over the past few days:
William Storey potentially put any deal back a couple of months, and could even have scuppered a realistic deal but putting in a phantom 50m deal which put an unrealistic figure in Dai's head.
Then Wycombe's interest in the training ground lead directly to Chiron walking away - it was only that falling through that brought them back to the table, arguably putting the announcement of exclusivity (and potential sale) back even further.
So all in all it weren't for charlatans and vultures, we may have been sold weeks ago.
Sadly it will ever be that way in the game. The Athletic are currently doing a series on shysters, and Storey seems like the least damaging of the lot so far. Derby and Sheffield United both went into periods of exclusivity with individuals who went on to be convicted for fraud. Though we take the prize for actually agreeing to sell to a Russian "billionaire" who didn't have any money.
Howe has clearly weeded out a lot of time wasters this time, though he still doesn't have my full trust due to the aforementioned Russian "billionaire".
Zing was never suggested to be a billionaire. His father was the billionaire, but his involvement was oversold
Yes, Boris (his father) was the money man but, as I recall, his businesses ran into difficulties just after Anton had "bought" the club and his father therefore turned the money for his son's "hobbies" off thus, I guess, the need for "mortgaging" of the club's projected PL earnings for a Vibrac loan and trying to stave off relegation with, pretty much, a Championship squad. Shows what quality BM was as a manager to keep the club fighting respectably for so long.
Reading FC doesn't seem to get much luck at this Premier League thing does it?