CONFRIMED: Takeover collapsed; Back to square one

[Elm Park Kid]

I can confrim that i'm officially clueless at the moment. No one seems to know what's going on.

[SCIAG]

And escapegoat was also due to someone thinking that scapegoat is actually spelled like that. That was in the days when there were also far more spelling pedants on this forum ...

I believe escapegoat is actually the original, which became scapegoat. And now people get it wrong back as the original.

Escapegoat is actually the French word for snail. As in "Harlee Dean is as slow as an escapegoat".

[Pepe the Horseman]

Escape Goat was Hoffenheim's nickname for Danny Williams.

[Brogue]

Escape Goat was Hoffenheim's nickname for Danny Williams.

Lol I thought it was struggle pig

[bcubed]

The thread was indeed started as confimred by me. However Forbes has been changing the thread title periodically throughout this sorry saga. It’s not been me changing the title.

And for the record I believe the first outing of confimred was a spelling mistake, and I believe it was this thread by urzzzz 11 year ago

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=122931

I thought it predated that, may be wrong, Anyway might as well recycle that thread title

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=70583&p=1595771&hilit=confimred#p1595771

2008

So is this right? It was 2008?
Or was the thread title changed at a later date?

[Pepe the Horseman]

Escape Goat was Hoffenheim's nickname for Danny Williams.

Lol I thought it was struggle pig

Fluchtziege

[Stranded]

I can confrim that i'm officially clueless at the moment. No one seems to know what's going on.

That's either good news, or bad news. Or not news at all.

[Orion1871]

As it is now a Thursday tradition I'd like to say that my sources, my mates nieces dads iguana works at the megastore, say the takeover is extremely close and everyone needs to keep an eye on social media for an announcement. #itk

[traff]

As it is now a Thursday tradition I'd like to say that my sources, my mates nieces dads iguana works at the megastore, say the takeover is extremely close and everyone needs to keep an eye on social media for an announcement. #itk

Finally.

[Stranded]

As it is now a Thursday tradition I'd like to say that my sources, my mates nieces dads iguana works at the megastore, say the takeover is extremely close and everyone needs to keep an eye on social media for an announcement. #itk

Hang on - your mate's niece's Dad doesn't even have an iguana! What do you take us all for?

[Bristol Paul]

I think the Iguana is probably as much clued up as the rest of us

[Millsy]

I can confrim that i'm officially clueless at the moment. No one seems to know what's going on.

Speak for yourself.

Some of us are fully itk.

[Elm Park Kid]

Earnshaw reporting that Selles is equally clueless about the takeover at the moment.

"I want it to happen, and everything inside indicates to me that it is going to happen. How long it takes- I don’t know. I expected it to be done two months ago.

"I think everyone is doing their best, but it is complicated. In terms of trust and belief, I want that to happen, and everyone has good faith in the business transaction to happen, but I cannot confirm when it is going to be done. I am in the same frame of mind as any other person following Reading Football Club- waiting for it to be done so we can move into the next chapter.

"I talk with people inside and everything is going and then this bit is missing but we will get it done, and then something else happens. I think it will happen, but I’m nobody to say it will happen 100 per cent."

[Forbury Lion]

All these delays, teasing the fans, being seen around the town, posting tweets etc....... Now swap Rob Couhig for William Storey and there's no way we'd be as optimistic about the deal finally going through.

Ignoring the PR number he's doing on us (and doing well, to be fair), he does have a positive history in football and no shady past, but even so if he has a consortium behind him (Storey allegedly had one too), how long is it going to be before they look to invest elsewhere?

[Elm Park Kid]

All these delays, teasing the fans, being seen around the town, posting tweets etc....... Now swap Rob Couhig for William Storey and there's no way we'd be as optimistic about the deal finally going through.

Ignoring the PR number he's doing on us (and doing well, to be fair), he does have a positive history in football and no shady past, but even so if he has a consortium behind him (Storey allegedly had one too), how long is it going to be before they look to invest elsewhere?

For what it's worth, I've been told that everything is with Dai now and that Couhig has completely signed off on the deal they came to.

[Sutekh]

All these delays, teasing the fans, being seen around the town, posting tweets etc....... Now swap Rob Couhig for William Storey and there's no way we'd be as optimistic about the deal finally going through.

Ignoring the PR number he's doing on us (and doing well, to be fair), he does have a positive history in football and no shady past, but even so if he has a consortium behind him (Storey allegedly had one too), how long is it going to be before they look to invest elsewhere?

For what it's worth, I've been told that everything is with Dai now and that Couhig has completely signed off on the deal they came to.

Oh god, guess we can all guess what the next news might be.

[Orion1871]

All these delays, teasing the fans, being seen around the town, posting tweets etc....... Now swap Rob Couhig for William Storey and there's no way we'd be as optimistic about the deal finally going through.

Ignoring the PR number he's doing on us (and doing well, to be fair), he does have a positive history in football and no shady past, but even so if he has a consortium behind him (Storey allegedly had one too), how long is it going to be before they look to invest elsewhere?

For what it's worth, I've been told that everything is with Dai now and that Couhig has completely signed off on the deal they came to.

R.I.P. the takeover

[andrew1957]

All these delays, teasing the fans, being seen around the town, posting tweets etc....... Now swap Rob Couhig for William Storey and there's no way we'd be as optimistic about the deal finally going through.

Ignoring the PR number he's doing on us (and doing well, to be fair), he does have a positive history in football and no shady past, but even so if he has a consortium behind him (Storey allegedly had one too), how long is it going to be before they look to invest elsewhere?

For what it's worth, I've been told that everything is with Dai now and that Couhig has completely signed off on the deal they came to.

R.I.P. the takeover

I have had this bad feeling for some time that we made Dai lose face with the Port Vale protest etc and that at the last minute he might pull the plug and just let the club Dai rather than sell. No normal human being would put £20 plus million down the drain but over the last 7 years or so we have seen this guy is by no means normal.

[Elm Park Kid]

For what it's worth, I've been told that everything is with Dai now and that Couhig has completely signed off on the deal they came to.

R.I.P. the takeover

I have had this bad feeling for some time that we made Dai lose face with the Port Vale protest etc and that at the last minute he might pull the plug and just let the club Dai rather than sell. No normal human being would put £20 plus million down the drain but over the last 7 years or so we have seen this guy is by no means normal.

He can't kill the club - it would just go into administration and other groups now have control over who it would be sold on to. All he can do is force us to have a points deduction and get a lot less money.

[WestYorksRoyal]

R.I.P. the takeover

I have had this bad feeling for some time that we made Dai lose face with the Port Vale protest etc and that at the last minute he might pull the plug and just let the club Dai rather than sell. No normal human being would put £20 plus million down the drain but over the last 7 years or so we have seen this guy is by no means normal.

He can't kill the club - it would just go into administration and other groups now have control over who it would be sold on to. All he can do is force us to have a points deduction and get a lot less money.

Plus this stuff about him losing face strikes me as nonsense. I don't know for sure, but his behaviour suggests he genuinely doesn't give a shit and has more pressing issues. I don't think it's a rage fit.