Matt Richie

[Sharpe]

I hear Bournemouth is a nice place this time of year.

[Peter Venkman]

http://www.afcb.co.uk/news/article/2013-01-30-cherries-sign-matt-ritchie-629109.aspx

[donkey]

No official confirmation. Just from the Adver.

My orange hat is in the wardrobe...it may be seen again soon.

[LittleRed]

It's quite possible this was the bit about avoiding administration - if Black won't pay Febs bills and the new guys can't do anything without FL sign-off, we'd have been fucked.

This dont make sense, black funds feb, McCrory gives black the money and he keeps matt Ritchie, we maintain our push for the championship. If we have indeed sold him to Bournemouth we could even meet them in the playoffs let alone competing with them for an automatic spot. The consortium are running the club alongside current board apparently so both parties would have to be in agreement. The lack of response from the club suggests this is true and a simple statement would quash this.

[Ardiles]

What a fucking shambles.  It's like the Fjortoft sale all over again.

And to Bournemouth, FFS.  Matt deserved better than that.

[RobertT]

Has the takeover actually gone through (not being facetious, but could do with someone pointing me in the direction of actual confirmation)?

Agreement reached, FL have to sanction it though, so it could take days or weeks to complete legally.

[BruceChatwin]

I imagine there's a lot of arm waving and gesticulation.

Hope he has an extra special reinforced dugout in his house with Fabrizio Piccareta in the corner to get him through this.

[lambourn red]

PDC will be gone within 24 hours there is no way he will put up with this

[DiV]

But who is going to pay the bills if neither the current owner will, or the new owner can?

I'm sure someone somewhere somewhere could have covered January's bills.

Fuck sake surely Black could have put it in and put an extra 250k or whatever into the deal.

We've lost out on 750kish here for no fucking reason

[RobertT]

This dont make sense, black funds feb, McCrory gives black the money and he keeps matt Ritchie, we maintain our push for the championship. If we have indeed sold him to Bournemouth we could even meet them in the playoffs let alone competing with them for an automatic spot. The consortium are running the club alongside current board apparently so both parties would have to be in agreement. The lack of response from the club suggests this is true and a simple statement would quash this.

It was made clear on the radio last night that Black would not fund Feb.

[ghanimah]

Comments like this make signing Ritchie even more enjoyable.

Doesn't than 4-0 drubbing you gave us back in September seem like an eternity ago now?

 

No not really, we're 3rd, one game in hand...we've been here before with other teams gloating only for it not to quite work out in hindsight...

[Batch]

What a fucking shambles.  It's like the Fjortoft sale all over again.

And to Bournemouth, FFS.  Matt deserved better than that.

 

[Samdy Gray]

I'm with OST now, I think I want to cry.

I hope that positive comments re: reasons for the sale are forthcoming, but right now it feels like 5 years of hard work undone in a single afternoon.

[DiV]

Worse than the Greer sale? DV?

It's certainly up there in levels of stupidity.

[donkey]

Agreement reached, FL have to sanction it though, so it could take days or weeks to complete legally.

Is that the only problem then?  OK, not too bad.  Although given the new owners first act, they've got a lot of work to do to win me round (and a few others I suspect).