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..........But we'll have to wait another week to find out who it is.

I'm a bit worried about the neutral comments with regard to the HRMC issue, but hopefully it will be cleared up by next Friday, the alternative is a very scary prospect............

Hmmmm it is a tad worrying still. I will be glad when/if this is all over!

Well it isn't Mourinho, he will be off to Bayern :wink:

I didn't hear these Martin Keown rumours. An odd name to make up really.

Not really odd, an odder name would be Joey Jo-Jo Junior Shabadoo now thats a great name to make up (thanks Mr Groening :) )

I totally agree Steve that is a fucking worrying prospect.

I dont really understand what the problem is with the HMRC.

We owe them money, its part of the debt he has taken on, they need their money, the consortium have lots of money so 3 or 4 Million SHOULD be peanuts to them.

I have heard its to do with staggered repayments to the HMRC but why not just pay them outright?

Confused slightly by this.

I originally thought it could be to do with negotiating the penalty surcharges, which would be 15% of the tax liability (hence why we have got up to £3m+ owed) but the installments thing does make sense.

We must be losing hundreds of thousands to HMRC in each period in default interest alone
 :?

with some money worries still to be tied up,i cannot see us getting ling.adams or cotterill i reckon

it wont be ling, it will be someone who is not currently employed.

in summary, i agree with arriba.

This is beginning to confuse me slightly.

Surely it's just a case of we owe x amount, we need to pay x amount. What is there to talk about? Fitton was banging on about how much money his backers had, put your money where your bloody mouth is then! With the kinda money he's mentioning, why can't they pay them off?

Concerning, although I'm still confident this will go ahead.

we do owe x amount, but there may be further liability on this, or more debt uncovered when our accounts are finally up-to-date.

i am guessing, in true internet style, that fitton wants guarantee that once he's paid off the tax man then we start with a clean slate.

i don't think HMRC rules allow that though. they don't do deals.

so long as it's not allen i'm not too bothered...

That's my understanding Lebowski.

Fitton does not want to pay £xm off to the tax man think everything's rosie, only for the tax man to come back in a few months asking for more money.

He wants to know what is owed before taking official control of the club and like you say the HMRC cannot give these kind of guarantees.

so, he will either have to bite the bullet and take the risk, or he will pull out.

Im bloody pessimistic about the whole thing

best way to be adje!

also, don't forget that HMRC have been extremely patient up until now.

i wouldn't think they'd be too impressed to wait all this time for their money, and then have someone try and strike a deal with them.

Let's remember that Fitton is doing the negotiating and not the old sack of shite so i'm still confident. Fitton knows what he's doing.

As for the manager well that's anyone guess really isn't it?

it'll be ling and they'll be arranging compo for him

I have a suspicion that it is a manager who is currently employed, because otherwise what harm would their be in naming the new person!

And he wants to negotiate a payment profile that keeps the Revenue happy but enables him to pay over as long a period as possible.

Well Rosenior had the Torquay job again then 48 hours someone else did....

The problem is, if I understood what Mr Fitton said on BBC RS this morning, its a case that right now they don't have the authority to appoint said new manager until the deal is fully complete. Which is likely to be next Friday. Hopefully....

Maurice Malpas (sp ?)  - former NI U21 manager I thin was apparently at the game today and speculation around the ground is that it is him with Byrne as No 2.