Horray - someone else is taking legal action against us

[Fred Elliot]

Town insist BEST offered the figure as a pay-off for any future development on a handwritten note and this was never agreed to by anyone at Swindon.

yes, sounds like they thought of a convenient excuse at the last minute. I'm not sure the truth of this will ever come out.

I wonder if the contract itself was written on a single ply toilet roll with negotiations taking place in the toliet of a back road petrol station with a Gisters Pasty for refreshment?

Is it wrong that the first thing I thought about when reading that was Gloryholes ?

[Sussex]

Is it wrong that the first thing I thought about when reading that was Gloryholes ?

Speaking of which. They've boarded up the toilets at Milton interchange on the A34 for that very reason.

Apparently.

[Colin Todd]

We'll never know for sure, but if yesterday's statement was released as a response to Monday's meeting and also trying to limit the scale of the protests it's backfired somewhat. The recriminations are now public.

Agreed. If the general fanbase can get their heads round what the Wills / Diamandis are actually asking for then they well be as angry as I am

The revelations of the past couple of days have made me even more angry as details creep out of teh woodwork.

[land_of_bo]

the 50/50 was a late addition as well, so BEST needn't have offered anything instead of the other.  they could sith there with their original offer and say fuck you.

It's bollocks from the club, hence their careful wording of the statement they put out.

So now £8m deals are written on a bit of note paper are they??

Not an angry reply by the way, my venom is directed at the owner and his advisor

 

I would've loved it if BEST had unleashed the dark side of the force on Diamandis and co...I hope the new investor is equally well connected.

[ghanimah]

So now £8m deals are written on a bit of note paper are they??

That's what he meant by 'minor paperwork' then

[STFCBird]

Is it wrong that the first thing I thought about when reading that was Gloryholes ?

Speaking of which. They've boarded up the toilets at Milton interchange on the A34 for that very reason.

Apparently.

How do you know this? Coz I'm not swinging

[RobertT]

How long before the "Selling a Football Club" con appears on the Real Hustle?

You need:

A couple of people to pretend to be Board of Directors, it's ok if they lack experience as their role will be superficial, although they should be half decent at English to allow a few "prgrammes" to be cobbled together to make the club look real.

A mark, preferably someone who might be interested in a property deal but be that little bit more flash to as to be enticed by the prospect of using a football club to do it.

A slightly run down football club, there should be 1 or two going begging.  You'll have to pretend to be fan and have some way of suggesting some available cash.  In extreme circumstances you might have to pretend to run this club for a long time before the con coes to fruition, but it's worth it.

Someone able to pretend to know how to run a CVA, this is essential for showing how bad the club is, which in turn helps show the development potential for the club as massive.

A plot of land, you need not own it, just suggest that with a bit of work with the local council it's all up for development, if only someone could invest in the club to start the process.

basically, with all this in place you need to produce a few mock-ups of new grounds and how the site may look with houses on it (no need to have a real bit of land available to build the ground on).  Offer the club to the rich and daft, show them that the financial state is dire, hence you absolute need to sell and sell.  Drop into conversation about the development you were working on and show them the potential for millions to be made.  All you need is a bit of working capital to pay the bills and a small cut of many millions owed to the business.

If done well, this can be repeated many times using all the same material.

[ghanimah]

Are you suggesting Rob, that Sandy Gray is the 'Sexy Swindler'  :shock:

[Power to people]

I see it also confirms by Starnes that the only people in the negotiations from Swindon side were Diamandis & James Wills so it was Diamandis that kept adding the clauses as we suspected.