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Donald to meet efl tomorrow

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Tonton Zola Moukoko said:
Heard nothing today unfortunately. Today's meeting was expected to be something of a formality from what i could gather, all questions taken care of from both sides.
Wilder is a disappointment, Donald was pretty sure he had his man. Things change quickly though and others have been spoken to.
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Well i was relying on a bit more hope Tonton lad. Surely we wont have to wait too long. The old farts at the EFL wont want to work Friday evening
 
TaylorBoosh said:
Buzzing because his Mam let him stay up and watch second half on a school night :cool:
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Depends on whether there are corporate lawyers involved. They have all kinds of mystical beliefs, the strongest of which appears to be that any deal signed before 3am after all night negotiations is invalid ;)
 
Tonton Zola Moukoko said:
Heard nothing today unfortunately. Today's meeting was expected to be something of a formality from what i could gather, all questions taken care of from both sides.
Wilder is a disappointment, Donald was pretty sure he had his man. Things change quickly though and others have been spoken to.
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Alright will wait and see what happens next then. Cheers for trying to let us know what's been cracking off throughout.
 
It may be me being the eternal optimist, but:
A) Short is an extremely successful Businessman
B) Donald seems to have come across as a rational guy who is also a Lawyer who runs a successful business and has experience of running a football club (albeit on a far smaller scale) whilst making it pretty much, self sufficient.

Surely they and their advisors must have been through this thing and done it to death, looking for potential hurdles and pitfalls. Short, especially, one would expect to be up to date on the IRS laws and regs with relation to international trading and ethics, as his business is doing deals with foreign companies on a pretty regular basis.

Add this to the fact that Short left 3 hours ago and Donald (we believe) is still in there, obviously still doing something constructive, or if it was a non starter, I would have expected him to be on his bike, also.

Also, if this failed, it would leave a massive cloud over any future chance of someone buying SAFC, as the EFL would be familiar with all of our/Ellis Shorts dirty laundry and one would expect that if it was due to an error on Shorts side, indicating dodgy dealings such as people are implying, with regard to Parachute Payments, then that would have a massive impact on his company as a whole.

I am definitely not in the know, but just trying to add a bit of rationale to the proceedings, for the sake of my own sanity.

But as Confucius has already stated, this is after all, 'SAFC' that we're talking about and anything is possible;).
 
Confucius said:
Yes mate, but again weve lost 3 valuable weeks. Then Short would need to agree a fee with others, then the EFL due diligence again. If this falls through it will be an absolute disaster
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It would be a right kick in the tits but surely if its going to fail its better now than him be shown to be an absolute charlatan in 6 months?

Anyway, its back on now!!
 
Tonton Zola Moukoko said:
Heard nothing today unfortunately. Today's meeting was expected to be something of a formality from what i could gather, all questions taken care of from both sides.
Wilder is a disappointment, Donald was pretty sure he had his man. Things change quickly though and others have been spoken to.
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Hope you arent another mad berb mate ..just saying.
 
By now they will all be having a drop of Scotch and the Chairman will be showing Donald around the Trophy Room. "Aye got get the clock up to 5pm Do't want to give the press the impression we are a bunch of slackers. How was the luch bye the way...?"
 
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