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Methven still claiming credit


i thought short paid the debt and they handed over the parachute money and syphoned some for themselves or am i wrong ?
 
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Doberman said:
blows my mind that a successful American businessman like Ellis Short didn't see right through that prat to be honest or was he just not bothered by that point and would have sold us to a market trader from Jackie White's if they had offered to take us off his hands?
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Aye think Short just wanted out quickly
 
gastap said:
i thought short paid the debt and they handed over the parachute money and syphoned some for themselves or am i wrong ?
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I think your first premise is about right but in some interview later Donald promised to either pay back the parachute money or pay back a hefty debt that was leveraged on that money. Remember the Dell business where they were originally rumoured to be buying us but then later just set up a significant loan which Donald reckoned only happened because of him and his stellar business reputation not because of the club’s assets as collateral.

Happy to be corrected by @Grumpy Old Man or anyone else with greater insight than me.
 
Ruleigan said:
As big a twat as he is, the TV show proves him absolutely right about the culture they inherited.
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I couldn’t suffer watching STID until we were promoted out of league one so I didn’t see it until years after it was originally broadcast.
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If you watch that show and him in isolation he mostly comes off as OK and at least committed to wanting to do a good job. That match where he promised - was it 40k? - and they gave him the attendance pitch side at half time and he was genuinely over the moon that the goal was achieved.

I think the problem is with other stuff he said outside of STID which I didn’t see / hear myself but obviously happened when he disparaged the town and the people and reckoned we were a bunch of brainless oiks massively inferior to his Eton and Oxbridge education - that was when he shit in his own nest and there was no coming back from that. Similar to Donald and the alleged kidnapping of his daughter - just a pitiful manipulation of the truth to serve his own ends.
 
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