Blessed are the Cheesemakers. The Swiss ones, anyway.
BBC Radio Solent reporting (3pm UK time, 10am eastern) that the Swiss bid for Saints are awaiting a contract from the Football League (what contract? That's another story, I'm sure) to close out the deal. They're expecting it to all be wrapped up today or tomorrow.
Hang on, "close it out today or tomorrow"? Sounds like Pinnacle... surely that can't happen again...
Update 1.17pm eastern: The relevant thread on the Saints web forum has now reached a hundred pages, equating to five thousand messages posted on it (since it began on 19 June) and has had (as I write this) 241,518 views. And don't forget, to view it you have to be a registered user so that number doesn't include casual Pompey scummers looking for a classy football club, nor does it include Google's many crawlerbots. Oh, actual news? No, nothing new, the buyer is a member of the Liebherr family, but (it seems) not the Liebherr Holdings company itself. So: not today then, maybe tomorrow?
It's always tomorrow with Saints.
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Finally.. we need an end to the saga... Although my money is on some company buying the club, winding it up and using the land for something else...
Good point Rob. The deciding factors in that might be that (1) the buying company may not necessarily also have to purchase the stadium (the stadium is a separate entity from the Football Club within the holding company) and (2) the land it's built on is currently not allowed to be used for residential purpose - presumably due to the gasworks overshadowing the stadium and the industrial waste underground.
I'm currently feeling optimistic that the Swiss will get it, but the strong rumour is that the current manager (Mark Wotte) will remain in charge if they take over. Remember he was only appointed on the basis that he was cheap: so if they want to keep him, does that mean they're not minted after all?
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