Surely now the only way that they can redeem themselves in the eyes of any fans would be to hold a press conference before Saturday to announce:
1. The re-financing of the purchasing loan is complete (Hicks said a deal would be done before the end of the week). None of the acquisition debt has gone on the club, though some of the additional debt incurred since has. (the Telegraph report about a week ago suggested that this was a possibility).
2. After a fierce competition, we have decided on HKS/AFL's plans for the new stadium (I don't care which any more). Building work will begin in the spring, and will be financed in the following way (show how we will stagger the borrowing so that we will still have at least some money for transfers while construction takes place)
3. We would just like to put all of the rumours about Rafa to bed once and for all. He has our complete backing. We did have a problem with him late last year, as we have explained earlier in the week. But we since developed a good working relationship, and have no intention of losing him at this time.
And they need to do this as a joint press conference to help dispel rumours that they are falling out amongst themselves.
Do this, before our next league game, and I think we could draw a line under things.
Assuming this would deal with a lot of people's concerns, does anyone reckon it's even a remote possibility?
I think there's an outside chance of 1) based on the Telegraph reports of the refinancing deal. Though I still think it is more likely that they will put the acquisition debt on the club despite categorically ruling that out when they took over.
I'm hoping 2) is almost a dead cert -they've got to announce this alongside the financing, as why else would the decision have been delayed from that meeting last week?
3) should be simple if they really do back him. Mentioning it alongside the stadium and financing would be a good way of doing it, as to make another statement purely about the manager would just cause even more turmoil.
Unless, of course, all of their public statements on the manager, the stadium and refinancing have been lies.
1. The re-financing of the purchasing loan is complete (Hicks said a deal would be done before the end of the week). None of the acquisition debt has gone on the club, though some of the additional debt incurred since has. (the Telegraph report about a week ago suggested that this was a possibility).
2. After a fierce competition, we have decided on HKS/AFL's plans for the new stadium (I don't care which any more). Building work will begin in the spring, and will be financed in the following way (show how we will stagger the borrowing so that we will still have at least some money for transfers while construction takes place)
3. We would just like to put all of the rumours about Rafa to bed once and for all. He has our complete backing. We did have a problem with him late last year, as we have explained earlier in the week. But we since developed a good working relationship, and have no intention of losing him at this time.
And they need to do this as a joint press conference to help dispel rumours that they are falling out amongst themselves.
Do this, before our next league game, and I think we could draw a line under things.
Assuming this would deal with a lot of people's concerns, does anyone reckon it's even a remote possibility?
I think there's an outside chance of 1) based on the Telegraph reports of the refinancing deal. Though I still think it is more likely that they will put the acquisition debt on the club despite categorically ruling that out when they took over.
I'm hoping 2) is almost a dead cert -they've got to announce this alongside the financing, as why else would the decision have been delayed from that meeting last week?
3) should be simple if they really do back him. Mentioning it alongside the stadium and financing would be a good way of doing it, as to make another statement purely about the manager would just cause even more turmoil.
Unless, of course, all of their public statements on the manager, the stadium and refinancing have been lies.
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