Still endless takeover talk, still no press conference imminent. It’s as frustrating as it’s distracting isn’t it?

Being as I was relatively quick on the uptake when the Express & Star initially rubbished claims of Robin Li buying the club from Steve Morgan back on June 30, I have revisited my close contact who confirmed that it was all happening in the first place. He says to expect an announcement tomorrow. (Thursday July 14)

I must state at this juncture that this must be taken with a pinch of salt, being as my original post stated that this deal would be concluded during the week commencing July 4, many days ago now. There may also be a conflict with the recent Telegraph article which stated that Jez Moxey would stay.

So, my update from my contact, who gains his information from someone within the club, is that an announcement will be made tomorrow (Thursday July 14).

The dialogue I had was as follows:

Text on Monday July 11: “The deal is worth £40 million. Robin Li’s men will fill the board, five players will be announced at the same time and the budget is enough to gain promotion at the first attempt.”

I replied with: ‘When do you reckon this will be announced?’

His response: ‘This was the news I was given two minutes ago.’

Later that evening, he followed this up with: ‘They are saying that the Football League has ratified the deal and an announcement is expected soon.’

On Tuesday July 12, he followed this up with: ‘My mate has been in touch. It is Thursday for the announcement. Feel free to use it.’

I replied with: ‘Brilliant!!!! Thank you.’

‘You’re welcome.’

‘We may as well post now Ben. There’s a lot of shite being put about and it is doing the bloggers’ heads in. Everyone else is second guessing. If it turns out to be wrong, at least ours is from my best source and our intentions are good.’

I replied: ‘So it is definitely a done deal and it goes through on Thursday? I will write something first thing if you’re definitely confident.’

He replied: ‘He’s never let me down and I asked him if he minded you writing it up. He said yes, so that tells me it’s kosher. He’s given the ok this time.’

So there you have it folks. As I say, please take this all with a pinch of salt, but my source is confident for an announcement tomorrow.

Don’t shoot the messenger!

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