A bit late to the party today due to work commitments, but I've just watched the video. Here's my take.
Admittedly, I've never seen RM do a press conference before, but he picks up the statement and reads it for a few seconds before speaking. It's like he's seeing it for the first time and so he clearly didn't write it himself; these aren't his words. The only personal input from him in that part I suspect was the opener; "Interesting day." Otherwise, his delivery is slightly stilted, he stumbles over some pronunciation and punctuation and there is some incorrect inflection.
This feels like it's all been done in a bit of a rush.
There could be two reasons for that -
1) He's run out of money, there's no more in the pot and we're up the creek in the short term, or
2) The agency he's just appointed have got one or two buyers in mind and it will now progress quite quickly.
Having been involved in the sale and purchase of two or three companies, none of which are anywhere near the size of a football club, I can advise that the process takes a hell of a lot longer than the three or four month timeline Ron hopes for. Blimey, it's hard enough to sell a house in that time.
So, this could be because of the need to sell quickly, which would correlate with option 1, or there has been something going on in the background and there is a buyer/are buyers waiting. A lot of our issues are in the public domain, it won't come as a surprise to anyone that we are late in filing accounts as all that can be found out instantly via Companies House. This fits with option 2.
Now onto his post statement delivery, which was a different Ron, the more usual one. It's No more stilted phrases and just talking, obviously from his perspective but has reached the time of his life where he wants to spend his time doing something else and I guess any of us in our sixties/seventies can relate to that unless we are the lucky ones who have already got to that place.
The whole thing seemed to be quite sad for him, as he says it's not often you see the press lost for words and despite the wording of the statement the overall impression I got was that this is a good thing for the club. There was no rush to leave, he invited them to continue as there would be nothing further until there was something positive.
I wasn't overly positive initially when I heard this but now I do thing it will be the start of a new era, probably with US owners and this should generally lift the mood around the club. I'm leaning toward option 2 being the reason.