Alan McCormack - Why not sold?

[Shrimper2thecore]

This has been going round in my head. When we rejected Millwall's 200k bid, I genuinly stopped worrying about the widding up order as I thought we must have the money to pay.

If (as it clearly seems we do not) have the cash, why was he not sold? Administrators will ensure any valuable assets are sold (at cut prices) to meet debt.

200k was a really good price for a player of Macca's ability. In my opinion he is having his quietiest season for us to date (I don't want to say worst, but he has not been the Macca we grew to love). Centre Mid is the only position we could potentially lose a player, with Grant, JFC, MOUSSA and Sawyer (speaking as regards to when the bid was made).

So why not sold???

Bottow line in it all, Macca is not worth 10 points (on his own) over the course of the season.

This is not slating Macca, or the club really, but has anyone else thought accepting this would have really made sense?

Rejecting it makes me think we must be more than 200k short of the money we need....

 

[The Big Shrimp]

He didn't want to go, might be my guess!

 

[Sean 2]

We owe 2.1 mill.

Might as well keep him and keep trying to delay the tax bloke.

 

[manor15]

When I read they had bid £200k for Macca I thought wow, we must be able to pay off the winding up order. £200k is a lot for him, more than he's worth in my opinion, and I can't understand why we didn't sell him, maybe the club expected another source of income or something but they must have been pretty sure if they rejected that unless TBS is right and it was a case of Macca saying no rather than Ron

 

[mattytheshrimper]

thing is 200k wouldn't have done a lot of good when we need 2.1 million, thats the only logically reason i can think off. or that ron martin really is that dumb.

 

[RobM]

Um..because then we'd only have 13 fit players?

 

[Sean 2]

Um..because then we'd only have 13 fit players?

Yeah, we were probably under a transfer embargo at that time and "uncle" Ron failed to mention it.

 

[DTS]

Macca could have been sold for a tidy profit and we had a ready made replacement in a then happy Sawyer. I personally love Macca but the safety of the club is the upmost priority.

 

[Dick Bate's Protege]

Yeah, we were probably under a transfer embargo at that time and "uncle" Ron failed to mention it.

Would be gutted if true, the man himself told me that the bid was rejected due to being nowhere near the clubs valuation.

 

[Dave of the Match]

If we're -£2.1M or -£1.9M we are still in debt, so keep our good players to boost ourselves in the league before getting points deducted.

 

[Jam_Man]

Macca could have been sold for a tidy profit and we had a ready made replacement in a then happy Sawyer. I personally love Macca but the safety of the club is the upmost priority.

I dont think Ron Martin ever believed we would be in a position to have to sell players.

My guess is that he expected to get a cash injection from Sainsburys and a reprieve from the HMRC for long enough for him to pay it off.

I think the whole issue is that they want paying sooner than he expected to.

As for Sawyer, we had a replacement who may then have gone at Christmas leaving us even shorter on numbers than before.

 

[OldBlueLady]

I still don't believe the bid was ever made, personally.

 

[Jam_Man]

Yeah, we were probably under a transfer embargo at that time and "uncle" Ron failed to mention it.

Surely that only affects incoming players ?

 

[Jam_Man]

I still don't believe the bid was ever made, personally.

What would be the point in publishing a made up story?

 

[South Bank Hank]

What would be the point in publishing a made up story?

...and especially one that could have been so easily (and embarrassingly) disproved at a moment's notice by the other party if it were untrue. With the media/internet as it is, Millwall would certainly have been aware of our claims and made no move to deny our statements.

 

[roots_maul]

I still don't believe the bid was ever made, personally.

I think OBL is right- speaking to a Millwall supporter I work with, he believes that the Millwall slant was they had enquired about Macca, but were given a too higher price for their liking and didn't pursue it.

 

[chapperzUK]

I think OBL is right- speaking to a Millwall supporter I work with, he believes that the Millwall slant was they had enquired about Macca, but were given a too higher price for their liking and didn't pursue it.

So basically, the truth was twisted.

 

[Bielzibubz]

thing is 200k wouldn't have done a lot of good when we need 2.1 million, thats the only logically reason i can think off. or that ron martin really is that dumb.

We don't need £2.1 million now. We need £690.000. The difference, or a portion thereof, between £2.1 million and £690.000 is what will become due in the future as the deadline for payments relating to previous time periods come and go.

My guess is that RM gambled on having the revised plans for the new stadium approved first time the council met to discuss them, that Sainsbury's would have then been guaranteed their land at Roots Hall and subsequently released funding for the development of FF, part of this funding would have then gone to service the outstanding tax bill. Future revenue from the new stadium would have gone towards paying the balance still owed to HMRC. Due to circumstances that have been discussed to death on here and for one reason or another that gamble backfired drastically and thus we find ourselves in the position we do now.

Just my take on thing mind...............

Phil

 

[hindle_666]

I still don't believe the bid was ever made, personally.

spot on
was macca himself made aware?

 

[palexander]

I too believe there was no bid. And for those asking why did ron say there was... Think about, we just offloaded revell and there was a real groundswell of unrest with the king thing and then the real rumour beginning of us being in deep trouble.

Low and behold 10 mins later (and what 30 mins before the deadline) we beat off millwalls 200,000 bid for macca. How conveninet. All of a sudden it looks like we don't need the money whilst at the same time keeping a 'fan favourite' player to appease the fans.

The whole thing was a propaganda excercise that most fell for.