There would likely still be some legal costs involved in documenting this and the club don't, to my knowledge, have an in-house solicitor.
We would also need to appoint replacements. Again, there would be legal costs involved, possibly agent costs, maybe relocation packages or signing bonuses.
The most galling thing about Bond is that it wasn't hindsight as we saw what he was like and still went ahead and appointed him (although it wasn't just Ron, a majority on Shrimperzone were in favour of making him permanent).
We know neither the origin of the rumours or the agenda of the individual spreading those rumours.
We may hear what we believe are collaborating sources but we don't know if they all emanate from the same singular source.
We do know there is a whispering campaign against Sol. We do know he's put certain people's backs up. We do know he's not certain people's cup of tea.
Only a handful of people will be in a position to know his salary. Sol isn't talking, his agent is likely to exaggerate it, there's Ron but are people saying his a credible source now? So what other sources are there: probably the Finance Director, Sol's accountant and solicitor (although they probably aren't local and are unlikely to be the leak), the club solicitor, payroll and at least in theory the rest of the Board, but I don't get the impression Ron involves them in detail. Unless you heard it direct from one of these then it is hearsay, at best second hand but more likely many times more indirect than that and the more indirect it is, the more likely to have been misinterpreted, spun and twisted along the line to suit someone's agenda until it's Chinese whispers.
Players don't know; sponsors don't know; Chris Phillips doesn't know; the club shop staff don't know; Ron's hairdresser doesn't know; fathers of players dropped from the team with a grudge to wield don't know; former club captains with an apparent eye on the job don't know; club gossips being frozen out of the know in the current regime won't know.
Yet these figures are constantly wielded around stated as fact until they are finally accepted as truth through sheer repetition, grinding people down until people assume there's no smoke without fire.
My advice: keep an open mind.
