Viridus_Agmen_100":2qi9d6be said:
Who would spend £300K, which the club has alread been paid...and walk away..with f*ck all?
it's only 6% or so of the estimated deal cost of £5 million (based on vague recollection it may be more). When you're dealing in 7 figure number deals like that it's not as substantial as it sounds. When you exchange contracts on a house you normally pay 10% deposit and you are rarely buying the silence of a whole professional team of solicitors and administrators in that scenario.
What's more telling in my mind is the lack of the further 700k as agreed. If Heaney was as confident as BG and PR make out that they are (in public) you would assume he would have followed through with the agreed exclusivity payments, paid the staff and in doing so answered the great many critics he knows he has.
My own personal conclusion is that 300k was a punt / considered gamble he was willing to take and is prepared to take the loss on the chin if things don't go his way. The full 1 million is a different story and says more about his confidence in the deal than the downpayment of 300k.
That said I don't think he will lose his money happily which is why we are in the hands of the administrator as to when he finally deems it the best way forward to cut him adrift and talk to Brent. Heaney won't turn round and admit defeat, he'll drag this process out until he can do so no longer
