Turk Thrust

Rich, I thought it was one of my better puns, worthy of Milton Jones ?

Who was that Roman Governor who sentenced Christ to be crucified? Oh yes, Pontius Pikelet.

He’s the one that we want.......

Who was that Roman Governor who sentenced Christ to be crucified? Oh yes, Pontius Pikelet.

Who was that Roman Governor who sentenced Christ to be crucified? Oh yes, Pontius Pikelet.

Who was that Roman Governor who sentenced Christ to be crucified? Oh yes, Pontius Pikelet.

Do not stand or sit on top of the train - was that it? 

Well, quite often? Since I’ve nothing else to do, apart from sipping a rather fine cognac, slightly warmed, I went back through my last 50 posts and I’ve pulled someone up on spelling or grammar exactly 6 times. Is that quite often? And my brain is currently slightly sozzled so I don’t really understand the modernist bit. A literary modernist is someone who  uses spelling and grammar in a novel, non-traditional way I think. My one such usage is the emoticon for a full stop which I admit I made up, but sounds so good I may have created a new grammatical style.

Well, quite often? Since I’ve nothing else to do, apart from sipping a rather fine cognac, slightly warmed, I went back through my last 50 posts and I’ve pulled someone up on spelling or grammar exactly 6 times. Is that quite often? And my brain is currently slightly sozzled so I don’t really understand the modernist bit. A literary modernist is someone who  uses spelling and grammar in a novel, non-traditional way I think. My one such usage is the emoticon for a full stop which I admit I made up, but sounds so good I may have created a new grammatical style.

And CBX1985  using “affects” instead of “effects “ in a previous post an hour ago. Nothing escapes us orthographists and grammatologists ?

And CBX1985  using “affects” instead of “effects “ in a previous post an hour ago. Nothing escapes us orthographists and grammatologists ?

Rightly chastened. 

And CBX1985  using “affects” instead of “effects “ in a previous post an hour ago. Nothing escapes us orthographists and grammatologists ?

He didn't carry on because the purchase is inextricably tied into Derby exiting admin.  It's all going to be done in one single group of transactions.  And there's always the chance that one of the alternate bidders wants the stadium themselves, in which case it's just made everything even more complicated if it's already been sold.
And as for the second bit, just give over.  I know Morris has made a complete mess of things, but there's no way he's deliberately trying to destroy the club. He's spent a crazy amount of his own money over the last few years, it makes no sense.  As far as I'm concerned he probably bought us with fairly reasonable intentions, made a lot of bad decisions, got in over his head, and ran away.  That's it. No evil genius trying to destroy the club. No mastermind trying to rob the club of it's millions.  Just a load of stupid decisions in a row.

Without responding to specific posts, I don't blame Quantuma for keeping the details of the bids confidential until they've got to an acceptable bid. The EFL has clearly leaked like a sieve during the whole process, with details from closed meetings being fed to selected journalists (does anyone think that this hasn't been happening?!) If the bidders have also demanded that the details of their bids is kept confidential, would some of you prefer it if their bids were disregarded? 
It would be ideal to have the game's governing body fully engaged in this process, but when they've clearly shown that they can't keep discipline within their own organisation, and there are serious concerns about the intentions of some of the club representatives towards DCFC, I'm not surprised that both Quantuma and the bidding parties are reluctant to trust them. 
 

Have they been unwell?

Have they been unwell?

Have they been unwell?

You obviously have no knowledge of the legal implications of not abiding by NDAs or the GDPR

The law applies to any ‘processing of personal data’, and will catch most businesses and organisations, whatever their size.

This is getting forgotten about.  The EFL’s response goes on about how administration works, options, what Quantuma have or haven’t done, etc and then there’s this throw away bit at the end.  No doubt when asked by the EFL, Quantuma probably pointed out that they can’t due to NDAs, etc.  They probably advised the EFL to seek express permission from the bidders legal teams.  This has been done - for all we know it could have been done 10mins before the reply to Ramstrust was sent.  Quantuma have dealt with the request correctly, despite the message the EFL are trying to send.

Quantuma did respond to the original letter, Caerphilly, they just said nothing.
"We have since corresponded with Quantuma to ask what the deadline is for receiving bids. The response was that although it has been made clear to bidders that timescales are short, no specific deadlines have been set, but there is good progress."
That's why RamsTrust composed the second letter, which was a bit more forceful and was agreed and signed by several of the supporters groups. You are right that so far Quantuma haven't responded to that one! 
I feel there are two separate conflicts here.
The first one is between prospective bidders, who are carefully leaking selective information to the press in the hope of pushing rivals into making statements that give them insight into where they should be pitching their own bids.
The second one is a war of attrition between Quantuma and the EFL, with neither of them trusting the other.
I think the EFL are convinced that Quantuma aren't playing with a straight bat and appear to be manipulating the bidding process in support of their preferred purchasers, rather than running an open competition. I would imagine that the EFL are very suspicious that the former owner might have something to do with that.
I think that Quantuma are very suspicious of the EFL's motives in wanting confidential information that may be used against them by the EFL in making threats against the future status of the club and then interfering in the bidding process. Are Quantuma thinking this completely independently, or is a former owner putting these suspicions into their head? 
I like your optimistic take on events. Mine is less so, in that I can see no sensible reason for Quantuma spending so long on Kirchner and his bid if they thought there were other credible bids out there.
I therefore think they are trying to fool someone to throw enough cash on the table to get us out of this mess whilst satisfying the intransigent demands of the former owner. I am increasingly thinking they won't succeed and I think the EFL think the same, hence the current standoff. I hope you're right and I'm wrong!

Rubbish, they are only in negotiations with the administrators, they cannot force the bidders to disclose anything to a Third party.

You obviously have no knowledge of the legal implications of not abiding by NDAs or the GDPR

You obviously have no knowledge of the legal implications of not abiding by NDAs or the GDPR