The Peter Kenyon story doesn't seem to add up financially for me - Rockefeller Capital Management only manage net assets of around £10bn. That includes the value of all current assets, not how much cash they have at hand. They control advisory assets of £4bn. I can't imagine they'd want to invest that in a football club, since it'll take about a quarter of their entire wealth to get us to the point where we might - if we displace Man City, Man Utd, Arsenal, Liverpool, and Spurs - become a brand worth more than that sort of investment. It'd be a huge risk for a venture capitalist. These things are better left to rich individuals who just want something fun to play with, rather than firms whose entire existence depends on investing for profit - particularly when the current owner's valuation is already too high. Maybe there's someone like that who is also part of the picture, but it's difficult to say. We do know Kenyon/Rockefeller was linked a month ago so this isn't a new story, but he's also one of Ashley's mates so hard to know if he's complicit in just another PR stunt so Ashley has an excuse not to spend in January, again, again. Saying that, the Staveley-led takeover was legit, but Ashley just wouldn't play ball.

Might be other buyers lined up, as has been said, but the Kenyon thing doesn't fit for me on the surface.