Quote Originally Posted by WTF11 View Post
Exactly how do you know that this takes "very little time"? There are plenty of examples of acquisitions where it has taken months to complete all the relevant processes, and very, VERY few where it has taken the bare few weeks that were available to us before the inability to enter into contracts with new players will (is!) seriously impacting us.

No-one knows how many "skilled administrators" the EFL has, nor how many would be allocated to the task of ODT evaluations on any or all the 48E investor group associated with the LUFC acquisition. What we DO know, is that not one single instance of football administration involvement has ended well for LUFC, ever.

Based on past performance, on the fact that the EFL is no better staffed than any other quango, that our relationship with the EFL is "strained" to say the least, on the fact that the "hard ball" bargaining between the two shareholder children built a fortnights delay into any submission being made to the EFL, we should have worked on the basis that approval wouldn't appear before July (as I suggested), and here we are, in July, and STILL no white smoke, so not nonsense at all, just hard bitten reality.
I know because I used to process such transactions, admittedly not for the EFL.