RickyF1 wrote:
For the Club or people that is owed money????
You read it the wrong way. It doesn't mean "the best deal for the benefit of the Bradford Bulls club". It means somebody buys the club, he gets the money they pay, that's the deal. And he wants (himself, the administrator) to get the best deal, ie the biggest pile of cash, "for" i.e. in exchange for, the Bradford Bulls club.
As for "there will be a preferred bidder", yes, but isn't that stating the obvious? The administrator will have been examining all the bids ever since they came in, and would know which one, from his perspective, worked the best. There is no horsetrading, so he wil accept that one, unless he gets a better offer.
This is exactly why I personally am certain there is no "done deal" - why would there be? The administrator may know who is the frontrunner but why would he agree a deal before his own deadline?
Anyway, this late bid disproves the done deal theory. The administrator has accepted the bid despite it being past his informal deadline. He had no need to do that, and if it had been a "done deal" then obviously he'd have had the perfect excuse to say "Sorry pal, you're too late", and simply announce his done deal.
Or, it could be a triple bluff, using this late bid to pretend it's not a done deal, at the unwitting expense of the new bidder, who presumably thinks they're in with a chance and have no idea they are wasting their time. But I don't think so. If this bid is the biggest then it will win, if it isn't, then it won't. Simple as.
