I think its likely contract length BCC. I don't think money comes into it as such. Thats easily sorted with bonuses for keeping them up etc.
The trouble is.... these people waiting in the wings.. if they were the 'preferred' bidders they would have been in first. They weren't. The other lot were chosen in front of them which begs the question 'who the **** are they!!!'
The reason Cellini has never passed a PL fit & proper persons test, is because he's never owned a Premier League club, and therefore never had to sit one.
dear god no ..... just as you think we may be turning the corner to happier times this slaps us in the face.