Bates knows that there's currently no money in the pot to buy new players and what he is also aware of, is that we need to sell in order generate some money to buy these new players. By holding up the T/O is able to cream off any additional monies that we create before the end of the transfer window as well as pocketing the money from the court case, such as court costs. He knows we also have to sell Rosco so he'll be waiting around for that transfer to go through before his 'slow arousal' process concludes by shafting us. I am predicting that the T/O will go through a few days after the closure of the transfer window so that 'Kim Jong' Bates can feel totally satisfied that he has completely bled us dry.
Load of rubbish pal. You want to get yourself over to JA606 that's where all the doom and gloomers live.