Somebody on here can correct me on this I'm sure, but didn't the premier league pass a rule wrt takeovers that said you can't takeover by lumping the debt to cover the takeover onto the club?
The club is essentially worth nothing. So a purchase price doesn't come into it mate. Be nominal if anything.
So you can restructure the existing debt and heap it on the club, that's been the game all along, the transition of short term, high interest debt into something else.
There isn't a PL rule about taking over and restructuring existing debt.
Ideally we want someone who comes and wipes the debt and puts finance into the business - that's very unlikely happen.
Secondly we want someone who would partially pay some of the debt, restructure part of it and invest in the business.
Lastly - it will be someone coming in - has an agreement with our current lenders - takes out one big massive overall infrastructure loan - pays our lenders off - and the club is saddled with a big long term debt and the owners sit on the appreciating asset and doesn't invest in the business.
TFG were no 2, Textor i think may be somewhere between 2 and 3 - though tbf I'm speculating.