That sort of perfectly puts it. They are not going the legal route, hes suggesting he's considering options. His lawyer Im fairly sure will tell him he's throwing oney downthe drain and that will be the end of it.
If the PL were formally rejecting PIF (which they'd be legally entitled to do, on a number of levels) they'd announce a statement. I suspect whats happened here, is after the PL have gone on record as saying "the option to buy is still open" northing has been forthcoming (not a jot) from the buyer. They've probably contacted the buyer or Staveley and been told it won;t be happening, so have essentially said "ok that door is now shut".
If it was a willing buyer, and the PL had just rejected them, do you not think Staveley would ahve known first, and made her own public statement? Or if they'd told Mike Ashley, before the buyer that they would not kick off if they had even a modicum of interest? We know Staveley is anything but discrete, going all over thepress, including Jim White to declareher intentions.
In simple terms, the buyers walked away, the PL tried to contact them, got no response, closed the case. Ashley sees a big chance to redeem himself and sticks out a wooly press release.
He's played a blinder here, got loads of season tickets and made himself a hero all off the back of a blag takeover to a woman who probably wanted to asset strip the club.
