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A striker would be nice, right enough.

The risk element I was perceiving was from one summary that suggested Estrella could simply pull out of the agreement at any time without penalty. Though I don’t know if that’s accurate, right enough and, as you say, that could be somewhat mitigated by the shares defaulting back to MCT and the surrender of Estrella’s places on the board. I’d ideally hope there would be some sort of safeguarding against a similar situation where the tap is simply turned off as it has with Dalrada. The major difference is that Estrella are football focused and it’s in the best interests of their long term plans to make a success of their investment in Morton, whereas Dalrada’s interest seemed primarily down to one man’s connection to the town.

His money is definitely as good as anyone’s. Wonder if it will actually go through as Black Rooster sponsoring the shirts rather than him personally.

Understandable that they’ve changed their terms given that the club’s finances are markedly different than when they first came into the picture, and they’re laying things out so they won’t be het to pick up the failings of the people that came before them, but it’s also worrying that they could take such a large element of control as a minority stakeholder. Seems there’s a risk that they could walk away if they decide it’s not worth persisting durther down the line and leave us completely up the swanny. On the other hand, it’s a huge risk to turn them down in the hope the current setup will eventually come good and somehow survive the £350k+ black hole from Dalrada’s defaults on sponsorship and promised payments. Rock and a hard place, and doesn’t seem there’s anyone waiting in the wings to come to our rescue. Sad state of affairs.

Posting more from the perspective of being hacked off than realistic. Almost certainly wouldn’t be able to make it stick with the requirements to prove reputational damage.

Could there be a point where Murray’s mewling would constitute bringing his employer in to disrepute and grounds for summary dismissal?

If a contractual situation changes with a sponsor then a team can remove or replace their branding from the kit (e.g. the sponsor goes bust or breaches contract). In this case, if Dalrada have failed to pay the specific portion of their obligation related to the shirt sponsorship, if that was considered discrete and separate to their other contributions, then there should be no issue in slapping another logo on top of theirs. Other significant design changes would likely need approved on a case by case basis and would need to be justifiable.

We can’t afford to carry two left sided defenders in the squad, but an abundance of midfielders? Hopefully this is a sign that Dalrada have ponied up with their late payment(s) and we’ll have enough in the pot to bring some more balance to the squad (though more likely loosening the purse strings in anticipation of the Estrella deal getting approved by MCT members imminently?)

Looks like this teamwear: https://www.totalfootballdirect.com/joma-new-area-goalkeeper-set-dark-grey

I take it that black and grey shirt is the home GK shirt? Looks pretty smart. Don’t see it listed on Smith’s site.

I have enormous respect for MCT for keeping the club going, picking up the reigns from the uncertain spot we were in after Mr Rae passed, for trying to drive us forward and aiming towards sustainability. A huge number of voluntary hours have gone in to this from people who are also dipping in to their pockets each month in to the bargain. Not to say that’s a free pass for everything and anything they enact, agreeing with the members of the MCT board I’ve interacted with who acknowledge that scrutiny is right and proper. I’m not convinced by how GMFC have utilised income from MCT and Dalrada so far, and feel many of the overtures made about new income streams, ground improvement, utilising technological expertise, etc. have not evidently come to very much. We can but hope that once the Estrella deal is fully over the line and they bed in we’ll see some benefits, but for the moment it looks as though we have an under strength, underprepared and underperforming squad without much prospect of adding significantly to it.

Wonder if he has his grandfather Peter’s gift for storytelling?

Has the time differential finally aligned?

He looks quite a muscular fella in his Instagram pics. Did he look like a ‘physical presence’ sort of forward?

I liked that Delaney seemed willing and able to run all day. He showed on a few occasions he could deliver a really good ball in to the box, too, but never consistently enough to say that’s something we’ll be missing in particular now he’s away. Longridge doesn’t have the same legs, so I presume the hope is he’ll be a steadier, consistent option, with less expectation to get forward as often. He could tuck in with the centre backs to make a three to allow the right back to start or join attacks.