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If HMV cannot survive after closing many shops and re-positioning their business, I cannot see how Game will continue. Their online prices are always going to be beaten by the retailers that do not have shops and staff to pay for. Will be interesting to see if they get through 2019

Mike Askley has his carving knife ready. He will not make an offer for the whole group but will pick and choose which stores he wants and buy them from the administrators. One thing for certain is that he will not want their glitzy head office building in London or the overpaid staff. Sad to see but sadly this is the future for Debenhams

Anyone have any ideas as to how Debenhams can get through this Christmas given the bloodbath on the high street

Luke Johnson will claim that he has so many business interests that he was unaware of the issues at Gail’s. To rectify this he is going to sell Gail’s to PV for 3 times it’s real value making himself richer and reducing the share price of PV further. He will then take PV private for £50m again making him much richer. Small shareholders lose but who cares as long as the rich get richer.

Interesting to see that Chris marsh and Paul May are both directors of the above company. They obviously have a very close working relationship

Think that it is Luke Johnson’s plan to create as much uncertainty as possible and delay the process so that the share price falls as much as possible. I can see the price falling to 50p and Luke Johnson then offering a £1 to take it private. He wins, small shareholders lose. It’s a great game for some

I know Raab claims to be a black belt but still think May could take him in a fight!

I knew that one May would go today!

I see that the CEO has gone today. Non CEO, no FD and a black hole in the accounts. If only we could buy some shares, this looks like a great well run company!

Maybe this is an early Black Friday deal?

Strange choice to leave Costa and join Debenhams, must have been made a great offer as could be a very short term contract. If the company goes into administration in my experience the administrators usually keep the property director on to help them sell the leases though

I do not want any companies to go bust but given the reduction everyone has had in disposable income, something has to give so that the others can survive.

Debenhams has been in terminal decline for 5 years. They have done well to struggle through but time to close the doors. It is a retailer that is no longer relevant in 2018

Think you will find that the FD and MD have granted themselves and cashed in millions of pounds. Will be interesting to see if the FD sings like a canary when in court facing a possible prison term and brings down others?

Did anyone go to the meeting today? Was Paul May and Luke Johnson wearing masks? Did anyone ask Paul May (who knew nothing about the accounting scandal) why he sold so many shares just before the story broke? So many unanswered questions

Who is prepared to sell out at 50p a share which is what the directors will be prepared to pay? The directors will I am sure come out making money out of this

All small shareholders should go to the ATM and demand Paul May resigns

Simple, the directors are helping themselves to your money. The floated the company to gain cheap finance and now they want to take it private again on the cheap and there is nothing anyone can do to stop this.

So according to FT the current CEO and former finance director made millions cashing in share options a few months ago. Meanwhile the small shareholders could be looking at a 90% loss in the share price when it starts trading again. This is wrong but there is nothing that the shareholders can do. Will Paul May be granting himself further options at 50p to reward all of his hard work? Think that he deserves it

Does anyone know if PV are having supplier issues? I would imagine most are nervous about supplying with credit?