BASE14710 Sep 2012 16:23
HERE YOU GO:
1. Ellis deal did not happen. It WAS signed in July a week before it was announced but was legally terminated in the same month. IMO, should have been announced if it was formally terminated.
2. City Index have definitely applied for security of costs. City need to evidence lack of funds to get the order and need the Worldlink Accounts. The termination of the Ellis deal will likely be a great help to City Index. It is likely convenient to Worldlink that they are suspended and have not released accounts.
3. As a result of 1, I understand NONE of the three Premiership Clubs, as of a few days ago, had received a single penny of the amounts committed in the contracts and Worldlink cannot afford to do so. The clubs are all in various stages of trying to work out what they are going to do. I expressly asked if this includes Newcastle and Sunderland and the answer was “Yes”.
4. Partouches involvement is minimal. Just a bog standard referral affiliate with a link on the new site. If anyone clicks through and plays, a small fee is paid. That’s it.
5. Worldlink are NOT involved in the Football League deal.
I’ve had to heavily edit opinion out of this but the above is sound. From a good friend who has spoken to a legitimate source which I cannot disclose but I guarantee this is accurate in the terms of the discloser, “a few days ago”. I asked about her confidence in the information from the source and she responded that it was emphatically 100% as of the time of the conversation (mid last week).