I wonder of the discussion went something like this

ND: "This is the player budget for next season: ?X"

DWJ: "Thanks Neil, our investment in that desk calculator is really paying off now"

MWJ: "It's not much is it"

RM: "No; but I have a cunning plan"

MWJ: "oh Christ!"

DWJ: "oh do tell!"

RM: "Let's phone that Cullum fellow. You know the one who wanted to invest ?20m a while ago and we didn't bother getting back to him"

DWJ: "oh, yes, let's do that. Hurrah, our problems are solved! On The Football Norwich (that's how it goes isn't it, Michael?)"

ND slides across the table photocopy of a EDP article stating that Cullum is no longer interested in investing...

DWJ: "Oh. We'd better issue that "we're thinking hard about stuff" press release then. Anyone want a boiled egg?"

Posted By: BerlinCanary, May 6, 20:39:49