It would seem to me from trying to put all the snippets of information I can find that the club as been bought for just £1 down plus £7.5 million to be spent by the new owners until the end of the season.
After that they are committed to invest a further £12.5 million for the next 5 years.
Now I would guess this £7.5 million is an amount of £3 million to pay the tax bill and £4.5 million to pay the difference between income and expenditure until the end of the season - in other words to allow the club to trade at breakeven until the end of July.
I suspect the further £12.5 million will at least for 2016/17 season again be used to meet the shortfall of the running costs whilst we still have big player wages to be met.
Davies still apparently retains a debt of £15 million in the club.
Maybe this is because if Holdsworth trys to sell the club he would have to find £15 million from the sale to pay back Davies and so maybe there is no incentive to sell the club on.
If this is the case and there is no point selling the club in the short term the best plan would therefore be to make the club as successful and profitable as it can for at least the next few years and either hopefully get back to the Premier riches (£99 million just for finishing bottom without the need to even win a single point next season - madness) or make someone else want to buy it and make a handsome profit on the deal.
If so this is good for the club as the mind set is to go forward and not sell off the crown jewels.
I can't see on the surface much if any transfer budget to spend unless additional investment is made, so I guess the business will have to reduce its costs and maximise its income the best it can to give some flexibility.
Whoever is investing into the club will obviously want a healthy return for doing so, so maybe they will be more willing to take a risk and provide additional investment - maybe like how Davies personally bought players (Anelka) and pocketed the money when they were sold.
It would be interesting to see Rammy and Manda's views as they are better place to judge the situation but if I'm right in my assumptions then I think Bolton are in a good place for the next few years financially and we just need to turn things around on the pitch and start winning again in order to at long last to start heading upwards again.
After that they are committed to invest a further £12.5 million for the next 5 years.
Now I would guess this £7.5 million is an amount of £3 million to pay the tax bill and £4.5 million to pay the difference between income and expenditure until the end of the season - in other words to allow the club to trade at breakeven until the end of July.
I suspect the further £12.5 million will at least for 2016/17 season again be used to meet the shortfall of the running costs whilst we still have big player wages to be met.
Davies still apparently retains a debt of £15 million in the club.
Maybe this is because if Holdsworth trys to sell the club he would have to find £15 million from the sale to pay back Davies and so maybe there is no incentive to sell the club on.
If this is the case and there is no point selling the club in the short term the best plan would therefore be to make the club as successful and profitable as it can for at least the next few years and either hopefully get back to the Premier riches (£99 million just for finishing bottom without the need to even win a single point next season - madness) or make someone else want to buy it and make a handsome profit on the deal.
If so this is good for the club as the mind set is to go forward and not sell off the crown jewels.
I can't see on the surface much if any transfer budget to spend unless additional investment is made, so I guess the business will have to reduce its costs and maximise its income the best it can to give some flexibility.
Whoever is investing into the club will obviously want a healthy return for doing so, so maybe they will be more willing to take a risk and provide additional investment - maybe like how Davies personally bought players (Anelka) and pocketed the money when they were sold.
It would be interesting to see Rammy and Manda's views as they are better place to judge the situation but if I'm right in my assumptions then I think Bolton are in a good place for the next few years financially and we just need to turn things around on the pitch and start winning again in order to at long last to start heading upwards again.