Nottingham Forest owner critical after fresh comments from potential US buyers.
Positivity is beginning to creep in around Nottingham Forest again after a number of impressive deadline day signings and two wins from their last three games.
Club owner Fawaz Al-Hasawi has been voicing his commitment over the past few weeks despite scepticism from fans, after a proposed takeover fell through in early January.
Nottingham Forest owner Fawaz Al Hasawi
Trevor Watkins, lawyer for the consortium led by US buyers John Jay Moores and Charles Noell, yesterday told The BBC they were left ‘bemused’ by the breakdown, commenting: “If we knew why it keeled over at the last minute we would have tried to put it right.”
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Al-Hasawi reacted on Twitter to the comments, and it does not sound like he is willing to re-engage in discussions with the group at this present time.
Al-Hasawi was the subject of protests from disgruntled Nottingham Forest fans, and the team are still in the bottom half of the table without a manager.
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He issued a further statement on Twitter insisting he believes the club will soon be back on track, and that confidentiality clauses have prevented him speaking in detail in public about the failed negotiations.
Whether this is a deal supporters want or not, it does not look like they are going to get it, with Al-Hasawi digging his heels in, and further interest and attention from the US consortium is only serving to antagonise him.
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