No, that's not all he said. The key thing that Stringy said was that in his call to Milan it seemed that '... at 71 years of age, the court case had taken its toll on Milan.."
As I've said elsewhere on another thread, the implications of this have everything to do with the predicament we are in now and why NP left once (it seems) he discovered that his budget was being cut back further. The Stringer/MM quote is significant as MM had obviously been hoping that the case against him would be thrown out but it hasn't and the day is drawing nearer when it will take place and the verdict delivered. The likely outcome, if guilty, apart from a hefty fine is the football authorities will next promptly bar him from Directorship/control of a football club. MM thus in response to this had probably tightened NP's budget further in the last 2 weeks as he doesn't (understandably from his point of view) want to spend another penny on this loss-making enterprize which he will be forced to divest himself of. If he doesn't get shot of it before the court case he will be forced to sell to a predator for a knock-down price. He stands to lose a lot of money and doesn't want to pay up any more.
