Appareently I meant to say this before. A guy I know is related to the Hill-Wood family and according to him, the sell-out will happen, whether sooner or later, whether its to Carlton or anyone else as the Hill-Wood family have apparently lost interest since the onsert of digital TV, pay per view etc!!!
The phrase he used was 'They're handing over to the Jewish mafia', meaning Danny (Fiszmann???) and David Dein. I don't know the ins and outs of these things, and again, I should stress there was nothing there about time scales or who the ultimate buyer is expected to be; just that there will probably be a buyout eventually. I imagine this doesn't come as too much of a surprise for many.