There's reporting on this and I posted it some time ago but CBA to find it now. It clearly implicated the potential selling of the club as the reason behind the Sammy-summer...and it suggested that one of the groups was of Saudi origin...I posted it here to counter the typical "Levy will only sell to unicorn farmers" that goes on around these parts.
That summer was always fishy and I'm sure covid didn't help. But the interesting part of that article was that the numbers being offered were like half of any of the numbers bandied about this forum