The only thing Ron Noades cared about was himself. He knew Goldberg could never make it work and so rather than find a buyer who could actually take the club forward he kept the assets on a crazy leaseback basis that was of total disadvantage to the club and basically lined his pockets. Goldberg was an imbecile to do it, which at the time I found hard to understand. He ran a very profitable staff recruitment firm from an office in Bromley where I worked a couple floors above at the time. All his business acumen seemed to evaporate!
It was one of the most disastrous events in the clubs history and one that took years to put right.
I agree with the comments about him selling off all the decent players and then money went back to him, not into the club.

Dunno if this has been mentioned, apologies if it has, but with Parish adamant he retains control, I'd assume the Americans couldn't sell to just one buyer as they would own more than Parish? Finding 2 buyers who would have to take equal shares and not have overall say on the club will be hard, surely?

It was reported on BBC that the Qatari consortium that owns PSG were looking at possibility of buying a Premier League club. If true would certainly solve our lack of transfer funds and investment for new stand.

Parish, Harris and Blitzer each own 18% so Harris and Blitzer have 36% to Parish's 18%.Parish might run the club on a day-to-day basis but he doesn't retain overall control.

A lot of time has passed since those days so my recollection might be somewhat awry but I will assert what I believe Noades mentioned.

Noades said he was informed that CPFC was valued at £18 Mill but to sell shares for £10 Mill making the total value £28 Mill
Goldberg offered £30 mill but came up with I think nearly £23 Mill.

Noades said he would throw in freehold of ground as package on 5 yr deal but this never worked out.
Noades said that at completion Goldberg only had £18 Mill so he lent him £5 Mill to complete the deal.
Noades offered to stay on for 1 year to allow Goldberg to settle in but Goldberg wanted to run the club straight away.

This is my recollection of Noades account of events and with the passage of time it might not be wholly accurate.

If the club does get sold I hope it is not to some wealthy tyrants like the Qatari Royal Family. Parish has his flaws but he doesn't advocate stoning adulterers and gay people to death. A club like ours is much better in the hands of people who care about the club and the community, in my opinion.