"On Tuesday, we expected the board meeting to accept our proposals. Instead, we found out the board was discussing George Gillett's offer, once again through the press.
"Even on Tuesday night we could get no answers from Mr Moores and Mr Parry, even though we had a representative at the West Ham match.
"The people back in Dubai thought they weren't being told what's going on.
“There was no ultimatum given, but we did make it clear we needed to know quickly if the press conference was going ahead on Monday because DIC officials needed to know if they should book their flights.
"Once word got back to Dubai on Tuesday there were no answers from Liverpool, the word from on high was this is bad for our reputation and it all stops right now.
"We can't understand what had changed since December 4 when after a long search, Liverpool announced we were the best people."