James Brent, the potential saviour of cash strapped Plymouth, would start with paying staff their long-overdue wages and keeping the club in the Football League. He told the Western Morning News: "If we do facilitate a rescue, our short-term aspiration is to start paying our staff and to be putting in the appropriate corporate structure, but also integrate the club with our existing businesses, to market it well and to drive up short-term revenues.
"We have to clearly address the performance on the pitch and avoid relegation, which is obviously the most realistic aspiration for this year.
"I am not a football expert, but all the advice I'm given suggests this could and should naturally, if strongly-run, be a Championship club.
"As far as a board is concerned, we've had some discussions with Peter Ridsdale but no detailed discussions with anyone other than Peter. He has clearly played an important part in keeping the club alive, and I would be delighted to have further discussions with him at an appropriate stage."