But it became clear this related to the offloading of some of last season's players rather than any imminent fears of the club facing financial meltdown.
The diary exudes confession under compulsion – of imminent death, the fear of retribution in the afterlife, perhaps – but there is nothing of genuine atonement in it.
For evidence, take a look at the recent debate regarding the future of the short story, whose primary adherents seem to fear imminent extinction.
Steak comes with rice fries — astoundingly dense and rich, like the last scrapings of a pot of sticky rice — an innovation that impresses even as it leaves you suspecting that regular fries need not fear imminent redundancy.
Many people who now fear imminent terrorism have been considering buying a gun when they would never have done so prior to Paris and San Bernardino.
First let me say that while I appreciate your desire to "get in on this open letter thing," that you heard your friends Cinderella and Snow White discussing and I'm happy to provide advice on your imminent divorce, I fear you may not be happy about what I'm going to say.
CIVIL war hasn't begun in Iraq yet, at least not in the open way many feared imminent last week after the bombing of the Shia mosque at Samarra.
TSG, which normally specialises in reproducing crime-related documentation, said it had been passed the data trove because the hacker feared imminent arrest by the FBI.
Scotland Yard and MI5 feared if the UK cell learned of Rauf's arrest they would either try to escape or rush forward their attack, fearing imminent capture.
In the north and south of Baghdad, Shias are digging trenches and building barriers to separate them from their Sunni neighbours, fearing imminent attacks.
