Chief executive David Davies has courted Thorne for some time and the board have been accused by other
interested parties of doing so because a condition of Thorne's bid is that Davies, club chairman Nick
Blackburn and company chairman Ross Jones remain.
Other offers on the table, including the longstanding one from Haleem Kherallah, state that the current
board must move aside.
Kherallah remains keen, while there has been interest from American Tim Krause as well as businessman Paul
Garland and Channel Isalnder Carl Fowler - both of whom have links to Brian Melzack, the man who fronted
a consortium that came close to taking over at Loftus Road.
And a key member of that Melzack group, JR Ivan, has expressed renewed interest having faded from the scene
since his previous bid fell at the first hurdle.