There may well have been interest from such people. Whether they were the right people to be taking over ECFC and had the best long-term interests of ECFC at heart is another matter entirely.By the fact that we're having this thread and still have the Trust as majority shareholder the answer could possibly be YES!
If Trust ownership has made it harder for the chancers, charlatans, tax dodgers and asset strippers that bedevil professional football to get their grubby paws on the Club, then for me that is a good thing. Once bitten and all that...