"...which it tried unsuccessfully to offload last year, and...

"...which it tried unsuccessfully to offload last year, and again this year, before its collapse in March."

"Thank you for your interest," Berlin's Sven-Rene Friedel was told. "However, I believe it is quite late in the process to get you involved."

One ponders how hard one did try to offload last year and again this year. Who did they approach? How wide was the net? Was all the too & thro to the US after the SPP collapse only about a preferred buyer? One wonders!