This is not the kind of thing where you don't dignify it with an answer, either David Gallop is lying, or this story has legs.
Given everything that has been said in the media about the club recently, this is exactly the sort of thing that you don't answer at night on a Friday without meeting with internal stakeholders and formulating a proper response to. I'd expect a proper press release from the club during the day tomorrow.
But you had the meeting. So why, given recent events, didn't you have a statement ready to go the minute this meeting became public.