[Official Site] CLUB STATEMENT: NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS

I suppose most clubs have done things like that with players but ours at the time seemed to misjudge almost most decisions rather than the odd one that got away most clubs make .
Also if they don’t do something about the West Stand in next few years we won’t be able to modernise it as it’ll be a world heritage site

 

Can the club issue another statement please.

21 words should do it. Ending in


See ya, *****

 

I’ve every confidence it will be all explained in’t Chron. Thank goodness it’s Friday tomorrow

 

Do you think any of that lot who have just been booted out ever owned any part of us, or Nice or any of the other clubs in the portfolio? I don't, maybe a few shares. As I've said from the start, they're not billionaires and they're probably not even millionaires. They're an investment company/group/consortium, they're not investors themselves. They invest other people's money. That's what their job always was, they go to work, and it continued to be.

 

I don't think they deserve even that. Given they were too petty to state they'd made a pigs ear of Murphy leaving and wouldn't put out a statement, I think they deserve the exact same level of contempt.

 

if I had to guess I would say the chien holding in part has gone to the new lady on the board. A small element held by the original group will be retained and if goes to plan sold to her over time. Decisions are made by the board which previously was dominated by Conway, Lee etc

 

So who would vote Lee and Conway off the board of directors ?
??

 

Exactly.

 

I was told by as they say someone close to the club that basic data for the spreadsheet was based on the Sunday paper ratings. It was someone job to input all the rating into the system and then they could see the top rated in each position in the champs league 1and 2. When Johnson got the job he knew recruitment was numbers based but had no idea where it came from wasn't too impressed when he found out.

 

Fully agree. I've long said that investment funds were likely involved given how Conway and Lee had previously got acquainted. I do suspect Chien Lee has a number of shares in the HK vehicle, primarily because of the statement placed with companies house citing it so. But no, like you, I was wary from the get go, and the more time that went by, the less sense it all made. At least some of the pelters aimed from certain quarters over the years can be put to bed and scepticism has been vindicated.

More information to come though, many questions still to be raised and answered and maybe this time we get straight answers from the start of this next phase of ownership.

 

The lack of season ticket sales !

 

I've just looked on Companies House, yes all gone as Directors. I can not find anything to supersede the 2018 position on shareholders showing the person with significant control, ie over 75% of shares is the Hong Kong group. For them to have been removed, they have been voted off (its not listed as a resignation at CH) so either they voted themselves off (or abstained while the 20% brigade did so) or there has been a change in the HK ownership who decided to vote them off.
Two bits of chaos theory for you conspiracy theorists:
1. New (Beijing puppet) leader of HK "elected" the other day.
2. Tories announce in Queens speech yesterday the creation of a new football regulator who might put a stop to murky corporate/foreign ownership
BTW you can do a Companies House check on line for HK Companies House but I can't be a3sed and have put the money towards renewing. Its enough of a step in the right direction

 

Cynicism is justified given the history but tragic some cannot be even slightly encouraged by this news.

 

The investors of the HK investment company which owns the club, it would seem.

 

Chuff me a could rewer, hope this is the start of something great, chuffed t bits

 

Although I rejoice in the news conway is off the board , I feel there is a little bit of pillocking going on . What about the useless CEO?