SUFC: The Future SUFC up for sale

[Medway Blue]

So @Medway you clearly have some trusted sources which has provided you and then us with some up to date news over the past few weeks (well as much as you could say). You are suggesting that over the weekend as far as you are concerned things were progressing. Are your sources able to confirm that this is still so?

Otherwise @leeblue through his sources are saying the complete opposite and that the deal has fallen down. Im assuming he heard that today so do we assume therefore that in fact the deal has fallen down

As you both seem to be the ones ITK in this instance it would be useful to have this clarified one way or the other

Like I said Jon, I would be surprised if what leeblue has said is true, but that doesn't mean that it isn't. Ron Martin has been surprising us all, and not in a good way, for 25 years. If there were one person with the unique ability to **** things up at the death and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, it's Ron ****ing Martin.

I had a decent stream of info as recently as Saturday afternoon from what I would consider to be very trustworthy sources (I won't say who they are or ask them to back me up) which made me feel very confident that things are progressing well and are a long way down the line, i.e. at a stage where any wrangling over price should have been concluded. It is based on that info that I would be shocked for a group that has put so much work in to pull out at such a late stage because "it's too expensive". If it was too expensive then I struggle to see how it would have gotten this far.

That's not to say that something hasn't cropped up in the last 36 hours though. RM moving some goalposts, or a disagreement over part of a debt, or something.

I'm trying to do some digging but I haven't heard anything from anybody that I speak to to back-up leeblue's info. Yet.

 

[Shrimper]

Without doubt RM has been moving the goalposts again.

Or refusing to budge from a ridiculous asking price. At some point he will have to move

 

[RONMARTINOUT]

The price was agreed last time though so I am not surprised for one if things have changed at all. Could it be as a result of the recent acquisition of land by his sons company?

 

[annie1954]

As always the Monday rumours are in full swing on shrimperzone on we go into another week

 

[Smiffy]

The price was agreed last time though so I am not surprised for one if things have changed at all. Could it be as a result of the recent acquisition of land by his sons company?

If you mean the Cecil Jones land, that was acquired a year ago. But for some reason not reported on until now.

 

[RONMARTINOUT]

If you mean the Cecil Jones land, that was acquired a year ago. But for some reason not reported on until now.

Yes that is what I meant, thats weird in itself

 

[bazzashrimper]

Yes that is what I meant, thats weird in itself

That’s the echo though - and not a weird that can be attributed to RM

 

[damien]

A bit like the marvel series What if.... What if Ron Martin knew he was 6 months ago from getting the green light on fossetts and in his final play for time duped everyone into believing the club was for sale. Only to become the multi millionaire owner splashing the cash we have all dreamt of

 

[flangejackrabbit]

Yes that is what I meant, thats weird in itself

Not really, the reason it will have come out now is that schools have to report on land disposals over the last year and this will have been picked out of the list. It was land that always needed to be acquired for the development.

 

[GSW Shrimper]

The day Ron Martin is finally no longer apart of this club will be a truly magnificent day. I wonder if he is deluded enough to think staying on is a option

 

[shrimperjon]

Like I said Jon, I would be surprised if what leeblue has said is true, but that doesn't mean that it isn't. Ron Martin has been surprising us all, and not in a good way, for 25 years. If there were one person with the unique ability to **** things up at the death and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, it's Ron ****ing Martin.

I had a decent stream of info as recently as Saturday afternoon from what I would consider to be very trustworthy sources (I won't say who they are or ask them to back me up) which made me feel very confident that things are progressing well and are a long way down the line, i.e. at a stage where any wrangling over price should have been concluded. It is based on that info that I would be shocked for a group that has put so much work in to pull out at such a late stage because "it's too expensive". If it was too expensive then I struggle to see how it would have gotten this far.

That's not to say that something hasn't cropped up in the last 36 hours though. RM moving some goalposts, or a disagreement over part of a debt, or something.

I'm trying to do some digging but I haven't heard anything from anybody that I speak to to back-up leeblue's info. Yet.

Thanks MB, thats good enough for me

 

[Jasrod]

Not really, the reason it will have come out now is that schools have to report on land disposals over the last year and this will have been picked out of the list. It was land that always needed to be acquired for the development.

Has there been a development??

 

[shrimperjon]

This implies you've got sources who have confirmed Lee's story?

apologies, ignore me. Medway Blue appears to be the one to listen to, my information channel on this occasion may have been wrong

 

[Medway Blue]

apologies, ignore me. Medway Blue appears to be the one to listen to

Comes with a massive caveat as always, Jon. I can only be confident based on what I've been told. Never, ever rule out anything completely where Ron Martin is involved. I haven't heard anything *yet* to backup what leeblue has said, but it might just be that the info hasn't filtered through to the people that I speak to yet.

I have sent some messages out to ask and for all I know, I could get a message back this evening confirming that leeblue is on the money.

*As things stand* I don't believe anything has changed, and I'm not panicking yet.

 

[TJC]

Agree, the only way this is true (I’m not suggesting it is or isn’t btw) is if either Ron or the Aussies have reneged on the price that had already been agreed. Too much work had gone on for it to suddenly collapse like this. Not that it’s impossible to believe though.

If true (again, not saying it is or isn’t), it could very well be a negotiation tactic from the buyers, and not necessarily Ron’s doing*. Why go to the lengths of having the owners checks completed and meeting the players/back room staff, only to pull out at the last minute due to the price?

*I’ll caveat that by saying Ron is still a massive helmet and you can’t rule out any ****housery from him

Haven't we been around this loop before?

 

[shrimper61]

As always the Monday rumours are in full swing on shrimperzone on we go into another week

Still waiting for someone to post, its going to be good news this week or next week, yet again for the umpteenth Monday. There is still time

 

[Ozzer]

The price was agreed last time though so I am not surprised for one if things have changed at all. Could it be as a result of the recent acquisition of land by his sons company?

It's not recent, it was last year.

 

[Ozzer]

Still waiting for someone to post, its going to be good news this week or next week, yet again for the umpteenth Monday. There is still time

"In the next two weeks" is always a good one

 

[Cricko]

Still waiting for someone to post, its going to be good news this week or next week, yet again for the umpteenth Monday. There is still time

95%.

 

[borientater]

... and this put the debts back firmly with Ron. I guess we will see what his true motives are, payup himself or let SUFC go into administration. I doubt if he will be granted any further adjournments without proof of any interested parties and with any football debt outstanding I think the FL will carry out everything they have already outlined. Just gets me so mad that all these debts are being laid against a LTD company not Ron himself.
Just hope we have someone who still could stop this nightmare.

Won’t go into administration we will cease to exist