SUFC: The Future SUFC up for sale

[Smiffy]

I'm guessing there is no news today......

Anyone feeling anxious about all of this

Nope. Is what it is unfortunately.

It will remain a **** show until such a time that Kimura manage to wrestle the club from Ron.

By the end of this week would be lovely. But I won't be betting on it. All bets are off with Ron involved.

The one glimmer of hope in all this, is the involvement of Laurie Pinto. If anyone is able to take Ron down and get a deal done, it will be him. An absolute OG of football club brokering & finance. Go get him Laurie.

 

[SUFC2008]

I'm guessing there is no news today......

Anyone feeling anxious about all of this

there won't be any news this week, unfortunately i'm pretty sure of this

 

[BedfordShrimper]

I was at the training ground when we had hardly any players. Paul Sturrock spent the whole training session, and before, and after, on his mobile talking to players and agents. Whilst the existing very few(about 3 or 4 if memory is correct), gently stretched and did light exercises with a fitness coach. It was amazing, as within days, we had a squad. Some diamonds, a few duffs. But a fairly good squad. He pulled off a minor miracle very quickly, with very little money. Well done Paul Sturrock.

Wow. What a terrible time. I wonder who the custodian of our great club was back then, to allow the club to be in such disarray with no players and under a transfer embargo.

 

[Liam AAS]

Maybe Kimura needs to call his bluff. Deal needs to be done before 12th July for HMRC payment etc. They tell him unless he accepts the deal they are out. His ring will quiver and he will fold

Ron needs to pay this if the club isn't sold. Ron is still the chairman and has all the obligations that go along with that. Paying bills & staff (all staff), obtaining saftey certificates, paying suppliers.

That he feels he doesn't need to do this is the measure of the man. He is a complete scumbag.

@davewebbsbrain not a slight at you, just heard lots of talk of this being needed to get over the line by X date.

 

[Strykr]

I don't think anyone here thinks Ron is easy to deal with. I don't think anyone here will be surprised at the complexity of the web Ron has tangled behind the scenes. I don't think anyone will be surprised if Ron is not forth coming with all the information on the financial web and mess he has made. He will give them what he has to. Some he won't mention, so they could get a few surprises after a takeover. (Although they are being extremely thorough to learn everything and not have surprises). They will have to drag some out of him. They will have to go very deep under the covers to learn the rest.
Anyway. That's my take on a little snippet I heard.

Yes you have to assume kimura arent muppets and were fully aware/pre warned of rons levels of utter ****e business.

I hope they stay the course.

As much as its buggering up the season getting a clean break from rm is the main thing.

 

[danbowen]

there won't be any news this week, unfortunately i'm pretty sure of this

These are exactly the sort of posts that cause everyone to have a meltdown and 10s of depressing posts. What makes you think it won’t happen this week? Gut feeling, inside info etc?

 

[Liam AAS]

Yes you have to assume kimura arent muppets and were fully aware/pre warned of rons levels of utter ****e business.

I hope they stay the course.

As much as its buggering up the season getting a clean break from rm is the main thing.

This is the reason things have taken so long. Can you imagine doing a deep dive into Ron Martin's finances? EVERYTHING is linked.

Moreover, his valuation of the deal is based on an unbuilt stadium, one that (sort of) doesn't have planning permission.

It is a wonder an progress has been made at all, the whole thing is a total mess.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

I think we can safely say this is more an expression of feelings than any insight.

Yesterday:

should i be getting excited about 'possible' news that may come this week?

Today:

there won't be any news this week, unfortunately i'm pretty sure of this

 

[Shrimper Brownie]

there won't be any news this week, unfortunately i'm pretty sure of this

Please don’t post things like this without confirming inside knowledge etc. Your post adds no value whatsoever to the thread except for causing more meltdown.

 

[overseas shrimper]

From the Echo 17th July 2010 (just for a bit of nostalgia):


PAUL Sturrock’s rebuilding of Southend United has continued with five new signings.


Sturrock has brought in midfielder Craig Easton, wingers Sofiene Zaaboub and Ryan Hall, defender Mohsni Bilel and his son Blair who plays as a striker.

They have all put pen to paper on one year pre contract agreements and their registration will be completed when the club come out of their transfer embargo.

Easton has also been confirmed as the team’s new captain but Francis Laurent, Jean-Francois Christophe, Franck Moussa and Stuart O’Keefe have all expressed their desire to leave.

Bilel has a son called Blair?

 

[Mr Browns Ghost]

I think we all need to be mindful too of poor old Ron he is a huge huge fan of the club just like you and I and it must be simply heart renching for him seeing Kiruma taking such a long time over the DD and delaying the players he loves so much going unpaid again … I feel for the fella

 

[Callum]

Absolutely embarrassing.

Can’t even pay the physio wow I’m shocked

 

[Strykr]

From the Echo 17th July 2010 (just for a bit of nostalgia):


PAUL Sturrock’s rebuilding of Southend United has continued with five new signings.


Sturrock has brought in midfielder Craig Easton, wingers Sofiene Zaaboub and Ryan Hall, defender Mohsni Bilel and his son Blair who plays as a striker.

They have all put pen to paper on one year pre contract agreements and their registration will be completed when the club come out of their transfer embargo.

Easton has also been confirmed as the team’s new captain but Francis Laurent, Jean-Francois Christophe, Franck Moussa and Stuart O’Keefe have all expressed their desire to leave.

Splitters.

 

[Piledriver]

My understanding from what I have been advised is that Ron is being Ron and is trying to squeeze more and more out of Kimuira and is using the tactic of there being another interested party to put pressure on them.

Whether that party exists or whether it is a figament of Ron's imagination to be used as a negotiating tool is unknown, though the feeling is that there is no firm second bid.

Ron is now in a poker game, and I hope he realises that he has a weak hand. If not, and he overplays his hand, then we could be left with just Ron in the picture........................a situation that I am certain we would all dread.

Yes has all the signs of Ron doing a Bury fc and stuffing up the only bidder in town ...

 

[Gorgy21]

I'm guessing there is no news today......

Anyone feeling anxious about all of this

I will be if it drags on in to July

 

[Ozzer]

Bilel has a son called Blair?

And it's true he did play as a striker. He wasn't a real one.

 

[Gorgy21]

If the Kimura deal goes through.I wonder if they know a good sparky to fix the dodgy scoreboard

 

[Jasrod]

Woke up this morning feeling fine
Southend United on my mind
So I opened up the latest thread on Shrimperzone

‘Oh’

 

[TJC]

If the Kimura deal goes through.I wonder if they know a good sparky to fix the dodgy scoreboard

I think we would be just as well to re-order another one from AliExpress. I'm sure it would still arrive faster than the deal being concluded!
Better still, restore the one underneath. That is a classic piece of the towns history!

 

[Stan33]

If the Kimura deal goes through.I wonder if they know a good sparky to fix the dodgy scoreboard

And public address system