Leaving the club as it now is with the loss of Euxton and a mortgage on the Hotel, would be fine and the sign of a decent benefactor of the club but the longer this goes on, it becomes obvious that Ed is more concerned with his own benefits than those of the club.
Everything he has done since knackering the club alongside his partner in crime, the illustrious Phil Gartside, has been to salvage as much as he can for himself. That wouldn't be so bad if he had been truthful with the fans but he hasn't. He has been quoted many times that his main aim in selling the club is to make sure that the buyer is the right buyer to maintain and sustain the future of the club.
Had this been the case, he wouldn't have imposed so many clauses into what he wanted and expected once the sale was completed. As we all now know, it almost put an end to the sale as the FL couldn't ratify the deal because of those conditions and as far as we know, may still halt the sale before the club appear in court on Monday morning.
I will look back on the time of Eddie Davies's tenure as owner of the club as being mixed. Yes we enjoyed the years when we were in the Premiership and competing in Europe but that golden time has been tarnished to the point where only the particles of rust are holding the memories of those times together. What has happened since has show Davies in his true light and I can't for the life of me applaud his tenure as anything but a disaster.
Eddie, please leave our club and severe all ties. We really do not need you.
Eddie, pack your bags and leave us in peace
posted on 5/3/16
Careful SWIE
If he did pack his bags Dean's bid collapses and we will be left searching for a ground and money for the rent to able to fulfil any fixtures.
He might do as you wish with the aid of judge very soon or maybe do it with the aid of Dean.
Whatever he does he'll get some other mug to do it for him shrewd he is.
posted on 5/3/16
Not only shrewd, he says he's a fan! A true fan would never leave the club as he is prepared to do.
If he gets someone else to do it or not, we all know who's in the driving seat.
Heskey withdrawn, Madine in.
posted on 5/3/16
Now you fell for it he's never said he was a fan he's had Marc and Phil say it for him.
posted on 6/3/16
I suppose that might be true but did he say it to Marc and Phil. We will never know.
Not sure if you have seen this or whether or not it's been on the forum previously. It might be something else I missed but here is a little piece that makes interesting reading. After the John Disley saga, it's incredible. I hope it's not true but if it is, it seems as though Deano will jump into bed with anyone who can further his ambition of being a part owner of the club.
After three months of rumour and numerous 48 hour deadlines, there is at last some movement regarding the future of Bolton Wanderers.
On Friday, current owner Eddie Davies named Sports Shield Investments, the group fronted by former striker Dean Holdsworth as the preferred bidder to buy the club. Those hoping for a whiter than white backroom team may be disappointed.
Today it emerged that football agent Ken Anderson is one of Sports Shield’s financial backers. In 2006, as an executive at financial advisory firm Vantis PLC, he formulated a plan for businessman Michael Wilde to buy a large shareholding in Southampton Football Club, in order to oust chairman Rupert Lowe.
Anderson, who had been involved in several liquidations, was quickly sidelined, when it emerged that in October 2005 he was disqualifed as a company director until 2013. His transgressions, which were listed at the Insolvency Service, included diverting funds receivable by a company into personal accounts, VAT discrepancies, and failure to cooperate with receivers.
Wilde’s tenure as chairman of Southampton lasted only months (although he returned later), and the clubs’s parent company was placed into administration in 2009, resulting in a ten point deduction and relegation into League One.
Vantis PLC itself went into administration in June 2010 and two of its executives, were jailed in 2012 for offences relating to abuse of Gift Aid tax relief.
– Richard McCormick