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Eddie, pack your bags and leave us in peace

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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Heskey withdrawn, Madine in.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

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