Post by QPR Report on Dec 9, 2009 23:00:04 GMT
Craziness beyond Loftus Road
The Telegraph - Sven-Goran Eriksson 'keen' on rumoured new Notts County takeover
The riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma that is Notts County was becoming even more complex on Wednesday night as rumours emerged that the League Two club could soon be the object of another takeover, with Sven Goran Eriksson, the club’s director of football, understood to keen on the possibility.
By Sandy Macaskill
Eriksson has this week been engaged in informal talks with Peter Trembling, the executive chairman at County, in the hope of securing assurances that Qadbak, the club’s owners, possess the sort of financial clout they had bragged of when they invited him to the negotiating table in July with an offer of employment. They promised funds would be in place that would make feasible their objective of reaching the Premier League in five years.
The Swede signed on a five-year contract, but it has since emerged that he is still waiting to be paid a multimillion pound sum he believes was promised to him by a company associated with Qadbak when he joined. The 61 year-old has become increasingly frustrated that formal sit down talks to resolve the matter, which he was told would be imminent, have still not materialised.
Now, however, Eriksson has been led to believe that a takeover, which would bring fresh investment, is a real possibility. It would be welcomed by the former England manager, who is still committed to his task of turning the club into one capable of moving up the divisions.
He has become involved in local life in Nottingham — he turned on the city’s Christmas lights for instance — but more importantly he has brought in a number of personnel, the manager Hans Backe one of them, who he would be loath to leave in the lurch.
But the plot thickens. Last week Trembling said that Eriksson had been planning a trip to Turin on club business, in the hope of persuading the Italian side to agree to a friendly match to help celebrate County’s centenary. There were mixed reports over whether he actually went. According to a club spokesman he flew out on Monday night, but other sources yesterday claimed that he remained in England.
www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/leaguetwo/nottscounty/6774082/Sven-Goran-Eriksson-keen-on-rumoured-new-Notts-County-takeover.html
The Telegraph - Sven-Goran Eriksson 'keen' on rumoured new Notts County takeover
The riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma that is Notts County was becoming even more complex on Wednesday night as rumours emerged that the League Two club could soon be the object of another takeover, with Sven Goran Eriksson, the club’s director of football, understood to keen on the possibility.
By Sandy Macaskill
Eriksson has this week been engaged in informal talks with Peter Trembling, the executive chairman at County, in the hope of securing assurances that Qadbak, the club’s owners, possess the sort of financial clout they had bragged of when they invited him to the negotiating table in July with an offer of employment. They promised funds would be in place that would make feasible their objective of reaching the Premier League in five years.
The Swede signed on a five-year contract, but it has since emerged that he is still waiting to be paid a multimillion pound sum he believes was promised to him by a company associated with Qadbak when he joined. The 61 year-old has become increasingly frustrated that formal sit down talks to resolve the matter, which he was told would be imminent, have still not materialised.
Now, however, Eriksson has been led to believe that a takeover, which would bring fresh investment, is a real possibility. It would be welcomed by the former England manager, who is still committed to his task of turning the club into one capable of moving up the divisions.
He has become involved in local life in Nottingham — he turned on the city’s Christmas lights for instance — but more importantly he has brought in a number of personnel, the manager Hans Backe one of them, who he would be loath to leave in the lurch.
But the plot thickens. Last week Trembling said that Eriksson had been planning a trip to Turin on club business, in the hope of persuading the Italian side to agree to a friendly match to help celebrate County’s centenary. There were mixed reports over whether he actually went. According to a club spokesman he flew out on Monday night, but other sources yesterday claimed that he remained in England.
www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/leaguetwo/nottscounty/6774082/Sven-Goran-Eriksson-keen-on-rumoured-new-Notts-County-takeover.html