Dundee FC --- The Dees

Dundee hope backer Calum Melville will remain at club

Dundee remain hopeful that major investor Calum Melville will remain at the First Division club.

Melville has tendered his resignation at Dens Park but Dundee held an emergency board meeting on Monday and have not yet accepted his departure.

After the 90-minute meeting the Dundee directors said they planned to hold further talks later this week.

Melville has invested £1.3m in the club and fears have been expressed over Dundee's financial future.

Earlier, the club confirmed they had not yet accepted Melville's resignation.

The news of Melville's intended resignation came on the day when former manager Jocky Scott and assistant Ray Farningham were due to take the club to an industrial tribunal.

But that case - the pair were claiming compensation from Dundee following their sacking - was postponed until January..........


http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/d/dundee/9015786.stm

Dundee face administration threat over tax bill

By Jim Spence

Dundee face a £250,000 bill from the taxman that could force them into administration, according to a spokesman for the football club.

A senior Dens Park source told BBC Scotland: "HMRC are looking for the payment immediately.

"And they are being completely inflexible, with no room for negotiation at all."

Dundee had already been plunged into crisis after major investor Calum Melville tendered his resignation.

....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/d/dundee/9034209.stm

:o

Zitat von CMB71:
Dundee to go into administration

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/d/dundee/9044022.stm


Das sieht zappenduster aus....

Leider heisst das in Schottland ja nix. Die fangen nächste Saison in der TD an und sind in 2 Jahren wieder in der FD........
Livi lässt grüßen....... :ugly

O.k., aber Gretna war Mileson, bzw. umgekehrt.
Dundee war nicht immer Melville (oder jemand anders) und wenn ich das richtig verstanden habe, will Melville (oder ein Konsortium) ja noch mal 200.000,- Pfund locker machen, um das Allerschlimmste zu vermeiden.....

Zitat von CMB71:
Zitat von barocogo:
O.k., aber Gretna war Mileson, bzw. umgekehrt.
Dundee war nicht immer Melville (oder jemand anders) und wenn ich das richtig verstanden habe, will Melville (oder ein Konsortium) ja noch mal 200.000,- Pfund locker machen, um das Allerschlimmste zu vermeiden.....

Es wäre wünschenswert...

Sehe ich auch so, bin zwar kein Sympathisant von den Deens, wie du (glaub ich? ;) ), aber sie sind als einer der großen Traditionsclubs ja auch ein Zuschauermagnet und für viele andere Teams ein potentieller Derbygegner... da wäre das doch sehr schade.

Di Stefano wants control Dundee
Former Dundee director Giovanni di Stefano has reiterated his desire to assume "full and authoritarian control" of the stricken club.

The Irn-Bru First Division club are to go into administration for the second time in seven years after failing to negotiate a deal to pay a tax bill of £365,000.

Di Stefano, whose clients have included Saddam Hussein and Charles Bronson, was on the board when Dundee went into administration in November 2003, and resigned two months later.

However, he remains aggrieved about the manner in which he was asked to step down and on Saturday released a statement outlining his position.

Accountancy company PKF confirmed on Saturday they had been asked to act as administrator by the board after a failure to negotiate a deal with HMRC despite director Calum Melville pledging £200,000 for the fund.

Di Stefano said: "Conservative estimates place the figure involved to discharge liabilities and continue the club as a going concern to complete the season at some £2million, perhaps even more.

"Owning a football club is a passion not a profitable concern and since Mr Melville has already pledged some £200,000 it is by far short of what is required (a) to avoid administration (b) to complete the season and more important (c) to avoid civil and /or criminal prosecution for running an insolvent enterprise.

"Since none of the directors have had the heart to state the position as it is then I do so in order that the supporters can truly understand the de facto position.

"If this club indeed goes into administration I will contact the administrator with a view to acquiring the 'goodwill' element of the club in order to ensure that it maintains its sporting status with the SFL and if, underlining if, agreements can be reached with players/staff/grounds."

Di Stefano claimed he was wrongly blamed for the club's failure to attract investment when he quit in 2004, and added: "There will be no repeats in the event of my taking full and authoritarian control of the club."

http://www.newsnow.co.uk/A/450215891?-1042

Nun muss das Trainerteam aufgrund der finanziellen Lage gehen... : http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/d/dundee/9085810.stm

Zitat von Eintracht1874:
Nun muss das Trainerteam aufgrund der finanziellen Lage gehen... : http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/d/dundee/9085810.stm

Nicht nur das Trainerteam, auch 9 Spieler wurden entlassen:


Those who lost their jobs

Players
Paul McHale
Eric Paton
Mickael Antoine-Curier
Colin McMenamin
Scott Fox
Dominic Shimmin
Charlie Grant
Brian Kerr
Njazi Kuqi

Management/Coaching
Gordon Chisholm
Billy Dodds
John Holt

Staff
Neil Cosgrove

http://www.dundeefc.co.uk/news/news_detail.asp?h=SAVAGE-DAY---THE-LISTS&newsid=1242

Neues Trainerteam:

Interim management
Barry Smith - Manager
Robert Douglas - Assistant manager
Matt Lockwood- Assistant manager

Uh, das ist allerdings heftig...

Fans and Giovanni di Stefano vie for Dundee ownership

Dundee fans could face a battle with former director Giovanni di Stefano for the ownership of the financially-stricken First Division club.

Bob Brannan's resignation from club's board was confirmed as he pledged to make his shares available to the fans.

The departure of main benefactor Calum Melville and George Knight were also announced by administrator PKF.

But Di Stefano has written to the club's administrator confirming his interest in purchasing the club.

The flamboyant Italian lawyer, who was on the board when the club last went into administration in 2003, has asked Bryan Jackson to provide him with a figure outlining the club's liabilities and an estimated amount needed to fund them through the season.

Jackson was called into the club last week after an investigation into unpaid taxes brought the club's financial problems into public view.

The administrator revealed that the club's debt was around £2m - £420,000 being owed to the tax authorities - and Jackson concluded that the club had a 50% chance of survival.

He quickly moved to make nine players redundant along with manager Gordon Chisholm, assistant Billy Dodds, youth coach John Holt and kit-man Neil Cosgrove.

Now three directors have followed them out of Dens Park, including Knight, who joined the board as the representative of fans group Dee4Life the last time Dundee entered administration.

Melville had offered to quit a month ago amid difficulties in his personal business life and sources suggest that he still intends to fulfil his pledge to hand over £200,000 to help the club through their administration period.

He is believed to have deposited £50,000 in a club bank account last week and has told Jackson that he will release three more instalments before the end of the year.

Brannan admitted that mistakes had been made but stressed that the club had "eliminated a mountain of bank debt inherited from the administration of 2003".

"It breaks my heart to see its future threatened once again," he said. "The change of strategy adopted in 2009 has clearly failed.

"Calum Melville initially invested heavily with a view to achieving rapid promotion back to the SPL.


Brannan and Knight helped the club recover from previous administration
"It is a matter of public record that he committed to funding the club through to the end of season 2010/11.

"However, anticipated revenues from operating activities have failed to materialise, the funding gap has grown and Calum's own personal circumstances have changed, all contributing to the current situation."

The club's supporters have already consulted Stirling Albion about their fans' buy-out.

"I have stated many times in the past that it is my desire that the club be owned by the fans," said Brannan.

"Consequently, the 54% of shares currently controlled by me will be made available to the administrator so that he can utilise these for fundraising purposes.

"It is my strong hope that the fans can generate sufficient funds to own and operate the club."

However, Brannan warned that it was only Melville's cash injection that kept Dundee a full-time club.

"Prior to Calum coming along, the club was operating with an annualised deficit of over £300,000 and the only real option available was part-time football," he said.

"Attendances were barely 3,500 again, including a large number of concessions. But for a cup-tie with Celtic and the sale of Kevin MacDonald, things could have become extremely difficult."

Brannan said his biggest achievement was consistently being able to meet wage and tax payments until falling behind this year.

Responding to suggestions that people were hired having been given a false impression of the club's finances, the former chairman insisted: "All contractual obligations entered into by the board were on the basis of committed funding, without which we would not have been able to file the company's accounts in March 2010."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/d/dundee/9108031.stm


Da bin ich mal gespannnt. Die Dees Fans hatten sich ja bei den Binos nach den Modalitäten erkundigt und scheinen nun ernst machen zu wollen.