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Swansea City: Court date for former directors making unfair dismissal claim
By Dafydd Pritchard

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Huw Jenkins (left) stayed as Swansea chairman when Jason Levien (right) and Steve Kaplan bought the club in 2016
Two former Swansea City directors have been given a court date for their unfair dismissal claim against the club.

Steve Penny, Swansea's former legal director, and Don Keefe, former finance director, left the club in 2016 following Americans Jason Levien and Steve Kaplan's takeover.

The Wales Employment Tribunal hearing will be held at Cardiff and the Vale Magistrates Court on 8 December.

Swansea have declined to comment.

Penny and Keefe were a part of the local consortium which took control of Swansea in 2002.

With Huw Jenkins appointed chairman and Penny and Keefe working as legal and finance directors respectively, the group guided the Swans from the bottom tier of English football to the Premier League in just nine years.

In July 2016, Levien and Kaplan led an American consortium which bought a controlling stake of 68% in the club.

There then followed a boardroom reshuffle, with American investors Robert Hernreich and Romie Chaudhari joining as directors and Leigh Dineen leaving the board despite remaining vice-chairman.

This process also saw Penny and Keefe leave, along with fellow long-time director, the late Gwilym Joseph. None of the three were shareholders.

Speaking to BBC Sport Wales, Penny said: "Having served as directors of the club for 14 years our claim arises out of our forcible removal without notice of ourselves as Legal / HR Director and Finance Director respectively against our wishes."

 

It could be interesting ,although with compensation involved how many skeletons will be released from the cupboards .Hopefully although unlikely this could be the start of the bad press that jerkins is desperate to avoid .

 

Welcome to the crazy world of football.

Fuk it I've had enough.

 

This could open up a can of worms.

 

I hope it does, though I doubt it, probably will be settled out of court.

 

Its amazing how much money you can get from signing a non disclosure contract

 

I don't care who's right or wrong with this or who wins . As long as information in general that's been being hidden surfaces .

 

If I may say if you don't care who's right or wrong then why worry about what information has been hidden ?

 

Then we can all figure who's right or wrong from the info ...The new bosses like to keep us like mushrooms , feed us sh1t and keep us in the daqrk .

 

Ain't that a fact

 

It it makes the sell outs and Yank bastards squrim in public good.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-42331412

Let's hope the big nosed bastard is squirming.

 

'Fictitious board meetings' just about sums up the money grabbing bastard that is Jenkins.................

 

Swansea City owners WTF!!!!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42379755


Updated a bit

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Trust handing over most of their shares soon......The fools..

 

Making America Great again.....

 

Is it a good thing or bad thing having so many investors . It makes me feel uneasy now because I am concerned as to how they are all going to fund transfers.;

 

Do you believe the "investors " are dipping into their pockets to buy players ?

 

There are funds available but not that much according to the EP........The only funds we need is to pay for a new manager.......They keep saying Clement has been No2 at some of the biggest clubs which is true but has any of them clubs ever been in the position we are in as a smallish club who has been punching deservedly over the years above our weight and cant attract the caliber of players his other top clubs can,,,,,We are not Real Madrid we are Swansea City who must aim lower. ..We cant play like them and never will ...So you wont turn things around like you think clement and never will as your system is not for us we dont have the players ....Just go to where you are most suited with a big club as No2 and let us have a proper manager who knows what to do....

 

So far we haven't seen much actual investment in players . Our transfers in have been paid for by transfers out. However most owners in the PL do invest in transfers. My point is how can 25 investors get together to raise transfer funds. Also surely they must realise that if we go down it's going to cost them.