I am not normally one to speculate but reading KLD’s carefully worded statement, specifically, “Our ownership group has been consolidated and
there will be no further sale of shares to a third-party buyer”. It confirms to me what I have thought (hoped) for a while. That KLD has played Donald and Methven like a salmon on a line.
To put out a simple statement like that which says much more than its words, KLD must have everything sewn up and water tight in his favour.
I am convinced that any delay in the sale of shares wasn’t Donald and Methven procrastinating or playing the market, but KLD having a bit of sport with them, knowing the hook was well in and he already had them in the net. No one in their right mind would buy 39% of a football club and have no say over future direction.
I reckon that Donald and Methven have been desperate to sell all along and KLD has waited until they have paid the parachute money back into the club through matched funding. I also reckon that’s why KLD has left Donald with 19%, to make sure he fully reimburses the club
Methven was out of his depth and Donald desperate to sell in order to purchase Eastleigh, but KLD has them by the short and curlies and dancing to his tune.
I hope to god I am right
