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Thread | Selling the club via The Athletic
at 11:51 6 Mar 2023
Owner’s sales pitch to The Athletic
One much-loved, largely-debt-free club for sale, with 3,000-plus careful owners. That is pretty much the pitch from Rochdale director Guy Courtney, who got in touch with The Athletic this week after reading an article about the number of American investors looking for their very own Welcome To Wrexham-type adventure.
Courtney only got involved in the League Two club when they became the focus of a very hostile takeover attempt by a shadowy group of investors who went by the name of Morton House. The fallout from that unfortunate episode left Rochdale with a suspended six-point penalty from the EFL for breaching ownership rules. Now fully owned by their supporters, Rochdale have struggled on the pitch and are staring relegation to the National League full in the face with 11 games to go.
“We’re all fans of Rochdale, so it’s about finding the right strategic partner to help take us forward,” says Courtney. “We’re well-run, off the pitch, and we own our own ground. We don’t have our own training ground but we have found some land. But running a club is not easy and we need capital to modernise almost everything.
“So, if you know anyone looking for a stake in a 116-year-old club, that is not far from an airport, send them my way.” |
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Thread | Keef
at 17:49 21 Nov 2020
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Thread | New website
at 11:22 1 Nov 2020
Morning all. I've created a long overdue webspace as a single repository for all of my articles. I'll still share any new ones I do with this lovely place, too, as the more people who see them the better.
Anyway, here it is:
https://rochdaleafcnews.com |
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Thread | Share sale
at 11:34 3 Jun 2020
I understand the shares owned by Chris Dunphy, Bill Goodwin and Paul Hazelhurst have been sold to a US-based concern.
Keep an eye on Companies House over the coming weeks. |
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Thread | Accrington match thread
at 19:05 9 Apr 2019
Bunney to the bench and Keohane into the starting XI. Clough makes the bench. |
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Thread | Grant Holt autobiography
at 07:33 27 Mar 2019
Grant Holt’s autobiography is finally written and ready.
I’m sure there’ll be lots of Dale-related stuff in there.
He’s been writing this for ages. When I asked him for an interview for the Rochdale Connection, he was writing it even back then - and asked me for payment if I wanted him to talk about his time at Dale!!!
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