| Former Swansea City Supporters Trust Chairman Hits Back At Selling Shareholders 23:01 - Jan 2 with 16431 views | swanseajack4eva |
Well done Phil - a good response to the Rob Davies outburst on Dai Sport. Lets see if the BBC will carry this story like they reported the PR spin from Rob Davies.
http://www.dai-sport.com/former-swansea-city-supporters-trust-chairman-hits-back
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Former Swansea City Supporters Trust Chairman Hits Back At Selling Shareholders
Posted on 2nd January 2018 by Graham Thomas
Former Swansea City Supporters Trust chairman Phil Sumbler has accused Rob Davies of trying to de-stabilise the club following his attack on the fans organisation.
In an interview with Dai Sport on New Year’s Day, ex-shareholder Davies criticised the Trust for “trying to break the club” and suggested the Swans could soon go the way of Blackburn Rovers under controversial owners, Venky’s unless fans backed current chairman Huw Jenkins.
But Sumbler — who stood down from the Supporters Trust six weeks ago and has since formed the Swansea City Supporters Alliance — has rejected Davies’s claims.
Not only does Sumbler point the finger at Davies for trying to deflect attention away from Jenkins, but he insists the actions of the Trust during the period of the takeover by Americans Steve Kaplan and Jason Levien have been misrepresented by the former shareholder.
Davies — who contributed £100,000 to help save the club in 2002 — sold his stake for around £9m in July 2016 when the sale went through. He backed Jenkins’ recent claim that the Supporters Trust knew all about the American offer and instead rejected the chance to sell their stake for £20m.
But Sumbler has dismissed those suggestions and said: “I am bemused by Rob Davies’s comments and his claims are just not true.
“It seems he is trying to de-stabilise the club following the reaction of fans to recent comments by the chairman. He is not someone who normally puts his head above the parapet.
“People will make their own judgements over what has happened at Swansea City over the past couple of years. But the suggestion that the supporters — the only shareholder who gained nothing from the sale of the club — have not acted in the best interests of the club just doesn’t wash.”
With the club bottom of the table going into Tuesday night’s home match against Tottenham, and anger towards the board and new owners having simmered throughout 2017, when the club went through their fifth manager in three years, Sumbler believes former shareholders have decided to try and shift the blame onto the Supporters Trust.
He added: “Some of the shareholders seem quite happy to take all the plaudits for what happened after they came in, but less happy to take responsibility for recent events.
“Feelings have been stirred by recent events and so some people have decided to lash out.”
Sumbler has also disputed the claims of Davies that the Trust knew of the intended sale to the Americans as early as March 2016 and were not kept in the dark by the selling shareholders.
He added: “It is simply not true to state that there was a meeting in March 2016, outside of those already outlined by the Trust, and it is laughable that there has been a claim that there was a £20m offer made for the Trust’s shares.
“It is frustrating that whilst the supporters’ organisations are dealing with facts and evidence, the media is allowing other shareholders to make untrue allegations unchallenged and with no substance or proof.
“I have no doubt that this is part of a coordinated and concerted campaign by the former shareholders to discredit the Trust and others who were involved at the time but are no longer part of the Trust board. But the facts are there, and I am sure that the fans will judge these based on what they see and hear which is all that can be asked for.
“The simple fact is that there was clear collusion between the sellers to keep the particulars of the sale away from the Trust until matters were virtually complete and no amount of revisionism will ever change that.”
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| Former Swansea City Supporters Trust Chairman Hits Back At Selling Shareholders on 16:08 - Jan 3 with 2126 views | TheResurrection |
| Former Swansea City Supporters Trust Chairman Hits Back At Selling Shareholders on 15:57 - Jan 3 by Darran |
No personal animosity?
Sounds like you’ve got the hots for him Love. |
Facking condescending, sexist, vile idiot.
Phil Sumbler's lackey. |  |
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| Former Swansea City Supporters Trust Chairman Hits Back At Selling Shareholders on 16:08 - Jan 3 with 2126 views | chad |
| Former Swansea City Supporters Trust Chairman Hits Back At Selling Shareholders on 15:57 - Jan 3 by Darran |
No personal animosity?
Sounds like you’ve got the hots for him Love. |
Thanks for sending me your love Darran honey, very sweet of you x
We need more affection on this website
Ask Phil if he had the hots for him when he shook hands with him
or even did not want us to question them over the sale
I don't think so, but it would fit in with your interesting theories |  | | |
| Former Swansea City Supporters Trust Chairman Hits Back At Selling Shareholders on 16:11 - Jan 3 with 2111 views | chad |
| Former Swansea City Supporters Trust Chairman Hits Back At Selling Shareholders on 16:08 - Jan 3 by TheResurrection |
Facking condescending, sexist, vile idiot.
Phil Sumbler's lackey. |
Indeed just about covers it | | | |
| Former Swansea City Supporters Trust Chairman Hits Back At Selling Shareholders on 16:28 - Jan 3 with 2057 views | londonlisa2001 |
| Former Swansea City Supporters Trust Chairman Hits Back At Selling Shareholders on 15:57 - Jan 3 by Darran |
No personal animosity?
Sounds like you’ve got the hots for him Love. |
It should be possible for a woman to take part in a perfectly reasonable and largely polite exchange of opinions without being subjected to this sort of sexist crap from you Darran.
It's pathetic. |  | | |
| Former Swansea City Supporters Trust Chairman Hits Back At Selling Shareholders on 17:10 - Jan 3 with 1947 views | chad |
| Former Swansea City Supporters Trust Chairman Hits Back At Selling Shareholders on 16:02 - Jan 3 by Uxbridge |
Well, this is awkward ... |
Indeed, we all now know you lot were all hob-nobbing in Morgans
Of course (hopefully) very obviously only joking - very awkward for them but it is good to get an outright admission though
Am I correct in assuming when Jason spoke of a meeting he had with the Trust Lawyers in March 2016 this was the same meeting referred to here
Or was there a separate meeting with the lawyers and Jason and when was that
Thanks Ux | | | |
| Former Swansea City Supporters Trust Chairman Hits Back At Selling Shareholders on 17:20 - Jan 3 with 1922 views | londonlisa2001 |
| Former Swansea City Supporters Trust Chairman Hits Back At Selling Shareholders on 17:10 - Jan 3 by chad |
Indeed, we all now know you lot were all hob-nobbing in Morgans
Of course (hopefully) very obviously only joking - very awkward for them but it is good to get an outright admission though
Am I correct in assuming when Jason spoke of a meeting he had with the Trust Lawyers in March 2016 this was the same meeting referred to here
Or was there a separate meeting with the lawyers and Jason and when was that
Thanks Ux |
Chad, the Trust response the other day outlined the timetable.
They (the sellers) are just scrambling around given different dates as they have now realised that the Trust at least did keep details of who met whom and when and so their attempts to muddy the waters haven't worked. | | | |
| Former Swansea City Supporters Trust Chairman Hits Back At Selling Shareholders on 19:27 - Jan 3 with 1787 views | QJumpingJack |
What was the first game the Americans attended? | | | |
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