Ebbsfleet United make plans over player contracts
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Ebbsfleet United will aim to avoid
a repeat of last summer’s squad decimation by asking supporters to
help them sign key players on new contracts.
Ebbsfleet’s entire squad will be out of contract after April 24,
but chairman Duncan Holt revealed he will meet manager Liam Daish
on Friday to prepare a list of personnel they want to
keep.
Mr Holt (pictured) said he hoped "a
supporters’ initiative" could generate enough cash to keep seven or
eight of Fleet’s best players.
Fleet’s financial woes worsened as
it emerged that just 800 of more than 4,000 MyFC members whose
membership was up for renewal last month chose to continue their
support.
The number of members has fallen to
around 4,500, with the club planning to launch a share issue to
raise enough money to see them out of this campaign and into the
next one.
Mr Holt said: "We had somewhere in
the region of 20 per cent renewing. We were obviously hoping for a
lot more, but it gives us something to work with. We are waiting to
see how it affects our cash flow.
"We will now focus on two things,
the share issue, and getting momentum for a campaign to get the
budget to re-sign seven or eight key players.
"It was clear from the supporters
forum that nobody wants a repeat of last year. I’ll sit down with
Liam and talk about who to keep and get some numbers so we can put
them to the supporters as soon as possible.
"Hopefully at the end of April when
the 43-week contacts are up there will be seven or eight contracts
covered by a fans’ initiative."
Mr Holt said the share issue was a
"completely separate thing", but added: "Where the money comes from
doesn’t matter – to sustain where we are and take care of the
deficit we need between £200,000 and £250,000."
He revealed MyFC members would face
a vote on a share issue in the coming weeks and said he hoped it
would allow 75 per cent stakeholder MyFC to release some of its
equity.
Fleet will be looking
to return to winning ways at Wrexham in Blue Square Premier
on Saturday.
Wednesday, March 03 2010
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