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Thursday, May 24 2012

Oliver Ash and Paul Bowden-Brown agree Maidstone United takeover deal

Oliver Ash

The protracted takeover of Maidstone United has finally been agreed after months of top-level talks between the Stones directors and investors.

Shareholder Oliver Ash (pictured) - who pumped £100,000 into the club just over two years ago - will take over control of the club from Paul Bowden-Brown who has been in charge for 19 years after the demise of the original county town club.

Mr Bowden-Brown is set to walk away from the club - writing off around £400,000 of personal investment - subject to the completion of financial and legal documents and the signing of a contract.

Mr Bowden-Brown said: "It has taken hours of work to get us to this point. Heads of Terms, subject to contract, were signed on Wednesday.

"Oliver and I are very close to a conclusion and we will inform everyone once we have finalised everything and agreed a takeover date."

Thursday, September 09 2010

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  • anon wrote:

    Is it any wonder that the club has been in this mess for many years? Mr P Bowden-Brown has obviously run the club like he did one of his other companies (Commcare) - i.e. not paying employees, bouncing cheques on a regular basis, assuming everyone but him was stupid? not a good thing to do!

    29 Sep 2010 12:36 PM

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  • dave wrote:

    As if I would?, I just think that we need a compleatly new start, and hope that Mr Ash can bring people on board that can help in getting the club moving forward and back to Maidstone..

    09 Sep 2010 7:27 PM

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  • Dave JaVu wrote:

    I hope you aren't saying anything nasty about a certain board member dave! You might get put in detention!

    09 Sep 2010 3:34 PM

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  • genius wrote:

    How do you make a small fortune from owning a football club? Start with a big fortune! Good Luck ;-)

    09 Sep 2010 1:41 PM

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  • dave wrote:

    Hope it also leads to new board members, or will it still be the 4 that got the club into the mess it was in?..

    09 Sep 2010 12:09 PM

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  • Dave JaVu wrote:

    Didn't I read this story about a month ago?

    09 Sep 2010 9:34 AM

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