Source: FOOTYMAD
Cherries Reject Russians
The Board at Dean Court have rejected an approach from a Russian consortium to buy the Club. An apparent approach to buy the Club by a Russian consortium has been rejected by the currect board at Dean Court. Speaking in the Bournemouth Evening Echo, Cherries Chairman, Eddie Mitchell is quoted as saying: "I didn’t come into the club to make a quick buck and sell it. I came in to stabilise it and believe we have done that. I don’t think it would be right to open dialogue with foreign investors whose intentions, I believe, would be to control the club. I don’t want to lose control while I’m doing a good job and, if asked, I think most people would say that we are doing a good job. I don’t think that this club, or any other club, really needs vast investment from people who are treating it as a business, only to then find that, when they are not so enthused, they take away the assets and leave the club back where it started. I am trying to build the club with the supporters. Everybody is working hard to raise money for the club to grow it in a very modest way to the maximum it can with the budget it has got. We still have quite a long way to go with that. But I think we can attract bigger crowds and have got in place the right people to keep us in this league and, one day, take us further. I think we have got bigger achievements to come at this club".
