Greg Lambert: My surreal afternoon at Morecambe FC
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2017 11:40 am
Following his great reporting this week Greg Lambert had the chance to meet Cala yesterday. He's described the meeting in detail including the state of the boardroom which "hasn’t been cleared for five days and [Cala] turns the full milk jug over to demonstrate. The milk doesn’t fall out."
http://www.thevisitor.co.uk/news/meeting-mr-cala-my-surreal-afternoon-at-morecambe-fc-1-8364950
Key Points
http://www.thevisitor.co.uk/news/meeting-mr-cala-my-surreal-afternoon-at-morecambe-fc-1-8364950
Key Points
- “It’s early days, talk is cheap,” says Jim.
- Rod [Taylor] has been trying to keep staff morale up, a personable presence at the ground on a surreal and uncertain day.
- Cala unhappy with the state of the boardroom. “Look at this,” he says to me. “You call this hospitality?”
- Mr Cala’s demeanour is serious, sometimes quite forceful, and he talks very openly.
- Cala on late wages: "If I work for a company and I realise that my company has a hard time to make payments, and a couple of times my pay cheque is late, and I realise that something is wrong, I think I will look for another job. I’m going to start making payments, I have to,” he says. But he stresses that he is not yet officially the owner until the English Football League clears him.
- Cala says he purchased G50’s controlling stake in the club on “Thursday or Friday”, openly telling me how much he agreed to pay for it, a six-figure sum.
- He is critical of the board, saying they are responsible for it being run “like a social club more than than a business”.