Greg Lambert: My surreal afternoon at Morecambe FC

[Duffman]

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

• “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”.

[P/T Indie]

US based hotel firm - so that's what his main business is

[Joel Ninety]

I'd like to have seen the magic trick he did with the jug of milk.

[kells]

US based hotel firm - so that's what his main business is

I don't think there are any hotels, and by hotels he means idea for a cruise ship http://www.calacorp.com/hotels.

There's also a link on there describing the famous under water resort:

The Undersea Resort is designed to bring guests and large mammals in the same habitat.

[Seasider9601]

Large mammals ??

Is Mr Cala's "wealth" going to sign us Steve McNulty and Jon Parkin ??

[Bryan]

Cala's not my cup of cha. I repeat I think he's full of sh*t and would consider my options with this clown in charge of the club. Talk IS cheap and it sounds like Cala's even cheaper. Who is this bloke to just come into the club and start gobbing off when he isn't even the confirmed owner? Morecambe is a unique club and this bloke just won't fit in. If people say well he's the only option we've got then I will say I don't believe it. That thread on Pompey's resurrection shows that.