Cala Out of the Equation?

[marky No.1]

I've heard it's now Diego v Bernard as to who owns G50.... Bernard wishes to sell to a buyer with money

[mrpotatohead]

Cala, Burnard, Diego, does it matter...any one of them is toxic, and given the fact that whoever it is, the present board are willing to step down , we as fans can do very little, we don't have anyone capable or willing to mount any type of legal challenge to help the club, and not one present director has even given a pointer to any of the fans on how to go about finding info out regarding the ''Christie trust'' , that, lets not forget, PMG had effectively ripped up, 10 years ago.

[Brian C]

Just heard Cala on radio. He didn't sound like he was going anywhere!
Said he had had worked out a deal to let next home match take place by renting the Community block, and has put in an offer to by PMG Leisure which is due to go for sale by auction on 15th Feb.
Also said he can't legally pay any wages due until he is approved as owner.

[Seasider9601]

Lemos has gone to court though it has been reported this morning to take out an injunction to "prevent any sale going through."

This is f***ing disastrous whichever way we look at it.

[P/T Indie]

Sounds like Graham Burnard could be our saviour in stopping Cala if he is true to his word and says he will only sell to someone who can take the club forward and with money and will try and steady the ship.

I still don't get how Abdul ends up owning part of G50 though?

[BoroRedShrimp]

How can he own anything when he didn't pay the wages for the first month. Then he buggered off & left us in the lurch. We got told G50 own the club so why is he preventing a sale, unless he does have some involvement still with G50. The way I feel they all just want to shaft the club. I hope we have good legal advisers because this is an utter mess.

[P/T Indie]

I still think G50 will just sell out to Cala and his comment last night I am working with the interim owner is G50, unless G50 are now having second thoughts and think he won't come up with the money to pay them.

[BoroRedShrimp]

I still think G50 will just sell out to Cala and his comment last night I am working with the interim owner is G50, unless G50 are now having second thoughts and think he won't come up with the money to pay them.

My worry along with many others is time is running out & before much longer we will have the place shut down because we won't have staff to run it because of the mess they have put us in.

[Joel Ninety]

Whoever the owner of the club is needs to get their bloody finger out and pay everybody.

Burnard, Lemos, King Triton, who or whatever. If Cala is now out and G50 still own it, they need to pay up! Burnard can't say he'll hold onto the club until a buyer can be found without funding the ongoing business. There won't be one left to sell.

[Duffman]

Sounds like Graham Burnard could be our saviour in stopping Cala if he is true to his word and says he will only sell to someone who can take the club forward and with money and will try and steady the ship.

I still don't get how Abdul ends up owning part of G50 though?

"Burnard is the trustee of Abdul" - from one of Cala's group on Twitter.

[Seasider9601]

If Cala is now out and G50 still own it, they need to pay up! Burnard can't say he'll hold onto the club until a buyer can be found without funding the ongoing business. There won't be one left to sell.

This ^

In a nutshell.

Before they completely destroy 97 years of proud history.

Heart breaking.

[BoroRedShrimp]

Whoever the owner of the club is needs to get their bloody finger out and pay everybody.

Burnard, Lemos, King Triton, who or whatever. If Cala is now out and G50 still own it, they need to pay up! Burnard can't say he'll hold onto the club until a buyer can be found without funding the ongoing business. There won't be one left to sell.

Hopefully that is why the EFL or the football league are trying to discuss this with them. Cala is not yet the owner so last months wages have to come from the previous owner who we believe is G50 or Abdul. I think there is too many lies in all this garbage.

[P/T Indie]

Complicated it just throws more red tape and complications into the matter, has he always been his trustee ever since him and Diego arrived or is this just a recent thing since a deal was done last week.

[Gone_Shrimping]

All these different claims to ownership and yet nobody wants to take responsibility for paying the wages.

With the EFL solidarity payment of circa £250,000 going into the bank in January it is puzzling how the wages couldn't be funded even allowing for payments to HMRC for P.A.Y.E. and V.A.T. Also we were told that around £40,000 was put in by our long term directors to prevent a winding up order.

A forensic accountant would have a field day on those books !

[marky No.1]

Diego has won the court hearing, he owns the shares and is coming back to sort it out. Reading Mr. Bernard's story of owning a football club without wanting to buy one is surreal

http://www.thebay.co.uk/news/local-news ... d-to-cala/

[fulwoodshrimp]

Whoever makes another statement about our club we are being lied to. There is too much about the sale of the club that is impossible to understand and that doesn't ring true. Unfortunately most of the people involved lack integrity and are dragging the club down into oblivion. If Cala does not yet own the club then the current owner is responsible for paying the wages. How that current owner is Abdullah defeats me. How it is Burnard is equally puzzling. How can he acquire the club from Lemos if Lemos has not paid the agreed price for the owner's shares? None of it adds up. How is it to anyone's benefit to destroy our club? What do these leeches hovering around our club want to happen? Meanwhile doesn't PMG have some moral responsibility for the mess he has created? Has he washed his hands of the club and staff not being paid is nothing to do with him? In a matter of weeks he has destroyed his legacy at the club and will be held in contempt.

[Phoenix Shrimp 2017]

Talk about out of the frying pan into the fire!

[shrimpnsave]

The order can't even spell Morecambe right

[BoroRedShrimp]

I don't know about steadying the ship, they seem to all be rocking it from side to side. I don't believe any of the crap anymore, who is the legal owner. JB Christie must be turning in his grave, knowing these lot are destroying everything he put in. While they are squabbling like kids our club is dying. Diego while your at it pay the staff and players what you owe if you own the shares my friend.

[mrpotatohead]

Don't forget JB's prophecy clearly stated the owner in place by march would be a sandgrown 'un, just hope it's local sand.

[Scotty]

Diego while your at it pay the staff and players what you owe if you own the shares my friend.

Is it a case now that although he owns the majority of shares, he's not a director of the company and therefore not permitted to do anything in relation to running the club?

The EFL need to pull their fingers out and state their position on the situation.

[fulwoodshrimp]

Mr. Burnard in the Bay article says he is the owner of the club so Mr. Burnard PAY THE WAGES!

[John L]

The order can't even spell Morecambe right

Noticed that. Hope that small detail doesn't have any bearing!

[Phoenix Shrimp 2017]

From all known evidence presented on this forum from various quoted sources it would appear to be fair to assume that Burnard, Lemos, Cala and possibly the Qatari guy are inter connected and have been working together as business associates for some time now. The intention is to gain control of Morecambe Football Club. None of them have any previous affinity to the club, which is clearly losing money and any sane businessman would not regard it as a way to make money legitimately, despite Mr Calas' wacky assertions that he will turn the club around. He keeps stressing that he wants sole control and will require existing directors to resign, thereby leaving the way clear for him to run the club as he sees fit.HOWEVER there has been that much doubt cast on his character that he/they must now be worried that the EFL will not sanction his ownership. SURPRISE, SURPRISE who suddenly reappears but LEMOS who due to some hastily arranged court proceedings involving he and BURNARD is once again deemed to be the owner. No doubt it will be hoped by the syndicate that LEMOS with his lack of any transparent background (good or bad) will be accepted by the EFL as a fit person. We are then back to square one.

One can only speculate as to what CALA was hoping to take from all this. I thought it was very interesting to read evidence produced by Mike Hall from Pompey to quote.

Thursday, October 4, 2007 , by
Andrew Borg-Cardona, Valletta.
Joseph Cala and the shipyard
I write on behalf of the management of Malta Shipyards Ltd and refer to Joseph Cala's letter entitled Value Of The Shipyards (September 27).

Leaving aside the derogatory and impertinent remarks aimed at anyone in Malta who has not made obeisance to Mr Cala and given credence to his remarks over the last few months, I would like to focus on his statement that: "[His] company will pay cash to buy the entire shipyards' operation and [they] aren't interested in owning the real estate because [they] are shipbuilders. [Their] company has received $300 million in tax free bonds from the State of Alabama."

Purely for the record, Mr Cala's company are not shipbuilders and the "$300 million in tax free bonds" allegedly received from the State of Alabama are, in fact, tied to being spent in Alabama.

Precisely how Mr Cala intends to use this sum, if it is ever made available to him, to purchase a shipyard in Malta is not immediately clear.

The record also shows that Mr Cala's corporation suffered net losses of $800,000 and $900,000 over the last two years, at least according to its latest published accounts. Mr Cala, in the meantime, pays himself $352,000 annually.

I note that Mr CALA likes to take large large sums in 'payment'. He's already run his rule over monies incoming to the club and it will be very interesting to see whether our new owner be it he or LEMOS will expect to be paid similar amounts for their 'services'. Of course I might be completely wrong on this and they could be going to so much trouble out of the goodness of their hearts and a new found love of all things MFC in which case I'm sure we will all be eternally grateful to them.

[Shrimpy]

Lots of people saying that Diego is now the owner again. Am I missing something here? I've read The Bay article and my conclusion from all that is that Graham Burnard is now the owner?