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| 141. Author: wee eck Date: Sun 4th Jan 2026. 12:42 Hamilton Academical have new owners after Rob Edwards, owner of the Morley Sports Management Group, completed his takeover of the troubled Scottish League 1 club from Seref Zengin. (Daily Record) Reply |
| 142. Author: Sacktheref69 Date: Sun 4th Jan 2026. 13:34 Hamilton Academical Football Club is delighted to announce that Morley Sports Management Group have officially completed the takeover of 97.5% of the shares in the club from Seref Zengin. 🔗 https://bit.ly/49c6dt7 This move marks a new and exciting chapter for Hamilton Academical Football Club. This is Andy Tod`s world and we are lucky to live in it. Reply |
| 143. Author: neils Date: Sun 4th Jan 2026. 13:53 That`s really good news, I think we all hate for clubs to go to the walk- 2 cheeks excepted of course. Hopefully the new owners are legit, and I hope they get back to NDP, also they surely need to massively cut the wage bill if reports of how much they have been paying are true That could have been us Reply |
| 144. Author: McCaig`s Tower Date: Sun 4th Jan 2026. 21:12 That’s good, albeit surprising, news. Looks like they are safe for the time being after all. Details are still emerging but it appears that Rob Edwards/Morley Sports Management have bought Zengin’s shareholding and have exercised their right to removed Johnny Towers as director. However, the debt to Funding Globe still has to be settled. At least MSM has a history of involvement with a football club, so it won’t be completely new to them, and apparently they have been in discussions for a while, so they are going into it with their eyes open, but why are they doing this? Accies must have debts of between £1m and £2m, and those aren’t going to go away. MSM has no money. I can`t imagine the cashflow from playing out of Broadwood is particularly positive. I remember when John Boyle took over Motherwell, and there was lots of talk about doing things differently and competing with the Glasgow giants, and that ended badly. But if you’re an Accies fan it looks like you’ll still have a club to support next season, and that’s the important thing for now. Reply |
| 145. Author: neils Date: Sun 4th Jan 2026. 21:19 Agree, doesn`t make much sense as Hamilton have no assets and don`t own the stadium, plus they have unknown debt- £1M unpaid COVID loan , £1M African Prince fraud to start with, not to mention paying high Championship wages, and some Premiership wages on the lowest crowds in Scotland. Oli Shaw is signed till 2027, he`s almost 28, so can`t even offload him. I hope it`s fine. Reply |
| 146. Author: McCaig`s Tower Date: Sun 4th Jan 2026. 21:29 Yes, Neils - I think the teams I mentioned were in the old C division. From memory of reading that book you mentioned a major difficulty seemed to be meeting the gate money guarantees for visiting clubs - gates were shared and presumably the global recession had a material impact on people`s ability to go to games. As an aside - was the failure of the attempted expansion of the Scottish League the reason for the bifurcation of the SFL and the junior leagues? The latter seemed to overlap strongly with the old mining communities of Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, West Lothian and Fife - lots of pits with villages and football teams, but a fear that there was too great a risk of multiple clubs struggling at the same time, if you let them in the SFL? Aldershot and Maidstone were the teams I was thinking of - Aldershot went bust in the spring of 1992 and their record was expunged. Maidstone were homeless, tried to relocate to the NE of England but when that was vetoed they couldn`t start the 92/93 season. Reply |