We have been played. Martin talks the talk though....
what a shambles.

Unbelievable

John Gibson is a poster on here.

Would be good to hear his take on this.

Not expecting him to btw. But would be good to get a wee bit of transparency.

It was never ever happening. 

More bollocks to sell season tickets and yet again folk have fallen for it.

Genuinely not sure how Martin is being brought in to this??

'American consortium' an attempt to gouge more money from the genuine bid possibly?

One thing i clearly remember is John Gibson saying on here that the DUSF would not be looking to buy-out Thompson.

So i take from that that any discussions were purely to do with him and his money. Perhaps the DUSF money could then have been 'invested' as further capital.

Again, would be good to hear what obstacles ST put in place. 

Offer price in region of £500K and they were in discussions for a couple of weeks so presumably the amount can't have been far off what he was looking for?

Wanting a further payment if promoted or a cut on future transfers spring to mind, but we'll probably never know

Looks like Thompson’s changed the goal posts at the last minute.

I got a text this morning to say the deal was done.

Hopefully this is just the guy Gibson putting pressure on Thompson to lower his price.

I don’t know if Thompson’s been playing us like a fiddle all along, as the person that’s been keeping my up to date with information of this is closely connected to the board at Tannadice.

If  this doesn’t go through, we should call Thompson’s bluff and change the goalposts ourselvea by returning season tickets en masse.

SuperMario wrote:

WeeDude_83 wrote:

Perhaps its not off?
Using the media to apply pressure is a common bargaining tool these days

 After reading article I also thought this

Me too. I hope this is just the beginning and that Gibson and other wealthy potential investors are about to go public and call the bastard out. Its about fucking time the phoney war stopped and the real fight to save this football club begun.
 

Last edited by lifesanocean (10/7/2018 3:54 pm)

FFS. How many more shambles do we have to put up with? This is 1 too many. Be great to hear statements from the Club, Martin, and DUSF.

Copy and paste from the DUSF fb page - for those not following or on

"As most of you will now be aware local businessman John Gibson made an offer to buy Stephen Thompson's majority shareholding in Dundee United FC. The offer was accepted verbally last week but subsequent to that Stephen Thompson insisted on conditions on the sale that were unacceptable to Mr Gibson. John is of course a Director of the DUSF and although this was a private transaction John did advise the Steering Group last week. John's intention was to discuss with the DUSF membership how the Foundation could operate with a new Board of Directors. Unfortunately the deal is dead and the opportunity for the club to be owned by a lifelong fan has been lost.
It would also appear that the line the fans have been fed about American investors from current Chairman Mike Martin needs some explanation. After months of mystery and conjecture is it too much to ask for him just to tell us all what is happening?
The DUSF have always been willing to work with any new owners to ensure the future of the club and that remains our position."