STFC Transfer Rumours

[Pericardinho]

anyway...

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[Exiled Bob]

I'm counting day one as being "'transparent' in his takeover process, when gaining support from the trust and supporters club

It's pretty much day one after the fact. I don't disagree

It's pretty academic anyway, we've since gone to 'he's just a matchday guest' which is imo pretty unbelievable.

In his first statement after taking over the club, Morfuni said this:

"The second reason is I am now a complete Swindon Town fan. I have as many friends in Swindon as I do in Sydney. I got introduced to the club by [director] Zavier Austin 7 years ago. I became a shareholder and since then I have grown to love the club and the supporters of it and fully understand how important the club is to them.

"I want to give the supporters a club they deserve. I also want to put on record my thanks to Zav, firstly for bringing me to the club and secondly for all his support over the last 18 months and helping me to get to this position. Zav will be on the advisory board which will be assembled in the coming weeks and will be very much a part of taking this club forward."

That's pretty transparent. And I'm pretty sure, at this point, everyone was on his side and had full confidence in him.

Morfuni, rightly, gets a lot of criticism for the amateurish way he sometimes runs things. But, when it comes to Austin, he has always been open about it. Again, whether Austin's involvement is good or bad is another matter.

[Batch]

That's pretty transparent.

After the takeover.

Did he mention it to the supporting parties before (the Trust/Supporters club). Normally it wouldn't be an issue bringing his own man in. This one had history.

Put another way, did anyone know before the takeover we would have a convicted money launderer coming in with him?
If they did, and its just me, then fair enough. I certainly didn't.

[Exiled Bob]

Why would he need to tell anybody?
He didn't "bring his own man in" anyway. Morfuni had already been involved in the Club for 7 years prior to taking over. Austin was also involved, as everyone knows. Both were already there and I imagine those involved with the Club knew that they were friends.

My point, anyway, is that Morfuni has always been open about Austin and the day after the takeover he announced that Austin would be part of the Club. Nobody seemed bothered at the time. And, to be honest, I'm not sure that Austin has done anything since that we should be worried out. His previous history, prior to his Swindon Town involvement, on the other hand is probably of more concern.

[Pericardinho]

Why would he need to tell anybody?
He didn't "bring his own man in" anyway. Morfuni had already been involved in the Club for 7 years prior to taking over. Austin was also involved, as everyone knows. Both were already there and I imagine those involved with the Club knew that they were friends.

My point, anyway, is that Morfuni has always been open about Austin and the day after the takeover he announced that Austin would be part of the Club. Nobody seemed bothered at the time. And, to be honest, I'm not sure that Austin has done anything since that we should be worried out. His previous history, prior to his Swindon Town involvement, on the other hand is probably of more concern.

People were bothered. There's a 9 page thread on Austin himself on this forum.

[Exiled Bob]

People were bothered. There's a 9 page thread on Austin himself on this forum.

Which was started on August 14th 2021. About a month after the takeover. A good 7 years after Austin first became involved with the Club. Fuck me, you're all on the ball aren't you?

Read through the "New beginnings" thread. Between the takeover date and that thread everyone was optimistic, fully behind "Clem". Then someone piped up about Austin. So for 7 years previously, Austin was known to have STFC involvement (before Morfuni was involved) before you all got bothered about it a month after Morfuni took over...

The day after Morfuni took over he announced Austin would be part of the club going forward (and he already was prior to that anyway). The point is that he has always been open and transparent on Austin being involved. Whatever you want to criticise Morfuni for you can't criticise him for that.

[Pericardinho]

Which was started on August 14th 2021. About a month after the takeover. A good 7 years after Austin first became involved with the Club. Fuck me, you're all on the ball aren't you?

Read through the "New beginnings" thread. Between the takeover date and that thread everyone was optimistic, fully behind "Clem". Then someone piped up about Austin. So for 7 years previously, Austin was known to have STFC involvement (before Morfuni was involved) before you all got bothered about it a month after Morfuni took over...

The day after Morfuni took over he announced Austin would be part of the club going forward (and he already was prior to that anyway). The point is that he has always been open and transparent on Austin being involved. Whatever you want to criticise Morfuni for you can't criticise him for that.

Righto. You can only be bothered about something if it's flagged immediately in the midst of euphoria in getting rid of Power.

[Batch]

So you knew we had a money launderer involved in the club for 7 years before the statement made after takeover?

That's fair enough.

Totally missed it.

[Nemo]

There's a mention of Austin in a thread from 2019 (in the Lounge) where someone had hear a rumour he was Power's money guy, supposedly *from* Clem. Clearly he changed teams later!

There was a brief discussion of him when Power made him a non-exec, but very brief. Most of the chat is definitely post Clem takeover.

[Exiled Bob]

We certainly knew Austin was involved as a "Non-executive Director" when Power was the owner.

Here's a programme from 2016 to prove it:

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It makes me laugh that nobody made an issue of it until about a month after Morfuni took over.
He openly stated that Austin was and would be involved with the Club and then gets slated for not being transparent about it. Come on, for fucks sake. Slag him off when it's merited, and it often is, but let's have a bit of fairness.

[Batch]

I guess it's not unreasonable to think powers money guy would go with power.

Obviously it wasn't the case.

I've no desire to argue with you Bob. It doesn't really matter other than in trying to say what the "from day one" ment.

It's pretty symptomatic of my disappointment of the break from Power not being the clean and new start I expected.

[Exiled Bob]

Righto. You can only be bothered about something if it's flagged immediately in the midst of euphoria in getting rid of Power.

You had 7 years to flag it before it was flagged.

[Exiled Bob]

I guess it's not unreasonable to think powers money guy would go with power.

Obviously it wasn't the case.

I've no desire to argue with you Bob. It doesn't really matter other than in trying to say what the "from day one" ment.

It's pretty symptomatic of my disappointment of the break from Power not being the clean and new start I expected.

I agree entirely with you. It's not great that we have certain individuals linked with the Club.

My whole point is that Morfuni gets slated for not being transparent, when he clearly has with regards to Austin.

[Pericardinho]

I agree entirely with you. It's not great that we have certain individuals linked with the Club.

My whole point is that Morfuni gets slated for not being transparent, when he clearly has with regards to Austin.

Who are you even arguing with? TailBetweenLegs for his initial post that kicked this off? because nobody else is disputing that Clem was transparent about wanting Zav involved from the beginning.

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anyway...

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If its possible take these Zav posts and transfer them to the new begininnings thread, that would probably be best.