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« on: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 16:32:25 » |
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A football transfer is to be decided by an internet vote of thousands of supporters for the very first time.
Members of myfootballclub.co.uk (MFC), who own Ebbsfleet United, will decide if they should accept a £140,000 offer from an unnamed club for John Akinde.
"It's quite historic," MFC founder Will Brooks told BBC Sport.
"The summer has been full of talk about Gareth Barry and Cristiano Ronaldo, but this transfer allows fans to have a say in whether it is right for the club."
The 30,000 plus members have 48 hours to decide whether they should sell the highly rated 19-year-old striker, who has played fewer than 20 games for Ebbsfleet.
He has already been watched by Chelsea scouts and the club have turned down an offer for Akinde from League One side Peterborough.
The non-league side's manager Liam Daish and board has recommended the striker should be sold to allow him to play at a higher level.
Players who have recently turned professional like Akinde are unlikely to be earning more than £200 a week.
"The fans are legal owners of the club," added Brooks. "Whereas transfers at other clubs are decided by a few board members this decision will be taken by 30,000 board members."
Earlier this year over 20,000 MyFootballClub members, who had each paid £35 to provide a £700,000 takeover pot, took control of Ebbsfleet, to give each fan an equal share in the club.
Since then members have voted on a number of major decisions affecting the club, including the price of season-tickets to watch Ebbsfleet, but this is the first time a transfer will be decided by the team's fans.
MFC's membership now stands at over 30,000 people, with members living in 122 countries.
"It has become very apparent that members are taking the responsibility of ownership very seriously and considering decisions made so far."
In July MFC members helped raised £20,000 to enable Daish to buy striker Michael Gash from Cambridge. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/g/gravesend_and_northfleet/7585165.stm |
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Rich Pullen
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« Reply #1 on: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 18:06:39 » |
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It's all a bit silly this Ebbsfleet milarky isn't it.
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Dazzza
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« Reply #2 on: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 18:27:52 » |
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Fatbury do you actually pick the team as promised?
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Iffy's Onion Bhaji
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« Reply #3 on: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 18:33:07 » |
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It's all a bit silly this Ebbsfleet milarky isn't it.
A bit? It's fucking stupid. |
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Rich Pullen
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« Reply #4 on: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 18:40:00 » |
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A bit? It's fucking stupid.
That's a better way of putting it. I thought it was a scam to begin with - it probably still is  |
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Simon Pieman
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« Reply #5 on: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 19:12:25 » |
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It's like real life football manager.
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Rich Pullen
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« Reply #6 on: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 19:13:46 » |
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It's like real life football manager.
But boring (I imagine) |
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Simon Pieman
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« Reply #7 on: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 19:17:32 » |
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The club is a joke. Won't be long before it's binned off I imagine.
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michael
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« Reply #8 on: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 19:23:12 » |
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The bid has come in from a club in our division, and it isn't Peterborough.
Will members get any dividend from the sale?
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Simon Pieman
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« Reply #9 on: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 19:25:33 » |
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The bid has come in from a club in our division, and it isn't Peterborough.
Will members get any dividend from the sale?
I thought they weren't allowed to? |
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tans
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« Reply #10 on: Friday, August 29, 2008, 07:54:57 » |
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Fatters do you know who the unnamed club is?
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« Reply #11 on: Friday, August 29, 2008, 07:56:27 » |
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Its a tough decision to be made -- on the one hand we need the money cos Ebbsfleet is making debts all the time and he will be out of contract at the end of the season On the other hand he is the best striker and we need him to get us promoted -- We do pick the team -- kind of -- there is a button to hand over team picking duties to the manager which currently wins every week as Liam Daish is doing a fantastic job - but if things go bad the owners might well pick the team ... I voted to abstain - my head says sell and my heart says no - I couldnt sell our best player so I voted to abstain!! Incidentally it is likely the club buying him might be Charlton .. altho Millwall and Peterborough are possibles ... Be funny if it was Swindon tho On another note Ebbsfleet are playing Oxford at home this Saturday .. so COME ON THE FLEET! Ill be getting text updates on this one whilst at MK  |
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tans
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« Reply #12 on: Friday, August 29, 2008, 08:04:25 » |
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Is Shakes still there?
I thought they would have tolds you who the club wanting to buy him was tbh seeing as you all "own" part of it
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« Reply #13 on: Friday, August 29, 2008, 08:07:14 » |
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How stupid, you want to be a part of this club yet the first difficult decision you have to make you decide to abstain?? Thank fuck people like you aren't in control of our club. I'd be so pissed off with all of this if I were an Ebbsfleet fan.
And I agree with Tans, surely as owners you need to know who the buying club is?
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« Reply #14 on: Friday, August 29, 2008, 12:22:26 » |
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