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STEPHEN THOMPSON insists he’s still willing to sell his majority shareholding in Dundee United on the proviso that the new owners run the club properly.
The Arabs chairman insists his door is always open to potential buyers and investors.
But he’ll only do a deal with reputable business people who aim to take the club forward. At this week’s agm Thompson said the Championship club had to borrow £500,000 to meet a shortfall in the budget this season with banker Alastair Borthwick ploughing £300,000 into the Tannadice coffers.
Thompson insisted, though, that former Goldman Sachs executive Borthwick and investors such as Hugh Duncan had no intention of purchasing a controlling interest in the club.
He said: “I have indicated that if someone wants to come forward with a credible and properly-funded proposal for the club going forward then the door is open. It is not just about the shares, it is more than that.
“We need people who can run the place going forward. I know they (Borthwick and Duncan) are not interested in buying the club. I am not going into the kind of conversations we had with them and each circumstance is different.
“I am under confidentiality and whatever is in the agreements is in the agreements. They are not waiting to take the club on.”