Dumbarton Soccer Membership have but to obtain a penny from the corporate sponsoring their stadium and residential strip, it’s been claimed.
Manchester based mostly Moreroom.com have been introduced as main sponsors of the Sons in September - with their emblem emblazoned on the membership’s residence shirts, and Dumbarton’s stadium renamed the Moreroom.com Stadium for the season.
Nonetheless at a crunch assembly between followers, administrators and proprietor Henning Kristoffersen final month, it was claimed that Moreroom.com have but to pay for his or her sponsorship.
An announcement issued by Sonstrust chair David Brownlee mentioned: “The Belief raised issues over the viability of Moreroom Extensions Ltd, a small enterprise enterprise based mostly in north-west England, wishing to sponsor the membership.
“We requested particularly if any funds regarding the sponsorship of each the stadium and workforce strip (believed to be within the area of £35,000 from earlier seasons) had been obtained.
“The membership board confirmed that, on the time of the assembly, no cash regarding this sponsorship, or half thereof, had been obtained.
“Each the belief and membership board expressed mutual disappointment that this was the case.
“For our half, we proceed to carry critical reservations concerning the capability of this sponsor to satisfy its monetary obligation, with the apparent consequential lack of deliberate revenue to the membership.”
The Lennox Herald contacted Moreroom.com, nevertheless they didn't reply to our request for remark.
In the meantime Henning Kristoffersen, who took over the Sons along with his Cognitive Capital group final Might, confirmed on the assembly that the brand new homeowners intend to re-apply for permission to construct a brand new stadium at Younger’s Farm, close to Dalmoak.
Lengthy-running proposals first launched in 2012 have been rejected by West Dunbartonshire Council in Might 2018.
The realm is presently classed as greenbelt and never a part of the native improvement plan (LDP), that means any improvement could be on maintain till a minimum of 2024.
A report compiled in 2020 by West Dunbartonshire Council mentioned that Younger’s Farm “has a big inexperienced belt perform” and its out-of-town location would go away the brand new venue “extremely depending on non-public automobile journeys” with “any city improvement on this website prone to be damaging in panorama phrases, notably because of the erosion of the inexperienced belt hole between Dumbarton and Renton”.
The Sonstrust assertion added: “The Belief requested for an replace from the consultant of the membership’s possession, noting that up to now no new planning software has been lodged with West Dunbartonshire Council, nor certainly has there been any buy of this land from the current homeowners.
“The consultant of Cognitive Capital gave an assurance that this relocation remained the first goal of the homeowners however may give no additional element of how this could be achieved, when it will be achieved, or how such a transfer would realise a profit to the soccer membership.”