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Morecambe person been suspended from nan National League pinch contiguous effect arsenic interest mounts regarding nan early of nan 105-year-old club.
Jason Whittingham, Morecambe’s arguable owner, had been fixed until noon connected Monday to outline really nan nine would meet their financial obligations for nan 2025-26 play aft talks pinch nan National League past week.
However, soon aft nan Monday deadline passed, it was announced that further sanctions had been taken against Morecambe astatine different gathering of nan league’s compliance and licensing committee.
In a statement, nan National League said nan committee had “reconvened this day to statement nan ongoing concerns surrounding Morecambe Football Club and its compliance pinch National League rules”, adding: “It was decided further sanctions must beryllium imposed, pinch nan club’s rank to beryllium suspended pinch contiguous effect.
“The nine will besides stay nether embargo up of nan caller season. Morecambe Football Club will besides beryllium removed from nan National League Cup for nan forthcoming season.”
The committee will meet again connected 20 August to see whether Morecambe person satisfied its financial concerns and “to determine nan club’s expertise to clasp rank successful nan competition”. That gathering is scheduled for aft what would person been Morecambe’s opening 3 games of nan caller season.
Whittingham’s Bond Group Investments person been progressive successful a contentious takeover saga complete nan past 2 years that has led to nan resignation of Morecambe’s committee of directors, seen wages paid precocious and prospective owners, Panjab Warriors, frighten ineligible action. Panjab Warriors received EFL clearance to complete a takeover past period only for Whittingham to denote that a caller purchaser had travel forward.
Whittingham issued a long-awaited connection connected nan takeover connected Sunday successful which he claimed his institution “has continued to activity pinch nan consortium led by Jonny Cato successful their efforts to get nan mostly shareholding” successful Morecambe. He blamed antagonistic media reports for giving nan consortium “cause for interest and pause” and claimed nan Bond Group had been incapable to interaction Panjab Warriors complete nan past week.
Morecambe were relegated from nan EFL past play aft 18 years. Lizzi Collinge, nan Labour MP for Morecambe and Lunesdale, said precocious location was a “very existent risk” that nan nine would soon cease to exist.
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