Torquay United are in advanced takeover talks. The current owners, a consortium of local businessmen, took over last summer, but have found it a financial struggle.
Torquay United are in advanced takeover talks. The current owners, a consortium of local businessmen, took over last summer, but have found it a financial struggle.
Torquay’s financial problems have been well-documented this season, with the club closing its youth academy, manager Kevin Nicholson claiming that some of his players were contracts that were worth ‘less than the minimum wage’ and the Gulls boss having to double-up as the team’s bus driver.
What potential the club has is difficult to assess. It is perhaps a bit of a cliché to say that a particular place is not a ‘football town’, but Torquay strikes me that way. Attendances have never been great.
The club will be hosts to Truro City next season.