With Southampton continuing to face the prospect of relegation to League 1, mystery surrounds a business set up in the name of Southampton Football Company Ltd. which has a former player as its only director. There has been speculation that the business, which was only incorporated earlier this month, some seven days after Southampton Leisure Holdings PLC went into administration, could be a springboard to launch a bid for the troubled club.
With Southampton continuing to face the prospect of relegation to League 1, mystery surrounds a business set up in the name of Southampton Football Company Ltd. which has a former player as its only director. There has been speculation that the business, which was only incorporated earlier this month, some seven days after Southampton Leisure Holdings PLC went into administration, could be a springboard to launch a bid for the troubled club. The only registered director is Rufus Brevett, who is a former QPR and West Ham defender, who owns all 100 of the company’s registered share capital, valued at a total of £100. The company is registered at an accountancy practice in Newbury, Ross Brooke, that advises companies on potential mergers and acquisitions. Brevett has previously been linked with groups aiming to take over League 1 clubs Swindon and Tranmere. When Brevett was Swindon’s sporting director in 2007, Best Holdings SGPS, a Portuguese investment company, announced they were taking control of Swindon only to pull out a few months later, but this could just be a coincidence. Any potential purchaser of Southampton is going to have to find a way to deal with its burden of debt.