Morecambe takeover: Inside story of Panjab Warriors’ first days as owners

After spending more than a year after trying to buy the club from his previous owner Jason Whittingham, his new owners Panjab Warriors immediately left an impression on MoreCambe in his first hours.

The day they reached the club’s stadium, the first Sihler with a professional British football club – provided the first time to be paid for the first time since May, organized meetings to summarize their plans with fans and local stakeholders and announced the dismissal of the highly respected manager Derek Adams.

BBC Sport brings you a look at the first days of Panjab Warriors’ first days of a football club.

The BBC speaks to the staff in Morecambe and learns that Panjab Warriors plans to travel from London to the north to hold a series of meetings and to officially announce their inheritances. There is no plan for a news conference, but we were informed that they may be willing to talk briefly to the media.

After coming to Mazuma Mobile Stadium, the BBC speaks to fans and staff after the approved of the inheritance.

Fans who collect tickets for season tell us how excited they are. When entering the stadium, the loose wires hanged from the ceiling – an unpaid contractor, bar and dressing in the dressing room.

Inside, the staff has how many players of the club. Five, several young academics. Les DeWhirst, which has been serving for a long time, is waiting for the kitchen to be delivered later this week.

The only groundsman, where the club’s partner was born in the unpaid period, is taking a step -looking step.

Dewhirst, former co -chairman Rod Taylor, Shrimps’s Guven Fan Group Pat Stoyles and local deputy Lizzi Collinge, welcomes us to relax and the arrival of panjab Warriors, while welcoming the arrival of the new owners.

Doubts are expressed by various staff as to whether the home match planned against Altrincham on Saturday. Foundations such as reward, insurance, kits and a large enough cast of players are not appropriate.

Various members of Panjab Warriors begin to come to separate cars and enter the stadium for meetings.

These include the majority shareholder in Panjab Warriors, and therefore the club will be the CEO of the Singer Singh Kuljeet Singh Momi. Another flew from Venice.

Some enter the board of directors such as Taylor, Stoyles and Collling, while others bring goods and documents to the offices.

At the same time, the personnel receive a notification where their salaries are paid for June – paid for the first time since May.

Panjab fighters do not agree on whether they interviewed among themselves. It is said that we can ask BBC questions about their plans for the club at different points and by different people, and that no contact will be allowed at any point.

The group moves PitchSide to have photos taken with club scarves. They then publish a statement that confirms their acquirings in the club’s official social media accounts.

BBC is informed that an interview is possible. The group insists that it will only offer a previously written statement and will not answer the questions. Finally, the accepted questions can be asked after the statement.

Ropinder Singh and Gurpreet Singh – Panjab Warriors’ Chairman – Other members of the group answer various questions while making phone calls in the meeting room. They insist that they want to be as transparent as possible with fans.

While interviewing, the dismissal of the manager Adams is concluded and the door next to the side is explained.

The BBC was aware of the plan to expel and change Adams, and we had an interview with her 30 -year -old UEFA Pro licensee and youth coach Ashvir Singh Johal, who never ruled a senior team, because this summer was expected to be declared as a manager.

Gurpreet Singh said the club would undergo a “better” “many changes” that will be “better” and that the fans would ask the group to trust the decisions made.

Johal’s installation was approved as a manager. Images and quotes from the original opening and BBC interview in June are used online. BBC Learns Johal does not interview this week because he tries to rebuild and prepare Morecambe’s team.

The reaction to the arrival of Johal’s arrival among the fans – some of them felt logical to a harsh reset with a young, talented coach, while others would make more sense of Adams’ separation and keeping a much more experienced manager.

According to the surprise of many staff, the match against Altrincham on Saturday was confirmed. Emergency preparations should be made, so that an team has the necessary infrastructure to include fans back to the stadium.

Employees receive their salaries for July and all debts that are indebted to HMRC are paid.

The new manager Johal comes to the field for the first day at work and begins to rebuild a staff of the ashes left by the previous ownership.

The club announced a flash sale in the season tickets – fans who bought them before Friday will be given a 20% discount for the full campaign – Saturday tickets are offered for sale.

The embargo placed in the club by the National League has been removed, so players can now be signed to strengthen the squad for the long campaign.

Kits come to the stadium and Dewhirst sets to prepare them. When the squad is full, he will have to press up to 120 names and numbers on the shirts.

The BBC learns that players travel to Morecambe to be medical before signing the club. One of the first one is Raheem Conte, a 22 -year -old midfielder at Cardiff City.

Now the real work of reconstruction begins.