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AHEAD OF THE GAME: Huddersfield are set for a third new owner in as many years, Everton are frustrated with links to former sponsor Alisher Usmanov… and fans could meet a star as part of clubs’ push towards NFTs
- Huddersfield Town owner Dean Hoyle is to make the club available for sale again
- Some at Everton are frustrated by Russian Alisher Usmanov’s informal role there
- The FA are probing suspicious betting patterns in an FA Cup tie earlier this year
Huddersfield Town are set for a third change of ownership in as many years, with Dean Hoyle to make the club available for sale again after he has bought it back from Phil Hodgkinson.
Hoyle is understood to be owed around £20million following his original sale of 75 per cent of the club’s shares in 2019.
So he has opted to resume a majority shareholding after Hodgkinson stood down as a director this week, following the collapse of his legal businesses, nine of which have entered administration.
Huddersfield Town owner Dean Hoyle (pictured) is to make the Terriers available for sale again
Hoyle retained a 25 per cent shareholding throughout and ploughed in additional funding to Huddersfield to prevent the club entering administration when Hodgkinson’s financial problems emerged last year.
His long-term plan is to sell it again after rescuing it from the threat of insolvency for a second time, having first bailed them out of financial difficulties in 2009.
Hoyle’s sale plan comes at an opportune moment because the Terriers are in contention to return to the Premier League, with Carlos Corberan’s side moving up to second in the Championship table on Friday night with victory over Peterborough and in the fifth round of the…
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