A group of concerned Dundee fans last night launched a dramatic last-ditch bid to try to save the proposed investment in the club by American company Keyes Capital.
Former Dundee director George Harris, ex-Dark Blues player Brian Scrimgeour, lifelong fans Charlie Duthie and Graham Pert have set up a Facebook page called Dees For Change.
They hope to collect 400 “signatures” from members of the Dundee FC Supporters’ Society to have a mandate to call an SGM.
If they achieve that aim, their next step would be to issue a vote of no confidence in the society’s board of Fraser MacDonald, Dave Forbes, John Keith and Grant Cook and then oust them from their positions.
Courier Sport understands Keyes Capital are on the brink of pulling the plug on their proposed major cash injection with the Dark Blues because the Americans have become infuriated by what they feel are the unprofessional delaying tactics employed by the club’s majority shareholder DFCSS and in particular MacDonald and Forbes.
Club CEO Scot Gardiner and manager John Brown were involved in tense talks with John Nelms and Tim Keyes from the Texan firm at the weekend in an attempt to keep them at the negotiating table.
Despite those efforts, Keyes Capital, who were set to pump in an initial £650,000 followed by another £750,000, are on the verge of walking away.
DFCSS had asked for due diligence to be completed on the Keyes Capital bid before balloting their members.
The results of that due diligence were handed over to the society last Monday. However, DFCSS then held on until Friday before asking their lawyers to assess the findings.
Those developments proved to be the final straw for the Texans.
However, if the new Facebook page receives the 400 signatures 10% of the society’s membership then the quartet behind the plan believe they could call an SGM in just 15 days in a bid to oust the people Keyes Capital blame for blocking the deal.
Pert last night said: “The society board in its current form is not looking at the bigger picture. We are just a group of concerned fans and we feel we need to accept the deal to take the club forward.
“We need this to ensure there is a club in the future. The board have had a mandate from the fans to accept investment but they are not doing that.
“If we can force through an SGM and the vote of no confidence was passed, we would look to elect a new board the same day.
“We are hoping that when Keyes Capital receives notice of what we have set in motion, it will persuade them to keep their offer on the table.”