Brentford president Cliff Crown has been spotted in Mérida as they close in on a deal to take over the Spanish club.
COPE cover the situation today and explain that Crown has been visiting the mayor of the Spanish town before Brentford owner Matthew Benham completes his takeover.
They report that Merida’s general manager Alejandro Pérez welcomed Brentford ‘president’ Cliff Crown, who will serve in the same role at the Spanish club, to the town today.
Together they visited the mayor of Mérida, Antonio Rodríguez Osuna, and held an ‘institutional meeting’ prior to the official announcement of the agreement to buy the club.
Benham is in the final stages of purchasing AD Merida and the plan is for that to be made public in a press conference held at a municipal facility in the town tomorrow.
That event will provide details on the operation, the club’s new organisation chart and the ‘ambitious sports project’ that the English businessman has for his new team in Spain.
This follows reports yesterday that the Brentford owner was holding talks in Madrid with ‘emissaries’ from both parties. The hope was that the deal could be concluded quickly and that appears to have been the case.
