Vitória Guimarães president António Miguel Cardoso is set to hold the first of several ‘clarification sessions’ with club associates on Thursday as they decide whether to accept investment from Aston Villa owners V Sports.
That’s according to Record, who say the club announced that Cardoso will be holding meetings with the relevant parties to discuss the pre-agreement with the group.
V Sports have lodged a bid to buy 46% of the shares in the Portuguese club and provide funds for further development, as well as making them something of a sister club to Aston Villa.
It will have to be ratified by the club’s ‘associates’, though, and so he is set to hold a series of ‘clarification sessions’ in the club’s press room starting on Thursday.
During this he will lay out the details of the pre-agreement with V Sports, who are a fund ‘led by’ Nassef Sawiris, who also owns Aston Villa.
The deal would see them take a 46% stake in the club for €5.5m, although further investment in the club’s infrastructure and beyond would also take place, as they are doing at Villa Park.
The operation will be discussed and voted on at an ‘extraordinary general meeting’ scheduled for March 3rd at the Pavilhão Unidade Vimaranense but Cardoso will hold meetings on Thursday, Friday, Wednesday and the following Thursday ahead of that.
