Members of the website pay a £35 joining fee, plus a similar annual subscription. The members will vote on which English club and players to buy, and pick the team each week. Only decisions made just before, or during, a game will be purely down to the coach.
The website is created by ex-football journalist Will Brooks, 36. When it went live in April, 53,000 people declared an interest in joining. Brook is thought to have raised more than £500,000 since the fund-raising stage started this month.
According to Brooks, 4 clubs have expressed interest (to be bought) even before the fund-raising begins.
The most popular take-over targets for MyFootballClub based on forum suggestions are Leeds United, Nottingham Forest and Cambridge United.
Cambridge United’s chairman, Lee Power, is fast to assure fans that his club is not one of the 4 interested in a website buy-out. [Thesun]
It should be interesting to see how the fans perform if the plan becomes a reality. Imagine their club doing well and getting promoted to higher league… it could be one of the greatest tales for the next few decades.