“We will not disclose the details of the offer at this time. Further information will be provided in accordance with the development of the situation,” said Jakub Beneš, chairman of SK Olomouc Sigma MŽ.
There is talk behind the scenes that the Americans are offering the association an amount of around 50 million crowns for a certain package of shares. However, no one has confirmed this. “The offer cannot be described so simply and with a specific amount. There are a lot of other conditions. Moreover, it is in English, so we have to have it translated in detail. We will discuss it next Tuesday,” Petr Konečný, a member of the association’s committee and chairman of the club’s board of directors, told Sportu.cz without further details.
Based in Houston, Texas, Blue Crow Group represents several investors. It owns football clubs in Spain, Mexico, Dubai, and recently increased its influence in the second division Vyškov too, when it increased its share from fifty to 99 percent.
Her offer comes at a time when her own fans have been at war with Sigma for several weeks and are demanding the resignation of its management. It has become a rule that the last home games are accompanied by protests. Banners, billboards and posters appear on the stands and in the city, for example with the slogan “Prigs from command, give up command” and a portrait of sports director Ladislav Minář. It is him, Konečný, the vice-chairman of the board Jiří Ficner and the member of the supervisory board Martin Major that the fans complain about the most.
Before the last league home game with Jablonec, they even splashed blood on the walls of Andr’s stadium and arranged severed pig heads in front of the entrance. This is already being dealt with by the police, who recently detained a 19-year-old foreigner in this connection.
Management fans complain about management or how he handles assets or some legends. “I think that Sigma has not been managed correctly in the long term. There is something corrupt,” former national team player Jan Rajnoch, who played in Olomouc, recently said in the Přímák program on Sport.cz. Robert Runták, who was a co-owner of the club between 2009 and 2012, thinks similarly. According to him, a change in the ownership structure of the club is inevitable, “It has been unhappy for a long time. In addition, the city is leaving the club and the association, which has a significant majority, is not able to ensure its operation alone,” he explains, adding that the atmosphere in the club has also been extremely negative since the bribery affair that affected it thirteen years ago. “The public has stopped believing in leadership. Trust in the people who are there is gone,” he said.
