Livingston supervisor David Martindale has confirmed US-based events are fascinated about investing within the Scottish Premiership membership.
Nevertheless, two ongoing courtroom instances relating to disputes over who owns shares could have an effect on potential funding.
The membership has twice come out of administration after insolvency occasions in 2004 and 2009.
“It’s normal information the membership’s making an attempt to drive funding,” stated Martindale.
“The membership’s making an attempt to carry new shares into circulation so we will promote them within the open market or to new traders. There’s a few courtroom actions occurring simply now.”
Requested when he hoped the authorized proceedings could be resolved, Martindale responded: “As quickly as potential.”
Martindale, who joined the membership’s teaching workers in 2014 and have become supervisor in 2020, described this summer time’s switch window as “the toughest 12 months by way of recruitment”.
“I needed to lose £200,000 off the price range,” he defined. “We needed to discover a strategy to generate an additional £200,000 to carry that earnings into the soccer membership in order that closed a £400,000 hole. We predict we’re there with it.
“We’re £200,000 alone on VAR and the Scottish authorities reimbursement that acquired us by means of Covid. Our overheads simply in power alone have trebled.
“If we go and end twelfth within the Premiership, the membership’s in bother subsequent 12 months – simply the identical as each different membership. We go and end eleventh, we may very well be in a little bit of bother.”
The West Lothian outfit have been within the high flight since promotion in 2018, having been within the third tier at one stage within the years following their second administration.
“We’re in all probability the one membership within the Premiership that does not personal their stadium,” Martindale stated.
“There’s a whole lot of historic baggage. We punch above our weight on the park and that is big, big credit score to all people on the soccer membership.
“We’re simply the identical as every other soccer membership. We in all probability reside on a year-to-year foundation. In all probability we’re in the very best case we have ever been since I got here to the membership by way of we’re now engaged on a yearly foundation.
“After I first got here into the membership I can keep in mind the administrators sitting in operations conferences and being requested to place cash into the membership on a month-to-month foundation.
“We all know we’re financially viable going into the following 12 months however there is a distinction between being financially viable and being aggressive on the park.”
