By Mark Currie, Daily Post
20 October 2005
NORTH
Wales house-builder Castlemead Homes last night emerged as a potential buyer for
Wrexham FC.
The Daily Post understands the Wrexham-based firm is negotiating to buy land
adjacent to the club's Racecourse home, which is currently home to a car
dealership owned by Neville Dickens.
Mr Dickens, who has long been regarded as front-runner to buy the ailing League
Two outfit if a court ruling goes in favour of the club's administrators this
week, is planing to relocate the dealership to an alternative site on the
outskirts of the town.
He and his partner Geoff Moss, from Chester,
stepped in to buy the club only because there were no other credible offers on
the table, but if the club regains title to the ground from majority shareholder
Alex Hamilton, it will become a far more attractive proposition to prospective
owners.
But Mr Dickens, a one-time director at Wrexham, is unlikely to sell the land
without guarantees as to the future security of the club and its Racecourse
home.