Nicola Richards, the Conservative MP for West Bromwich East, has claimed she will support the West Brom takeover talks after campaigning with the Action For Albion protest group.
Richards shared that she had joined Action For Albion to campaign for an independent regulator in English football and will be supporting the legislation when it is brought to parliament next year.
She went on to claim that she would support the takeover of West Brom alongside the Mayor of the West Midlands, Andy Street, to safeguard the long-term future of the club.
As shared on Twitter on 29 December, Richards wrote: “Great to work with Action For Albion and shareholders to campaign for the regulator of English football.
“I’ll be supporting the legislation when it comes to Parliament next year, and supporting a takeover of the club alongside Andy Street so we can safeguard our long-term future.”
As the talks over a full-scale takeover of the club continue, the intervention from Richards and Street will likely play an important role in ensuring everything goes through smoothly and with the best interests of West Brom at the forefront of the talks.
One concern that always emerges with takeover talks is whether or not the new owners have good intentions for the club, with so many takeovers in the past having the opposite of the desired effect as has been shown with Blackpool, Leyton Orient, Portsmouth and many more in English football.
Relegation from the Premier League in the 2020-21 season and the loss of parachute payments has compounded the financial difficulty at The Hawthorns, and there is a need for a takeover to be helped to go through as quickly as possible.
If the government officials can provide the required support to the takeover deal, there hopefully should not be too long before some news is heard, and as far as Albion fans are concerned, good news has been a long time coming.
