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‘We’re not going anywhere’: Dundee chief John Nelms vows American owners will steer club through cash crisis

Tim Keyes and John Nelms.
Dundee owner Tim Keyes (left) with managing director John Nelms.

Dundeeā€™s American owners have vowed to steer the club to safety through the financial storm of Covid-19.

Dark Blues managing director John Nelms revealed pressures brought to bear on the Dens park outfit ā€“ which has lost half-a-million poundsā€™ worth of revenue over the last three months ā€“ are being replicated across owner Tim Keyesā€™ wider business portfolio.

The result is that Dundee must to cut their cloth to survive.

But Nelms insists planning is already underway to ensure the Dark Blues emerge safely ā€“ and still under current ownership ā€“ from what has been an unprecedented crisis.

In a video message to fans posted on the club’s official website, he said: ā€œThe next stages are actually planning to get to May (the end of next season).

ā€œ(Itā€™s about) Being as resilient as we can, everybody coming together, how weā€™re going to run the business between now and then and (sticking) to that plan.

ā€œItā€™s going to be difficult. But this club has been in difficult positions before.

ā€œWeā€™re not going anywhere. Weā€™ll figure it out together.ā€

He added: ā€œThe issue is that everything we do, all our other businesses, have been affected, nothing has been immune to this.

ā€œThink about the issues we have at Dundee and we have these issues across the board.

ā€œOur normal course of business and the way we run the business canā€™t operate the way we normally do it.

ā€œWe would like to expand our budgets and support all the different initiatives that we are trying to accomplish here but, this year, it is going to be whatever the club can afford, the club can afford.

ā€œIt is going to be really difficult and right now it looks like we are going to have less than half our normal income.ā€

Nelms at Dens Park.

Dundee remain hopeful their insurers will ease the situation by paying out on a business interruption policy claim, but, like many other organisations, are awaiting a High Court judgement on the extent of insurance companiesā€™ liabilities relating to Covid-19.

With little prospect of being fully reimbursed for their losses in the short-term, Nelms appealed to fans who have hung off on buying season tickets to make their move now ā€“ if they have the means.

ā€œOur big issue right now is that we started to sell season tickets not knowing what we had on offer,ā€ he explained.

ā€œQuite a few people came out and bought season tickets, which is fantastic.

ā€œWe now know what the season will look like and we put out a new variation on the season tickets, which people started to uptake quickly, which is great.

ā€œWe really need everybody to take them up as quickly as you can.

ā€œUsually at this time of year we have sold two thirds of our tickets and, understandably, we have only sold less than 10% of what our season tickets would normally be, not knowing how the season is going to pan out.

ā€œBut we are hoping that will continue and sales will be strong.

ā€œIf you have the means and are intending to buy a season ticket it would certainly help if that was done sooner rather than later because that helps mould everything we are doing.

ā€œBut I know that it’s a difficult time. We are saying: ā€˜If you can, please help.’

ā€œIf you can’t, we understand there are bigger things in the world than what we are doing and we will find a way through this, but we absolutely need everybody’s help.ā€