Reds board & members 'all delighted' with takeover
Cliftonville manager Jim Magilton says that the club's board and members "all seem delighted" with the takeover proposals accepted by the club's membership at an extraordinary general meeting on Wednesday night.
The takeover by Canadian consortium, the Toronto Investment Group (TIG), could see the north Belfast club moving to a full-time model and making improvements to their Solitude home.
Following Wednesday's meeting, a Cliftonville statement said the next stage in the process would involve the club's legal representatives engaging with their counterparts at TIG.
Speaking on Thursday, Magilton said he hasn't "been involved in any of it".
"The club wants to redevelop and I think they're looking forward to that aspect of it," added the Cliftonville boss.
"The competition in the league is so fierce now. Obviously finances does and will help you try and bring maybe a different level of player.
"We'll still go about our business the way we do in terms of recruitment and try and look at the characteristics of the player and that won't change.
"I haven't spoken to anybody from the group, so I won't know that until I'm invited into that conversation."
Magilton added that "somewhere down the line, I [will] get an opportunity to speak to them and see what their vision is".
"Even when I was an outsider looking in, it's a club with massive potential," continued the Reds boss.
"That's brought to the fore with an Irish Cup final, when you see the numbers coming in, the tickets selling so quickly and the redevelopment of the ground etc. It puts Cliftonville on the map."
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