Ayr United up for sale

Chairman Lachlan Cameron admits he must step aside as the club faces troubled times.

But he insists the Honest Men can make money for potential investors.

And he’s begged the community to step in and support the town’s historic football club.

Mr Cameron said: “This isn’t scaremongering on my part – I simply can’t take the club any further with the finances available to me.

“Ayr United is a wonderful club. It’s been part of my life for over 20 years.

“But I have to look for someone that can take this club forward and give it the investment that I can’t.

“People criticise me for not opening my wallet more,but I find that is a reallysilly argument.

“The reason we’ve got problems is because someone before us got their wallet out too much.

“Just because things were run that way in the past doesn’t mean I’ll run them that way now.

“We need the support of the community. People don’t understand what we put into the community through our youth academy and we need some help in return.”

Lachlan, who came from California to run the club five years ago, believes their failure to build a new stadium has been a killer.

United’s proposal to build a new stadium on a site at Heathfield has been met with red tape for more than a decade.

And their latest attempts ground to a halt when housing giant Barratt pulled out of a deal to buy Somerset Park.
The club has debts of £1 million, mostly in directors’ loans, and desperately need a move.

Now it’s also struggling on the park, lying bottom of the first division with only one win this season.