Talk Of A Media Friendly Port Vale Takeover Continues

It has been a tough couple of years for Port Vale fans, and there is no way of really sugar coating it, the 2023/24 League One campaign became an unmitigated disaster and even the much vaunted arrival of Darren Moore in February of the season was not the magic pill that everyone hoped it would be given it took him nine games to pick up his first win.

With the expected relegation following, the club has begun rebuilding itself in League Two and will us now truly at the business end of the 2024/25 campaign, fans of the Valiants have had plenty to cheer this year and as we head towards the middle of the month of April, after 41 games we are tied with Bradford City in top spot in the table and in terms of more recent form, we potentially have the slight edge in considering ourselves favourite to tip them to the title in the matches that remain.

Midtable Bromley and then relegation threatened Carlisle while many would expect that the Port Vale vs Grimsby Town clash would be our next real test as we battle for automatic promotion and a more speedy return to the League One level, simply based on them currently occupying seventh place in the table.

With most eyes on the League One battle for understandable reasons right now as the club looks to get back on track, get back to growth and start punting at hopefully having a life in the Championship once again, there is also takeover talk back in the air with some speculating that our future may hold a potential tie up between Phil Taylor and Robbie Williams.

Speculation about the 51 year old former Take That star has done the rounds on the rumour mill for years, and our current owners the Shanahans kicked things up a level when Williams was named club president back in January 2024. It was a natural progression given his natural tie in, but with Wrexham a hot topic given their A list owners, a link up with 16 time world darts Champion Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor would be another (albeit more local) media frenzy.

Taylor is previously on the record as saying that the speculation is ‘just a rumour’ as there have been no discussions between the two of them about entering into a Port Vale partnership, but he also did not hide the fact that an investment in the club would be something that he was at least broadly interested in entertaining, albeit he had not put much thought into it just yet – joking that his main concern would be living in the area and attending matches and being the one to get the ‘stick’ when things were not going well on the pitch, so he would not want to be a co-chairman or anything on that scale.

But it was not a no to the idea in the future, and that will leave plenty of fans wondering what may happen in the future.

For now the league is the priority and then we will maybe see.