Members of Guimaraes approved the sale of 17% of the club's SAD to V Sports after an Extraordinary General Meeting that lasted about six hours at the Pavilhão Desportivo Unidade Vimaranense. The vote finished 717 in favour and 468 against, with six blank votes and four null votes.
The vote in Guimarães
The meeting went late, with 19 interventions from members and ten still being heard at midnight. By the end, the club had cleared a deal that had been on the table for a while, and the margin was sizeable enough to leave little doubt about the result.
Rui Rodrigues said the deal was "an agreement that we consider beneficial for Vitória and which is better than the one reached in 2023". Luís Filipe Silva, chairman of the general assembly board, confirmed the final tally and the full breakdown of blank and null votes in comments to A Bola, translated from Portuguese.
What the approval changes
The approval allows V Sports to transfer 2 million euros to the club for the SAD share capital, while the direct investment adds another 1.8 million euros. The total financial volume of the operation is 3.8 million euros.
Vitória SC keeps three members on the SAD board, while V Sports appoints two directors. Rodrigues also called it "an important day for the present and future".
For Guimaraes, the vote comes at a time when the club is 13th in the Primeira Liga with 8 points from 9 matches. V Sports' other football arm, Aston Villa, are 9th in the Premier League after 8 matches and 2nd in the Champions League league phase with 9 points from 3 matches.
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