Sunderland's chief operating officer Steve Davison is hopeful that Kyril Louis-Dreyfus can reach an agreement to buy the shareholdings of Charlie Methven and Stewart Donald following this week's revelations concerning the ownership of the club.
Fans reacted with fury earlier this week when the club disclosed that, while Louis-Dreyfus is the single largest shareholder with a 41 percent stake, the members of the Madrox group, Donald, Methven, and Juan Sartori, together still hold 59 percent of the shares.
Supporters have long wanted the Madrox men to sell up, and were under the impression that Louis-Dreyfus had bought a majority stake in Sunderland last February and that Donald, Methven, and Sartori had retained token stakes rather than the 34 percent, five percent, and 20 percent holdings they actually still own.
