The board of Morton Club Together noted with serious concern the statement which was issued by GMFC following last week's media coverage of the registration ban imposed upon it by FIFA.
We have a duty to be transparent to our members, and regretfully we must make it clear that the club did not inform Morton Club Together, as its owners, about this ban from the governing body.
The MCT board shares the disappointment that many members and other supporters have expressed regarding this situation.
The handling of the matter was also particularly frustrating at a time when MCT and its directors have been proactively engaging with the board at Cappielow and working hard on a number of fronts to try and improve the working relationship between the two and the running of the club.
These efforts had included regular dialogue, a commitment to collaboration and engaging in a number of joint meetings, yet important information was still not divulged to MCT.
Following the failure to notify the club's owners about the FIFA registration ban, Morton Club Together can confirm that on Monday evening it formally asked its representatives on the GMFC board, Graham Barr and Sam Robinson, to both stand down from their positions, and it awaited their responses to that request.
The board of MCT has subsequently been notified officially that the continued backing of GMFC sponsors Dalrada is dependent on those representatives, and the current club chair, remaining on the board at Cappielow.
We appreciate and acknowledge that members and the wider fanbase have been anxious for information over recent days regarding these matters, as well as other ongoing areas of concern reported recently.
However the board of MCT believes that it was important to attempt to resolve the situation in an appropriate fashion privately before then updating everyone fully and moving forward. It has therefore been deeply disappointing that other unknown parties have instead chosen to breach confidentiality and deliberately put information into the public domain online which has caused anxiety for everyone connected with the club.
Morton Club Together has always been committed to forming a productive partnership with the other key stakeholders involved with the club and it plans to hold talks with its counterparts at the earliest opportunity to make progress collectively in a way that serves the best interests of the football club as a community-owned asset.
We would meantime like to thank all of our members for their patience over the past week and their continued support of MCT, something which has put it on track to soon reach the milestone total of £1 million invested into Greenock Morton FC.