Melville Planning to Paint the Town Blue

Sunday HeraldJuly 23, 2009

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DUNDEE

New owner wants self-suf"ciency and a return to the days when the club was the best in the city. Stewart Fisher reports

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Melville Planning to Paint the Town Blue

CALUM Melville can't do much of his shopping in Primark.

While only Celtic's GBP3.8 million capture of Marc- Antoine Fortune has bucked the trend for parsimony amongst SPL clubs this summer, Dundee and their new millionaire benefactor have been spending money like it is going out of fashion.

Which, of course, it is. The fact hasn't escaped the 40-year- old's attention.

"I probably spent more on my last suit than the rest of the SPL has spent on players this year, " Melville says.

It may seem like bravado, but he does have a point. The oil and gas tycoon, whose family's wealth is estimated at around GBP125 million, has already lavished...

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