by Steve Tervet

Membership levels at MyFootballClub dropped below 1,000 last week and Ebbsfleet’s online owners have had no offers to buy the club.

The annual MyFC subscription renewal date passed with 966 members signed up to the website which bought the Fleet just over five years ago.

MyFC chairman Keith Handley said: "I’d like it to be a lot higher. I don’t want to come over as happy that we’ve got 950. We were certainly aiming for 1,000 by the end of February and we’re not quite there yet."

Ebbsfleet needed £20,000 in donations to help them through January and some have questioned the long-term stability of the club under MyFC’s ownership model.

Mr Handley is prepared to consider sensible offers to buy the club but so far, none have been forthcoming. He said: "We haven’t had any offers. Our position is still the same. Once an offer is there, we’ll put it to the members."

In the meantime, MyFC and the club’s supporters trust have yet to sit down to discuss what the future holds for Ebbsfleet.

A Fleet Trust statement at the end of last year said ‘relationships between the football club and MyFC members have reached a stage where effective communication for the good of the football club has become untenable’.

Handley, who lives in York, insisted distance is the biggest obstacle to setting up a meeting. He said: "That’s always a serious practical problem for me. If I lived within 45 minutes, I’d be there on a regular basis."