TWO highly successful businessmen are ready to save Weymouth Football Club from the brink of extinction.

Multi-millionaire Colin Hill, the brother of former Terras boss Garry Hill, and ex-Cambridge United chairman Lee Power, will visit the Wessex Stadium next week to look into investing in the club, which looked destined for liquidation after ex-chairman Malcolm Curtis pulled out of a deal with a consortium last month.

The breakdown of that deal has led to the workforce at the Wessex Stadium not being paid this week but thanks to the interest of Mr Hill and Mr Power it now appears the Blue Square Premier outfit could rise like a phoenix from the flames.

Weymouth chief executive Gary Calder, who has been at the forefront of the takeover negotiations and the desperate bid to save the club, said that due to ongoing problems the whole workforce would not be paid this week.

He added: “We have been burning the midnight oil over the past month trying to get new investors in to stave off the threat of liquidation with no success.

“Then yesterday I called Colin Hill and Lee Power, at their home in Switzerland. And they are coming down next week to spend Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday here reviewing all documents and meeting with officials, with a view to investing quite heavily into the club to take it forward.

“Both Colin and Lee have turned clubs around before and this deal would put WFC on a firm footing for the first time and would allow it to progress, which I am sure will come as great news for all the fans.”

Mr Curtis branded the Terras ‘the Afghanistan of non-League football’ last week, claiming that the club was completely ungovernable but it appears Mr Hill and Mr Power disagree with his analogy and are preparing to finally deliver the stability the club needs.

Mr Calder has already moved to assure fans that Mr Hill and Mr Power only have the club’s best interests at heart. He said: “I must stress that without their involvement or help and assistance the club will go into liquidation imminently.

“And I will give people my assurances now. These people coming in are doing so for the benefit of the football club so we need to give them every support and help to ensure their involvement. They will not screw it over.”