BACUP Borough manager Brent Peters has ambitious plans for the club if his proposed takeover at West View comes off.

Peters confirmed that a deal is almost finalised to give him control of the North West Counties Second Division Club.

"We are well down the road with negotiations. There are just one or two pieces of documentation to complete the deal. Once that's done we are up and running.

"I want it done yesterday because Iam already planning for next season," he said.

Peters, who runs a distribution and promotions company, said he is looking at the club as an on-going business investment and hasn't ruled out managing another club in the future.

"There are too many clubs in the pyramid system run as a hobby but I say it's a business," he said.

"With the money you have got to spend on getting grounds up to standard, even in the North West Counties, it's a money orientated operation and you can't keep going to business asking them to give, give, give. "You have got to run a commercial commodity where businesses can promote their organisations through the football club and, the more successful, the more people will want to make a commercial investment in it.

"At the moment the place is run down and delapidated. I feel sorry for the die-hards at the club who have other business interests and can't devote the time."

Peters, who has tasted life in the Football League as assistant manager to Kerry Dixon at Doncaster Rovers before taking charge at Bacup earlier this season, believes the production and development of young players is another potential source of income.

And he says the "world's our oyster" in terms of potential progress.

The Bacup boss, who admits a change of home could even happen in the future if development depended on it, added: "When I took over the team was rock bottom, getting six or seven put past them each week and a complete shambles.

"I have turned the club round on the playing side and I want to turn it round off the field as well.

"I don't want to be languishing at the bottom of the North West Counties League, I want to be where Accrington Stanley are or higher. It won't happen overnight but that's what we've got to look at."

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