Seven hours spent in lawyers’ offices in London on Friday left Brian Kilcullen, the Ebbsfleet United director charged with negotiating the takeover of the Kent club by the MyFootball-Club website, approaching match day on Saturday as a breath of fresh air. A 4-1 win over Weymouth was a perfect tonic and underlined that Ebbsfleet are gaining momentum in their quest to secure a place in the Blue Square Premier play-offs that they missed out on narrowly last year.

“There aren’t any major problems,” Kilcullen said. “When you are responsible to 250 shareholders and the supporters as we are and 25,000 members like MyFC, you have to make sure you get it right. There is a lot of detail.”

Ebbsfleet have to call an extraordinary general meeting with 21 days’ notice for the final deal to be presented. If that timescale threatens the ability of Liam Daish, the manager, to operate in the transfer window, Kilcullen said that, if the need arises, the majority shareholders would put money into the manager’s kitty confident that the sums would soon be repaid.

Daish says that he is wearying of the limbo period, but, apart from a procession of foreign television crews asking the same questions he fielded when the takeover was revealed in November, it has been business as usual. “It’s credit to the professionalism of the players that they haven’t allowed themselves to be distracted,” he said.

The young talent that Daish is developing is enviable. Stacy Long, 22, scored twice and found Chukki Eribenne with a corner to make it 3-0 at half-time on Saturday. James Smith, 22, the defender, helped to blunt a Weymouth revival that brought a goal for Gavin McCallum before Michael Bostwick, 19, drove in Ebbsfleet’s fourth.

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