Guessing game as Lloyd leaves MV

By SARAH MARKS FOR MAILONLINE
Updated: 00:00 BST, 12 December 2002

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THE shock 辞職 of former tennis 星／主役にする David Lloyd from the （議長，司会の）地位，能力 of MV Sports has 誘発するd a flurry of 憶測 over what the entrepreneur will do next.

Will he float his chain of upmarket health clubs, 開始する，打ち上げる a 企て，努力，提案 for Clubhaus, or 充てる himself to the 破壊 of one of his two pet hates - the Lawn Tennis 協会 and Whitbread, which bought the 権利s to his 指名する along with his chain of gyms in 1995?

All of the above could be 含むd の中で the 'other 商売／仕事 利益／興味s' which MV Sports, in customary City style, 示唆するd Lloyd wished to 追求する.

But not every 商売／仕事 touched by Lloyd has turned to gold. The 取得／買収 of 船体's football team and その後の 試みる／企てるs to redevelop its ground cost him £3m. Lloyd touted Snakeboards - articulated skateboards - and 支援するd his company into 製造業者 MV Sports in 1999. にもかかわらず producing Christmas must-有産国 like the Barbie Bike and the Harry Potter skateboard, MV made a loss of £600,000.

Lloyd's biggest success was the chain of tennis-orientated gyms. He pocketed £20m when he sold the group for £200m - but he appears to have regretted the 決定／判定勝ち（する） ever since. After a short （一定の）期間 on the board he parted on acrimonious 条件 and has tried to buy 支援する his 指名する.

But anyone hoping to buy in to Lloyd's new nine-strong group of clubs, Next 世代, 設立するd by his son Scott, will have to wait. 計画（する）s to take it public by Christmas have been put on 持つ／拘留する because of the market 騒動.

Lloyd himself will 充てる his time to the company's fledgling 操作／手術s in Australia and その上の developing his 高級な holiday 訴える手段／行楽地 in Barbados.