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Post by BlueQuarter on Sept 16, 2020 12:03:32 GMT
Macclesfield Town FC wound up in High Court over debts exceeding £500,000 - www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54177582Could see this one coming but still pretty sad to see yet another club go out of business. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2020 12:06:46 GMT
Macclesfield Town FC wound up in High Court over debts exceeding £500,000 - www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54177582Could see this one coming but still pretty sad to see yet another club go out of business. sad news |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2020 12:11:04 GMT
Absolute disgrace. That figure is less than two weeks wages for some Premier league players. So sad.
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Post by francegas on Sept 16, 2020 12:11:39 GMT
Too much money at the top of the pyramid that isn't filtering down. Just think a club has been wound up with debts of less that two weeks salary of one premier league player.
Sad news.
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Post by warehamgas on Sept 16, 2020 12:13:25 GMT
Very sad news but it’s been coming for a year or two. Their owner sounds awful. And in the end what was the debt that needed to be paid? I think it was less than a weeks salary to a middling PL footballer. Total debts were about £500k,which in the scheme of things not enormous, but big enough when no real means to pay it off. On this one I don’t particularly blame the EFL, it’s been about to happen for some time and everyone seems to have lost patience. Suppose this means that there will be a gap in the National League as they won’t be allowed into that league. Another club to become AFC perhaps in the NW Counties or somewhere at or below Level 7.
As a fan of BRFC I feel I’m very fortunate in many ways.
UTG!
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Post by baggins on Sept 16, 2020 12:15:25 GMT
Macclesfield Town FC wound up in High Court over debts exceeding £500,000 - www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54177582Could see this one coming but still pretty sad to see yet another club go out of business. sad news Especially when you think Ozil earns that a week. Hey Premiership, pass some of the money down to the less fortunate you shits. |
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Post by warehamgas on Sept 16, 2020 12:22:24 GMT
Especially when you think Ozil earns that a week. Hey Premiership, pass some of the money down to the less fortunate you shits. But they won’t baggins, most PL clubs are owned by foreign owners with no emotional attachment to the EFL clubs. I doubt most owners would even know of Macclesfield’s existence, or rather former existence. The owner, Alkhadi, could have dealt with this and should have done. Whilst I don’t blame the EFL on this occasion, the owner should never have been allowed to own a club after what’s been going on, or what’s not been happening (paying their bills) over the last two years. It is scandalous but in a week or two it will be forgotten. Clubs have to take responsibility for their own actions, something I hope we do and not rely on others. UTG! |
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Post by Jomo on Sept 16, 2020 12:24:43 GMT
Very sad indeed. Clubs like Bury and Macclesfield are/were important parts of their respective communities, and they've been shafted by charlatan owners.
The fact that the likes of Ollie Watkins, a 2nd tier player is going to Villa for £28M, makes the sums of money being talked about for Macc being wound up, particularly sad and frankly disgusting.
The money at the top of the game is already starting to have a very detrimental effect on the clubs lower down with transfer fees becoming ever more inflated, and the Premier League have us all over a barrel with the EPPP, so fewer and fewer clubs have the option of selling young talent on for a decent fee. It's like robbing the poor to feed the rich, it's absolutely disgraceful.
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Post by Gastafari on Sept 16, 2020 12:25:48 GMT
Glad we ended up with Al-Qadi and not Alkhadi
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Post by baggins on Sept 16, 2020 12:28:04 GMT
Glad we ended up with Al-Qadi and not Alkhadi Read back the vile posts against the Al-Qadi family, Wael especially, from 12 months ago. |
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Post by baggins on Sept 16, 2020 12:31:03 GMT
Especially when you think Ozil earns that a week. Hey Premiership, pass some of the money down to the less fortunate you shits. But they won’t baggins, most PL clubs are owned by foreign owners with no emotional attachment to the EFL clubs. I doubt most owners would even know of Macclesfield’s existence, or rather former existence. The owner, Alkhadi, could have dealt with this and should have done. Whilst I don’t blame the EFL on this occasion, the owner should never have been allowed to own a club after what’s been going on, or what’s not been happening (paying their bills) over the last two years. It is scandalous but in a week or two it will be forgotten. Clubs have to take responsibility for their own actions, something I hope we do and not rely on others. UTG! Putting Premiership ckub owners to one side for a minute, the Premiership itself, as in FA, have billions sat in their account, why the hell couldn't they pay out £500k to a club like Macclesfield? They wouldn't even notice. |
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Post by Jomo on Sept 16, 2020 12:34:55 GMT
But they won’t baggins, most PL clubs are owned by foreign owners with no emotional attachment to the EFL clubs. I doubt most owners would even know of Macclesfield’s existence, or rather former existence. The owner, Alkhadi, could have dealt with this and should have done. Whilst I don’t blame the EFL on this occasion, the owner should never have been allowed to own a club after what’s been going on, or what’s not been happening (paying their bills) over the last two years. It is scandalous but in a week or two it will be forgotten. Clubs have to take responsibility for their own actions, something I hope we do and not rely on others. UTG! Putting Premiership ckub owners to one side for a minute, the Premiership itself, as in FA, have billions sat in their account, why the hell couldn't they pay out £500k to a club like Macclesfield? They wouldn't even notice. I believe the Premier League and FA are completely different organisations. I'd suggest that the FA and EFL have little or no influence over the PL juggernaut. I agree though that there should be some measures in place for the "football family" for want of a better phrase, to be obligated to help these clubs. I suppose it's the difficulty in terms of drawing a line between the club, and the owner of that club. Any financial assistance should be used to help the club, and not the owner for their personal gain. |
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Post by clovis on Sept 16, 2020 12:40:26 GMT
A real shame. Another nail in the coffin of small teams. More will follow no doubt.
I had a very nice day out there years ago to watch them play Lincoln. First day of the season from memory.
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Post by baggins on Sept 16, 2020 12:43:16 GMT
Putting Premiership ckub owners to one side for a minute, the Premiership itself, as in FA, have billions sat in their account, why the hell couldn't they pay out £500k to a club like Macclesfield? They wouldn't even notice. I believe the Premier League and FA are completely different organisations. I'd suggest that the FA and EFL have little or no influence over the PL juggernaut. I agree though that there should be some measures in place for the "football family" for want of a better phrase, to be obligated to help these clubs. I suppose it's the difficulty in terms of drawing a line between the club, and the owner of that club. Any financial assistance should be used to help the club, and not the owner for their personal gain. About time the big clubs recognise that most of their stars came from lower league clubs. |
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Post by Gaswood on Sept 16, 2020 12:47:41 GMT
The problem with the Premier League wages type link (much as I agree with the absurd gap) is that if they were bailed out it would encourage others to overspend or mismanage with no consequence. I think it’s awful that clubs like Bury and Macclesfield with such histories have gone under, but there’s always an element of mismanagement or over-reaching that has been a chunk of the cause. As others have said, we should feel very lucky to have the club set up the way it is, and the pay structure that is being installed right now should put us on the right path to stay out of the red and avoid needing WAQ to put more in 🤞
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Post by Jomo on Sept 16, 2020 12:49:07 GMT
I believe the Premier League and FA are completely different organisations. I'd suggest that the FA and EFL have little or no influence over the PL juggernaut. I agree though that there should be some measures in place for the "football family" for want of a better phrase, to be obligated to help these clubs. I suppose it's the difficulty in terms of drawing a line between the club, and the owner of that club. Any financial assistance should be used to help the club, and not the owner for their personal gain. About time the big clubs recognise that most of their stars came from lower league clubs. Either that or they hoovered up all the young talent before the lower league clubs even had a chance. Clubs like Man City and Chelsea have youth academies that are staggeringly big. It's a wonder how Chelsea haven't had more players graduate to the first team before Frank Lampard starting giving a few of them a chance last year. |
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Post by LJG on Sept 16, 2020 12:49:34 GMT
Very sad. And I think puts an end to the endless claim that Higgs and Co wouldn't have let us go bust over £2.4m.
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Post by baggins on Sept 16, 2020 12:51:13 GMT
About time the big clubs recognise that most of their stars came from lower league clubs. Either that or they hoovered up all the young talent before the lower league clubs even had a chance. Clubs like Man City and Chelsea have youth academies that are staggeringly big. It's a wonder how Chelsea haven't had more players graduate to the first team before Frank Lampard starting giving a few of them a chance last year. If this carries on, there will be 10 clubs left, playing each other 5 times a season. |
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Post by baggins on Sept 16, 2020 12:52:46 GMT
The problem with the Premier League wages type link (much as I agree with the absurd gap) is that if they were bailed out it would encourage others to overspend or mismanage with no consequence. I think it’s awful that clubs like Bury and Macclesfield with such histories have gone under, but there’s always an element of mismanagement or over-reaching that has been a chunk of the cause. As others have said, we should feel very lucky to have the club set up the way it is, and the pay structure that is being installed right now should put us on the right path to stay out of the red and avoid needing WAQ to put more in 🤞 Wasn't there supposed to be a due dilligence clause for who can and who can't own a football club? |
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Post by Colyton Gas on Sept 16, 2020 13:00:10 GMT
Many years ago I reffed at Chester who rented Macclesfield's stadium ,Moss Rose,for two seasons whilst their new DEVA stadium was being built.
Weird thing was that Macclesfield won the then Conference but were refused entry to the FL as their ground wasn't up to standard even though Chester were in the FL at the time and playing there.Only ground worse than ours I always felt.Officials had no car park so we had to use the VW Garage along the road.
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