So Bury again have financial issues, but were able/allowed to sustain a promotion push…despite the previous season they vastly overspending compared to what they could realistically afford.
Talking of Bolton again. According to the local BBC news reports up here in the North, Foodbanks now being offered for 400 employees (400! no wonder they struggle to pay creditors!) who have not been paid their April salaries, the players have not been paid since the end of February! Preston North End have provided the club with £2000 worth of food vouchers for Bolton’s employees. Could easily see Uncle Jeff providing similar help if a local Midlands club got into difficulties! haha.
Heard on radio this morning that Plymouth will be reinstated in League 1 if Bury go out of business. Been a long time since a club went out the league but sadly its needed to kick the EFL and these owners up the backside…
Only need Coventry to go bump next month and we will be back in League 1 next season
Last time they came down they ignored their problems. Kept someone lik Wheater who’d be on massive wages and halfway through that year they added Le Fondre who’d be on decent money.
Now they have come down with a shell of a squad and will hardly have players queueing up to sign with their current circumstances.
Considering the form was still o.k over xmas (good draws at Peterborough and Luton that should’ve been wins) I think that started the downward trend in performances aswell.
I remember leading up to the game, the guy who’s apartment we rent off in Tenerife was a bit worried that they were going to be turned over by a “little team from the 1st division”
The EFL and the FA need to have a long, hard look at themselves.
You could see the Bury and Bolton situations coming a mile off. The opening day game of the season before last you looked at Bury’s roster on the back of the programme and knew that it was completely unsustainable. I thought we’d lose by far more than the single goal we did such was the apparent disparity in the quality of squads.
Coventry were allowed to break the EFL’s own rules by moving to Northampton. That they can break them again so quickly suggests a distinct lack of spine at the EFL. Remember this rule was brought in to prevent clubs being uprooted from their communities a la Franchise FC of Milton Keynes. If they aren’t going to enforce it they may as well rub it out.