Sunderland for free

[oldcolner]

Ellis Short can’t sell the club and is now willing to give it away for free, provided they take on the clubs £137m debt. Last year he was looking for £170m when it was in the PL.
How the mighty have fallen.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43157628

[In Dyche We Trust]

Tbh - they have never been mighty-

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I went with my dad to Roker Park in the sixties. Trust me IDWT, the "Roker Roar" was unlike anything I have ever witnessed.

I have a real soft spot for the good folks of Sunderland and they deserve better than Ellis Short as their Chairman.

I greatly appreciate our own Board of Directors and Chairman who have only the best interests of Burnley Football Club in their hearts and are not the self serving, loathsome individuals who are rampant in the higher echelons of League football these days.

Cue Altobelli!

[In Dyche We Trust]

I went with my dad to Roker Park in the sixties. Trust me IDWT, the "Roker Roar" was unlike anything I have ever witnessed.

I have a real soft spot for the good folks of Sunderland and they deserve better than Ellis Short as their Chairman.

I greatly appreciate our own Board of Directors and Chairman who have only the best interests of Burnley Football Club in their hearts and are not the self serving, loathsome individuals who are rampant in the higher echelons of League football these days.

Cue Altobelli!

I have been there too TBT and agree with you but I was talking about the club and their achievements , particularly in recent years. Won the FA Cup against the Weeds in 73 but thats about it.....

[oldcolner]

Stadium of Plight says Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/football...-chris-coleman

Chris Coleman has never met or spoken to the owner. You can’t Mackem up.

Martin Bain, the chief executive, is taking considerable flak as he wrestles with the £35m annual wage bill that is swallowing much of this season’s £47m parachute payment. The club owes £110m

Accordingly Grayson was allowed to spend only £1.25m on 10 players last summer and, contrary to expectation, Coleman was merely permitted four loan signings – Chelsea’s Jake Clarke-Salter, Liverpool’s Ovie Ejaria, Middlesbrough’s Ashley Fletcher and Lee Camp of Cardiff – in January. So far that quartet have all struggled in a squad containing seven loanees.

To add to the dysfunctional atmosphere, the £70,000-a-week erstwhile England midfielder Jack Rodwell is not in Coleman’s plans while L’Equipe reports that Sunderland are sending a collective £30,000 a week to France to subsidise the wages of Wahbi Khazri and Papy Djilobodji, the winger and defender they have loaned to Rennes and Dijon respectively.

Saturday they play Hull who are also in danger of a double drop.

[champs95]

Something like this would never happen at a well run club like ours .........

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Something like this would never happen at a well run club like ours .........

I understand your debt currently matches Sunderland's...

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk...___54_5m_debt/

[oldcolner]

I understand your debt currently matches Sunderland's...

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk...___54_5m_debt/

Good to see Champs sense of humour
Year to June 2016 £106m issued 22 Feb 2017 so new figures are awaited with baited breath.
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk...e_than___106m/

[champs95]

I understand your debt currently matches Sunderland's...

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk...___54_5m_debt/

Both are awful!! I don't actually know who is in the worse position? I guess Sunderland will always get decent crowds. But their guy has just lost interest. Our lot are at least being quiet. I still don't know if that's a good or a bad thing. I try not to think about it tbh or get too involved. Does that sound really bad? I don't know ....I just like watching a game of footy me, the rest all goes over my head.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Not being horrid but if you just like watching a game of footy, you had best just head on down to Turf Moor...

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