Originally Posted by
pravda_plc
There will always be buyers for any football club - if the price is acceptable to the buyer. So a quid will probably be what your average chancer/shyster will be prepared to pay.
To find a buyer who is a genuine football person, without some sinister agenda, who is prepared to service a club's debts - the 'Black Hole' if you will - is a totally different proposition.
I do sincerely hope Bury FC get out of this dreadful mess but you have to ask why the EFL did not impose their deadline much, much earlier. The whole football world knew that the club were in catastrophic debt and that Dale had no intention of selling without his payoff - very like the Alan Hardy scenario.
The EFL talk constantly about the integrity of the league, about clubs being able to fulfill their fixtures and stay solvent etc etc. The EFL knew exactly when this league season would start. They knew exactly when the first league fixture would occur. They should have issued their deadline at the beginning of the close season, so that the Dales and Hardys of the football world knew exactly what would happen if they didn't sell in the required time frame.
Assuming that Bury do survive, IMO they have been relegated without kicking a ball. They have no players to speak of, no pre-season preparation and a huge backlog of fixtures.
I wish them all the best, whatever today's outcome...
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