Wigan Athletic deducted 3 points (P33)

I am guessing that Wigan were just happy they had a buyer , and didn't look at the Chinese company that has ran out of money after 4 weeks of ownership ? Probably more to this than meets the eye , covid 19 being an easy thing to pin the blame on .
 
lonestay said:
I am guessing that Wigan were just happy they had a buyer , and didn't look at the Chinese company that has ran out of money after 4 weeks of ownership ? Probably more to this than meets the eye , covid 19 being an easy thing to pin the blame on .
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I work in the world of finance (and have worked with football clubs) and there are some deals that go down that just never make sense. Even allowing for money laundering or tax evasion or whatever else you can think of they make no sense. When you get involved with buying a club as per the Wigan acquisition you are in for £100k in fees (legal / accounting) as a safe estimate of the minimum, fees over a £1m not unknown. So you are paying a lot to get your feet under the table to have a serious look at the club and completing the deal if you like what you see. It would take you weeks to go through the books so there is a lot of work involved. You also have to convince the seller you have the means to take it on, this can be faked to be honest but why - why go through the process if you are just going to fall flat in a couple of months.
 
Up to Nine buyers showing an interest? And only want Buyers who have 10m cash ready! Why would anybody by a club in these times and a club like Wigan who have major losses yearly? Unless your a die hard Wigan fan and worth 500m and would invest because of your love for your club, just can’t see anyone buying them.
 
city2 said:
Who are the owners now after big Dave ( you know the guy with the broken leg) who doesn’t like to mention it every time he’s on tv sold it to. The problem is too many clubs in the north west in close proximity, more will go this way.
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Not long ago all four divisions were won by north west clubs in the same season.
The league used to have plenty of room for Bury, Stockport doing well, Oldham and Bolton enjoying seasons at the top level, Chester and Macc getting on ok. It’s the financial model and indeed financial behaviour of some clubs which is the problem, not being located in what is after all a football mad region.
 
urban genie said:
Shirley they could sell this for a tidy profit
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Reckon they could get the price of five pies and at least one them in a barm
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if only carlsberg did ? the B.L.M protest and pull this fucker down
 
waspish said:
Up to Nine buyers showing an interest? And only want Buyers who have 10m cash ready! Why would anybody by a club in these times and a club like Wigan who have major losses yearly? Unless your a die hard Wigan fan and worth 500m and would invest because of your love for your club, just can’t see anyone buying them.
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Apparently one of those showing interest is HRH SM and he is going to "Buy their club and burn it down".
 
ninjamonkey said:
whatever your opinion of them, nobody should be pleased/mock this happening to any club. Anybody supporting their local team deserves respect, even more so when they’ve got much bigger sides in their backyard. Terrible for the fans. Sadly I don’t expect this to be a one-off
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Sorry mate, but if ever a group of supporters deserve mockery it is this lot. Quite apart from their hatred of us and love of the rags and/or victims, they are just genuinely obnoxious. I had the misfortune (free ticket) to go to Blackburn v Wigan in December. Bradley Dack of Blackburn got a horrendous injury, after which you could hear his agonised screams all over the ground. For the full 10 minutes it took to get him on a stretcher and as he was carried off, the Wigan bastards abused and taunted him, it was sickening. I have never seen a clearly seriously injured player abused by fans like that anywhere, absolute horrible bastards and it wasn’t a minority of them.
 
Would have felt for them a while back but broken leg Dave was always snidey about us so fuck em. By the way Dave, amazing how Wigan got to the Prem without any financial backing, just amazing.....
 
Whether or not said:
Sorry mate, but if ever a group of supporters deserve mockery it is this lot. Quite apart from their hatred of us and love of the rags and/or victims, they are just genuinely obnoxious. I had the misfortune (free ticket) to go to Blackburn v Wigan in December. Bradley Dack of Blackburn got a horrendous injury, after which you could hear his agonised screams all over the ground. For the full 10 minutes it took to get him on a stretcher and as he was carried off, the Wigan bastards abused and taunted him, it was sickening. I have never seen a clearly seriously injured player abused by fans like that anywhere, absolute horrible bastards and it wasn’t a minority of them.
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You must not have been at the game when City played Liverpool 2/3 seasons ago which City won 5-0.
Mane nearly took Ederson's head off with a really high kick and Eddie needed on field treatment and was given oxygen.
And all the feral scousers could do was boo and jeer him.
Same when Yaya got injured at Anfield in 2014.
Fans from that side of Lancashire all appear to be cut from the same cloth!!!
 
RibboCop said:
I’d have to look it up can’t remember who scored but do remember there was about 50k there I was in the Platt Lane
Just looked it up 1971 Bell we played in red black stripes att was 46k
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I think that was the day they opened the new North stand. I had not been in the scoreboard end for years so I gave it a go, sorry I did it, was rammed and they did not attempt to limit numbers. I think Derek Temple played for them and luckily for us his legs had gone. No disrespect to their owner.
 
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ninjamonkey said:
whatever your opinion of them, nobody should be pleased/mock this happening to any club. Anybody supporting their local team deserves respect, even more so when they’ve got much bigger sides in their backyard. Terrible for the fans. Sadly I don’t expect this to be a one-off
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Every Wigan fan I’ve ever known or met is a United fan from Wigan who can’t afford/can’t be arsed going to United.

Every time we played them I’d hear fans outside the ground after games singing United songs.

This won’t be all of them, but it’s the ones I’ve encountered.
 
BlueKompany81 said:
Don't have a lot of sympathy for this lot.

I get that its a shame for the community etc.

However the fans have been absolutely Scum after all 3 FA Cup games.

Got lots of grief after the Final.

Tried speaking to a few of them in the pub before the game at the DW and they were obnoxious, cocky and full of hatred for us.

So unlucky, go and support Liverpool or United from your armchair or go and watch Rugby. Haha.
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I know it's petty but it's difficult to sympathise with them. Their fans were obnoxious at that game where they ran on the pitch and attacked us...after winning. I did have sympathy with Bury though. The biggest disgrace about all this is that the Wigan and Bury cases are similar and both essentially relate to money laundering (and asset stripping) by unscrupulous owners who build up huge debts to themselves and try and cash in when the business goes bust. This is just another case which shows that FFP is making things worse not better because it doesn't do anything about debt. Never mind, I am sure the EFL, now led by that bastion of honesty Rick Parry, will find a solution.
 
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