FC United Thread

Bloody hell - how do they do it?
Clubs like Scunthorpe, Kidderminster, Chester etc still have the resources. For example, Darlington had a pre-season fundraiser for their transfer and wage pool and raised, IIRC, well over 50 grand.
For Buxton though, everyone’s asking the same question as you. Seems completely untenable on crowds of 5-600.
 
They opened the academy as they thought it was their cash cow. They decided to take it in house, appointed their first team manager who was a headmaster elsewhere as their principal & predicted 120 students the first year and growing onwards, at one point one of their board members publicly talked about his “back of an envelope calculations which showed the academy alone could make them £500k a year”
 

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