FC United Thread

BeerIsTheBest said:
Just seen this letter on the Grundian football internet site. Article was about the Club World Cup and also the scums prem ticket prices featured on the Football Daily.

The only thing missing was the plea to bring some cash for the begging buckets. Bunch of charlatans

“A propos your comments about the extortionately high ticket prices at MUFC (yesterday’s Football Daily), this may be the exact moment to refresh the fact that nearly 20 years ago, in May 2005, 6,000 Manchester United supporters walked away from top-flight football and formed FC United of Manchester. Our new club serves as the biggest consistent weekly protest against the Glazers, the debt burden unfairly placed on United, and the extraordinary amount of money that has ruined the top-flight game. It’s been a rollercoaster ride since then, but our ethos of low matchday ticket prices still persists, with tickets at £13 for adults and juniors are £3. Season tickets are priced on a ‘pay what you can afford’ basis. Here’s a wonderful video (there are loads similar out there on YouTube) summarising the club’s reason for existing. We’ve a Christmas home game coming up on 26 December and could really do with the publicity to encourage all the many disaffected ‘Big United’ fans to roll up and try us out” – Jonathan Kendal.
Click to expand...

Christ, they want £13 to watch that nonsense?

If they had 6,000 fans twenty years ago, they must have projected at least double that by now. Anyone know how many mugs still carry on pretending to follow them?
 
Last edited:
Mike N said:
J


Christ, they want £13 to watch that nonsense?

If they had 6,000 fans twenty years ago, they must have projected at least double that by now. Anyone know how many mugs still carry on pretending to follow them?
Click to expand...
The ones I know that do still go act like they're part of a cult...(I said cult)

Brainwashed. Every time I bump into them it's like a sales pitch as if they've been programmed what to say and are on commission if they talk someone into going.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
This bit is rather puzzling

Payment Profile: To help the club in the early years particularly with cash flow stretched due to the postponed games, MCC has agreed a low start loan profile: £0 in 2023/24, £30,000 in 2024/25, £75,000 in 2025/26 before rising to £91,000.

So because the club have “suffered” from a few postponements this season, the council are giving them a hand and not asking for any money this season.
I don’t get that. I appreciate the cash flow issues they face now but eventually by May those postponed games will have been played and the money from each game accounted for. These games aren’t lost, just delayed.

The question has to be asked, what happens this time next season if again the Rag Socks are knocked out of the FA Cup / FA Trophy early leaving games again postponed due to opponents still being involved in these competitions?

There is a clear pattern here over the past however many seasons that these fuckers are simply struggling to survive, yet the council are again bending over backwards to accommodate them when everyone on Blue Moon reading this (apart from @M40_Sheriff ) know that the whole project is a sham and should be pulled.
Click to expand...

I think from the council's perspective now it's the lesser of 2 evils. If the club folds, the 3G pitch and the ground will still be there. The council inherit that. What do you do with that as a council? 3G pitch you run yourself, but they need replacing around every 10 years, and now the council is employing people to run the 3G pitch. The ground itself, what do you do with it? From the council's perspective you'd rather let someone else have the expense of having to maintain that. Suppose the second point is that even at this level of football that amount of debt isn't excessive. Gainsborough in our league would have made about £100k from their FA Cup and FA Trophy runs this year. Salford for example are about to get a massive boost to their budget, maybe even secure a training ground thanks to the roughly £700-900k they're being kindly gifted by Man City fans. Teams like Halifax in the past received a couple hundred grand from Fleetwood for Jamie Vardy. So that amount of debt can be wiped out pretty quickly. The club had bad luck with Elliot Simoes who was sold to Barnsley and then Nancy. Due to multiclub ownership he transferred across for free. If he'd gone for just £200-250k the club would have gotten £50k for that. Currently one of the top scorers in the National League is an ex-FC United player and on the radar of top end L2 and some L1 clubs. If he moves in Jan then the club should receive a good percentage of that. If he goes for half the amount Simoes did, the club I think would receive £25-30k. If Simoes hadn't gone through a loophole then in theory that is £80k made from player sales in 3 years. All of a sudden you start making better progress in reducing the debt. On the flipside though if the club goes down this season it'll cling on, if it went down another level, I think that would go one of 2 ways. It'd either be curtains, or we'd get better crowds. Lots of fans I know preferred the NW Counties.
 
Mostonisblue said:
As promised here’s the presentation from the Bucketeers AGM. all slides were created by their board and shared with their members. Firstly to refute M40’s claim that MCC are repaid every month with a direct debit. This is categorically untrue as seen on the slides below referencing the two year loan payment holiday.

At this point my question to him is are you that naive & gullible & believe what you tell us? or did you register on a city fan’s forum just to lie to us?
Click to expand...

Good to see you back!

Before we listen to anymore of your expert analysis on the state of the bucketeers did you miss this question?

Your credibility on here might be wobbling a bit but Why were you so adamant that FC paid their council debts every month via direct debit when everyone knew they were on a two year payment holiday
 
Mostonisblue said:
Good to see you back!

Before we listen to anymore of your expert analysis on the state of the bucketeers did you miss this question?

Your credibility on here might be wobbling a bit but Why were you so adamant that FC paid their council debts every month via direct debit when everyone knew they were on a two year payment holiday
Click to expand...
may apply for a two year payment holiday on my council tax...see how far it gets me...
 
M40_Sheriff said:
I think from the council's perspective now it's the lesser of 2 evils. If the club folds, the 3G pitch and the ground will still be there. The council inherit that. What do you do with that as a council? 3G pitch you run yourself, but they need replacing around every 10 years, and now the council is employing people to run the 3G pitch. The ground itself, what do you do with it? From the council's perspective you'd rather let someone else have the expense of having to maintain that. Suppose the second point is that even at this level of football that amount of debt isn't excessive. Gainsborough in our league would have made about £100k from their FA Cup and FA Trophy runs this year. Salford for example are about to get a massive boost to their budget, maybe even secure a training ground thanks to the roughly £700-900k they're being kindly gifted by Man City fans. Teams like Halifax in the past received a couple hundred grand from Fleetwood for Jamie Vardy. So that amount of debt can be wiped out pretty quickly. The club had bad luck with Elliot Simoes who was sold to Barnsley and then Nancy. Due to multiclub ownership he transferred across for free. If he'd gone for just £200-250k the club would have gotten £50k for that. Currently one of the top scorers in the National League is an ex-FC United player and on the radar of top end L2 and some L1 clubs. If he moves in Jan then the club should receive a good percentage of that. If he goes for half the amount Simoes did, the club I think would receive £25-30k. If Simoes hadn't gone through a loophole then in theory that is £80k made from player sales in 3 years. All of a sudden you start making better progress in reducing the debt. On the flipside though if the club goes down this season it'll cling on, if it went down another level, I think that would go one of 2 ways. It'd either be curtains, or we'd get better crowds. Lots of fans I know preferred the NW Counties.
Click to expand...
So there's a "Jamie Vardy" every year somewhere in the echelons of English football! And all you need to do is produce five or so
Such a simple plan that I wonder why every lower league team isn't doing this every season
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Unread Posts

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top
✖
  AdBlock Detected
Bluemoon relies on advertising to pay our hosting fees. Please support the site by disabling your ad blocking software to help keep the forum sustainable. Thanks.