League 1 - Bolton, Bury & Coventry

Here's my four point plan for the EFL:

1) Make it a regulation of membership that the club has to own its own ground. This will obviously create some challenges for clubs such as ours where the two are currently separated so they'd need a transition period to put this in place

2) Make it a regulation of membership that all clubs must openly disclose their revenues. Restrict allowed revenues to TV money, Sponsorship and commercial income, Matchday income and any other income from the operation of the ground. Clubs may not take loans from any source.

3) Have a hard salary cap - a club may not spend more than 50% of its average revenues from the three previous years on wages.

4) A club may not register any player that would take them above that salary cap.


If an owner wants to play silly games like Man City and Fleetwood do to inject more capital into the clubs then they can find a way - but only by essentially gifting those funds to the club; not in a way that puts the club at any risk.

This may increase the divide between Premier League and Football League clubs - but I reckon it would save any more clubs from Bury's fate, and the fate that's likely to befall a lot more clubs if nothing changes.
 
As soon as a club goes two months without paying the wages then the owner has to give up his shares to some regulatory body (I was going to say the EFL, but that would be stupid!) and then that regulatory body sells the shares to the most appropriate purchaser.
 
oufc1991 said:
Bolton shouldn’t of started the season it’s a joke they finally been taken over will make it so unfair to the rest of the teams they have to play from now on
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And guess who they’ll be playing with a new board, better players, a large roaring crowd and fresh enthusiasm? Yup. Us.
 
oufc1991 said:
Bolton shouldn’t of started the season it’s a joke they finally been taken over will make it so unfair to the rest of the teams they have to play from now on
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The EFL for one example have given Ipswich a 5:0 away win
Who knows where this will all work out at the end of the season
Their season should of started next week, like Bury’s would of done
 
what an amazing coincidence that Bolton are saved just a few days before the window shuts and guess what they have ooc players already lined up and have done for some time..
 
Gold and Black said:
The EFL for one example have given Ipswich a 5:0 away win
Who knows where this will all work out at the end of the season
Their season should of started next week, like Bury’s would of done
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There season should of started next season they didn’t have the funds like bury didn’t have any players like bury and should like bury been chucked out the league
 
I'm happy for Bolton's fans, but it is a farce.

Tranmere, Ipswich and Wycombe have basically been given a three point head-start on the rest of League One (Coventry should have as well, but they effed it up by failing to score from their 24 efforts at goal).

I presume that they'll now have signed a few players by the time they play Gillingham on Saturday, and will most likely have a manager and be a functional club again by the time they play Rotherham on the 14th Sept (and us three days later).

And will Bolton be facing a further points deduction for cancelling their game against Doncaster without EFL approval? Under every letter of the law, and footballing precedent, they ought to.....but the EFL have been showing signs of being even more forgiving than ever lately.


Even without one, it's still a challenge for them to avoid relegation, mind. They'll need another 55-60 points, with only 40 games to get them from......and they have to now recruit a manager and a team, basically from scratch.
 
tonyw said:
I'm happy for Bolton's fans, but it is a farce.

Tranmere, Ipswich and Wycombe have basically been given a three point head-start on the rest of League One (Coventry should have as well, but they effed it up by failing to score from their 24 efforts at goal).

I presume that they'll now have signed a few players by the time they play Gillingham on Saturday, and will most likely have a manager and be a functional club again by the time they play Rotherham on the 14th Sept (and us three days later).

And will Bolton be facing a further points deduction for cancelling their game against Doncaster without EFL approval? Under every letter of the law, and footballing precedent, they ought to.....but the EFL have been showing signs of being even more forgiving than ever lately.


Even without one, it's still a challenge for them to avoid relegation, mind. They'll need another 55-60 points, with only 40 games to get them from......and they have to now recruit a manager and a team, basically from scratch.
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I would be very surprised if they don’t lose another 12 points, if not the FL create a precedent to call off games and that will be chaos.

I can’t see them signing anyone much good on this season, they still have big problems and it would be a bit mental to splash out big money just to hopefully stay in league one, especially given him much trouble they had raising the funds to actually buy the club.

The buyers seem a bit dodgy to me, wouldn’t be surprised if we were back here in a year or two.
 
holdsteady said:
I would be very surprised if they don’t lose another 12 points, if not the FL create a precedent to call off games and that will be chaos.

I can’t see them signing anyone much good on this season, they still have big problems and it would be a bit mental to splash out big money just to hopefully stay in league one, especially given him much trouble they had raising the funds to actually buy the club.

The buyers seem a bit dodgy to me, wouldn’t be surprised if we were back here in a year or two.
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They can loan Tony McMahon from us.
 
I read somewhere on here bournemouth wont build a better ground because they get 100 mill just because they are in the premier ..... 100mill? Outrageous ... that money needs to be spread out over the leagues somehow ... the problem is the pyramid soon I can see lower teams,having to pay 10k a week as,a minimum to get decent players ... then all lower league clubs are in the shite .... the efl have handled this disgustingly both teams,should have been kicked out before the season started sad as that is ... oh well at least we got tiger who it seems to me is capping what we pay and maybe just maybe will take us on a journey ... so I hope this is a wake up call to clubs and supporters who demand million pound signings .... champagne life on brown ale wages doesnt work simple as
 
horseman said:
what an amazing coincidence that Bolton are saved just a few days before the window shuts and guess what they have ooc players already lined up and have done for some time..
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I’m not sure what the present state of affairs is, but they were under a transfer embargo due to the Dodge fiasco.
 
frenchconnection said:
I read somewhere on here bournemouth wont build a better ground because they get 100 mill just because they are in the premier ..... 100mill? Outrageous ... that money needs to be spread out over the leagues somehow ...
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I mean this is nice in theory, but the Premier League is run as a corporation on behalf of its shareholders who are the member clubs. It signs the gargantuan TV deal with Sky, and distributes the revenues as it sees fit.

It is not an organization whose function is to ensure the success of English football at grass roots level.

In fact, likely the only reason that it gives the football league as much as it does is to provide a lifeline to its member clubs that get relegated......


I don't see how the FA can mandate that the Premier League distributes its cash more to other organisations - other than barring its clubs from entering the FA Cup or, I suppose, representing England in Europe. Doing the former would do it more harm than the PL, and UEFA/the TV companies would probably find a way around the latter.
 
tonyw said:
I'm happy for Bolton's fans, but it is a farce.

Tranmere, Ipswich and Wycombe have basically been given a three point head-start on the rest of League One (Coventry should have as well, but they effed it up by failing to score from their 24 efforts at goal).

I presume that they'll now have signed a few players by the time they play Gillingham on Saturday, and will most likely have a manager and be a functional club again by the time they play Rotherham on the 14th Sept (and us three days later).

And will Bolton be facing a further points deduction for cancelling their game against Doncaster without EFL approval? Under every letter of the law, and footballing precedent, they ought to.....but the EFL have been showing signs of being even more forgiving than ever lately.


Even without one, it's still a challenge for them to avoid relegation, mind. They'll need another 55-60 points, with only 40 games to get them from......and they have to now recruit a manager and a team, basically from scratch.
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Agreed - OOC players are OOC for a reason and won’t be match fit for some time. Bolton are still 10/1 on to be relegated with the bookies.
 
tonyw said:
I'm happy for Bolton's fans, but it is a farce.

Tranmere, Ipswich and Wycombe have basically been given a three point head-start on the rest of League One (Coventry should have as well, but they effed it up by failing to score from their 24 efforts at goal).

I presume that they'll now have signed a few players by the time they play Gillingham on Saturday, and will most likely have a manager and be a functional club again by the time they play Rotherham on the 14th Sept (and us three days later).

And will Bolton be facing a further points deduction for cancelling their game against Doncaster without EFL approval? Under every letter of the law, and footballing precedent, they ought to.....but the EFL have been showing signs of being even more forgiving than ever lately.


Even without one, it's still a challenge for them to avoid relegation, mind. They'll need another 55-60 points, with only 40 games to get them from......and they have to now recruit a manager and a team, basically from scratch.
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I like the idea of clubs having to own their own grounds , but wonder if there is a practical reason why this wouldn't be possible in certain situations?
I also have no problem in owners 'gifting' money to clubs as opposed to 'lending' money.
 
Presumably they are going to struggle this season anyway because of the impending transfer deadline? But it is totally unfair they have gifted a load of points away thus far.
 
tonyw said:
I mean this is nice in theory, but the Premier League is run as a corporation on behalf of its shareholders who are the member clubs. It signs the gargantuan TV deal with Sky, and distributes the revenues as it sees fit.

It is not an organization whose function is to ensure the success of English football at grass roots level.

In fact, likely the only reason that it gives the football league as much as it does is to provide a lifeline to its member clubs that get relegated......


I don't see how the FA can mandate that the Premier League distributes its cash more to other organisations - other than barring its clubs from entering the FA Cup or, I suppose, representing England in Europe. Doing the former would do it more harm than the PL, and UEFA/the TV companies would probably find a way around the latter.
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My point being as long as the pyramid is so top heavy as is now the ripple effect to lower leagues will eventually see more clubs despatched because not only the dream chaser owners but player costs wages etc very real danger I can see in the next 20 years only 2 leagues
 
tonyw said:
In fact, likely the only reason that it gives the football league as much as it does is to provide a lifeline to its member clubs that get relegated......
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And if they could get rid of relegation from the Prem they'd do that. Giving them even less reason to give a sh!t about the rest of football in this country.
 
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