League One Wigan Athletic woes

How surprisingly 'communist' of you ? ?

Its a "club" with "rules".
Of course those with means may sit in better clubs, a bit like the Premier League, but in the cheap seats the rules are the rules.
Then if you don`t like the rules you can leave the club, after a bit of angst. ;) ?
 
I'm not clever enough to understand why you'd do this. Anyone?


Because it wipes any "old" debts to pennies, pretty much avoids the new owners risking any losses except on paper, and the whole circus starts again?
@MarkG knows this stuff inside out and would be better placed to advise.
 
Because it wipes any "old" debts to pennies, pretty much avoids the new owners risking any losses except on paper, and the whole circus starts again?
@MarkG knows this stuff inside out and would be better placed to advise.
And they should be punished for that alone
 
Who should be punished though?

The fans? The players?

The EFL surely should be asking at least a brief outline of how any new owner will manage any outstanding debt?
 
Who should be punished though?

The fans? The players?
If an owner has come out with a comment like that then unfortunately the club and fans would pay the price but the owner could be forced to sell due to buying fraudulently and the owner banned from owning or. Ring a director for so many years. Unfortunately the club and fans would suffer.
 
The EFL surely should be asking at least a brief outline of how any new owner will manage any outstanding debt?

Oh absolutely.

I'm not seeking to defend the EFL or the owner I this, although it does seem that the latter misled the former.
 
The only sanction could be monetary and then you'd be punishing all the clubs as they are the membership, and the EFL would seek to recover any fine from them.
 
The only sanction could be monetary and then you'd be punishing all the clubs as they are the membership, and the EFL would seek to recover any fine from them.
Fair shout ....though suspension/ sacking of the EFL 'management' and then restructure the EFL management/ admin side of things, as the current incumbents have overseen how many debacles in just the last season(?), then as part of a revamp, include installing a backbone and large pair of balls metaphorically, would be a move in the right direction? ;)
 
Fair shout ....though suspension/ sacking of the EFL 'management' and then restructure the EFL management/ admin side of things, as the current incumbents have overseen how many debacles in just the last season(?), then as part of a revamp, include installing a backbone and large pair of balls metaphorically, would be a move in the right direction? ;)

The members, ie the clubs, have to allow this to happen. And in some mitigation of FL in terms of the fit & proper persons test they are limited by the law. The handling of the Bolton/Bury/Macclesfield etc situation however....
 
The members, ie the clubs, have to allow this to happen. And in some mitigation of FL in terms of the fit & proper persons test they are limited by the law. The handling of the Bolton/Bury/Macclesfield etc situation however....


Exactly :rolleyes:
 
Fair shout ....though suspension/ sacking of the EFL 'management' and then restructure the EFL management/ admin side of things, as the current incumbents have overseen how many debacles in just the last season(?), then as part of a revamp, include installing a backbone and large pair of balls metaphorically, would be a move in the right direction? ;)
Wouldn't change anything. They are appointees of the collective of clubs. The reason that the rules are as they are is due to the clubs (& when I say the clubs I mean the owners).
The F&P tests are minimal at the behest of the clubs. Basically you have no current criminal convictions that could preclude you from running a company, and 'proof' that you have the funds you say you do. In these days of multi-country ownership that can be easy enough to fake for nefarious purposes - and the Wigan situation certainly seems that.
 
Could clubs not come together and carry out some form of no confidence vote against the EFL management?
that's a pressing themselves basically:



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