Looks like they could be going pop soon http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...rugglers-announce-crippling-debts-163-8m.html Nice kick in the Bollocks for Gartside who wanted to close the doors on the Prem to stop relegation, for him and his buddies.
Some foreigner will undoubtedly step in and rescue them. Along the way they will want to change their name to Bolton Rangers, and I'm sure the owner will want to make them play in their vest and pants etc
Sad this is happening to another club, as its the hard working fan who dishes out large sums of money to support a team who hopefully entertain them, who gets hit the hardest. The money men, the players, they all move on. Shouldn't laugh, because this could very easily be us... Luckily we are on the up now, and staring promotion back to the championship square in the face
I'm not laughing at the Bolton fans, just Gartside for trying to prevent others from joining the elite league just because he thought he had his feet under the table. As Angelic says someone will buy the club, and hopefully run it better than Gartside has, yes he's taken them there but to try and stop others doing it?
I know the 5 pillars are associated with poor performance on the pitch, but it does show that financial prudence is important. The key to success is not necessarily how much you spend (though it helps), but how you spend it
Makes me wonder whether the dream of Premiership football is rapidly becoming a pipe dream for the likes of us when you consider the perils associated with trying to compete at that level. It has become an elitist league that pampers only itself and the selected few and pays little attention to the structure below them that made the game so great. When I look at the names on their team sheets and the monies paid out in transfer fees, salaries and agents commissions it makes me incensed at how just a small portion of those over top payments could help many other smaller clubs survive for many years, and yet the rich just get richer and the foolish will possibly go out of business. Whatever happened to sanity and one for all and all for one mentality?
Mike - completely agree. The Prem is a nasty double edged sword and any mismanagement can easily impact the club for many years to come. Our national game is no longer a game but a global business. I sat here over Christmas watching game after game on NBC's new sports network which was nice but it's never lost on me that I am exactly the target for the Premier League - the cable TV or satellite viewer who will pay over the odds to watch live games and in turn fund the billion pound deals that are being done. The fan that attends the games these days are basically window dressing to the money men - it's very, very sad what has happened.
A bleak outlook you have there sir. However, when I see the likes of Swansea and Southampton in the top half of the table, I am reminded that anything is possible in football - even Cardiff staying up.....well maybe not everything
To even contemplate surviving in the Premiership a club needs a sound financial basis, a good stadium capable of holding 25,000 plus people, and a forward thinking chairman and board of directors that employ people who know the game inside out to set achievable targets. We have none of those attributes at present. Clubs that were fairly recently in the top flight and who have fallen from grace such as Portsmouth, Barnsley, Oldham and co are easy to spot and for the reasons above. I do have heart that the likes of Stoke, Norwich, Fulham manage to survive year after year but it needs to be a watertight ship from top to bottom. SL take note !!!!!!