Popular Post Beauchief Owl Posted September 16, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 16, 2020 Macclesfield wound up with debts of over £500,000 including £170,000 owed to the taxman. Given the current situation many lower league clubs must be fearful of ending up the same way. We should be grateful that DC, for all his mistakes, is still willing to put money into the club and pay the bills. 27 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glynnb Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 Such a shame, at least my lad can say that he played against them in their last ever game last night. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mildatheart67 Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 Might as well post in here ,that makes it a hattrick of Macclesfield threads! How on earth they ended up owned by an Iraqi, based in Spain I believe. Apparently the iffy guy who tried to buy the twitching corpse of Bury was looking at them 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrysgame Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 Shame for Macc and their fans as worked hard to get league status. They will reform though and carry on. Unfortunately, think there will be other clubs following suit. Natural order of things in some respects, as think we have too many fully professional clubs ànyway. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marshy Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 Absolute shame. To put it into perspective Premier League clubs earn millions and millions. Not that they are directly responsible. For all I know Macclesfield coul have been poorly run. Its the supporters who don't have a club. Many said due to Covid the spending will stop, or at least be reduced, but it doesn't seem that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Owl Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 Sad for Macclesfield fans, but fear many more will follow this season. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mr Farrell Posted September 16, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 16, 2020 The distribution of wealth in English football is criminal. 35 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Soul Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 I’ve no connection to Macclesfield but this saddens me 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beauchief Owl Posted September 16, 2020 Author Share Posted September 16, 2020 Just now, marshy said: Absolute shame. To put it into perspective Premier League clubs earn millions and millions. Not that they are directly responsible. For all I know Macclesfield coul have been poorly run. Its the supporters who don't have a club. Many said due to Covid the spending will stop, or at least be reduced, but it doesn't seem that way. To put it into even sharper perspective, Gareth Bale earns 600K per week. 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post nethertonowl Posted September 16, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 16, 2020 Gone to the wall, decades of history, for less than a months wages for a premier league player. Fu ck the premier league. 23 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadbeat Owl Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 I went to college in Macclesfield and attended some of their games, good bunch of fans. Such a shame. I'm sure The Silkmen will be back. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manwë Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 9 minutes ago, Beauchief Owl said: Macclesfield wound up with debts of over £500,000 including £170,000 owed to the taxman. Given the current situation many lower league clubs must be fearful of ending up the same way. We should be grateful that DC, for all his mistakes, is still willing to put money into the club and pay the bills. Slightly above Gareth Bale's wages for the week if the news I read this morning is to be believed. There's so much money in football, but it's highly concentrated. There are a million things wrong with football, all interlinked or interdependent. To a certain degree, clubs require to make a choice about spending above their means to retain a higher measure of income, or cutting cloth to remain sustainable at a lower level. I'm sorry to see them go. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspector Lestrade Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 6 minutes ago, Harrysgame said: Shame for Macc and their fans as worked hard to get league status. They will reform though and carry on. Unfortunately, think there will be other clubs following suit. Natural order of things in some respects, as think we have too many fully professional clubs ànyway. How can we have to many, when its worked for donkeys years? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twolaptops Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 Forbes' highest-paid footballers in 2020 (all figures in Australian dollars): 1. Lionel Messi (Barcelona): $172m 2. Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus): $160m 3. Neymar (Paris Saint-Germain): $131m 4. Kylian Mbappe (Paris Saint-Germain): $57.6m 5. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool): $51m 6. Paul Pogba (Manchester United): $46.6m 7. Antoine Griezmann (Barcelona): $45m 8. Gareth Bale (Real Madrid): $39.7m 9. Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich): $38.4m 10. David De Gea (Manchester United): $37m Macclesfield's top earner must have been 11th ?......................Look at the obscene amounts above,,,,,,,,,why is football dying.....DO THE MATHS !!! 6 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sonofbert2 Posted September 16, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 16, 2020 Premier League currently getting cold feet about paying 22m a month to support in particular League 1 and 2 clubs through this crisis. Football is broken. Many more will follow. RIP Macclesfield 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Therealrealist Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 Clubs like macclesfield should be semi-pro..you cant sustain a proffesiondl club on crowds of 2k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Therealrealist Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 7 minutes ago, twolaptops said: Forbes' highest-paid footballers in 2020 (all figures in Australian dollars): 1. Lionel Messi (Barcelona): $172m 2. Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus): $160m 3. Neymar (Paris Saint-Germain): $131m 4. Kylian Mbappe (Paris Saint-Germain): $57.6m 5. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool): $51m 6. Paul Pogba (Manchester United): $46.6m 7. Antoine Griezmann (Barcelona): $45m 8. Gareth Bale (Real Madrid): $39.7m 9. Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich): $38.4m 10. David De Gea (Manchester United): $37m Macclesfield's top earner must have been 11th ?......................Look at the obscene amounts above,,,,,,,,,why is football dying.....DO THE MATHS !!! Sick of seeing 'football is dying'..it really isnt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camffiti Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andytrig Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 2 minutes ago, Therealrealist said: Clubs like macclesfield should be semi-pro..you cant sustain a proffesiondl club on crowds of 2k Founded in 1874 would suggest that you can to a certain extent. Trouble is for the teams with smaller gates and virtually no TV money they still have to pay over inflated player wages and agents fees which trickle down through the leagues driven by the ridiculous wealth in the Premier league. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrickyTrev Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 I’m not sure if others will be wound up but I think others may go into administration if fans aren’t let back into stadiums any sooner than planned. Sickening really when the rest of the football league struggle like this while having to watch Premier League clubs continue to spend stupid amounts of money and transfer fees and player wages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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