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Burnley Takeover 15:51 - Feb 2 with 1702 viewsBrianMcCarthy

Using the Club's own money.

How is this allowed?

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/feb/02/burnley-us-takeover-has-left-cl

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Burnley Takeover on 15:53 - Feb 2 with 1681 viewstoboboly

It is what happened with Man U isn't it? The debt is put upon the team and the owners reap the benefits.

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Burnley Takeover on 15:56 - Feb 2 with 1670 viewsTomS

If you bought a Buy to Let apartment, you'd use the rental income from it to pay off the mortgage you borrowed to buy it from the previous owners.
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Burnley Takeover on 15:58 - Feb 2 with 1654 viewsloftboy

Shouldn’t be allowed. Get relegated and theyre fûcked

Nourry out
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Burnley Takeover on 20:01 - Feb 2 with 1357 viewsThe_Beast1976

Burnley Takeover on 15:56 - Feb 2 by TomS

If you bought a Buy to Let apartment, you'd use the rental income from it to pay off the mortgage you borrowed to buy it from the previous owners.


As a society we love using debt, based on perceived future income/profits and suchlike, to pay for things in the here and now. It doesn't half cause problems though when it all goes t1ts up!!!

Whilst football clubs remain businesses, they are fair game for this just like everything else (as you point out with your example)
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Burnley Takeover on 20:16 - Feb 2 with 1301 viewsBrianMcCarthy

We have rules to stop clubs running up debts but no rule to stop owners inflicting massive debt while purchasing.

"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
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Burnley Takeover on 09:17 - Feb 3 with 1089 viewstoboboly

Burnley Takeover on 20:16 - Feb 2 by BrianMcCarthy

We have rules to stop clubs running up debts but no rule to stop owners inflicting massive debt while purchasing.


Add the tendency of clubs to get loans in advance based on the future tv money payments. That shouldn't be allowed, a one way street of debt and future issues.

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Burnley Takeover on 09:26 - Feb 3 with 1066 viewsbosh67

I saw Alan Pace on Football Focus at the weekend and he comes across very well. Not your usual hedgefund w*nker type.

Never knowingly right.
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Burnley Takeover on 09:43 - Feb 3 with 1034 viewsrsonist

Burnley Takeover on 09:26 - Feb 3 by bosh67

I saw Alan Pace on Football Focus at the weekend and he comes across very well. Not your usual hedgefund w*nker type.


A Mormon in charge of Burnley feels about right.
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Burnley Takeover on 11:02 - Feb 3 with 941 viewsBoston

Burnley Takeover on 09:43 - Feb 3 by rsonist

A Mormon in charge of Burnley feels about right.


They used to have a ‘Norman’ at Port Vale, didn’t work out well.

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Burnley Takeover on 11:25 - Feb 3 with 911 viewsgobbles

Burnley Takeover on 20:01 - Feb 2 by The_Beast1976

As a society we love using debt, based on perceived future income/profits and suchlike, to pay for things in the here and now. It doesn't half cause problems though when it all goes t1ts up!!!

Whilst football clubs remain businesses, they are fair game for this just like everything else (as you point out with your example)
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It is considered poor form for any super-rich businessman to ever put up any of their own money.
That's how the world works. Borrow against the assets you are buying, if it works out you can pull in a fortune, if it doesn't, your own wealth is protected.
Football clubs have always been a dodgy business. When Dave Webb bought Brentford in the 90s, he got it for free and took on the debts. He paid off the debts by selling off players and then sold on a debt-free club to Ron Noades. That they were relegated in the meantime was not a huge concern.
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Burnley Takeover on 11:43 - Feb 3 with 878 viewsStanFan

I keep saying this about FFP (or whatever it's called now). The rules should limit club debt not club spending. That way an owner could spend as much as he/she wants but can't saddle the club with huge debts. That is much more likely to stop clubs going under (which is the stated aim of FFP) and much more likely to stop this sort of nonsense.

Of course, it will never happen as this would mean that upstart clubs could challenge the big boys if they found a rich owner who is prepared to spend (like Man City, Chelsea, etc. did).
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Burnley Takeover on 11:47 - Feb 3 with 865 viewskensalriser

Funny (strange) how the most unlikely people turn out to be socialists.

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Burnley Takeover on 11:47 - Feb 3 with 863 viewsRangersw12

I'm sure a similar thing happened with Sunderland
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