Clifford

Same here, his reputation is worse amongst the police world than it is the OAFC fans group from my conversations.

We are not stuck with him. Once he cannot pay the debts he is clearly having issues with the club will be taken out of his hands. He's just managing it now but he's had the ST money but I don't think all issues finance wise are settled yet. Reduced ST sales and another summer of pissing about with managers and shite players and he will be having some real issues. It may be perhaps the new landlords will be in a position to both push this change, by making him pay his rent and therefore take over the club as the club will owe them a substantial amount of money. They could then try and operate the club using the North Stands obvious financial benefits. Sounds like some sort of plan to me. He cannot afford to be our owner if the fans stand up to his bullshit. Sooner the better.

He said at his press conference he had bought the club and not the ground, why is he now making it sound like he didn't know what was what? ‘Subsiding’ losses himself = OAFC will be leathering the credit card. He will walk away and the club will owe him a fortune. Not a chance he's gifted us anything. Those who wanted to wait and see when there was a chance to protest properly will regret that once we see those accounts. How can a club who can afford to pay Maouche so much money be making such losses? New training ground structure, how can we afford that? Sign dross so bad that Ashton United send them back. VERA. Maybe he is using his "life savings" to buy these things and the club then owes him for it? Perhaps? Money into the club, money out when club is sold? Be interesting to see what happens with AL if Big George means he gets £500k into his bank account. If it was your actual pension pot would you spend it on that dope we sent to Ashton within days of signing him. Who was so bad they gave him back? Would you spend your savings on that while your business was losing money? Still, Queensy vs Rovers was all worth it................

I'm not that poor that I live near a tram stop. How fucking dare you.

People pretending Wildy decided if Baxter played or not, lol. Now the trust have got in bed with AL we may as well pack in and all start supporting City.

Other expectation is our finances to show increased debts and wage liabilities.

I seriously doubt that a club in England would end up like that. EFL wouldn't allow it. We're just paying stupid wages for shite players.

Not sure anyone is suggesting it's happening here. Happened in Belgium though i think.

No idea why Maouche is paid so much. It was a simple question. Also no idea who his agent is. He was apparently top earner once our other bench warming top earner, Queensy, left. His agent will get a cut of his wage, standard practice. Our owner isn't an agent. He publically stated that he told Scholes he didn't need to go for promotion this season. It could wait. I've no idea what he is doing here, I'd guess neither does he. We replaced Lydon with Sylla. Surridge with Vera. That pattern will continue IMO. We replaced those two after the bonus of the FA cup money. We've got a fall in ST sales coming this season. Be interesting to see the club accounts and see how much our debt has increased (he told us we were nearly debt free) and how much wage spend has changed.

I've been quite clear from my initial messy post. Made no inference that our club does anything wrong. All happening in Belgium. Stand down Barry. Wolves have an agent on board. Doubt he does it for the love of the Midlands

Maouche on top wages not getting on the bench when we went down though eh? Bizarre. B team at Tours to Oldham's top earner and not getting a game eh? Bizarre.

Quite. Accidentally discussed our club and the Belgian scandal. Quite happy to say I've seen nothing to say they're linked.

No no. Mixed message. See belgium football scandal on google. No links to our club.

Bottom half finish. Owner isn't interested in promotion, it's not what he is here for. We will lose the keeper, Lang and Clarke minimum. Our best three players and three of the best in their position in the league IMO. If anyone thinks our owner will replace them with anything similar is bonkers. We lost Surridge and signed Vera. Expect more of the same. Agents make money from transfers and % of players wages. What is Maouche on again? Still I think we will get one or two overseas players on top whack contracts in. Their agents will probably pocket half their wages. What was Queensy on again?

Pretty sure we had a debt with a loan company from liverpool didnt we?

My dad lived in Uppermill as a youth. Very common to go to Huddersfield one week and United the next, he did that. Odd it's risen the season they are going down but still not rare. Lets face it if your kid wanted to start watching footy and you were not arsed about a team, why would you go OAFC over Town? £250 an adult. Great value for a side you'd think would be in the top 10 of the championship next season in a decent ground. May be my team of choice once we finally get put out of our misery.

People asking why would anyone invest in OAFC when a group of business people / fans is about to purchase the ground. May I suggest they may want to invest in OAFC? Just a guess like. IF IF IF that group got hold of OAFC no reason with the North Stand earning extra money we couldn't be self sustaining. AL is not the answer and needs chasing out IMO.

Gas company, pensions, tax, coach company, coffee machines (random I know), pay offs from all sackings, rent.............. Won't be coming out of his current account by standing order will it? All will be monies owed by Oldham Athletic if owed. The FA cup money must have saved us, for now. Corney found someone to loan OAFC money, no reason to think that same company or similar wouldn't do it again. The accounts, if they come out, will tell the tale. No way he spent his personal wealth on that centre half we signed and then loaned to Ashton United the very next day.

Be worth googling Belgium football scandal. Clearly not related to our owner and his agent connections for any lawyers reading this. I think they were alleged to have over paid players and creamed it back off. Makes you think.

Do people actually believe this clown has spent his life savings on £11k a week of Queensy or the wages on the lesser spotted Vera? I'd imagine the OAFC credit faciailities is taking more of a pounding than AL's current account

Full of shit. Get him out.

It could be great. Not the marco shite but more random messages. Dancing dildos in full HD would be quite the message live on sky.

Would the OEC still be running if it wasn't making money? With fan backing then the stand would make more money than it does currently as well IMO. For example if a gym membership there meant more money to OAFC i could see more fans joining up.

if this new group buy the ground and end up in a position they can take on the club the main difference is the income from the North Stand could well go into the club. That's never happened before and it would mean even if we are lower down the ladder than now we would have extra funds to support the team compared to many sides. People who think we should not starve AL of funds, do you not question where our FA cup run money went? The gas was cut off but a few weeks later, allegedly. We lost the wages contribution for Lydon and Surridge and replaced with youth players. Any penny you give to OAFC is very likely to be going directly back out of the club. Make him need to give the thing away. Get the administrators to take it off him. If the ground sale comes off then we could be the self sustaining club many dream of. We just need rid of quite possibly the worst owner we have ever had. There is no way the club will get the money from the North Stand while AL owns the club.

Given it's latics and how much they pay for things I would think it is very likely one or two of the computer geeks who support latics could pull that off.