Hartlepool Utd

It has been reported that Hartlepool Utd have to find £200, 000 to carry on otherwise they could go out of business . I find this rather sad when you consider as well as the players, all the other employees who depend on the club to making a living plus of course the fans who like us all, love their clubs , if they do go under , it will effect a lot of people & then you read that a player is on the point of joining Man U for a reported salary of between £400, 000 & £500,000 per week( depending on what rag you read ) it beggers belief . I think the greed & money in the Premier League is stomach churning & to be honest , I know we all want our club to be ambitious & reach the promised land again but sometimes I find the top flight a real turn off

 

It's a shame the FA don't give a chuff about the smaller clubs.

Ross Barkley's agent gets £7m for brokering a deal to take a bang average player to Chelsea while Hartlepool need £200k to avoid being wound up. Bit distasteful really.

 

It's crazy mate. Not only do some players earn that kind of money in a month, but there will be people from Hartlepool taking their money to Boro and Newcastle.

The supporters of the small clubs are the real football fans. They don't follow success and jump on bandwagons. It's passed down through families and comes from local pride. Sadly there aren't enough of them.

 

3 days wages for Sanchez?

 

£200,000.00 merely provides a stay of execution for an entity that isn’t commercially viable and is currently losing circa £130,000.00 each month through running a Football League budget as a non-league club.

It all seems so simple but unfortunately the sensationalist headlines barely scratch the surface.

 

It's a shame the Hartlepool board haven't budgeted properly and because of it they have put a club in the ****. Feel sorry for the fans but what happens if mega rich premiership players pay of the debt? It could make other clubs think oh well we can spend money we don't have as some rich pro's will bail us out.

 

Fair point. Problem is there will be a trickle down in wage demands but not in income. So Premiership wages are dragging up everyone else's wage demands but the income isn't there to pay for it. Sanchez is not the cause of the problem but he is a symptom of it.

 

Man Utd generate their own money and if they didn't pay the players the money the generate then the fans would be lining the owners and directors pockets.

 

You would say that being a big Man Utd fan.

 

Club has declined badlly due to poor business decisions from ex chairman.Local businessman has put in £1.8 million to cover this season and the pot is now dry.Hes happy to walk away.Kit washers not paid and bill escalated to over 2 grand.Wouldn't allow team to have it for Dagenham game last week . Players went by train and left the ground to catch the train home at 6.30 29 man playing squad wage bill over a million including backroom staff. Locals have raised £ 60 000 to help club. Two best players out yesterday Franks and Watson as contracts had expired and loan deals now fell through. At least a full house yesterday of 6833.

 

You do not get the point of the thread , I am highlighting that a team could be going to the wall , numerous people could end up on the dole , & fans could lose their club they love for half a weeks pay of a greedy premier league player , surely that cannot be wright

 

I couldn’t go to Villa yesterday so had a day out up in Hartlepool to help out the club. About 4000 Boro supporters went as well, not just me! Barnsley colours were welcomed by the locals and lots of money put into the club ( and local boozers!). The £200,000 has been raised and the club continues. Looks like a takeover is in the offing - due to be finalised next Thursday. Let’s hope the new owner will cut the cloth a little better.

 

That's brilliant news. Must have been a decent crowd then?

 

It was a sellout. I even got to have a drink whilst watching the match!

 

Stealing will bail them out with a few bob

 

Good support for the pools , been there three times in the past .
But if Gobby Geoff had not been a fan how much publicity would they have had .
And how much is he going to promote similar clubs on sky Saturday ?

 

To be fair I don’t think that Stelling had much to do with the sellout crowd at Hartlepool on Saturday. It was a form of pay back from Boro fans for help from Pools fans when they went bust in 1986.

 

Joey Barton was on talk sport other day on about the wages of players. He said what people don' realise is Football is a short career and one bad challenge and that career could be over

 

Everybodys career is potentially a short one these days. And the amounts some of these greedy buggers get amount to way more than a lifetimes income for Joe Public.

 

There's no excuse for paying some of them the disgusting amounts they receive. A footballer may have a relatively short career, but we don't send them to the knackers yard when they hang their boots up. They're free to enter the job market, just like the rest of us. Loads of ordinary folk have to retrain and switch careers.