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Oldham

We'rent there financial problems there during the summer?
Sounds like they haven't gone away
 
Not sure whether it's actually the case, but Oldham seem like Bury i.e. there always seems to be something financially going on there.
 
Davidimp said:
We'rent there financial problems there during the summer?
Sounds like they haven't gone away
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From our Season Preview:

"Boardroom battles, removal of the chairman, a takeover by Moroccan businessman Abdallah Lemsagam, denials of blatant ongoing financial problems, a huge unpaid tax bill (£130,000 and counting), outstanding wage liabilities to staff and players, disputes with their bank, foreign players imported on big wages with no knowledge of English football, unpaid ticket money collected on behalf of other clubs, players not paid and told to stay away from the club, staff departures, dressing room disputes, agents telling their clients not to sign for the club, unpaid phone bills, players unable to afford to put petrol in their cars, threats of employment tribunals from disgruntled staff, player departures...we welcome Oldham Athletic from League One.

The article in the Daily Mail making the above allegations was not the most complimentary, and therefore we need to take some of it with a tiny amount of sodium chloride. To be fair to new owner Lemsagam, he has stated that 'the mess was bigger than we expected', but this is hardly the best of starts to life in football's basement where the trapdoor to oblivion is only nine months away."
 
Sam Surridge in particular will not be pleased. He's just won Skybet League 2 player of the month for September....
 
GertLushImp said:
Sam Surridge in particular will not be pleased. He's just won Skybet League 2 player of the month for September....
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He's on loan so will presumably stll be getting his premier league wage paid by Bournemouth while his team mates allegedly are going hungry!
 
Weren't they playing one of their foreign 'stars' around £13,000 a week last season, and the lad only played a handful of games for them? They still have a very cosmopolitan squad this year and not many clubs down here can boast they have the Curacao international goalkeeper.
 
The Imposter said:
Weren't they playing one of their foreign 'stars' around £13,000 a week last season, and the lad only played a handful of games for them? They still have a very cosmopolitan squad this year and not many clubs down here can boast they have the Curacao international goalkeeper.
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Probably only one!
 
buckielugger said:
I think they'll be fine. These seem to be older stories churned up again
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Have you read the owner's Twitter? (an account with a massive 46 followers). He seems to tweet a lot about missed wages.
 
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