Cafc43v3r said:

stoneroses19 said:

stevexreeve said:

MuttleyCAFC said:

What the EFL could do is to automatically relegate a team which is sold without the sale being cleared by them. To work, everybody has to know this, but it might have prevented our recent sh*tshow. It probably wouldn't have helped Wigan though. 

Surely we'd have just been relegated! Don't think Roland or Southall would have cared!

Roland wanted us in League 1, as it was cheaper for him to run the club and keep selling on our best youth players. 

Did he?  We were loosing about £10 million in league 1 and breaking even this season.  Good luck flogging a league 1 player for £10 plus every year. 

A lot has happened in the last few years, so difficult to remember everything that’s been said about our club, but I remember him saying that League 1 is better off for him. To him we were a farm for international players to come over on the cheap then sell for profit, as we all know that didn’t work out. But he’s a stubborn person and continued believing his plan was the way forward. 

SomervilleAddick said:

MuttleyCAFC said:

What the EFL could do is to automatically relegate a team which is sold without the sale being cleared by them. To work, everybody has to know this, but it might have prevented our recent sh*tshow. It probably wouldn't have helped Wigan though. 

They could. They’d just need their 72 members to vote for that rule change. 

Do you see the problem with all of these suggestions? The members will not approve them as it’s not in their interest to put limits on who they can sell their club to. 

Only an external regulator with powers to impose rules can make these changes. 

This 1000% why would the members, actually the owners, make it almost impossible to off load the club when they have had enough? 

There already IS a Football Ombudsman

https://www.theifo.co.uk/index.html

The fact that none of you calling for one knew that, shows how effective he is. The actual bloke himself argues for a proper independent regulator with power, and that he himself should have the gig. The football activist people agree with the first part of his proposition....

PragueAddick said:

There already IS a Football Ombudsman

https://www.theifo.co.uk/index.html

The fact that none of you calling for one knew that, shows how effective he is. The actual bloke himself argues for a proper independent regulator with power, and that he himself should have the gig. The football activist people agree with the first part of his proposition....

Has nothing to do with regulation of ownership though does he?  Its about complaints regarding tickets, sales of goods, banning orders and such like. 

General customer service disputes?

Who are the "football activist people" are they the same as the people's football activists or the activists of football people? 

Wigan midfielder Jensen Weir is expected to complete a £500,000 move to Brighton, which will ensure the Latics are able to pay their players' wages until the end of the season.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53365739

golfaddick said:

clive said:

Wigan midfielder Jensen Weir is expected to complete a £500,000 move to Brighton, which will ensure the Latics are able to pay their players' wages until the end of the season.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53365739

How is that possible. The transfer window is closed & isnt going to open before the end of the season & probably not opening until sometime in August. Might pay Augusts wages but not before then. 

Clubs can buy and sell players whenever they wish.

But those players can't play for their new club until the next transfer window opens.

See Herman Heridesson

golfaddick said:

clive said:

Wigan midfielder Jensen Weir is expected to complete a £500,000 move to Brighton, which will ensure the Latics are able to pay their players' wages until the end of the season.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53365739

How is that possible. The transfer window is closed & isnt going to open before the end of the season & probably not opening until sometime in August. Might pay Augusts wages but not before then. 

You can agree a deal to sign a player so that he officially joins on the first day the window opens.

Lincsaddick said:

clive said:

Wigan midfielder Jensen Weir is expected to complete a £500,000 move to Brighton, which will ensure the Latics are able to pay their players' wages until the end of the season.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53365739

it's getting like horse racing, breeding, lineage and ancestry rule ((:>) .. this boy has played one league game  ..  his dad is long time classy defender David Weir

They have got history of this, the last center half Brighton signed from Wigan's dad was long time classy area manager (for a major supermarket) Dave Burn. 

golfaddick said:

Lincsaddick said:

clive said:

Wigan midfielder Jensen Weir is expected to complete a £500,000 move to Brighton, which will ensure the Latics are able to pay their players' wages until the end of the season.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53365739

it's getting like horse racing, breeding, lineage and ancestry rule ((:>) .. this boy has played one league game  ..  his dad is long time classy defender David Weir

Sounds more like Brighton want to help them out. Why I dont know, but paying £500k for a player with just 1 league game under his belt sounds a bit strange to me.

Then I suppose £500k to a Premiership team is just a drop in the ocean. I hope Wigan get a good sell-on fee.

I doubt that they're being completely altruistic, I imagine the player is highly rated and valued at much more than £500k. A regular for England U18s so he has some talent

Dazzler21 said:

If you have to clarify who someone as recent as the Hermannator is, are the audience proper Charlton at all?

To be fair Daz when my Dad used to talk about Sailor Brown I thought it was one of his mates who went into the merchant navy 😉.

MuttleyCAFC said:

£500k is peanuts to a Premier League club. It is a punt for Brighton with little risk and the possibility of greater reward.

And a financial lifeline for Wigan right now. They can pay their players and staff at the end of the month.

The sun reckons Wigan needs to offload players to raise £5 million for bills due next month; and to reduce a £19 million payroll. Next month’s bills include payments to Barnsley, Everton and Birmingham. Makes you wonder what happens how much those clubs are expecting and if Barnsley and Birmingham don’t receive their money what impact it will have on them

Covered_End_Lad said:

So do we know that Wigan are definitely getting a 12 point deduction? Or are they still appealing? 

Well I find their kit quite attractive, but I wouldn't say they are appealing.