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Big rumour is wages due tomorrow and they have no cash at all. Tried to move a game as they have no home game for 3 weeks but Falkirk said no.

 

The Falkirk fans will be loving that!

 

Spending out with their means for years. I remember that clown Yorkston boasting on radio at how they could offer more money for Darren Young than we could, well what goes around...

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As much as I dislike Dunfermline, I don't want this happening. It's hurting the Scottish game, there are a number if teams reportedly lining up to drop like lead balloons. We all had a laugh at Rangers, just not happy with all the rest.

 

 

Aye, The Rangers and their sympathisers will say it's because of the unfair way they've been treated, but if the debt is

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If they just owe money to their parent company, could they just not go in admin. Surely their parent company would accept a CVA, as their nae going to be able to pay back their 32million either. Might as well keep one business alive.

The parent company own the stadium...they themselves owe 35m so don't see bank approving 11m write off. Think the debt isn't really the issue, it's more they have no cash flow

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Struggling from the days when the stole the Youngs, had Crawford, Brewster, Wilson, Nicholson etc on big wages. I hope they get through it but you can't feel too sorry for these teams when we were playing Fergus Tiernan and signing Fabiano around this point.

 

Yet our debt is still higher than theirs.

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Don't get me wrong, in no way am I linking this to the demise of the huns *spit* but we've clearly been paying more than we can afford for 20 years, and I don't see any way we can clear our debt? 11m is a hell of a lot of Ryan Frasers to sell.

By my reckoning it's about half a Ryan Fraser-sworth. :thumbup1:

 

 

 

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Yes our debt has gotten way out of control but let's be honest here - it's not all been as a result of player wages. Of course we had donkeys over the years - Paul Bernard possibly being the most outrageous example - who were getting paid way over the top for what they were worth and whilst this was very poor football management, we have faced many other contributory reasons for our financial mess.

 

Brown is actually the first half-decent football manager we've ever had under Milne but the damage over the previous decade and a half has wrecked our balance sheet. In particular, our costs-control has been non-existent and the absurd level of non-productive, non-football staff we've had on the payroll has ruined us. Even within the football operations budget, we've been employing "specialist coaches" e.g. Sandy Clark, Jim Leighton that we could ill afford for financial reasons alone let alone considering the value they add to AFC. Also within the football budget, a host of "scouts" have been draining resource and the biggest overhead of all, the Director of Football, Willie Miller, employed his mates in these cushty, almost immeasurable roles.

 

The debt Milne delivered to us was not caused by chasing football success. Of this let us be totally clear.

Some one once said that football is the easiest game in the world to play,yet the ones with money and who run it make it unfathomable to understand and fuck it up for the ones that matter,fuckin'us.

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Taking emotion out of it, the debt around the necks of SPL clubs is degrading the quality of the game.

 

The game needs a reset, and I'd happily see every club in the country go to the wall, with a fresh start for new applicant clubs.

 

And this time there needs to be some kind of sensible management and regulation of the clubs, so obviously anyone currently connected with the running of Scottish football would have a lifetime ban imposed on them from ever being involved in Scottish football again, in any executive role.

 

The way Aberdeen is run we'll be looking at crippling debt from now until when our grandkids are retiring... assuming the club hasn't gone extinct by then anyway.

 

Was it a couple of seasons ago there was an SPL manager who, quite candidly, said that his club couldn't compete with the wages paid by Conference clubs?

 

Scottish football is Bush League in all but name, and there's no way of fixing it with the people in charge remaining in charge.

 

And they're going nowhere.

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Easy to say as an Aberdeen fan looking in but would be better for them if Raith / Cowdenbeath / Dunfermline looked to merge to fom a United Fife Club? They would likely be a decent sized team who would maintain a place in the Premier league? Sell off the stadiums, pay off (most of) the collective debt, build a new stadium in Inverkeithing or somewhere and start again.

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Easy to say as an Aberdeen fan looking in but would be better for them if Raith / Cowdenbeath / Dunfermline looked to merge to fom a United Fife Club? They would likely be a decent sized team who would maintain a place in the Premier league? Sell off the stadiums, pay off (most of) the collective debt, build a new stadium in Inverkeithing or somewhere and start again.

Why don't the jute clubs at least share stadium?

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