An English Soccer Owner Wants Players And Fans To Pay 2.7 Million Euro To Save The Team From Shutting Down... Huh?!?

[Source] – ‘That’s up to the fans and the EFL, the fans have got to chip in,’ said Dale, when asked frankly by host Jim White whether the club was going to survive.

‘If they come to us and say we’ll put £100 in, £1000 in, if the big players put in £100,000, £500,000, whatever it is, we want it pledged to the company,’ Dale added.

‘We need a pledge of £2.7m plus to save Bury. If the company, Bury Football Club, needs the money and needs to use it, they’ll put up shares and pay 2.5 per cent interest on that money.’

This move is so diabolical that even James Dolan seems like a good guy here. I can’t believe I wrote that, but it’s true. James Dolan is somehow not the worst owner in all of sports. That goes to this guy Steve Dale, who owns Bury, a League One English soccer team.

I’ve actually been following along with this story just as I look for my own stories to blog. It’s somewhat crazy. This franchise is 134 years old and it’s just going to shut down. That’s absolutely wild to me. They have until 11:59pm tonight to make up the money or they’re just done.

You might be shocked to know that fans want Dale to sell the team. I can’t imagine why. I mean imagine all the t-shirt sales a British soccer blog could make with ‘sell the team’ shirts and such. Oh, especially when you see how much he paid to buy the team.

Dale paid just £1 to purchase Bury in late 2018, but is understood to be holding out for a substantial payment of around £2million in order to sell.

As the situation became ever more desperate, current Bury midfielder Stephen Dawson took it upon himself to call into the radio show to claim the players have been told an offer is on the table, which will save the club but will not see Dale take a profit.

‘There’s an offer on the table that we’ve been told will save the club,’ said Dawson

Yeah, so this owner just fucking sucks.

I have no idea what I’d do if I was a fan in this situation. On one hand you do anything possible to not lose your team. I don’t know what I’d do if I wasn’t miserable with the Giants, Knicks or Orioles (I know, I know – whole family from north Jersey, we moved when I was young and my dad said don’t be a Mets fan so I picked the closest baseball team to me. That solves that question). On the other hand you don’t want to be held hostage by this guy.

European soccer continues to be the most wild thing in sports – even more THIS LEAGUE than the NBA if you ask me.