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Is it ironic that in the midst of all that's going on they're today playing Notts County who had a similar thing happen a few years ago, some foreign 'investor' waltzed in & persuaded them he could give them the world - even went so far as to bring in Sven Goran Eriksson & sign Sol Campbell, all based on false promises as the money just wasn't there but the damage he did left them in millions of poundsworth of debt

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notts county are still a mess off the field but seems to have grown to on field problems. they look a complete shambles at least morecambe will give it everything on the pitch. notts county to follow lord didsbury,s local side into oblivion.

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Rather them than us, Such a mess!

Morecambe Mess: Football Club In Chaos - The Bay

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But that was us! ......and we came through it.

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Horrific as it was for us at least it was a little simpler, we owed the taxman money & if we couldn't pay that would've been curtains. Ok, we had certain individuals at the time trying to pull the wool over our eyes as to what was going on but it looks a lot more complicated up the road - all sorts coming out now & goodness knows how they'll unravel the mess
Genuinely hope they come out the other side as we did

Re: Morecambe
 

I see one of the potential saviors Joseph Cala has pulled back from making an offer news taken from the BBC Morecambe: Joseph Cala ends potential takeover talks - BBC Sport

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With Cala's history they're better off without that particular vulture circling

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would have been out of the fire and into the frying pan with another foreign owner. need a local guy like us which is the only way forward for a club like morecambe.

Re: Morecambe
 

I honestly think that when the brown stuff hits the fan the local authorities should be able to seize control in much the same way as they can seize derelict property.

It's not a great solution but is one solution, after all, football clubs truly belong to the fans. The only other genuine solution is for Fan groups to save enough money up and then hoard it until such time as a buy out is necessary. As things stand we are likely to be the cheapest club around but could we raise and hoard £2m?

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It's not a great solution but is one solution, after all, football clubs truly belong to the fans. The only other genuine solution is for Fan groups to save enough money up and then hoard it until such time as a buy out is necessary. As things stand we are likely to be the cheapest club around but could we raise and hoard £2m?[/QUOTE]

no chance. we and morecambe probebly could raise a few thousand but its a drop in the ocean for whats needed. some struggle nowadays to find the money to go to a game never mind spending anything else. the heart might be willing but the pocket isn,t.

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Just seen this morning Carlisle have started a fan fundraising page to help them sign a new player as chairman can't afford any more signings

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Well its better position than us!! we cant afford to buy in the first place i reckon.

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Cala has took over at Morecambe

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God help 'em!! Obviously Peter McGuiness isn't too fussy who he sells to :rolleyes:

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Players and staff not been paid again

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Where's that announced?

He's only agreed to out some money in, just like he agreed to put money into an Italian club but was kicked out after 11 days for not coming up with the funds...

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Nobody injects money into a football club unless they are buying it.

Board meeting in progress so maybe more news later.

There's never a dull day !!

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They might wanna check the money's real with his past

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Cala?

Look forward to our benefit game with youse!

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Similar to what he did at Portsmouth then . . . . . .:)

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Just been officially announced he has agreed to take over the club

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Poor Morecambe.

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Out of the frying pan straight into the fire R.I.P. MFC

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Can't see him passing the fit & proper person's test but who knows - seems these days as long as someone has a pulse that's enough for the football league

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https://twitter.com/bbclancssport/st...48527688564738

Rivalry aside a do feel quite sorry for the real fans and people at Morecambe!

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The Oystons , The Venkys and Stephen Vaughan passed that. The bar is set very low !

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it certainly is, hope you folk dont suffer fer that fact.

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I think you were set up from the very beginning by Cala.

Unknown Brazilian sets up company to acquire MFC
G250 purchase club using Agreement of Sale rather than actual cash.
Brazilian disappears and another guy transfers ownership of G250 to a Geordie chap under remote rules of Brazilian being unavailable
G250 then agrees to sell itself (including the football club) to Cala

Somewhere in the middle of all this the leisure company owned by previous (or current) FC owner goes into liquidation, taking with it some of the debt of the FC. Presumably this will be bought from the administrators, debt free and at a fraction of its value, by the Newco.

It wouldnt surprise me if Cala was involved right from the beginning and the Brazilian was just a puppet all along

Re: Morecambe
 

don,t trust the sods at all. would hate stanley to ever go down the line of foreign ownership no matter what happens in the future. would be the end for me and the club as we know it.

Re: Morecambe
 

There's a few theories about and yours is one that has been mentioned.

Calas was interested back in the Summer and then he said the MFC board had decided to go with Diego. It could all have been a cunning plan because he will certainly not have paid very much. In the end we had no choice but go with him.

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As things stand Morecambe Red, i think you're out of time and options and HAVE to take his bid and hope the EFL approve him. Its quite clear that G250 arent going to be paying the bills and I doubt PMG and co would be willing - especially after some of the criticism levelled their way recently.

My thoughts would be towards the future and developing as strong a Trust as possible in readiness for the inevitable battles to come.

We know all too well what damage can be sustained by a complicated off field battle, but at least ours was relatively straight forward. Good luck with it all, I've said many times in the past that many of us have, and will, stand shoulder to shoulder with you and I stand by that.

Even if you're in the Conference by then :rolleyes:

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it was rumoured that the Venkys didn't know that clubs could be relegated from the Premier league, has anyone informed Cala that clubs can be relegated from the football league

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I agree , no choice but accept Calas Corporation as the new owners. It wasn't the Conference that was looming , it was way back to the start in 8th or 9th tier.

Re: Morecambe
 

Pay day today and apparently none of the staff have been paid!

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Was payday about a week ago and they wernt paid then either

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Oh dear, it gets worse - Cala had promised the funds would be available today, looks like someone was telling porkies

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End of January pay day is the easiest to sort as you've just been sent your solidarity payment. If you can't pay January's you've no chance of paying Feb, Mar, Apr etc. I think even we managed to pay January's.
Maybe they're using the payment to repay debts/ loans etc.
Also best time to invest in a club just before these payments are due..... get my drift

Re: Morecambe
 

If Cala isnt going to get the club then he isnt going to pay the wages!

There seems to be a lot of Ifs, Buts and Maybes before he gets his mitts on the club.

Re: Morecambe
 

Been on radio lancs that non playing staff have been paid from existing club funds but no new funding has come in - they're presuming there'll have to be another loan from the PFA for the players wages

Re: Morecambe
 

This is a dreadful situation. These days the FA should never allow a club to get into this state without early intervention.

Re: Morecambe
 

Your assuming the FA give a flying fig for any club, Chrisr, or could do anything about the financial madness that is professional football even if it wanted to.

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The F.A. chrisr do exactly what the initials stand for.;)

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Sadly nowt to do with the FA.

The EFL allow and sanction all takeovers.

Sadly this one appears to gone "not just right"

There by the "grace of God and EW" ( john batchulor/ Lancashire Utd)

Re: Morecambe
 

And the attempts that we fended off when I was director.
Some too close to comfort, all to be included in the book I'm gonna write ....,. One day......including the coup attempt to overthrow MrT .

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If they're struggling now they're stuffed in the off season

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Still no indication as to when the players will be paid

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By the sound of it all their Eggs are in Cala's basket, but he won't pay wages until his group have passed the fit and proper test and all the old board resign from the board!

Worryingly is Cala hasn't got the best record at football clubs and surely if he was confident of passing the fit and proper test he would put money in now to start off on the right foot and show he has good intentions?

Re: Morecambe
 

It's his intentions that may be the problem.

Re: Morecambe
 

There is an injunction threatening G50 Holdings the controlling company of Morecambe FC, which could effectively 'freeze' the company and prevent the sale of any shares

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[QUOTE=baldy;1186644]By the sound of it all their Eggs are in Cala's basket, but he won't pay wages until his group have passed the fit and proper test and all the old board resign from the board!
looks like he,s trying to blackmail the f.a. into accepting him no matter what. why does our game attract these sort of people god knows.

Re: Morecambe
 

If you search for mr Carla's company in Google (Cala corporation) it shows the opening times of the company as permanently closed

Re: Morecambe
 

it'll fit in well with the rest of Morecambe then ... :rolleyes:

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A graham burnard has come out and said he owns Morecambe and not mr lemos and he will not be selling to Cala, anybody else own them?

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Think at the moment it's more like who doesn't own a piece of Morecambe FC?!
What a mess - hope it can be sorted but at this rate, time's not gonna be on their side - feel so sorry for their fans, worrying times

Re: Morecambe
 

The link in Baldy's post 103 explains where this Mr. Burnard sprang from. What a mess.

Re: Morecambe
 

Graham Burnard has not got a great history. As of 2014 he's twice been declared bankrupt and forged his dying father's signature in a family feud over the family's estate

Re: Morecambe
 

morecambe,s finance sounds like an agatha christie mystery. would need all the talants of miss marple and hercule piorot to sort out the real truth.

Re: Morecambe
 

Anyone at a loose end on Saturday , the Shrimps are at home to Cambridge United and Skybet are paying for every spectator to have an award winning pie and a pint(or soft drink) on them.
There you are , about £6 in food and drink free !

Re: Morecambe
 

Morecambe players have now been paid

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And a win 1-0 at Leyton Orient. Its looking like light at the end of the tunnel :theband:

Re: Morecambe
 

Glad that everyone's been paid at last, we've been in that position & our lads seemed to adopt almost a seige mentality similar to how your lot seem to be.
Good luck with the rest of it, hope it can be sorted & you can get rid of the vultures flocking around your club & come out the other side (of course when you do all this lovey dovey, best of pals stuff will revert back to the usual banter:))

P.s. - thanks for the favour of keeping Orient 5 points behind us :)

Re: Morecambe
 

And therein lies the answer as to why they keep signing ex Stanley players ... experience of not getting paid :rolleyes:

Re: Morecambe
 

thanks morecambe red. doing nothing saturday and my days of travelling over 500 miles to watch a game of football are well and truly over. might give it a go weather permitting.

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It's probably on their cv :D

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It seems that the courts have now decided who actually owns Morecambe FC, good news eh?

Well it might be if the new owner's company wasn't currently being investigated by Durham police for fraud! You couldn't make it up - lots more unravelling to be done before the mess is sorted by the looks of things

Re: Morecambe
 

Who is it?? :)

Re: Morecambe
 

Mr. Burnard, company is G50 Holdings based in north east somewhere. Sounds a terribly nice chap - previously been declared bankrupt twice, was in charge if Bedlington Terriers when they went bust & allegedly forged his dying father's signature in order to receive money from a will - lovely!

Re: Morecambe
 

OMG someone like that should own Satanage only.

Re: Morecambe
 

It is a mess and it goes back to the high court on 29/30 March.

Mr Burnard is an accountant/Tax adviser. Abdul is a client of his and in the last 4 months or so he has put £400,000 into Morecambe FC ! Diego has not put a penny in and yet is claiming he owns us !!

Its just amazing and a great credit to Jim Bentley with all this circus going on around him that we are now 6 points off the play-offs with 2 games in hand on them !

Re: Morecambe
 

Your team and manager are showing these money jerk-offs just what football is about. Hope you can see all the idiots off your backs.

Re: Morecambe
 

Just remember who one of those games in hand is against.... ;)

:) :) :)

Glad you are riding through it MR :)

Re: Morecambe
 

We salvaged a point against "Medal Winner" Westley's Newport County tonight with a 2nd half equaliser to keep them bottom :hehetable

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For which we & all of the decent minded football community thank you - long may they stay there ;)

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BREAKING: Brazilian businessman, Diego Lemos misses a court deadline in the disputed ownership of Morecambe FC (@ShrimpsOfficial)

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2/3
A judge said Mr Lemos had to pay more than £86k in costs by 5pm today but @BBCLancashire understands no money has been paid. #SHRIMPS

Re: Morecambe
 

Shrimps website has official statement that Lemos's claims have been dismissed and Graham Burnard, apparently acting for Al-Hashami, is now the sole owner of G50 Holdings, which owns majority of shares. Life goes on in the murky world of football finances. Glad for Morecambe fans that they have something to watch next season.

Re: Morecambe
 

Don't think they're out of the woods yet, this is the same Mr.Burnard who's been declared bankrupt twice & has been at the centre of other dodgy dealings, think best they can hope for is that he doesn't really want to own the club & finds a decent buyer for it sooner rather than later

Re: Morecambe
 

Mr burnard and lemos are working together it's all a conspiracy

Re: Morecambe
 

Everything's a conspiracy in football
Here's a link to Morecambe's statement; make of it what you will.
Graham Burnard sole director of G50 Holdings Ltd

Re: Morecambe
 

Originally at company's house him and lemos were directors of g50 holdings, somethings fishy and it's not the Morecambe air

Re: Morecambe
 

fit and proper person test. believe that you,ll believe in the tooth fairy and unicorns trotting past the wham. what a mess our game has become off the field. seems another clubs name crops up every month or so with owners trying there best to use the system and treating fans with utter contempt.

Re: Morecambe
 

Spot on sunshine,i personally think a fiddles going on with this vetting, based on the fact, nobodys that stupid.!!

Re: Morecambe
 

Abdul has passed the "fit and proper" test. That must be a low bar though with Venkys and the Oystons passing it !

Abdul has this year put £1 million cash into Morecambe F.C.

The idea that is being floated about is that Abdul is going to make the club debt-free and also purchase back the 3G pitches etc that the administrator took from PMG Holdings. Then the club is to be sold to a more local person/consortium and will be in a much healthier state than it had been. The present directors are paying to have the rear of the home stand covered so that we don't stand in the rain with our pies !

Re: Morecambe
 

Whatever happens hope yeh come through it.

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Cheers , there does at last seem to be light at the end of the tunnel. Jim should get a medal for getting 15 points in February which meant we stayed up.

Re: Morecambe
 

jim like coley for us are not everyones cup of tea but both clubs would be in a far worse state without em.

Re: Morecambe
 

Very true.

Peter Murphy and Liam Wakefield have just been released.