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AccyMad

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So Paul Scholes has been announced as the new manager of Oldham Athletic,even though he owns a stake in Salford City & the EFL are ok with that. Surprise, surprise - they can bend the rules when it suits them, depending on who you are of course.
So, what happens if Salford who are currently riding high in the Conference gain promotion to League 2 - I presume then Scholes would have to either resign from Oldham or relinquish his shares in Salford, time will tell . . . . . . .
 
think he owns ten per cent of their shares. he could have passed em over to a family member though and nothing much would have been said then. does sound a bit strange and if they do play salford next season whatever the score or result it will not stop any finger pointing because of his situation.
 
Its not against any rules, yeh can have 10% slong as yeh dont have a position with a club, a position of working that is.
 
cashman said:
Its not against any rules, yeh can have 10% slong as yeh dont have a position with a club, a position of working that is.
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i imagine when they made the rules they would never have thought that something like the paul scholes situation would crop up. it must be a conflict of interest if salford and oldham are in the same division next season as his shares were purchased for investment purposes up against his employer.
 
Wish Scholes and Oldham well but, as Accymad suggests, it smacks of hypocrisy from the EFL.
According to its own website, Para 104 of the EFL rules clearly state that no-one can have “interests in more than one football club”.
“Interests” include owning shares and being involved in the management of a club.
Oh, but hang on, it’s OK. The EFL can allow it’s rules to be ignored “under exceptional circumstances”.
Mmm, I wonder if it’s Scholes’ associations with Oldham, Salford, or Manchester United Inc that make his case “exceptional”?

It’s a big “if” that Salford will be playing Oldham next season (maybe more likely if Scholes proves to be a useless manager?) but, if they do, I just hope it’s not in an end of season match that decides either club’s ‘fate’. Otherwise the result, whatever it is, will be fair game for conspiracy theorists.
 
Why do you think there was all the talk of Beckham getting involved ? If there had been a problem Scholes 10% would have been “given” to Golden balls.
 
It is Gross Hypocrisy to me, but its in rules, if rules are poorly written or yeh got knobheads interpreting em thats another argument to me?
 
AccyMad said:
So Paul Scholes has been announced as the new manager of Oldham Athletic,even though he owns a stake in Salford City & the EFL are ok with that. Surprise, surprise - they can bend the rules when it suits them, depending on who you are of course.
So, what happens if Salford who are currently riding high in the Conference gain promotion to League 2 - I presume then Scholes would have to either resign from Oldham or relinquish his shares in Salford, time will tell . . . . . . .
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Is the Vanarama League, (often referred to as the National League or Football Conference), actually part of the EFL? If not, then I presume they have their own rules? If so, then perhaps Scholes has not actually broken any rules ........Yet!:confused::idunno:
 
cashman said:
It is Gross Hypocrisy to me, but its in rules, if rules are poorly written or yeh got knobheads interpreting em thats another argument to me?
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for a cynic like me i think rules are poorly written on purpose to allow stuff like this to go on. its never black or white but a mucky grey where football authorities are concerned.
 
I really can't get upset about Salford or Scholes.

Salford aren't the first club to move up the greasy pole with the support of rich owners, and I'd far rather rich owners of football clubs were retired footballers who had enough sense to put some of their money by, than international conglomerates or foreign wheeler-dealers or biznismen. And if they do end up in the same league as us in the next few years, it's another local derby which should be worth having. Whatever their ambitions, they won't be playing United or City any time soon.

Similarly, I hope Scholes does well at Oldham. I reckon it's a shame we've changed places without meeting them - but do hope when we do meet it's in League 1 (or higher of course :D)
 
Chimer said:
I really can't get upset about Salford or Scholes.

Salford aren't the first club to move up the greasy pole with the support of rich owners, and I'd far rather rich owners of football clubs were retired footballers who had enough sense to put some of their money by, than international conglomerates or foreign wheeler-dealers or biznismen.

the hing is a certain peter lim who i know nothing about is the main shareholder at salford whilst the ex footballers you mention are only small stakeholders in the club but are used as some sort of front by the media who seem to have a love affair with them. the forest green, crawley fleetwood and now salford and fylde have gone up or trying to get up the pole only by being bankrolled and nothing else. would still prefer going to a fixture against the likes of hartlepool, stockport and york than the new money brigade.
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