Shakers back in transfer embargo

2:56pm Friday 22nd February 2013 in Sport By Nick Jackson

A SECOND transfer embargo has been imposed on League One side Bury after the club took out another loan from the Professional Footballers Association to help with “ongoing expenses”.

Commercial director David Manchester confirmed the Gigg Lane outfit will be prevented by the Football League from making any moves for players while the embargo is in force.

Manager Kevin Blackwell’s battle to get the club out of the relegation zone was hit several weeks ago when the first month-long embargo was imposed before it was lifted on January 13.

Ahead of Bury’s match at Notts County tonight, Manchester said: “I can confirm at the moment we are in a transfer embargo. We have received a temporary loan again from the PFA to see us through the next three months with our ongoing expenses.

“Like many businesses at the moment we have a temporary cashflow problem which we need help with in the short term.”

Manchester would not say how much the loan was for.

Comments(15)

Eileenshakers says...
4:00pm Fri 22 Feb 13

Why am i not in the least bit surprised to be reading this latest bombshell in The Bury Times?.Only a month a go the club announced that it had paid off their recent loan.Worse still i hear today that the club is set to go in to administration before the end of this current season.
Wonderful timing as usual just before our players take the field against Notts County tonight.I think every game is pretty meaningless in view of our financial plight.We know we are going down.I wonder if Kevin Blackwell was kindly made aware of our financial problems and the need to make a second loan this time around.It could prove the final straw if he didn't.It's time to take a sabatical away from watching football i think.The news just goes from bad to worse and it's all down to our stupid board making stupid decicions about hiring the wrong personnel.Non- league here we come.

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nomoresurfin says...
6:37pm Fri 22 Feb 13

Having received several increasingly frantic phone calls asking me to participate in the bond scheme,this hardly comes as a shock. The financial mismanagement of the club by Fenton and his crowd of equally useless cohorts has been staggering.Presumbab
ly the club will have to go into administration soon,but if the points deduction kicks in after relegation then our league future could be really threatened next season.Three questions. 1)Why did the board budget for the same gate revenue this season as last when we'd lost our three most lucrative home fixtures against Huddersfield,Wednesd
ay & Rochdale?2) Why did the board sanction the signing on inflated wages of useless over the hill players in Healy & Lockwood,these made no sense from a football point of view and even less from a financial perspective.3)When it became clear that the team were heading for inevitable relegation why was Blackwell allowed to go on bringing more and more players in? Not all of them are having their wages played by parent clubs by any means.We need to recruit some directors with a bit of acumen,maybe beg Messrs Harrop and Catlin to come back and most impotantly appoint a competent commercial manager in the Nev Neville mould and get rid of the current hapless clown.We also need a football manager in the Knill mould who knows how to spot young players with potential, who have been let go by bigger clubs, who we can develop and sell on for a profit.What we don't need is a short term fixer like Blackwell who wants to sign a new player every week.

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easylife44 says...
7:25pm Fri 22 Feb 13

Spot on....unfortunately!
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Ivy Kelly says...
9:54pm Fri 22 Feb 13

Nomotesurfin's list of incompetences by the board are the ones that we know about. You can pretty much guarantee that there has been other bad management decisions which are unseen that have contributed to the club's demise.
By their secrecy and appalling communication the board have succeeded in alienating the fans from the club which has in turn lowered attendances.

Presumably our low profile chairman is on holiday again so we can't expect any statement from him just yet?

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onchan says...
12:24am Sat 23 Feb 13

Yes agreee with all of the above comments, just hope we are all wrong, and we do manage to stay up, Dont blame Blackwell, but do think the board are responable. The finacial side worries me more than our lack of wins. Dont think Harrop will come back, as I did hear that there has been a few health problems in his family. What really bugs me about the current situation is the lack of communication from the present board.

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Latics shaker says...
8:00am Sat 23 Feb 13

Has nobody realised that's just the way it is for clubs like bury . It's a terrible truth but many many clubs in the bottom 2 divisions are teetering on the edge of bankruptcy ! .II must also disagree with the comments about the hapless commercial manager !! Are you for real !! I know the commercial manager and have attended many of functions organised by him and I don't think anybody could do more than him . It's not like he's promoting a product everybody wants!! I just think that some people need to be a bit more realistic of the fortunes of a club the town doesn't even seam to want judging recent gates !!

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Eileenshakers says...
1:56pm Sat 23 Feb 13

Ok Latics Shaker i accept that times are challenging right now for the lower league.However the incompetency shown by our board throughout this season has been breathtaking.They don't appoint a manager at the beginning of the season.This results in uncertainty and results reflect this.They appoint a manager who has been out of the game for 2 years who has lost touch with grass roots football.He then brings in to the club inferior players to replace those who he states are unworthy of being at our club.These players played their part in us finishing 14th last season.So i'm affraid KB is bang out of order there.We have risked our financial uncertainty by banking on players on rediculous wages like Healy & Lockwood,the latter having an injury jinxed career to keep us up.Do i need to go on?.The chairman has been less than transparent with the fans about the off the field financial situation which only serves to alienate the fans.Then they plead with these fans to buy in to a bond scheme.Is it any wonder our gates have dropped alarmingly and the fans have lost faith in the board and it's ability to run our once proud club?.
What have we got to look forward to in the long term?.Administration might mean we are severely handicapped next season in league 2 probably resulting us falling in to the conference.If you look at the worst supported clubs in league 2 most of them are near or bottom of that league.

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Latics shaker says...
2:28pm Sat 23 Feb 13

I think you misunderstand my post Eileenshakers and to be fare my comments were not aimed at your post what so ever . You make valid points and i believe in the end a manager was appointed for the sake of appointing one and the cheapest option chosen. When you look at who applied for the bury job you can't tell me he was installed for any other reason !!

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nomoresurfin says...
7:06pm Sat 23 Feb 13

Latics shaker you say you know Bury's commercial manager,how well do you know him? I wonder Latics Shaker whether you are in fact the hapless commercial manager yourself?

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Latics shaker says...
3:34am Sun 24 Feb 13

Yes that's right nomoresurfin you have caught me out !!

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shakencity says...
8:04am Mon 25 Feb 13

IF we do go into Administration (which isn't a certainty yet), surely it would make more sense to do it this season when we're mathamatically down......thus starting next season on a level playing field.

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Eileenshakers says...
1:05pm Mon 25 Feb 13

You don't know alot about the rules of coming out of administration do you Shakencity?.
If it was as easy as you stated then Pompey would have come out knowing that their best chances for a quick return to league 1 would be to take the hit now.
You lose 10 points once you have come out of administration.There is no certainty that we would come out of administration before the start of next season thus incurring the 10 points when we do eventually come out of it.I would expect that this would take a considerable amount of time given the fact that the club would have to agree to a CVA (COMPULASARY VOLUNTERY AGREEMENT).
In 2002 the rules i think were different and a club immediately lost 10 points once they had entered administration.Black
well is once again bleeting about poor decisions being made at the club in view our of recent transfer embargo.However he has hardly been blameless in terms of his recruitment policy of fetching in players who are not fit and are unwanted by other clubs.You simply cannot chop and change week in week out and expect consistancy.At least to Alan Knill's credit he always tried to select the same players and this created consistancy and results improved.Blackwell is pure and simply a very mediocre manager.If you look at Hartlepool United's of late they have achieved incredible success by winning so many games.There you can see that a manager's hard work is bearing fruit with much of the same squad he inherited,much the same can be said for Brian Laws at Scunny.

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Eileenshakers says...
3:10pm Mon 25 Feb 13

Prediction for the Swindon Game it will be an 8 goal thriller and our goal difference will be down to minus 28.Prediction for the rest of the campaign.Our board to deliver even grimmer news on the eve of every match day just to show how unprofessional they are.We won't win another game in 2013.

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Eileenshakers says...
11:06am Wed 27 Feb 13

It worked !!!!!!,i tempted fate and we bagged 3 points.Well i know one swallow doesn't make a summer but this result was only tempered by the disappointment of our rivals winning.Still you can only beat your opponents so a big pat on the backs to all of the lads.The meak miled carrot crunchers were made to look extremely ordinary against our stout and organised team.It's only one win so let's not get carried away with it.We will have to harvest 5 more wins from March to stand any real chance of escaping the inevitable.Certainly Carrington deserves his chance,he's a flair player and that's what we need.Also Regan has proved a bad acquisition.It's a real shame that we have to put Daid Worrall in at right back but if he gets the job done that's fine with me.I accept we got lucky tonight and did our jobs correctly that's all we ask of the lads week in week out.Now please KEEP A WATCH ON "NICKY ADAMS" HE SCORED LAST NIGHT AND HE WILL BE AIMING TO PUT ONE OVER ON HIS FORMER CLUB COME SATURDAY.

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Eileenshakers says...
11:21am Wed 27 Feb 13

Good result lads only tempered by disappointing results elsewhere.Oh well i know what to do if i want the mighty shakers to win simply tempt fate.Yes i know i got the 8 goals wrong and all that.We still need to harvest 5 wins in March and need to beat our rivals like Scunny & Colchester United or he have no hope of staying up.I noticed NICKY (i hate the shakers) ADAMS scored again last night).He will be aiming to put one over on our club and all of the boo boys who thought he was a lazy sod when he was playing for us.Is that his first goal since his last gasp winner against us back in the autumn?.Will need to keep a watching brief on him,Jonah and Lateef if he features.Old players like the afforementioned fly's in the ointments tend to be party poopers when re-visiting their former clubs.With us winning and Stocky losing it made it a perfect night.One swallow doesn't make a summer but it's a start beating the carrot crunchers down in 'XTC" country.

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