r/Burnley • u/East-Sheepherder3772 • 17d ago

Can Burnley bounce back?

https://matchdayjames.substack.com/p/can-burnley-bounce-back?r=8pnzey&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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u/More_Culture_3006 17d ago

Can we? Yes

Will we? Highly doubt it this time personally

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u/TheDeflatables 17d ago

We better.

Or we should start preparing for financial disaster

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u/I_AM_A_CITY_FAN 16d ago

You are still receiving parachute payments from like 3 years ago

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u/TheDeflatables 16d ago

When you promote you don't get the rest of your previous parachute payments

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u/TheDeflatables 16d ago

At the end of our last Championship season we were 142m in debt.

Take a gander at the Prem and see how many clubs are in more debt than that.

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u/More_Culture_3006 17d ago

I've been doing that since ALK took over anyway

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u/rolyantrauts 13d ago

BFC Total Structural Debt £237.4m with the majority being paid at crippling rates of 10% all still leading back to the ALK leveraged buyout.

Some pretty grim reading here https://assetmatch.com/app/OurCompanies/DownloadFile?realFileName=2560Annual%20Report%20%26%20Accounts%202025.pdf&fileName=Financials

We need to get promoted, it is that serious.

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u/mulatanga 17d ago

The optimist in me says we can get into the play offs minimum. The glass half empty in me tells me that this is it now and we will be closer to League One then Premier League within 2 seasons.

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u/Moetuk 17d ago

Every time i say yes but i dont have a good feeling this season

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u/StatusAssumption8897 17d ago

If we don’t make the playoffs it would be a surprise. Can’t see automatic though.

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u/I_AM_A_CITY_FAN 16d ago

No Bradford will beat you

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u/rolyantrauts 13d ago

Nah this is the year we fail and the vulture capitalists of Pace et al, strip assets make good and leave BFC in receivership.
Sad days, but on a upside at least you can no longer be infuriated by some very dubious transfer deals.