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Bury Football club have fought there way back to survival after being on the brink of extinction, revealed the club’s manager Kevin Blackwell.
Relegated to League two, the club had issued a statement saying that they needed £1m to survive and then followed it up by letting 16 players go. The club was just a phone call away from closing down.
But following weeks of tough negotiation, the club was saved and taken over by the new chairman Steven Day.
“We were 24 hours away from the club closing,” manager Kevin Blackwell told BBC Sport.
“The fact the club couldn’t afford a lawyer to transfer the deeds from the old regime to the new regime shows how desperately short of money we were.”
Blackwell revealed that he had been through a lot of tough situations with clubs like Leeds and Luton in the past, but this was the worst situation he had faced as Bury FC did not even have the money to even get into administration.
It was doubly hard for the manager as he was unsure if the players would even get paid, and he had the task of trying to motivate the players fully understanding that they were on the verge of being relegated.
“People don’t understand how hard it is to look at people and ask them to give you 110% knowing there might not be any wages for them at the end of it all,” said Blackwell
Steven Day who is a property developer, believes that the club has seen the last of its tough days. He said that he had a plan to restructure the club over a period of the next five years.
“We’re well on the way to recovery,” said Day. “We have paid off all the debts and are in a position where we are self-standing.”
Blackwell has been able to build a team from 25 players whom he had called in for trials ahead of the pre season, and is hopeful of a recovery for the club, on the field.
