Bury owner Steve Dale hopes FA put them in National League next season and is willing to step down as chairman to make it happen.
Because the Shakers still exist, despite the ongoing off-field chaos, it means that they could be allowed to enter tiers five and six of English football under FA rules.
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Bury were kicked out of League One in August after failing to provide proof of funding. The same day the club saw a takeover bid collapse, Bolton managed to be saved, but were still handed a 12 point deduction for going into administration.
Dale has opened up on his plans, he told The Sun: “We have lodged an application with the FA to be placed into a league for next season.
“Due to being the chairman when the club was removed from the EFL, I might have to step down to satisfy the National League’s entry criteria and I’m prepared to do that.”
Bury submitted their application on March the 31st, but they will have to wait on the outcome due to the disruption of the coronavirus crisis.
Dale bout them for £1 back in December 2018 with the club’s in 17million worth of debt.
After having their winding up petition court appearance adjourned countless of times, he hopes to agree a new deal to prevent the club from being wound up.
#Bury fans will have a team on the pitch whatever happens this summer. Could be #BuryFC in the #NationalLeague set up or #BuryAFC in the North West Counties League. Their #EFL expulsion was a bitter pill to swallow & the fans deserve a team they can be proud of again. #Shakers pic.twitter.com/aPw8lWpWoK
— Justin Allen (@justinallen1976) April 25, 2020
He added: “The problem we’ve got is we won’t know the criteria of that until the FA tell us what league we can enter – but renegotiating the CVA won’t be a problem.
“I just hope the FA do right by us and put us in the division our history, heritage and fans deserve.”
Questions would most likely still be raised however on if Bury can survive based on their financial issues.
National League clubs are to receive around £90,000, and that figure reduces to just £13,000 in the National League North. So wouldn’t be a huge amount of help should Bury receive it.
Dale is confident that the club will be able to survive regardless of their situation next term, saying: “Bury will still be a decent club in the National League. It’s never been a big, high-profile club.
“The sponsors were local people. The fans are local people and we never got massive gates. The club is sustainable.”
How many times though has he let fans, staff and players down though? Time will tell as to whether he can pull this off.
What could it mean for Bury AFC, the newly formed non league club created by fed up supporters, who couldn’t see how the original club would survive.
They had been expected to join the North West Counties League along with new club FC Isle of Man.
Fans reacted after reading that the Bury owner hopes the FA put them in National League next season…
Should have gone when Bury were booted out of the League. He’s been a bloody disgrace.
— ? Mark O’Neill ??????? #WeStandWithBoris (@markcf83) April 24, 2020
— Simon Jowitt (@Skjowitt) April 24, 2020
— Chris Birks (@C_Birks) April 24, 2020
Up The Shakers, are you going to support this @OfficialBuryAFC ? #buryfc
— Paul Walsh (@PJWalsh1982) April 24, 2020
— Fraser Webster (@fraserwebster12) April 24, 2020
Surely you cannot trust a word that man says??
— Mark Whittle (@MarkWhittle1) April 24, 2020
The guys a joke
— Tom Jackson (@TomJackson650) April 25, 2020
Even if it’s true and he will step down. What do you think in reality this means? Being replaced by someone else with a surname of Dale perhaps? He has probably a number of strategies to try and get as much money as possible, but ultimately he is an expert in liquidation
— Alan (@MrAlanJR) April 25, 2020
This guy is a joke. Absolute disgraceful human. Complete knob jockey.
— Paul Sherwood (@paulifd) April 24, 2020
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