For every Bury and Oldham in the Manchester area there's a Salford and a Stockport.

"Stockport County is pleased to announce that following the original capital used to acquire the Club, Mark Stott’s subsequent investment of £7.7m in Stockport County Football Club and its subsidiaries has been converted to equity. This means that the Club has no debt outstanding to Mark for his investment in the Club following the take-over in January 2020.

Jonathan Vaughan CEO said:

“It has always been Mark’s plan to make sure the money he put into the Club was gifted and did not want to burden the Club with long-term loans. This puts the Club in a strong financial position and for this, we are very grateful. His investment both on and off the pitch has been vital to securing promotion to League 2 and we hope to capitalise on this momentum as we look to climb the leagues”.

https://www.stockportcounty.com/club-st ... nvestment/

Makes the £2 mill the Yanks put into Wrexham look a bit tight.

Suppose it’s relative really whose the most generous, the millionaire who gives you a tenner or the beggar who gives 10 p.
If you can afford it, it’s a grand gesture to make, but others who haven’t that sort of ‘available money’ can’t.
I can see now why we couldn’t have competed with them to keep Challinor quite clearly.
What I can’t see is why it wasn’t done in the open, then when we saw the situation, we could have parted on good terms, a baffler that.

Stockport are currently in the same financial situation Pools were in the best years under IOR and the Norwegian. I wasn't bothered about about what other teams' fans thought of us then - just enjoying the unfamiliar sensation of supporting a club that could splash the cash when it needed to.

I remember when Trigger signed for us from Mansfield and basically said players regarded us as the Chelsea of the division….. the good old days.
If I was Stockport fans I’d make the most of it for as long as it lasts, because unless that investor is a dyed in the wall supporter with a lifelong commitment, they do get bored.
Mind you, talk of £7.7 m so far can be put it into perspective alongside your bog standard Premier League players wages.

teams like pools, stockport, doncaster, carlisle etc. etc. have their good days and times. you need to enjoy them as they never really become the norm and the bad or usual days are round the corner whether next season or in 10 years time. for every brentford there will be 20 others having a constant up and down struggle.

I keep telling Rotherham fans this and they have just lost Michael Smith to Wednesday, after offering him a new contract but not as lucrative as the one offered by Wednesday.
If Smithy ends up being a bench warmer or worst that would be an excellent loan deal for some club.......like us.

As lots of people are saying most clubs at all levels will ebb and flow throughout their history. Scunthorpe are coming to mind as a club that seemed to have it all a few years ago yet rapidly fell apart, all whilst Lincoln down the road got stronger than ever.

For most clubs in our division (excluding the Tricky Woo lap dog clubs) and a few ex league clubs in the NL, fortune is like the ebb and flow of the tide. Only difference being you can predict the tide, no such luck with football’s tides.

yes scunny, a team up to last season with a history in the league we would give our right arm for.