Bury are hoping to receive a £500,000 cash windfall with reported Leicester City interest in 18-year-old Callum Hulme, as reported by Alan Nixon.
The youngster has only made one senior league appearance for the stricken Shakers but is now reportedly a target for the 2016 Premier League champions. With their well-documented cash troubles, it would ease their burden on them somewhat, although it wouldn’t solve their problems completely.
Bury face an uncertain future, they’re in danger of having their opening game suspended if they cannot make satisfactory financial promises to the EFL. They’re already 12 points behind everyone else and have barely any players left, although they did manage to beat League Two side Port Vale in a friendly yesterday.
Hulme is a former Manchester City youth who left the Blues to take up a two-year scholarship at Bury in February 2017. He made his league debut in a 4-0 thrashing of Grimsby Town, going on to appear in three of their EFL Trophy matches.
One of those was against Leicester Under 21s, a game he started an in which his team won 2-1. He appeared twice more from the bench in wins against Fleetwood (3-1) and Oxford (5-2), but is now set to leave Gigg Lane as the controversial situation there rages on.
Our View
You have to feel for Bury fans, they’ve been sold a turkey with their recent takeover but before that they clearly lived well beyond their means. The previous owner gambled on Championship promotion and lost, leaving behind the current mess.
It’s highly likely any interest in their players will result in a sale as Steve Dale looks to pull in as much money as possible, hopefully to go towards saving the club and not exasperate their problems by seeing it simply disappear into a gaping black hole.
