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I took a look at a few clubs earlier and it really must be subjective, niche- down to the individual ground.

Struggling to justify these valuations- ie the major ones, talking Aston Villa, Derby and Sheffield Wednesday when set against a variety of clubs who have had reasonably recent valuations.

Walkers Stadium for example actually didn't seem to rise in particular even after reaching the PL, winning it and playing in CL- that Aston Villa impairment is looking increasingly curious given that clubs change division often. Either it was overvalued in the first place, the Impairment was flawed or it's incredibly subjective.

It's debatable as to whether relegation or a significant change in on-field fortunes can be classed as a material change in circs- actually despite my FFP suspicions, I have sympathy with a view that it can but in accounting terms, it's possibly not so clear. 

FWIW, 2 possible comparisons- focusing on the Midlands clubs who have done this mainly.

Stoke- remember 11 seasons in the PL!

At Depreciated Replacement cost in March 2018- £41,600,000- if we include Plants and Machinery it'd be £42,500,000.

Comparison 2.

The aforementioned Leicester one!

In May 2014, £41,463,000 on an existing use basis. Included within it was £4,777,000 of land which would not and will not be Depreciated. This was off the back of a return to the PL and actually a 2nd promotion in 6 seasons.

£81.1m Pride Park, £60m Hillsborough and £56.7m Villa Park- come on??

I know actually that it isn't that simple but it just doesn't really stack up.

Looking a little further back at Leicester again.

In May 2009 after promotion back to the Championship had been confirmed it was valued at £41,463,000 on an existing use basis- yet though it had barely depreciated in 5 years- fair enough- it had barely shot back up either on promotion to PL.

May 2017, interim valuation- which appears to be inclusive of fixtures and fittings- and remember in 9 years they'd gone from relegation to third tier for first time in their history (haha Hollowhead) to promotion back to Championship, promotion back to PL, winning title and playing in CL. £45,808,000- this states that it is inclusive of fixtures and fittings but doesn't seem to have soared in value all that much considering!

Valuation in May 2017 of the ground was of course £45,808,000- net book value stated at £19,106,000.

Some takeaways:

  1. Depreciated Replacement Cost appears not to fluctuate wildly over the years.
  2. Promotion and relegation don't seem to see wild swings in value.
  3. There's not an awful lot of difference between the existing use basis and depreciated replacement cost one, in terms of cash it seems, or % wise.
  4. Net book value definitely diverges when set against "real" value.

Still, more questions than answers for the clubs under investigation IMO.

Based on 2014 revaluation at Depreciated Replacement Cost, disregarding Depreciation post 2014 and taking all of the additions at cost- ie £500,000 makes it £500,000 more and factoring in a Revaluation Reserve then £30m or so for Hillsborough seems about right... £32m Hillsborough also seems sensible enough as seen online.

Pride Park and Villa Park appear to be harder to decipher.

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Elland Road sold for £20m in 2017 to owner- but not to Leeds, he brought it back though.

Bramall Lane and training ground total transaction to be £50m- combined for the pair of them. One report says it includes the academy also!

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It has already been ruled that Prince Abdullah will buy McCabe’s shares in the club for £5m. He then has until next summer to purchase various other properties from his former co-owner for £50m. This includes the stadium, training ground and academy.

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McCabe intends to appeal Mr Justice Fancourt’s decision that the Saudi prince is entitled to buy McCabe’s 50 per cent share of the Premier League club for £5million, plus fair market value for the club’s assets owned by McCabe.

The price, for the Bramall Lane stadium and Shirecliffe training base amongst others, could be around the £50m mark.

 

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It's not really anything that's new as such but possibly a bit of a new angle.

Already made reference to Fair Value Adjustment, whether this takes place on Acquisition- been researching it periodically.

Should we read anything into the fact that on acquisition for Sevco 5112 Limited, Mel Morris didn't see fit to adjust the Tangible Fixed Assets to fair value- ie Vendors' Book Value was listed as the same as equal to "Fair value to the group"- £0 in adjustments, up or down?

Is this a bit of a red herring @Coppello @martnewts or something that can be done at convenience for a new owner- optional- or is it in fact an indicator that Book Value broadly in line with Fair value?

As we can see, there are no adjustments anywhere- but specifically to Pride Park, notably to Tangible Fixed Assets. August 2015 was when this occurred.

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26 Acquisitions and disposals

     Acquisitions                                            Vendors' Book Value £000              Fair value adjustments £000      Fair value to the group £000

     Assets and liabilities acquired

  •      Intangible fixed assets                     16,885                                                  -                                                              16,855
  •      Tangible fixed assets                        55,601                                                 -                                                               55,601
  •      Stocks                                                     -                                                         -                                                                    -
  •      Debtors                                                 2,800                                                  -                                                                  2,800
  •      Cash at bank                                            353                                                 -                                                                     353
  •     Other creditors and provisions         (42,366)                                              -                                                                (42,366)

 

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Reading the Derby forum briefly, this post is somewhat out of kilter. Bolded bits I'll reply to.

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I think at one point he spoke of the inability of a football club to fund the necessary changes needed to use the ground for non-football uses - It was on that first Talksport interview I think

Thought this was permissible under FFP- infrastructure no?

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Essentially if the club were to put money into making significant ground improvements that would count against them in FFP terms - However if he buys the ground then the new company can spend whatever it wants on stadium improvements/changes etc without it being on the books for Derby County FC - It allows him to spend his own money turning the ground into a revenue generator - However, you're correct that revenue wouldn't be fed back into the club... Yet...

As above. It gets deducted from expenditure as it's deemed to be good investment I think.

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I suspect that the idea would be to sell the ground back to the club at a future date at which point the renovations would be complete and Pride Park would generate money for the club - However I wouldn't imagine the club could afford that until we're solidly in the Premier League and getting the TV payments in

The sale price would be very interesting, if all of this work enhances its value significantly!

Payment terms and speed?

I suppose the argument I saw elsewhere on the thread, that it's the Premier events venue in Derby could have a bit of merit as to their uplift- and unlike Hillsborough certainly it has the facilities for concerts etc like a lot of modern and new built grounds- unsure about Villa Park and its facilities for non matchday revenue generation. I still struggle with £81.1m and a profit of nearly £40m though!

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On 17/05/2019 at 19:34, View from the Dolman said:

So looking at the Derby County stadium ownership... The freehold of DY342736 was transferred to GELLAW NEWCO 202 LIMITED (registered 19th June 2018) and registered on 30th July 2018. GELLAW NEWCO 202 LIMITED was incorporated with GELLAW NEWCO 201 LIMITED (registered  18th June 2018) holding the only share in the company. GELLAW NEWCO 201 appointed its liquidators 10 days after its incorporation in a members voluntary liquidation on 28th June 2018.

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck...

To return to this one, possibly being a bit dense but what's this mean? @29AR mentioned back-to-back and insta-collapse deal.

As in, what tangible difference does it make if GELLAW NEWCO 204 LIMITED now has significant control over it- whereas at time of purchase it was GELLAW NEWCO 201 LIMITED- this of course being the control over the company who purchased Pride Park, ie GELLAW NEWCO 202 LIMITED.

Sheffield Wednesday might have done similar incidentally. Put in less technical terms than you did but anyway..

SHEFFIELD 3 LIMITED purchased Hillsborough on 28th June 2098. Controlling Party was SHEFFIELD 4 LIMITED and this was notified on 21st June 2019. Control of SHEFFIELD 3 LIMITED by SHEFFIELD 4 LIMITED seemingly ceased on 28th June 2019, and there was on the same day a special resolution to wind up SHEFFIELD 4 LIMITED. Liquidators appointed on 28th June 2018 according to the below. Meanwhile, the new owner of SHEFFIELD 3 LIMITED was SHEFFIELD 5 LIMITED, said notification was 28th June 2019.

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3321692

Interesting/useful summary elsewhere.

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  1. On the 20/6/2019 Dejphon Chansiri registers the following companies, with a registered address of Hillsborough, Sheffield 4 Ltd, one £1 share and 1 director, himself, and also controls the company. The company is listed as a “Non Trading Company”. Also he reduced to current accounting period to 31/07/2019
  2. 21/06/ 2019 He now registers 2 companies at Hilsborough, Sheffield 2 Ltd and Sheffield 3 Ltd, Sheffield 2 Ltd is identical to Sheffield 4 Ltd, Sheffield 3 Ltd is slightly different, if has 1000 £1 shares rather than 1 and control of the company is Sheffield 4 Ltd not himself personally, as with all the others, it is Non Trading..
  3. 24/06/2019 he now forms Sheffield 5 Ltd identical to Sheffield 2 and 4
  4. 28/06/2019 He holds a shareholders meeting of Sheffield 4 Ltd and votes to have the company wind up! He appoint joint liquidators, the same company as the Sheffield Wednesday auditors.
  5. 08/07/2019 He increase the shares in Sheffield 2,4 and 5 to 1,000 (yes including 4 which is being liquidated) He also changes control of Sheffield 3 from Sheffield 4 to Sheffield 5.
  6. 17/07/2019 Sheffield 4 has now it has changed its registered office to the offices of it auditor (but not the Sheffield branch but the one in Cleckheaton)
  7. 18/07/2019 The liquidators release a statement saying the company is solvent! The accounts show assets of £1,999 the only liability is the £1,000 of shares, therefore Chansiri gets his £1,000 back, I have got no idea what happens to the £999 since there should be a loss. Also how has a non-trading company made a profit of £999? It is stated that there is no liquidation charges as these are being paid by a third party

 

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https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/stoke-city-financial-fair-play-3596135

Saw this on Kieran Maguire's Twitter- about to have a look.

This line looks interesting...

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“We are doing everything we can to make them as favourable to us as possible.

It's the Stoke CEO Tony Scholes discussing the regulations and the clubs perspective.

I hope the EFL and other clubs take note of this. Hope they're all over it in fact.

Not the article of course, but to be on alert for any dirty tricks by Stoke.

Incidentally, for what it's worth, Stoke fans don't seem altogether impressed- small sample size granted- with the stance by Scholes and the club. Different to Aston Villa, Sheffield Wednesday and to an extent Derby fans at this stage?

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49 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/stoke-city-financial-fair-play-3596135

Saw this on Kieran Maguire's Twitter- about to have a look.

This line looks interesting...

It's the Stoke CEO Tony Scholes discussing the regulations and the clubs perspective.

I hope the EFL and other clubs take note of this. Hope they're all over it in fact.

Not the article of course, but to be on alert for any dirty tricks by Stoke.

Incidentally, for what it's worth, Stoke fans don't seem altogether impressed- small sample size granted- with the stance by Scholes and the club. Different to Aston Villa, Sheffield Wednesday and to an extent Derby fans at this stage?

Chief executive Scholes told Radio Stoke today: “We’re fortunate to have owners here who are not just willing and able but extremely keen and enthusiastic and want to do everything they possibly can to get this club back into the Premier League, where we spent 10 good years - or maybe not all 10 were fantastic.

“They will do everything they can but we are constrained by the rules that are in place. We don’t like the rules, we think they’re wrong and they’re ill-conceived. We think they should be changed - but they’re in place.

“We are doing everything we can to make them as favourable to us as possible.

“It’s hard, of course, but all I’ll say is that the owners will do all they can in terms of providing the funds and everyone working at the club will do everything we can within the constraints.”

There are quite few clubs ( including us) that are also fortunate to have owners not just willing and able, but extremely keen and enthusiastic and want to do everything they possibly can to get this club back into the Premier League - or in our case into the premier league for the first time. However these other clubs accept the rules and organise their clubs' affairs in order to stay within the limits imposed, even if they would prefer if those rules were not there.

Why is it so hard from relegated premier league clubs to come to terms with the rules of the championship? Like Villa previously, they see the parachute payments, not as a financial buffer that enables them to make the financial adjustments needed to fit within the reduced income streams the championship provides, thereby fitting within the EFL ffp limits, but as a war chest giving them a huge advantage over most other championship clubs in regaining their premier league status. Unfortunately, like Vila before them, they are realising that championship promotion is a tough ask and are now sweating that not only is promotion moving further away from them as the end of parachute payments gets ever closer, but that relegation is a real threat.

Hopefully their fans are now realising that after Birmingham, and with Wednesday in the firing line and Derby possibly being lined up next, getting around ffp by dodgy dealing will likely end up with the club being punished to a degree, that in Stoke's case, could pose a real threat t their championship status.

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Chansiri also charged with misconduct.....apologies if this is old news!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2019/12/02/exclusive-sheffield-wednesday-chairman-could-banned-football/

Dejphon Chansiri, the Sheffield Wednesday owner, is facing further scrutiny after being charged with misconduct by the English Football League.

The Daily Telegraph can reveal that Chansiri, finance director John Redgate and Wednesday’s former chief executive, Katrien Meire, have all been charged and could be banned from football if found guilty by an independent panel.

The charges by the EFL are understood to relate to the controversial £60 million sale of Hillsborough to Chansiri.

Wednesday insist they will “vigorously defend” the sanctions, which could include a heavy points deduction, but Chansiri, the Thai businessman, plus Redgate and Meire are also under the microscope.

The charges the trio face are believed to have been relayed to the club on Nov 14, the same day the EFL announced its decision to charge Wednesday with misconduct.

Redgate stepped down from the club’s board of directors last year but remains the finance director, while Meire, who held a similar role at Charlton Athletic, left Wednesday in February.

Chansiri has been Wednesday’s owner since 2015 and infuriated many rival Championship clubs when he agreed the sale of Hillsborough to help record a pre-tax profit of £2.5 million in the 2017-18 accounts.

Land Registry documents revealed the stadium’s sale appeared to be completed the following year and the EFL subsequently charged the club with misconduct following a lengthy investigation.

It is alleged that Chansiri sold the stadium to avoid breaking the EFL’s new profitability and sustainability rules. Wednesday are thought to be ready to contest the charges.

Birmingham City became the first club to be punished for breaching spending rules when they were docked nine points towards the end of last season.

The new rules dictate that Championship clubs are permitted to lose a maximum of £39 million over three years.

Wednesday declined to comment on the charges. The club are ninth in the table, two points adrift of the play-off positions.

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Wow, that's huge! Thanks @Davefevs

Him being charged with misconduct but he (along with Meire and Redgate) could be banned if guilty, am I reading it right- eff me!

I have a feeling that it wouldn't ie this ban option have been at all likely had Shaun Harvey still been running the EFL but I could be way out! Dunno what others think- mind you I think against all sense etc he would have let Steve Dale's Bury have had a crack at starting the season too! He really ran a very loose ship...

Wow though, that's quite the escalation!

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As an outsider looking in....no way the EFL go down this route if SW aren’t up shit-creek.

Points deduction, embargo, might need fire-sale in window???

Apologies to Owls fans looking at this, it’s you guys that suffer....and although a very different era and circumstances we had our own problems in 1980s.

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Could be a big points deduction.

Birmingham held their hands up and were quite transparent IIRC (stand to be corrected) and got 9 points in the end for a simple breach of going over the 39m in a three year period.

Sheffield appear to have tried to hide their misdeeds with some "creative" accounting and are now protesting innocence.

Not sure how the deductions work but. if the charges stand, they must be heading into a double figure points deduction to make it a meaningful punishment ?

Luton got a 30 point deduction albeit in different circumstances...

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2 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

Could be a big points deduction.

Birmingham held their hands up and were quite transparent IIRC (stand to be corrected) and got 9 points in the end for a simple breach of going over the 39m in a three year period.

Sheffield appear to have tried to hide their misdeeds with some "creative" accounting and are now protesting innocence.

Not sure how the deductions work but. if the charges stand, they must be heading into a double figure points deduction to make it a meaningful punishment ?

Luton got a 30 point deduction albeit in different circumstances...

Someone posted recently how deductions are calculated. Feel sorry for their fans who just pay their money to watch their football team and behind the scenes all sorts of misdeeds are occurring.

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4 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

Could be a big points deduction.

Birmingham held their hands up and were quite transparent IIRC (stand to be corrected) and got 9 points in the end for a simple breach of going over the 39m in a three year period.

Sheffield appear to have tried to hide their misdeeds with some "creative" accounting and are now protesting innocence.

Not sure how the deductions work but. if the charges stand, they must be heading into a double figure points deduction to make it a meaningful punishment ?

Luton got a 30 point deduction albeit in different circumstances...

If they are guilty of not just ffp but also fudging it, I think we can expect to see something in the region of 15-21 points ?

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My early and rough calculations are as follows- using the template estimated by Kieran Maguire and I think Peter Loehmann, and loss limits in the EFL judgement.

Birmingham- 7 points for the overspend. 3 for a deliberate breach and one back for cooperating fairly early, though some wonder about that. Anyway 7 + 3 -1=9.

Sheffield Wednesday- wrong period let's assume that's proven.

12 points for the overspend alone!! Were there 2 charges laid at them or 1? Anyway each could be construed as an aggravated breach- so that could be 3 + 3 again- we're on 18 now! Then the point back, well they abided by a soft embargo in Summer 2018 so I suppose that you could make a case for 1 off, but then again if they contest it strongly now, should they get one back?

Somewhere between 11-18 IMO, quite possibly more! Perhaps 14-18 a better range there.

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Worth revisiting what Shaun Harvey has said over the last 6-18 months about FFP and owners...

Will highlight what I consider to be a few pertinent aspects, that may help to explain how it reached this point with all of the sloppiness in between!

On QPR, after the settlement/verdict was finally reached- late July 2018!

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EFL Chief Executive, Shaun Harvey said: “The outcome vindicates the approach of the EFL Board in defending the challenge to our Rules.

“In agreeing to the settlement above, the Board was conscious that the financial burden placed on the Club had to be manageable, so as not to put its future in doubt when considering that after this season the Club will no longer benefit from the promotion that was the catalyst for the dispute in the first place.

“QPR remain a valued member of the EFL and a great community asset. We look forward to continuing our productive working relationship with them for many seasons to come and are delighted to bring this long running dispute to a conclusion.”

On Birmingham, 1st August 2018:

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Harvey said: “The club are fully aware of the situation. We are working with them trying to resolve how they are able to register players for the new season. From my perspective we have been clear and we are hoping to help the club through this. Long before 9 August and deadline day I imagine the position will be resolved and the relevant club will know what it can and can’t do.

“The EFL is not about restricting activity. We want clubs to be strong and we want them to be vibrant. Clubs not being able to sign players they would like to sign is not good for the EFL.”

Asked if clubs pay enough notice to the rules, Harvey added: “I certainly think QPR have taken it seriously enough and Leicester and Bournemouth – whatever your view is on the settlements reached – it is money they would much rather have done something else with than pay it to the EFL, so there is a seriousness. The big challenge we have got in the next six months is to communicate really clearly what can and cannot take place by clubs that breach these rules.”

The second paragraph is pretty pivotal IMO- makes me wonder ever more about him and his actions last summer "The EFL is not about restricting activitiy." Reluctance? "We want clubs to be strong and we want them to be vibrant. Clubs not being able to sign players they would like to sign is not good for the EFL". A very, at best, laissez faire approach here!!

I wonder if things could have shifted on the bolded bit of the last paragraph after the TV deal debacle thatr caused issues last November- overseen, surprise surprise on HIS watch! ?

This article is pretty interesting.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48412747

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Football needs "to look at how it treats the owners at some of its clubs" as without them, fans "wouldn't have a club", says departing English Football League chief executive Shaun Harvey.

Harvey said costs across the 72 EFL sides were going up but owners were being "roughed [up] and ridiculed in certain quarters".

"Championship losses are getting bigger," he said.

"We have a business model that relies, just about, on owner funding."

Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live's Sportsweek, he added: "Those owners are either benevolent, looking after their local clubs who they have supported for many years, or are investing to try to achieve the big prize that Aston Villa and Derby are going to play for this time."

I mean, pretty disgraceful but pretty interesting as to where his priorities may have laid from 2016 onwards? Yet on a technical level...may well be right, deficit to shortfall vs income.

These snippets reinforce his perspective.

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"So, we are reliant on owners and football needs to look at how it treats the owners at some of its clubs.

"Fans not happy about the investment that is going into their club. Trust me, without them [the owners], they wouldn't have a club."

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"After six years [in the role], the league does need to have a look at itself and decide how it's going to go forward," said Harvey.

"I think the big challenge is going to be around player wage inflation.

"How do you manage that in such a way that it doesn't take away from the quality of the product that we all want to contribute to?"

@DerbyFan did make reference to the quality of product aspect I believe, at some point.

I am sure there were more and I'll add to these as and when I find them...

Have to wonder the nature of the discussions that took place summer 2018, or 2018/19 regarding these issues, between the EFL/Harvey and clubs...all behind closed doors of course.

This is from his 1st August 2018 quotes too, but curiously not on the BBC article from the time,

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There is no doubt in the Championship in particular a lot of the clubs survive purely on the basis of owner funding. The vast majority are all making a loss.

“The level of the loss changes. What we have to be really careful about is making sure the owners of the clubs keep funding it.

So once again, it really, really makes you wonder about that Summer of 2018! ?

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It's not City related, it's not even Championship related.

Think the PL is the land of guaranteed profits? Maybe not...

The club maybe a bit of a surprise!

That is the club results- the parent company ones were worse than the club last season- more income but higher running costs too. I assumed they would make a loss tbh.

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8 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

It's not City related, it's not even Championship related.

Think the PL is the land of guaranteed profits? Maybe not...

The club maybe a bit of a surprise!

That is the club results- the parent company ones were worse than the club last season- more income but higher running costs too. I assumed they would make a loss tbh.

He thinks their wages to income ratio at 60% is a bit high? Many championship clubs are at or above 100%!

I think Ive just read somewhere ( it might have been on another thread) that Brighton made a loss of £21m last year. If so, that tends to debunk the notion that getting to the premier league sets the club up financial.

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He thinks their wages to income ratio at 60% is a bit high? Many championship clubs are at or above 100%!

I think Ive just read somewhere ( it might have been on another thread) that Brighton made a loss of £21m last year. If so, that tends to debunk the notion that getting to the premier league sets the club up financial.

Yeah- don't know how good they have it in that respect...Championship is a mad, mad League financially though!

Agreed- I think we would not make losses tbh but can't be said for all clubs- that TV cash etc can get eaten up very quickly. Now they have abolished STCC, the PL that is, maybe those losses and wages will start to rise even quicker.

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Think it was linked to rises in wage %, an additional layer to the standard FFP loss limits. This isn't quite in line with 2016/17.

http://www.financialfairplay.co.uk/latest-news/premier-league-update-their-ffp-rules

Now no longer.

https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/new-financial-fair-play-rule-change-will-completely-change-how-next-seasons-premier-league

Think £81m the most recent baseline level, before it was scrapped.

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I think Stoke could be the next big fail FFP wise.

Fact their owners or more like their Chief Executive spoke out about it is an indicator.

Bear in mind that they lost £30m or so in their relegation season- ie while they were still in the PL. They usually release accounts quite early, but nothing to date yet, another indicator? Burying bad news?

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35 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

I think Stoke could be the next big fail FFP wise.

Fact their owners or more like their Chief Executive spoke out about it is an indicator.

Bear in mind that they lost £30m or so in their relegation season- ie while they were still in the PL. They usually release accounts quite early, but nothing to date yet, another indicator? Burying bad news?

Normally a relegated club don’t lose money in their relegation season, so have a big buffer when they come down - and that’s without PPs!

So if Stoke lost £30m in 17/18, then they have £31m to play with last season and this.  £35m + £13m + £13m

They’ve really hamstring themselves with that loss during relegation season.

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5 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Normally a relegated club don’t lose money in their relegation season, so have a big buffer when they come down - and that’s without PPs!

So if Stoke lost £30m in 17/18, then they have £31m to play with last season and this.  £35m + £13m + £13m

They’ve really hamstring themselves with that loss during relegation season.

The only caveat is that a lot of that £30m or so loss was writing down/impairment of of player registrations- counts towards FFP of course, but may not be repeated.

Given how they spent last season though, I'm wondering if this season was promotion or bust!

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https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/11884799/efl-chairman-rick-parry-opens-door-to-salary-cap-amid-championship-sustainability-concerns

Interesting.

I remember this first being mooted to an extent in the summer but the EFL was under the 'leadership' of Harvey at that time/rudderless- or possibly the latter is less damaging than the former? :whistle2:

This can't just be introduced next season IMO- you'd need to end the current 3 year period for a start, though with the rolling period in a sense you're always in Year 3- it has to be fair and right to clubs such as, but by no means exclusively, us who have sold, held off and shown restraint at varied times in the market- so it has to be phased in over time for that reason IMO.

Edited by Mr Popodopolous
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