Football Finances, come laugh at portsmouth

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Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

How many English clubs have gone under this year? Just King's Lynn down in the NPL or were there some more nobody's heard of?

# ¿ Dec 30, 2009 20:59

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 05:41

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Gr31lly posted:

Looks like that new stadium pompey were planning not so long ago is going to be a Tesco's

Some non-league team got so far in debt they had to sell their stadium to get turned into a Sainsbury's and now play in their training pitch, I forget who.

# ¿ Dec 31, 2009 17:31

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Lyric Proof Vest posted:

Mugabe would do much much better then a lot of owners. He'd put half the gdp of the country into the club to boost his ego

Half of a pound is still 50p!

# ¿ Dec 31, 2009 20:24

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Antti posted:

What happens to the season schedule if this were to happen before all the games have been played? Any solution I can think of is unfair. Default all the remaining fixtures 3-0?

A Belgian league club went pop this year and they erased its fixtures from the schedule and clubs' records, loving up the standings. The NPL did the same with King's Lynn I think.

Luigi Thirty fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Jan 1, 2010

# ¿ Jan 1, 2010 07:34

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Football 5.0 is actually a pitch on Dragon's Den as to why they should buy your club. The club with the biggest investor wins.

# ¿ Jan 19, 2010 16:33

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Jose posted:

How would this payment work as well in the event Portsmouth still get relegated then promoted next season?

It doesn't matter because the world will have ended by then.

# ¿ Feb 12, 2010 20:04

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FullLeatherJacket posted:

Again, the Fit And Proper Persons test isn't a job interview. You don't get a questionnaire as to whether or not you like kittens and whether or not you like to expose yourself in public. You don't have to prove that you have money or that you're not mentally ill.

Circle one:

Yes
No

Are you willing to spend that money?
Yes
No

# ¿ Feb 19, 2010 13:29

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

So theoretically if Pompey are still in administration but operating and can't enter the Football League next year, where do they go? The Conference? Will they make an exception for a club being relegated from the EPL rather than promoted from the Conference?

# ¿ Feb 27, 2010 07:35

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Bacon of the Sea posted:

We all know it'll now get delayed till 2018 and then promptly forgotten about. UEFA will never green light these rule changes while they'd pretty much exclude 90% of top flight teams in most western leagues.

You'd end up with a Bari vs WBA champs league final.

Harriers/East Stirlingshire Europa final.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2010 04:31

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Capello speaks on footballers' pay.

quote:

England manager Fabio Capello has blamed the amount of money paid to his stars for contributing to a series of off-field controversies.

Capello is concerned at the recent scandals which are threatening to undermine England's World Cup hopes.

"They are young boys, who are rich boys. This is the problem," he said.

"It is not only here. In Italy, in Germany, in Spain, in every country where football is so important it is the same problem."

Young football players get a bunch of money, and are irresponsible with it? :monocle:

# ¿ Mar 3, 2010 15:12

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Big Black Sock posted:

True, but if the owners have a reputation for loving over their local fans they won't get nearly as many fans worldwide. When you can hand pick who to support, who wants to join in with a team that has douchebags for owners?

Doesn't stop American sports teams from being successful.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2010 14:29

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JingleBells posted:

The administrator at Portsmouth have released a creditor report.

Apparently they owe Qatar Airways 20p!

But they owe Pasta King of Newton Abbott around �1,300, and The Beer Clear Company �287.50.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2010 14:15

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Just when you think the Portsmouth situation couldn't get any wackier!

# ¿ Apr 21, 2010 16:06

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EC10 posted:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/aug/24/manchester-united-glazers-mortgage-malls

headline article on Guardian, i'm not sure there's much new info here other than this

later in the article it makes it seem like up 'til now Utd were still under the impression that they won't inevitability be responsible for the Glazers-takeover debt, obviously now that's a serious doubt

it still absolutely blows my mind that they were able to do what they did. the financial world really is just one giant scheme to see who can cheat the most money into their own pockets without being caught

By the way, the first Buccaneers game of the season is going to be blacked out here in Tampa because they didn't sell out the stadium and the Glazers refused to pay out money to the league to buy back the unsold tickets. They've been threatening us with blackouts since last season if they didn't sell out. It's our punishment for not giving the Glazers money.

# ¿ Sep 9, 2010 20:10

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

OH NO

quote:

Chelsea�s billionaire owner Roman Abramovich has reportedly told the club that their big spending days are over.

The Russian has been in control of the Premier League champions since 2003, but has told officials and executives that the club will now have to live within their means and that cutbacks will be necessary in order to stabilise finances at Stamford Bridge.

This has led to players having their bonus payments reduced, which basically means a pay cut, and when addressed at Chelsea�s Cobham training ground earlier in the week by chairman Bruce Buck, they were told that the club will now have to generate the money first in order to bring new players to Stamford Bridge.

The Russian forked out over �230 million in his first two years with the club, signings the likes of Michael Essien, Didier Drogba and defender Ricardo Carvalho, as well as some of the least successful signings such as Damien Duff and Adrian Mutu, all for substantial sums.

The cutbacks will also mean slashing catering costs and coaching staff numbers at their Cobham training ground.

However players who signed a contract before 2009 will still have their win bonuses guaranteed.

Despite the cutbacks at Chelsea, Abramovich is still owed �726m by holding company Fordstam but have recorded a staggering loss of �493m since the Russian took over.

Well, that's it. Football is dead.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2010 01:02

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Semprini posted:

A reminder that the owners of Manchester United once spent money on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Under any scheme of financial fair play, United should be given a �30m headstart to counter the fact they're clearly run by utter buffoons.

Reminder that the salary of the Buccaneers was so low a while back that to even reach the NFL's wage floor they signed kickers and linemen with million-dollar incentives in their contracts for things like 20 completed touchdown passes in a season because incentives counted toward the salary floor instead of actually signing another loving $5 million in players. I forget if this was before or after they bought Manchester United.

For people who don't know anything about American football, it's basically like putting a �1m bonus for scoring 10 goals in a season into a keeper's contract.

Luigi Thirty fucked around with this message at 09:18 on Nov 23, 2011

# ¿ Nov 23, 2011 09:14

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euroboy posted:

Tell me how to handle it.

Become a Leeds plastic instead.

# ¿ Nov 23, 2011 20:39

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 05:41

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Pissflops posted:

I can't imagine being a stadium with 20,000 empty seats tbh.

The Florida Marlins played in an NFL stadium that sat 40,000. In the middle of July with 90% humidity in Miami. You'd get a "reported attendance" of around 10,000 but actual attendance of about 2,000 if that. Last year they kicked some individual hecklers out of games because they were so loud you could hear them across the stadium. You'd only hear like four or five individual voices talking in the background instead of an indistinct murmur on the TV broadcast. It was great.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2012 22:06

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