Bournemouth bid £20million for Demarai Gray

[Weststander]

IMPOSSIBLE, THEY HAVE A TINY STADIUM. No way could they have saved a little from each season and roll it forward.

Are you joking?

Bournemouth's 2015/16 accounts showed a turnover of £88m and they made a profit. That included £75m of broadcasting money and £5m of matchday income.

For 2016/17 their broadcasting income alone would have risen by a minimum of £25m to at least £100m.

We make £11m a year from matchday income.

So these days being in the PL and its TV money determines everything, unless you're Arsenal and can charge £2,000 a s/t.

That's how Bournemouth can afford these big player investments.

 

[Don Quixote]

They've got to spend big because no players would go there otherwise.


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[Blues Rock DJ]

They've got to spend big because no players would go there otherwise.


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they're falling over themselves to come to us tbf !

 

[Weststander]

They've got to spend big because no players would go there otherwise.


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Do you reckon Bournemouth will stay up come next May?

 

[stevejoneslegend]

Are you joking?

Bournemouth's 2015/16 accounts showed a turnover of £88m and they made a profit. That included £75m of broadcasting money and £5m of matchday income.

For 2016/17 their broadcasting income alone would have risen by a minimum of £25m to at least £100m.

We make £11m a year from matchday income.

So these days being in the PL and its TV money determines everything, unless you're Arsenal and can charge £2,000 a s/t.

That's how Bournemouth can afford these big player investments.

Thank you... At last someone understands that income from our 'tiny ground' is irrelevant... OK, so no one is going to turn down an increased revenue generated from a bigger ground, but in the grand scheme of things, the club can survive, spending wisely, on TV and PL money...

Now on to some other points...

In terms of why Gray would leave Leicester for us... Because he'd play a lot more for us than he currently is at Leicester... Personally, I don't think we need him as in a rejuvenated Maxi Gradel, and several others, it's an area of the park I think we're strong enough in...

As for Defoe earning £100k a week, I think you've just looked at several reports, plucked the highest figure you've found and jumped on that... There is no way on this planet we would be paying that on a permanent deal... The realistic figure is more around £60k a week, which was quoted several times at the time of his actual signing... So roughly £6m a year for a current England striker...!!!

RE the ground... 20-25k in season 20/21. So almost 3 years to the day is the 'hope' that we'll be in... Me personally I also think this is highly ambitious, but the council are at last fully behind us and the site has officially been named. The current athletics stadium is being relocated and we're to have that site, which is about 300yds away for the current DC.

https://www.afcb.co.uk/news/club-news/new-stadium-site-identified

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/15410233.amp/

We're hoping that planning will be pushed through quickly next year and building can begin towards the end of 2018... It needs to...

Finally...

They've got to spend big because no players would go there otherwise.

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Ake, Wilshire, Begovic and Defoe seem to think differently... All have cost a grand sum of £38m (ish)

 

[Weststander]

Thank you... At last someone understands that income from our 'tiny ground' is irrelevant... OK, so no one is going to turn down an increased revenue generated from a bigger ground, but in the grand scheme of things, the club can survive, spending wisely, on TV and PL money...

Now on to some other points...

In terms of why Gray would leave Leicester for us... Because he'd play a lot more for us than he currently is at Leicester... Personally, I don't think we need him as in a rejuvenated Maxi Gradel, and several others, it's an area of the park I think we're strong enough in...

As for Defoe earning £100k a week, I think you've just looked at several reports, plucked the highest figure you've found and jumped on that... There is no way on this planet we would be paying that on a permanent deal... The realistic figure is more around £60k a week, which was quoted several times at the time of his actual signing... So roughly £6m a year for a current England striker...!!!

RE the ground... 20-25k in season 20/21. So almost 3 years to the day is the 'hope' that we'll be in... Me personally I also think this is highly ambitious, but the council are at last fully behind us and the site has officially been named. The current athletics stadium is being relocated and we're to have that site, which is about 300yds away for the current DC.

https://www.afcb.co.uk/news/club-news/new-stadium-site-identified

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/15410233.amp/

We're hoping that planning will be pushed through quickly next year and building can begin towards the end of 2018... It needs to...

Finally...

Ake, Wilshire, Begovic and Defoe seem to think differently... All have cost a grand sum of £38 (ish)

£38 or £38m?

 

[stevejoneslegend]

£38 or £38m?

haha.. I wish the former...

 

[Notters]

Ambitious owners.

Recognising that its far better to have an annual income stream of £130m instead of £25m.

Remember that transfer fees in accounting terms are spread over the term of the contract, and in cash flow terms after often paid over more than one year if substantial. Both making a few such transfers very doable, when your income is £130m year after year.

Are you insinuating that Bloom isn't ambitious? As to me he's the very definition of ambitious!

 

[GreersElbow]

Are you joking?

Bournemouth's 2015/16 accounts showed a turnover of £88m and they made a profit. That included £75m of broadcasting money and £5m of matchday income.

For 2016/17 their broadcasting income alone would have risen by a minimum of £25m to at least £100m.

We make £11m a year from matchday income.

So these days being in the PL and its TV money determines everything, unless you're Arsenal and can charge £2,000 a s/t.

That's how Bournemouth can afford these big player investments.

I am clearly joking.

 

[Icy Gull]

I confess to being very jealous of the fantastic ride Bournemouth fans are on. They play great football and spend what is needed, they are in dreamland.

I'd love us to us to be able to emulate them.

 

[Weststander]

Are you insinuating that Bloom isn't ambitious? As to me he's the very definition of ambitious!

Not at all. A positive comment about Bournemouth and their rise.

Don't be so sensitive.

Bloom has pumped in £290m, transforming the club. Only an idiot would think him unambitious.

 

[Weststander]

I confess to being very jealous of the fantastic ride Bournemouth fans are on. They play great football and spend what is needed, they are in dreamland.

I'd love us to us to be able to emulate them.

And once you get a roll going of £100m in from broadcasting year after year, unless you do a Villa, the whole thing becomes self perpetuating.

Who would have thought say 8 years ago that Stains, Palace and Bournemouth woudl ALL be mid table PL teams, and able to beat the likes of Liverpool and Arsenal?

 

[Reginald Lorenzo]

The money bit is easy now. Hate us or not, Eddie Howe has clearly built something good. Anyone can throw money at a football team but it doesn't always stick. Villa and Leeds being a couple of examples.

I think the worry is what happens to us when Eddie goes.

But for now we're doing ok and the football really has been enjoyable. I've been there when on and off pitch times were absolutely awful so I'm enjoying what we have.

ps. I was surprised it took three pages before one of you mentioned your infrastructure!

 

[Weststander]

The money bit is easy now. Hate us or not, Eddie Howe has clearly built something good. Anyone can throw money at a football team but it doesn't always stick. Villa and Leeds being a couple of examples.

I think the worry is what happens to us when Eddie goes.

But for now we're doing ok and the football really has been enjoyable. I've been there when on and off pitch times were absolutely awful so I'm enjoying what we have.

ps. I was surprised it took three pages before one of you mentioned your infrastructure!

Infrastructure wins games of football, didn't you know!

 

[BUTTERBALL]

Gray is a very good player but worth nowhere near £20m. No wonder we are holding back on marquee signings.

 

[wakeytom]

Gray is a very good player but worth nowhere near £20m. No wonder we are holding back on marquee signings.

Is this comment tongue in cheek or have you ignored the current transfer market?

 

[Weststander]

Is this comment tongue in cheek or have you ignored the current transfer market?

Envious, so hoping Gray doesn't star and justify that valuation?

 

[sir albion]

How can a club that earns a minimum of £100m per year afford to bid £20m? Does that question really need answering?

I'd say the likes of Man City are worse surely.....If it's 100 million odd and a bit more for others then paying 40-50 million for a player seems insane.

We pay 5 million max seems hilarious compared to the rest

 

[Steve Foster]

The money bit is easy now. Hate us or not, Eddie Howe has clearly built something good. Anyone can throw money at a football team but it doesn't always stick. Villa and Leeds being a couple of examples.

I think the worry is what happens to us when Eddie goes.

But for now we're doing ok and the football really has been enjoyable. I've been there when on and off pitch times were absolutely awful so I'm enjoying what we have.

ps. I was surprised it took three pages before one of you mentioned your infrastructure!

Enjoy the good times - they are short for most footie fans. At least we have a shiny stadium when we will inevitably get relegated. What plans are there for a new or expanding ground & realistically what size crowds could you accommodate week in week out in the Prem

 

[Machiavelli]

Thank you... At last someone understands that income from our 'tiny ground' is irrelevant... OK, so no one is going to turn down an increased revenue generated from a bigger ground, but in the grand scheme of things, the club can survive, spending wisely, on TV and PL money...

Now on to some other points...

In terms of why Gray would leave Leicester for us... Because he'd play a lot more for us than he currently is at Leicester... Personally, I don't think we need him as in a rejuvenated Maxi Gradel, and several others, it's an area of the park I think we're strong enough in...

As for Defoe earning £100k a week, I think you've just looked at several reports, plucked the highest figure you've found and jumped on that... There is no way on this planet we would be paying that on a permanent deal... The realistic figure is more around £60k a week, which was quoted several times at the time of his actual signing... So roughly £6m a year for a current England striker...!!!

RE the ground... 20-25k in season 20/21. So almost 3 years to the day is the 'hope' that we'll be in... Me personally I also think this is highly ambitious, but the council are at last fully behind us and the site has officially been named. The current athletics stadium is being relocated and we're to have that site, which is about 300yds away for the current DC.

https://www.afcb.co.uk/news/club-news/new-stadium-site-identified

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/15410233.amp/

We're hoping that planning will be pushed through quickly next year and building can begin towards the end of 2018... It needs to...

Finally...

Ake, Wilshire, Begovic and Defoe seem to think differently... All have cost a grand sum of £38m (ish)

You keep on saying that Defoe is not on £120k a week, and the figure is more like £60k, and then you say he'll be earning £6m a year which by my maths equates to £120k per week.



So is it that Bournemouth have got more money than sense; can't do maths; both; or something else?