Dick Knights Mumm
Take me Home Falmer Road
He's worth it if he keeps em up innit.
That is the bottom line. It is not just the cost of players that does for clubs - it is their contracts in the event of relegation.
He's worth it if he keeps em up innit.
Where the hell have Scumhampton got 11.8 million from?
Slippery slope again?
Shit or bust approach again. If it works then great for them. But if they come straight back down, they're f***ed, again.
Saints fan just shared this link with me, quite interesting actually. No wonder why they can afford him. Southampton are no.5, Brighton are 61.
The Football Rich List 2011/12: The Full 100 | Lists - FourFourTwo
61. Tony Bloom £50m
Brighton & Hove Albion (Last year £50m, 60th)
Exciting times for Brighton fans, with their beloved Albion starting their second-tier season strongly in a brand new £93m, 22,500-seat stadium. Chairman Tony Bloom took over in 2009 and appointed former Chelsea and Spurs star Gus Poyet as manager. Bloom has been reported as injecting £80m into club to fund its new stadium. He has converted £18m of loans to the Seagulls into shares, making him the majority shareholder with a 75.61% stake.
If that level of input sounds like a gamble, Bloom should know what he's doing. He is one of Britain's top poker players, his interest in gambling having started at the age of seven when he lost his pocket money on fruit machines. He later made his real money by launching online-gaming firm Premierbet in 2002. It was taken over in 2005 and Bloom moved into property development in Brighton. His main company Blue Lizard Consulting showed £5.4m net assets in 2009-10. In all four of his companies have £10m net assets. Cautiously we value Bloom at around £50m as any return on the Seagulls investment will depend on the club making it to the top flight.
Saints fan just shared this link with me, quite interesting actually. No wonder why they can afford him. Southampton are no.5, Brighton are 61.
The Football Rich List 2011/12: The Full 100 | Lists - FourFourTwo
Saints fan just shared this link with me, quite interesting actually. No wonder why they can afford him. Southampton are no.5, Brighton are 61.
The Football Rich List 2011/12: The Full 100 | Lists - FourFourTwo
Shit or bust approach again. If it works then great for them. But if they come straight back down, they're f***ed, again.
When was our last shit or bust approach?
So you never ended up in administration/massive debt fairly recently then? You got lucky with your owner and his family otherwise you'd be in big shit financially.
It doesn't appear to register with some there is no way on gods given earth Bloom would personally pay for a stadium out of his own un-borrowed money and only be left with 50m. This man is a billionaire not a tinpot millionaire.
Ramirez will struggle in the premier league big time. Silly buy