I'm always surprised how little fans understand about finance, despite all the available information (including from our own prof of footy finance). Not worth arguing, but suffice to say we don't make a profit. And also that this club is hugely focused on the fans, however hard you, @Hamilton et al try to spin the niggles into an anti fan conspiracy theory.
It certainly wasn’t standing room only I’m sure
I thought it might be nice to give my booing a rest at halftime. Then out came Roberts and Mendy...I don't think I have sat for a game in the North since the championship, and I'm 2/3rds of the way up in line with the 18 yard box, so I guess the vast majority of the North is now standing
Although it is nice to give my knees a rest at halftime on a comfy seat (Ben Roberts aside)
You can always move to the north stand if you’re so keen to stand , half of them seem to . There’s no debate , it’s much more comfortable and safer to sit . End of debate .
Yes. Assuming club stop paying PL wages (50k a week average pay to first team squad), Sign no players (we’ve just spent £10m on a 17 year old Argentinian , the £427m owed to Bloom is written off, and stop investing in improvements to the Amex / Lancing etc (amongst other things) .
My very rough estimate of last year's accounts (so far not published) and making a forward estimate of this year's - with lots of assumptions made on finishing position and transfer fees for various players and compo for Potter, his coaches and Winstanley - is that we might come close to breaking even for our 6 years so far in the Premier League. Probably still be a loss of around 10-20m though. So no, we don't have money in the bank unless Tony Bloom either borrows it or puts it there out of his own pocket, and that's before even considering the losses made in the Championship to get there in the first place.
Interesting. All I would say if a clubs has £150m income and £160m plus in transfer income something very wrong with football if still lose money. Goodness knows how much other clubs are losing that have not had our transfer income.
We definitely won't be losing money with such levels of transfer income every season. In the current season, where we have about 145m in transfer income (including the Potter compo), my guesstimate is that we make a profit in the region of 80-100m.
Is it really that surprising - given you’re across Albions revenue in a year (£150m) and must therefore follow football finances closely - that’s it’s news to you that many Premier League clubs including the Albion post big losses every year or what they might be . (Especially as this info is shared on here regularly)
It's bad enough having to put up with the weird supporters who lose their shit if we fail to score every time we get the ball, and whine (like tethered dogs left outside Tesco in the rain) about the lack of getting into them if the opponents have more than 5% possession.
If we have 15 players on an average £50K a week, that £40 million a year. That soon adds up.
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You actually haven't been able to move into the North Stand for the last two summers. No movement into allowed.
Absolutely this. It was a very swayed survey which either accidentally or deliberately went against safe standing.
My estimates account for amortisation. We spent about 60m in 21-22, so the amortisation figure would've gone up by about 15m based on that. We did however see Izquierdo and Ryan's contracts both come to an end, so that should've reduced the increase to about 10m to somewhere between 55-60m for the year (it was 46.4m in 20-21).If we have 15 players on an average £50K a week, that £40 million a year. That soon adds up.
And let's not forget amortization.
Based on the posts whenever this comes up, I suspect they'd be inundated with responses from people who sit in areas that wouldn't be affected by the change.
