Football 2010-2011

[Steve P]

Does anyone want to discuss the finances within top flight premiership football clubs?

[eFestivals]

Maybe yeah but as Steve said, if they are confidence keepers, and Fab has a stinker at the weekend, then Almunia's confidence will be shot from being dropped and Arsenal have two keepers who feel like a pair of losers.

Nah .... Almunia's well used to it.

[The Nal]

Nah .... Almunia's well used to it.

[Colonel Mustard]

Betting thread now up.

[Colonel Mustard]

Barcelona one down to Rubin.

[ampersand]

come on the juve! and liverpool are still pish!

[Colonel Mustard]

Liverpool could of virtually sealed a passage to the next stage tonight but we bottled it big time!

[Colonel Mustard]

Jesus christ on a bicycle.

From Tariq Panja of Bloomberg on Twitter

tariqpanja #MCFC announce losses of 121 million pounds for year ending May 30 2010, second highest loss in Eng football history. Only eclipsed by #CFC

tariqpanja #MCFC income of 125 million pounds entirely swallowed by wages of 133 million. Wages up by 50 million - that's before this summer splurge

tariqpanja #MCFC need to deliver now. Sheikh Mansour's investment since Sept 2008 is now more than 500 million pounds. #Abramovich spent 700 in 7 years

[ampersand]

theres a dull finances thread for that kind of nonsense

[Colonel Mustard]

theres a dull finances thread for that kind of nonsense

[ampersand]

Oh yeah!

[Goes to Betting thread...]

[Colonel Mustard]

Can't be arsed mate. Far too happy taking it easy on the couch watching the Ryder Cup and t'Interneting! I'll definatley get worked up about the whole thing and to slightly vent my anger the laptop will end up getting turfed out the window and go swimming in the pond in the garden. I can see it now.

Edit - well I was until rain stopped play.

Edited October 1, 2010 by Colonel Mustard

[ampersand]

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[Colonel Mustard]

/index.php?showtopic=151745&st=60">there ya go!

[ampersand]

I'll have a look later. I'm only gonna end up getting more wound up about Hicks and Gillett.

[Colonel Mustard]

No one's worse than these pair of tophats. Not even the Glaziers down the road !

[eFestivals]

No one's worse than these pair of tophats. Not even the Glaziers down the road !

That's not actually true - while both clubs are f**ked by the debt the 'buyers' brought along with them, only one of those owners is leeching money directly out of the club to finance their own high living.

[ampersand]

No one's worse than these pair of tophats. Not even the Glaziers down the road !

[ampersand]

That's not actually true - while both clubs are f**ked by the debt the 'buyers' brought along with them, only one of those owners is leeching money directly out of the club to finance their own high living.

[sifi]

Bill Archer takes the award for worst chairman for me. Sold the Goldstone Ground to personally profit, and arranged for Brighton to have a groundshare with Gillingham, which was over seventy miles away.

[eFestivals]

massone did the same. though it's not a media darling club so not reported.

Oh, any club that can turn a profit will have that profit being taken by its owners, either directly and transparently, or quite often by surreptitious means. For example, Halls and Shepard at Newc were claiming to be be pumping money into the club, but were actually extracting far more than they put in via various scams which channelled money back into their pockets.

The difference at Utd is that their financial situation is getting worse and worse before the owners take money out, and made all the more worse by the money the Glazers are taking out because they're personally skint.

[ampersand]

Oh, any club that can turn a profit will have that profit being taken by its owners, either directly and transparently, or quite often by surreptitious means. For example, Halls and Shepard at Newc were claiming to be be pumping money into the club, but were actually extracting far more than they put in via various scams which channelled money back into their pockets.

The difference at Utd is that their financial situation is getting worse and worse before the owners take money out, and made all the more worse by the money the Glazers are taking out because they're personally skint.

[Colonel Mustard]

Keith Gillespie ex-ManUtd and Newcastle winger declared bankrupt - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11454176

Gambled £65k away in 3 days once.

Madness.

[Cardboard Box City]

Good to see Mark Lawrenson is against bringing back terracing to the top two tiers of English football, full of shit as ever.

[ampersand]

nice to see the wigan and wolves fan doing english football proud and showing what a well supported league the premier league is.