How much it costs to run our club per year??? Its just with the silly money Ronaldo transfer fee, I want to compare that with the real world. At a guess I would think between £8m & £10m, so just the transfer fee without wages would run our club for 8 to 10 years. As I said thats just a guess thats why I was wondering if anyone had any accurate figures Got some Manure fans at work that fail to see how stupid the transfer fee is, and that its bad for football. They think £80m is the going rate for a top footballer and they deserve £200k p/w in wages. Ive tried to say on that principle even good championship players would cost £10m-15m and £40k p/w in wages and average level ones would cost £5m and £10k p/w in wages. Therefore sending 95% of the league clubs in England out of exsistence. Yeah a bit of a leap but I was just trying to make them see sense.
I guess Don Rowing might. Or at least he should. And Patrick Cryne as well. But the accounts are publically available.
What puts modern football into perspective is when you see clubs going into administration for less money than some of our pampered premier league players earn in a month. Its absolutely obscene what some of them earn.
You could buy Newcastle for £80m with a bit of haggling. Thats with a 50,000+ seater stadium, die hard fans and although they are in the championship must have £100m+ worth of players. Think that gives it a bit of perspective.
Spend £100m on Newcastle, flog all the **** and regenerate about a 1/3 of your input back, then build a strong champ team. easy.
RE: A bit of haggling? throw in a pick-n-mix..... For easy numbers 40,000 season ticket holders at £400 a throw. That's £16,000,000 income. I reckon if you could borrow the £80 million you could try and off load a tonne of "stars" and still get promoted to the premier league. £80 mill seems a fair price as long as you're not stuck paying Michael Owen £100,000 a week for the next ten years.