Anyone heard at least three are from our division? One to go into admin on friday? http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...ier-League-clubs-to-go-bust-like-Rangers.html
Looking at ownership (especially as they have/ had the same owners) I'd assume Brum and West Ham could well be 2 of them. I'm pretty sure I had a discussion some years ago with an Arsenal fan about how image rights were remunerated to overseas players and that Arsenal were one of the pioneers of the Trust system. I think one of the key reasons HMRC are taking such a stance with Rangers is that if they can force a verdict, they then have a mandate to go after Premiership clubs and seek to claw back millions.
Two wrongs don't make a right and all that but it is a shame they don't show such zeal when fighting Vodafone and Philip Green!
Add Donny to that list once they go down, losing too much each season and now without the two big money directors.
makes sense that we have been prudish this term with the break even thingy. maybe PC and the Don had huge forsight for this. It says in the article 8 premier and former premier...I can see about 18 formers in the championship...and we are one of them.
Can we vote on who we want to go into admin........ .......cos I would say Blunts, Wendy and Weeeds.........in that order
Birmingham is one. There seems to be a reason the accounts keep getting pushed back. Coventry another.
Re: Can we vote on who we want to go into admin........ I'd doubt clubs with smaller budgets would get the benefit of such a trust after taking into account professional fees for setting them up and managing them. The precedent HMRC want to set is in proving the set up of such trusts for player remunerations is a tax avoidance scheme.
I'm pretty sure if you could trawl back through the BBS archives you'd find a similar article produced, around this time, for the last two or three years. Believe it when it happens.
Re: makes sense that we have been prudish this term with the break even thingy. It is clubs who have been in the premiership relatively recently not 15 years ago. It is also clubs who have paid big wages (again not us), big enough wages that tax was a big issue for the players. Birmingham, Portsmouth, West Ham, they're your championship clubs if you ask me. Man Utd, Chelsea, Man City, Liverpool, Tottenham (each player has 6 dogs who all get £3m bonuses every day)
Re: makes sense that we have been prudish this term with the break even thingy. Think you might mean prudent. Being prudish would mean banning players having intercourse.
My eight: 1) Leeds 2) Leeds 3) Leeds 4) Leeds 5) Liverpool 6) Leeds 7) Leeds 8) Leeds But I would settle for just Leeds.