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Farhad Moshiri

7+ Years On... Your Verdict On Farhad Moshiri

  • Pleased

    Votes: 107 7.7%
  • Disappointed

    Votes: 1,290 92.3%

  • Total voters
    1,397
We’re going into administration. Not even joking that’s basically it.
The leap to insolvency in that thread is quite a big one. The business is probably still running at a loss but not as massive as it was through wage bill trimming and (sadly) player sales. It's not palatable but if the business was on the brink of administration there are still high value assets (players) that could be sold to keep the club afloat.

Realistically in the worst case scenario where the business is on the brink of insolvency then that would write down Moshiri's investment to basically worthless and in that case rather than lose the lot he would be forced to sell for a relatively small (let's say 100m) amount. And although there would be a lot of extra expense for a buyer (debt, stadium) I don't think you would ultimately struggle for a buyer for a well known football club in the most lucrative football market, with one of the best stadia in the country thrown in too.

The issues and delays in investment right now are because Moshiri wants as much as possible out of the club. If we were close to insolvency his hand would be forced before it actually happened. Things are very worrying but I think concern about administration is premature.
 


And why would the selling clubs have given us credit to pay tens of millions of Euros over multiple years if there were doubts we could even afford next months leccy bill. Can’t see it.
Exactly. If there was a whiff of us being unable to pay our creditors we would not be getting extended further lines of credit in the form of loans and deferred player payments.
 
The leap to insolvency in that thread is quite a big one. The business is probably still running at a loss but not as massive as it was through wage bill trimming and (sadly) player sales. It's not palatable but if the business was on the brink of administration there are still high value assets (players) that could be sold to keep the club afloat.

Realistically in the worst case scenario where the business is on the brink of insolvency then that would write down Moshiri's investment to basically worthless and in that case rather than lose the lot he would be forced to sell for a relatively small (let's say 100m) amount. And although there would be a lot of extra expense for a buyer (debt, stadium) I don't think you would ultimately struggle for a buyer for a well known football club in the most lucrative football market, with one of the best stadia in the country thrown in too.

The issues and delays in investment right now are because Moshiri wants as much as possible out of the club. If we were close to insolvency his hand would be forced before it actually happened. Things are very worrying but I think concern about administration is premature.

I agree, but I think relegation would throw petrol onto the fire in terms of administration. Hence why so many are worried.
 

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