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FFP Pressures this summer

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Sportrac has our players wages at £70.9m per season for next season. Though they don’t include Doucoure, it may be because the 1 year extension hasn’t been updated yet so that total would increase by £6.2m

For the season just gone it was £80.1

Their website is a bit confusing because it shows the individual wages as being in £, then at the bottom it shows it as $, but the dollar sign should be a pound sign.

 
We are all wondering if FFP is going to impact us this summer so i done some simple investigation.

Income:

Premier League Money: £84m
PL prize money £8.8m
TV money £110.39m
Player Trading £69m
Sponsorship (Last available figure) £50m
Match day income (.59*19) 11.2m

In and around £333.4 coming in

Players wages £43.12m
Operating expenses £205m

Expenditure (excluding payoff of staff and players) 248.12

So should be in and around £85m profit.

Obviously these figures are based on the last available data and not all income and expenditure is accounted for but I can see not conceiveable why we can make a loss this season considering the new stadium is a seperate entity.
Can you do my tax returns?
 
Regardless of the OP's figures, I seem to remember it being said last summer that FFP pressures will ease this summer. That seemed a widespread view at the time. Now everywhere I look there seems to be no one willing to stick to that former assessment.

I know next to f.a. about finances but we sold Kean, Gordon and Richarlison and reduced the wages. I think only the Richarlison sale made it into the latest P+L figures, but doesn't the three year cycle we're dealing with now bring us back into a situation where at least some spending over and above sell-to-buy can occur again?
 

The problem with spending and ultimately Profit and sustainability rules is reoccurring losses, if we take the last set of accounts, we lost 50 mill and sold Richarlison - if we hadn't of sold him we would have lost 100+, for nearly the fourth consecutive season.

That then resets, in the next financial year and we continue to loose money and keep making losses. If we posted a similar performance this season as last after selling Kean and Gordon - we loose about £30 mill.

We're selling players to meet our losses.
 
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The problem with spending and ultimately Profit and sustainability rules is reoccurring losses, if we take the last set of accounts, we lost 50 mill and sold Richarlison - if we hadn't of sold him we would have lost 100+, for nearly the fourth consecutive season.

That then resets, in the next financial year and we continue to loose money and keep making losses. If we posted a similar performance this season as last after selling Kean and Gordon - we loose about £30 mill.

We're selling players to meet our losses.
More or less. It's part of why the squad value is declining.

Things should be improving on the P&L relative to '20-'21, so we should be looking at a further reduction in the underlying loss and perhaps even a wash after the sale of those players. The implication is that we can spend heavily without having to sell further this offseason, since we can post a max loss of 105 million over a three-year period.

However, I don't think we'll do it. Moshiri presumably is looking for further investment, diluting what he can recover from BMD, because either he cannot or does not wish to bankroll the losses further. New ownership will want the books to look like West Ham's, and sooner rather than later. BMD should help quite a bit, but we're probably looking at another season where we don't spend much more than we sell.
 
Regardless of the OP's figures, I seem to remember it being said last summer that FFP pressures will ease this summer. That seemed a widespread view at the time. Now everywhere I look there seems to be no one willing to stick to that former assessment.

I know next to f.a. about finances but we sold Kean, Gordon and Richarlison and reduced the wages. I think only the Richarlison sale made it into the latest P+L figures, but doesn't the three year cycle we're dealing with now bring us back into a situation where at least some spending over and above sell-to-buy can occur again?
It does, but Moshiri soliciting outside investment from American firms suggests that the days of tolerating max losses are probably over. That's what has changed. We also have the problem of getting wages under 70% of turnover a few seasons from now, and keeping them there.

Long story short, I think the club has the ability but may not have the willingness for a big net spend right now.
 

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