The Financial Landscape of English Football

[BullensRoad]

Don't allow owners to borrow against the club. If they want to invest in said club its their liability.

Absolutely this. Buy a house and it’s only worth 250k. You have 500k to invest it, if you’re able to commit legally to this funding on current assets or capital what’s the problem?

Just making tbe prem a dull same team competition every year. Which I guess is their true motive.

Unless you have a billion fans in Asia it’s basically worth realising you can’t compete.

Villa for example are now looking at being in the same boat (but having the possibility of champions league next year).

Might be forced to sell Ollie Watkins, who may not want to leave due to any personal reasons, to a club who finishes below them (United etc).

Absolute farce.

 

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

Some of the ideas taken from foreign leagues like the NFL or NBA sound good, the problem is that they are (as far as I’m aware), closed ‘ecosystems’. Football is an international business, so any rules the PL brings in around limiting spending will fall flat unless they are adopted by all UEFA leagues, maybe even further afield with Saudi Arabia trying to get in on the action.

We’ve already seen something similar with the attempt to close the transfer window before the season starts, it was scrapped because it put English clubs at a disadvantage against the European clubs who hadn’t adopted it.

Any meaningful change needs to start with UEFA and be mandatory, benefiting the entire football pyramid and not just ten or fifteen ‘super’ clubs, which I don’t personally see happening.

My pessimistic prediction is that football in its current guise will have to eat itself, and maybe then we can build something better from whatever remains.

 

[ClausThomsen]

There's no way of not putting debt on clubs. Player and staff wages are covered by a contract which is a debt.

Who would buy Everton Football Club and merrily fund the main outgoings and debts from their own pocket while the club itself makes millions from TV deals.

 

[spectateur]

As well as a lot of what has already been mentioned, I think 'Fan Advisory Boards' should have have a bigger say in club matters.
At the end of the day it's the fans clubs ( whoever the owners are ) Also a set percentage of ownership allowed...

IT'S A GAME, NOT A BUSINESS !!

Unfortunately not true any more.
Football is a branch of the entertainment industry. Depends on TV for its main income.

 

[Canuck Darryl]

It’s all about money!! Moshiri isn’t a fan. He’s a multibilloinaire’s accountant. He ( they) didn’t make a profit, so he’s bailing.
777 isn’t interested in Everton as a football club. We are an investment. If they don’t make enough money, they’ll bail also.
What the fans think or say is irrelevant.

 

[HarryC.]

Owners must put cash in rather than take on debt, that way the accounts could still reflect wages and spending in relation to turnover and real losses or profit.
Cap the number of 'senior' players each club can register, more than likely leading to reduced transfer fees and lower player wages.
Also, ensure that machinations such as selling the ground or club assets to ease a balance sheet are not allowed. After all, when the clubs ground is separated from the club itself, there always seems to be a problem.

 

[Blue Willy]

The upside to that is, its within their interests for Everton to do well.

Maybe we have interested parties waiting, maybe we dont. Maybe they are (or more likely were) waiting for us to get safe quickly, and ensure our Prem status. Dismal. But we obviously have not helped ourselves on the pitch with this dire run of late.

Dismal in all directions. We are seriously due some good luck, surely.

 

[Dan Tanner]

Just let everyone do what the hell they want.
Football has always been cyclical what goes arpund comes around, it worked for136 years with people bitching all the time.
Preston won everthing, then Sunderland, Villa, Wolves, The Sheffields had a time.
We had that nerd tory Moores as we became the Mersey millionaire's, which the rest of the league whined about, but he was no great shakes. His legacy left us with the ballbag Carter and the premier league formation. (he left 10 million in his will to his kids, the fraud had nearly £1.8 billion in assests in bermuda tax dodging in the early 90's. The skunk like every other weasel was knighted... This country)
Jack Walker finaced the piss tramp to the league title and Leicesters Singha beer owner done the same with surprisingly tasty pies in the ground.

"Socialist fc" managed to be a weird exception by 'winning' titles over a sustained period , get a goal and then pass back to the goalkeeper for the next 88 minutes so the flow of football is interupted. They never won the league for years after the backpass rule was introduced.

Fergies United had massive dominance with arsenal and chelsea throwing in and now its citys turn, with pissibly the oil rich state run sweaty kopites of the north, geordie horse punchers fc getting a turn next.

Just let it happen, if a club goes to the wall so be it, have your day, week, years in the sun. It will come back one day hopefully.
2 years ago 4-4-2 magazine done an article about the shoite winning the 'asterix league'.
They picked up on the national media using the term, "finally the long suffering fans of big stand pissy kechs have something to celebrate"
They checked to see in englands top 5 leagues and scotlands top 3 who were actually the countries longest suffering fans. A team who have not seen a trophy win or promotion to celebrate for the longest period.

We came 2nd, we could not even win that...

Notts County had a worse time than us, but in true, once Everton has touched you fashion, County managed to get promoted last year and push us to the bottom of mediocrity.

So let everyone spend and do what they want, whats the point in moaning, hopefully it one day will be our place in the sun...

In the words of someone far more erudite than myself,

Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final