We're back in the black. http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spor...ews/liverpool-accounts-show-club-back-8752942 https://www.scribd.com/doc/257414591/LFC-Accounts
Some interesting commentary on this timeline for those not inclined to review the accounts for themselves. https://twitter.com/lovefutebol
Finally read through the accounts. Interesting tidbit I haven't seen highlighted elsewhere is they are expecting a 52M profit from player sales since the end of the last fiscal year (May 31, 2014). So apparently, we really didn't spend the all Suarez money. Perhaps an accountant or financial professional can shed some light on this further. With the addition of player sales profit, CL money and new commercial deals, turnover for this year should be on the order of 300m, if not more. I'd expect we'd be paying down a good chunk of our debt (we owe FSG 69M) in this fiscal year.
Explains why Henderson is refusing the new contract, eh? It looks as if we only got about £65 million for Suarez, depending on what you think his book value was, and we spent more than we let on (agents's fees, maybe?)
purportedly Henderson refused a new contract at 80K a week - which I suppose might make some sense given what Sturridge got and what Raheem wants.
He'll probably get 95/100 per week, especially if he's becoming our captain. Probs a bit too much right now but he'll probably be worth that in a season or two anyway, and Gerrard and Johnson are leaving so I say just give it to him haha.
Real Madrid are the world's most valuable sports team for the third straight year, according to business magazine Forbes. The Spanish football club are valued at £2.08bn, with American football side Dallas Cowboys and baseball's New York Yankees (£2.04bn) in joint second. Real's La Liga rivals Barcelona (£2.02bn) are fourth. Premier League club Manchester United (£1.98bn) drop from third to fifth. The other places in the top 10 are taken by American sports teams: NBA pair Los Angeles Lakers and New York Knicks, NFL sides New England Patriots and Washington Redskins and MLB's Los Angeles Dodgers. Of the other Premier League sides, Manchester City (£890m) are 29th overall, two places ahead of Chelsea (£877m), with Arsenal 36th having been valued at £839m. http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/33537931 Not what Mr principal owner wants to read in the morn
So ticket prices are going up and everyone is mad. Seems a tough one for the club to get right. So many conflicting interests at play. We expect to win things. We need better players to win things. Better players cost more. We want more fans to to have access to games. We don't want to consider safe standing. We want cheaper tickets. We want better atmosphere. We need the next generation of fans. Locals are getting priced out. Club prefers tourists. We want better players who cost more, so we can win things.
I think much of the ire is based on all the crap and overpriced players that LFC has purchased over the last 3-4 years and the fans are left holding the bag. My mate in Bootle who's been a life-long season tix holder recently wrote a piece for the Anfield Wrap about this and he opts to go to lower division Marine matches rather than LFC.
Yeah, its a tough one. I live in the states, I rarely go to any live sporting event and bitch about he $5 I have to spend to go a high school games, so I'm not really a good one to ask about this. Given the chance stand outside the stadium before a game, I'd likely pay whatever it took to get in. The issue is there are so many people now that want to go to the game, there is always someone else willing to pay when someone gives up a ticket. If prices were cut, that problem only increases. The other side of it is, for 2M/year, the club could pretty easily reduce ticket prices throughout most of the ground to a more reasonable level. That's basically Enrique.
I certainly think the club could and should do more to make the tickets more affordable especially given the huge tv revenues prem clubs are now getting. I do sympathise with the fans and protesters but I don't agree with the planned walk out after 77 minutes.If you really want to make a statement then just don't go to the game at all .Nothing will get the club's attention more than an empty stadium. Walking out close to the end of the match smacks of having yer cake and eating it too.
I think Lpool playing in front of an empty/half empty Anfield stadium would get similar attention,Sam. Not that I'm in favour of that as a protest either really. I just think if some fans truly are against the ticket prices then make a stand...... don't show up or don't renew your ticket. Sponsors don't like stuff like that ,the owners,,prem league etc would likely sit up and take notice if fans stopped showing up especially to a ground like Anfield which traditionally sells out. .
Crowds dwindling over time would get attention but not right now. I'm not a big fan of this either btw but I get where they're coming form and what they're trying to do. looks like it's working - Ayre just reacted: http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/35506569
This could get really messy.......an email to sponsors campaign,shades of Steven Cohen. http://www.spiritofshankly.com/news/subway-supporters-not-customers