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Financial Results

The number that stands out is we are now on the hook for £441m in fees owed for transfers
I'm seeing £375m? £184m due in the next 12 months under current liabilities and £191m due after 12 months under long term liabilities. On the flip side, we've ~£75m to come in for transfers - ~£67m of that in the next year. That's a big hole to plug.

That means £117m net of our revenue in the next 12 months is going out the door on transfers before we do anything else.

We also only have £78m in the bank.
 
I'm seeing £375m? £184m due in the next 12 months under current liabilities and £191m due after 12 months under long term liabilities. On the flip side, we've ~£75m to come in for transfers - ~£67m of that in the next year. That's a big hole to plug.

That means £117m net of our revenue in the next 12 months is going out the door on transfers before we do anything else.

We also only have £78m in the bank.

So in laymen's terms do we think this means that, even with the new revenue streams, the rate we've seen net spending in these last 3 or 4 years is not sustainable? I've always felt that needs to be the case as, Kane aside, we haven't really made much from player sales in the last half a decade either.
 
I'm seeing £375m? £184m due in the next 12 months under current liabilities and £191m due after 12 months under long term liabilities. On the flip side, we've ~£75m to come in for transfers - ~£67m of that in the next year. That's a big hole to plug.

That means £117m net of our revenue in the next 12 months is going out the door on transfers before we do anything else.

We also only have £78m in the bank.
I'm taking that £441m figure from the Keiran Maguire finance sheet on the tweet posted above
 
So in laymen's terms do we think this means that, even with the new revenue streams, the rate we've seen net spending in these last 3 or 4 years is not sustainable? I've always felt that needs to be the case as, Kane aside, we haven't really made much from player sales in the last half a decade either.
Player sales has been our issue for a while (probably why the Kane deal was so important for us)whether it's buying duds or being relatively unsuccessful means many of our players aren't attractive to a step up club.

The other thing to bare in mind, is being a 'top 6 club' means many contracted players are reluctant to give that up... especially as our wages are higher than most of Europe and 2/3rds of the PL. So how do we shift someone?

That said ...I think we are in a better spot than say 5 years ago...we've unwound many of our squad issues, plus not so many high earners that are easier for buying clubs to match their demands.
 
So in laymen's terms do we think this means that, even with the new revenue streams, the rate we've seen net spending in these last 3 or 4 years is not sustainable? I've always felt that needs to be the case as, Kane aside, we haven't really made much from player sales in the last half a decade either.
Would need a good proper look through the accounts but I don't believe it is.

Looking purely at cash, we lost almost £100m in 2024. We now have £78m in the bank. If we had another year like this in 2025, we'd run out of money and I can't imagine we're in a position to borrow much given that we have so much debt already.

While we'll gain some UEFA money in 2025 that we didn't have in 2024, we're gonna lose £25m-£30m in Premier League prize money if we finish around 14th. We also may not have European football next season which will mean a £20m in UEFA prize money that'll be missing in 2026 (based on the UEFA prize money we received in 2021 when we were in the Europa).

We either have to get better on the pitch, start selling to buy or we need outside investment.
 
Let’s see
It’s definitely not compliant with European rules.
They will carry on selling and trading with friendly clubs at inflated prices to get away with it

Then they should be done the same as juve, paratici, agnelli etc...
You can't have one rule for them and different for chelsea.
 
I'm seeing £375m? £184m due in the next 12 months under current liabilities and £191m due after 12 months under long term liabilities. On the flip side, we've ~£75m to come in for transfers - ~£67m of that in the next year. That's a big hole to plug.

That means £117m net of our revenue in the next 12 months is going out the door on transfers before we do anything else.

We also only have £78m in the bank.

Those finances are up till june 30th 2024. The next 12 months is 2 months away.
 
Player sales has been our issue for a while (probably why the Kane deal was so important for us)whether it's buying duds or being relatively unsuccessful means many of our players aren't attractive to a step up club.

The other thing to bare in mind, is being a 'top 6 club' means many contracted players are reluctant to give that up... especially as our wages are higher than most of Europe and 2/3rds of the PL. So how do we shift someone?

That said ...I think we are in a better spot than say 5 years ago...we've unwound many of our squad issues, plus not so many high earners that are easier for buying clubs to match their demands.
It’s why we need to sell richy and Bissouma and maybe even Romero on top of players who are on loan like Gil, Hojberg and Veliz
And we owe money on some them too
 
We need to sell players we don’t need
That’s all
Gil
Veliz
Hojberg
Richarlison
Bissouma
Reggie is leaving on a free
Forster is leaving on a free
We will likely sell a CB … and would be selling drgausin this summer if he was fit
That would bring in a decent income book value wise I assume
And that’s the key for us
amazing we still got those lot when wages $ and as a % of income has fallen from year ago.
i think we can add austin to the list too
 
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