Dont worry about AI ,we will probably be nuked by then,if labour keep upsetting world leaders.

Don't know why we are worrying about investments, bonds or the like anyway - we'll all be gone soon [Link]

Therein lies the crux of the thing Spit - better not bigger. We spent millions on a third floor that had no strategy or even plan around it as to how to generate revenue. Should it have just been more seats? Maybe a combo of seats and boxes? Should it have been built at all?

OK 26 mill on 1 stand screwed us

Pakistan 26-4 already.

At the tie, there were many, including posters on here like Surrey Bob, who said the capacity was too big and that even budgeting for crowds of 6,000 in our first year was too optimistic

Shelton beat Alcaraz in the US Open tennis last night, the match ended at 3.34am

OI - I don't think we'd struggle to get somebody in, even if only because PL itself is finally decent at generating money (as it should be, to be honest)

Couldn’t afford to build it any bigger

Built the stadium too small another 3000 or so high price tickets Would of probably seen us brake even,it's not as if we cant sell extra tickets, especially if they were available at the turnstile matchday.

Pakistan 14-2 already

47 of the 72 EFL clubs are allegedly up for sale or maybe seeking additional investment. Unsustainable, which is why we may not be able to sell out even if we decided we wanted to. [Link]

I'm sure we can ask a local PL club or two how they can put many millions in while passing it off as "revenue"...

Thanks OI.

As long as it is an investment not a loan then it can be added to revenue. So if someone gave us a billion, we could put 500 million of it into the squad as you are limited to 50% of revenue.

Leddy doesn’t PSR come into effect in your scenario though? I’m not fully educated as to how it works and doesn’t work - but my assumption is that if a Middle Eastern state chose to buy Wimbledon outright and has a billion pounds to spend then they can’t unless they increase the annual revenue.

How big the loss is ends up being irrelevant. The issue is how it is covered and is there an entity willing to cover it. A company can go bust making quite small losses whilst the AI companies can lose billions each year. We won't/can't cover the losses so we need someone who will if we wish to keep operating at this level.

Couldn’t think of a worse person to do it!

I recall Martin D saying he would analyse the accounts but, if this happened, he didn't come back

We don't make such a loss. The problem is obviously that other clubs have owners willing to put in millions into their playing budgets every year above what they make in revenue. This is the reason ours is one of the lowest. [Link]

Somebody asked Hoody to look at the accounts after he got re-elected and the next day he was gone with some gumf about being in a consortium investing in another club.

It was this but this doesn’t seem to go into the broader and massive potential impact/upheaval that I heard a journalist discussing [Link]

There was the case with Lassana Diarra, if that is the one you were thinking of?

Yeah i remember that Trigs. The crux of it was that footballers should be free to hand in their notice and leave any time they want like we all can in theory.

Trigs, it's a good question and answering it is not straight fwd as I'm limited to our statutory accounts (up to June 2025) like most people here. A better answer would come from those (staff and board members) with access to internal management accounts. Basically we spend £12-£13pa of which about two-thirds goes on the playing side inc Academy and Ladies and also CoS for merchandise and presumably travel & accom getting to away games_. The remaining £4m includes office staff, depreciation on the ground (about £1m), looking after the pitch, ground maint, etc). Would be good to get a breakdown of the net £3m