Agents fees are included in the accounts.
The covid situation is a little complex.
But as Steveo posted somewhere earlier today and as I suggested last season, getting more games on tv could well see teams compensated kindly for the loss of matchday attendances.
If fans return I can see the clubs suggesting they need to offer up more games for TV viewing than prior to covid times, which would help boost revenue again and a recovery.
The TV market has likely (imo) topped out a bit, as in the rise in TV money will probably have steadied for a while. But if it can add more televised games they'll bring in more money and still be pretty valuable compared with existing packages for broadcasters.
The injury crisis at centre back- virgil being out and 2 others who are regularly injured presents an issue.
We have a minimum target of qualifying from our CL group and getting top4 again. Just look at the impact of CL football on revenue.
If you were to pay 10-15 more now you could be saving yourself from the loss of a small fortune and table position to borrow a poker term.
It's a bit like driving a car for 5 months knowing you need new brakes and hoping to not crash and burn whilst you're penny piching waiting on parts that you can get cheaper in 5 months time.
If you need brakes, you get brakes or you drive like an old woman or me (not an old woman today).
Accounts should be out soon, iirc my expectation is we will post a decent profit.
Next years will be more interesting as there is the impact of the Nike deal up against an actual season or so it seems of no fans/matchday revenue.
Based on previous guesses an impact of -£30million in revenue (gates lost - Nike bump), assuming there'll be no extra money from extra televised games and giving a little leeway for how far we go in the CL again a big impact on it's own.
It seems the sales are up significantly but I've not seen too much posted about that so far.
£100million loan for players seems astronomical.
But if you earned 50k a year, had money left over at the end of each year, how mad would it be to take a 10k loan over 5 years.
Especially if the loan will keep you in a 50k a year job and prevent you from losing income.
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