The simple and basic answer for that big loss boils down to the fact that more than other clubs (or at least among the other big 6 clubs) we rely more heavily on gate receipts and gameday revenue to make the books work.
And having a pandemic lockdown for over a year certainly hasn't helped - especially when you still had to keep the lights on and everything running all that time.
Probably Spurs and Arsenal are like us in this regard (of the big 6) - but in both their cases as you can quickly surmise, they just completed brand new stadiums that they were banking on for gate receipts for years to come and then the pandemic hits.
Not that dissimilar to our own Anfield expansion.
So it's no surprise that it was ourselves and Spurs last year, of the big 6 who had opted to go for the Furlough option before reversing course.
Well, this is the alternative.
And I don't even believe that furloughing workers would have saved the club from suffering a loss.
It might have reduced the sting somewhat - ....but not by much.
'I got told there's an English phrase, 'You don't win trophies with kids'. I didn't know that' ... - Jurgen Klopp
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