Liked by Callum Brittain. The club is a circus.

No - business’s look for good investment opportunities - Rovers in its current state is not a good investment. there are a number of championship clubs who are better investments commercially. You’re not getting a mutli million pound business to sponsor Rovers currently - not happening.

Interesting story on how Watford are exploiting multi club ownership (no shock here) In short, they sign good performers from EU countries where the league band is lower (like Scandinavia) to Udinese. Give them a few games (literally less than 5) on the bench for Udinese to move that band 5 league to a band 1 one. They (at market price for further work permit points) sign them from Udinese.

In the comedy section of the LT Jackson has written about how we've learnt how much we'll need to pay to land our CB "target" Kapauldi. Apparently his Clubs will consider bids from Clubs offering E5m (£4.1m) What have we offered - about one third of that? Lol.

On that basis, no-one would ever get involved with a football club or indeed any sort of business. "Nah, let's not bother. More trouble than it's worth".

Ok - season tickets won’t get any better, even if they reduced the price I cannot see attendance rising by more then a few thousand. Only way this increases is by Venkys departing. Sponsors - which business wants to sponsor a mid table championship side with declining gates? We are not an attractive proposition for decent outside investment.

100% that looks like half the subs and the other half... I'm not sure Where is our first team?!

Agreed. For fucks sake we finished 1 point off the play off position, and return everyone but Dolan and 2 journey men in Batth and Weiman. All of which in my mind are quite replaceable. There should be no need for a transition period. It should be full steam ahead. Instead we’re going to sell our right back and the entire center of the park. It was an easy summer, bring in a replacement for Batth, cover in center midfield and a winger or two. Bonus if you could get a #9. But now it’s all tits up

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That sentence alone makes them unfit to run a football club.

Someone was saying they are going to start charging matchday staff for parking as well although no idea if it's true.

What about anyone visiting the memorial garden? my late father, season ticket holder for many years, 60 cup final attendee, and the reason for my 55 yr love affair with the club (last 15 yrs not so much) has a plot in there which my 86 yr old mother visits regularly, and parks as close to it as she can, is she going to be billed every time she goes??

I think this is what a lot of people are missing when they say about staying in the Championship and it all being about selling that standard of player. If the financial issues and reduction are to continue then paying for a championship set up to produce Championship/Prem standard players and hinging everything on getting big money for them is going out the window. Cost reduction is king now and probably would be easier to balance in league 1 despite a big income drop the drop in wages, running costs of a reduced academy etc all on one site, excuse to sell the training ground finally, reduced staff, close more of the ground the list of downgrading is endless they could get away with. The pressure on producing a certain standard of player is also reduced meaning a team almost full of academy grads, frees and loans. Also the produce/polish to sell might not bring as big a fees but wouldn't need to in that league and turnover of producing and moving them in quantity could increase. Not saying they are intent on relegation but these things will do doubt have been discussed and to them it might not be the disaster it would be to fans.

Possibly looking to fleece corporate visitors using the facilities? Sure they’ll love that and come rushing back if so…:

which is something we don`t have,if we do recruit them they leave sharpish,it`s downhill from here until the chicken butcherers **** off,luckily,our last 3 managers have been enlightened choices who kept us in the championship,this time,they`ve done a number on ismael and really ****** him over,i don`t expect us to be in the division next year

I've just had an email from the club about the car park facilities at the ground. Looking at the parking info on the web site, it's £15 per game. FIFTEEN QUID!!!!! It also appears that they're going to charge on non-match days.... On non-match days, the car park will remain open to visitors. Non-match day rates apply and are displayed clearly on signage throughout the car park. Hopefully, complete madness hadn't taken over their minds, and we can still park for free for a while whilst we pop down to collect tickets, or visit the shop (assuming that it's actually open).

And presumably they could write these off by so much each year but don't ? Having one company owing the parent 130 million must somewhere somehow have some tax advantages against the profit the parent makes ?

Brentford sold high and bought quality, not cheap tat. Some of the regular players in the side that got them promoted cost:- Raya £3mill Toney - £5mill Pinnock - £3mill Jansson - £5.75 mill Jensen - £3.25 mill Mbuemo - £6mill Canos - £2.5 Mill That’s £28.5 million spent on 7 of their starting 11 when they went up. They brought money in but invested it again by buying quality. I’m sure those players weren’t on peanuts either. They just had good , knowledgable football people running the show.

Quite fitting for a man who literally has 'Talent ain't enough' tattooed on his neck, I suppose.

3 weeks to kick off,think we can expect a lot more transfer activity across the division stsrting soon🙂

A few posts have been made about how the parent company (Venkys London Limited) funds the football club (The Blackburn Rovers Football and Athletic Limited) and what is the nature of that funding. Venkys London Limited is a subsidiary of Venkateshwara Hatcheries Pvt. Ltd which is the ultimate holding company and controlled by Desai and the Rao brothers. To fund Rovers, Venkys London Limited issue shares with proceeds then loaned to the football club and shown in the football club's balance sheet under 'Creditors - amounts falling due within one year' (last accounts at 30 June 2024 showed an amount of £134 million up from £123.1 million the previous year). Notes to the accounts advise these are interest free loans and Venkys London Limited will not recall these loans within 12 months of the date the football club's financial statements are approved (signed off by CEO Waggott and the club's auditors on 12 December 2024).

The three main requirements of the CEO position at Ewood... Yes Sir,No Sir,Three Bags Full Sir.

Directors A & B form Limited Company C and as a result of the company needing capital to commence trading and the directors having the capital in their own names, they lend the company £100k. This is then shown as a creditor in the accounts. The company begins to trade and after 5 years, builds up some capital in the business and has £50k in the bank. This can then be used to repay the directors who can then receive the money free of any tax liability, as it is the return by the company of part of the loan, they made. The accounts will then show the £100k reduced to £50k to be repaid at a later date when the company has the funds and the directors decide to repay it.

Now the Chicken Chokers have apparently figured that one out they’ll see to it that we’ll be out of it.

I agree. Problem with the strategy is that it changes. We originally didn't sign Bath because we decided he was too old and we cocked up the paperwork. Then we sign a bunch of revived 45s to provide a solid foundation under Eustace. Now we are back to developing youngsters with the new manager. This is not a project or a strategy. This is the equivalent of trying to make the quarterly results look good for the shareholders. In this case, one shareholder. It does appear that JDT and now Ismael are youth focused. Bottom line if it doesn't work and we are looking like the drop, both he and the model will be for the chop. Ironically Brentford have had to adjust their model with Keith at the helm by signing Henderson to steady the ship. What goes around comes around