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

Adam Forshaw being the exception!

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I dont really get your comments financially. Even if you spent a reasonable amount in the Prem but that season would still be far better financially than treading water in the Championship. In League 1, the wage bill would drop considerably and that is by far our biggest expense so that would outweigh the reduction in income. The Championship is possibly the worst league to be in financially.

Without millions in yearly regular outside money or multi million quid sales every 6 months our budget was already league 1. As would many others in this league be without similar so we were already dancing on thin ice and the aim here always needs to be build up and aim to punch above our budget, it nearly always has been. Now though its become shrink to size.

Tbh I don’t know but would make sense if you had to. Hopefully someone with more knowledge of this than me can confirm.

I bet the agents have come out of this best.

He'd also require compo if we signed him, no idea on the level it would take but I think we can forget it.

brentford had the same strategy,it worked for them because they had intelligent,commited personel working for them who do we have working for us a budget slashing ****,a naive fomer player who is an arselicker,3 scouts who don`t appear to have a budget and finally our esteemed owners,who have ruined the club and hav`nt got a clue or interest in the game,what could go wrong with the new strategy

Be interesting to see the agent fees for these 3 cheap foreign signings, we have been here before...

He's currently under investigation for doping. Been suspended since December. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cgmwg1w9130o

The Transition he speaks of is 100% planned and falls in line with the cost cutting that has been gradually going on for years it hasn't just sprung onto them because someone won't sign a contract. That is why he is here, it's why Gestede has appeared from nowhere and why Waggot has been retired earlier than he was clinging on for. When you want to transition the playing squad it doesn't mean the whole club has to follow but it is. I'd just like to know which agency is involved this time as chief adviser and commission taker.

I'd look at the Commercial side of the club if I was interested in addressing that income to wages ratio. Embarrassing sponsors, embarrassing season ticket sales.