https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/football/match/990834/blackburn-birmingham?tab=voting

A budget is a budget. The club may choose to “compartmentalise” notionally to track actuals against projected numbers but ultimately there’s not enough money coming in to pay out what we would like.

Went to all of those…proud as punch on each occasion

https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/they-played-for-both-rovers-and-blues/130

How do you know whether you can afford them until you bid/offer terms ?

Not Faring Terrifically

There are multiple headhunting/recruitment companies out there who would take on the brief…& I’m not used to being referenced as an optimist so thank you for that 😆

Clearly not…other chief executive options are out there though 😉

Depreciation. [Crudely] Any business with fixed assets divides the total cost over the anticipated useful life & charges that amount to each year’s profit & loss so that it gives a more accurate reflection of true profitability. e.g. a machine costing £5k & expected to last 5 years would depreciate at £1k p.a. Other more sophisticated accounting explanations are available but that’s the basic idea. For football it massively impacts on FFP calculations.

But they might execute it significantly better..? 🤔

From the guru Kieran Maguire…👍🏻

Not really…I’m right though 😂

Mel Morris’s trick was to say (for example) a £10m player on a 3 year deal will be worth say £7m at the end of that deal so we’ll just take £1m p.a. into the P&L rather than the £3.3m every other club would ! Consequently, Derby’s FFP performance was enhanced..! Funnily enough every other club said “hang on a minute..” 😉

Not so. The fee paid is amortised over the duration of the contract.

Correct…the fee is amortised over the duration of the contract. So long term deals are fine unless/until the player loses form & they want to/need to sell…then the P&L chickens come home to roost !

Don’t forget to vote for your MOTM supported by Rovers Trust over in the Match Centre… https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/football/match/881045/bristol-city-blackburn?tab=voting

It matters hugely as it affects our income which affects FFP which affects how much headroom we have to spend.

https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/articles/they-played-for-both-rovers-and-the-robins/113

Brighton have just sold Trossard so not surprising if they need to bring one in first…

Not sure that these links work...only the last one for me ?

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We did discuss on the concourse after the game posting “One Word After Rotherham” 😆