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by Chester Perry
Tue Apr 02, 2024 6:14 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover
Replies: 12673
Views: 1242922

Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover

I'm not sure where the errors in the document are but I'm not that familiar with the biographies of the directors. You've misunderstood Section 4. The line: The Company has been notified that the following shareholder(s) are interested in 3% or more of the issued share capital of the company: means...
by Chester Perry
Tue Apr 02, 2024 5:58 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley FC Accounts 2022/23
Replies: 268
Views: 11869

Re: Burnley FC Accounts 2022/23

You go out for the day and something a little unexpected happens - I need to read what has been published first - though I note that these are the holding company's accounts not the club's trading accounts - so include impacts of other group companies Burnley FC Women and Longside Properties as well
by Chester Perry
Tue Apr 02, 2024 5:53 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover
Replies: 12673
Views: 1242922

Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover

I got a mail about this last week. 122478 shares at 300 quid each is less than 37m, has the value of the club slumped that much? Are they trying to pick up shares on the cheap? It's not a very dynamic website, I expected to see more than just an advertising page. If you click through to this page -...
by Chester Perry
Mon Apr 01, 2024 9:58 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

The media are starting to catch on that traditional fanbases are slowly being squeezed out of attending the game from The Times How super-rich Premier League clubs are ‘squeezing fans dry’ Seven Premier League clubs offer season tickets at more than £1,000 and 17 of the 20 have increased prices – wi...
by Chester Perry
Mon Apr 01, 2024 5:39 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

777 Partners appear still to be keeping their game face on, but the situation does not appear to be one that appears favourable to them from The Telegraph Prospective Everton owners 777 ‘confident’ in ability to fund takeover amid fresh doubts Premier League yet to sign off on the deal with club’s i...
by Chester Perry
Mon Apr 01, 2024 3:53 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Tottenham Hotspurs new stadium has ensured them a place in the game's financial elite )some of the revenue numbers are mind boggling - they make more profit (after costs) from non football events than our club makes in total match and non- match day revenues (before costs). In fact they make more mo...
by Chester Perry
Mon Apr 01, 2024 12:48 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

The best report I have seen on Everton's 2022/23 financial results from The Athletic Everton’s financial plight laid bare as club reports £89.1m loss in latest accounts https://archive.ph/xZ1YA The Esk takes his turn with the Everton accounts - which will be covered in two parts Part 1 is here Part...
by Chester Perry
Mon Apr 01, 2024 10:31 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

It never rains but it pours on the business side of Italian football - though both sides of this deal are American, of course Elliot had problems with their interest in Lille and their arguments with Gérard López, not to mention they were very noisy in offering finance to anybody who wanted to buy ...
by Chester Perry
Mon Apr 01, 2024 10:22 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

the Athletic attempts to explain the summer accounting year deadline and it affect on the transfer market as PSR bites

What Premier League money rules and points deductions mean for the transfer market
https://archive.ph/sTe4T
by Chester Perry
Mon Apr 01, 2024 9:57 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

The best report I have seen on Everton's 2022/23 financial results

from The Athletic

Everton’s financial plight laid bare as club reports £89.1m loss in latest accounts
https://archive.ph/xZ1YA
by Chester Perry
Mon Apr 01, 2024 9:28 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

The Esk has discovered why one of the conditions presented by The Premier League exists - it did cross my mind as strange that MSP has to be paid off fully by mid April Moshiri is about to lose control of Everton – the question is to whom? https://theesk.org/2024/03/30/moshiri-is-about-to-lose-cont...
by Chester Perry
Sun Mar 31, 2024 10:10 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Everton
Replies: 62
Views: 6684

Re: Everton

That article from the Liverpool Echo is frightening if you're an Everton fan. " There remains a material uncertainty about Everton's ability to operate as a going concern should the club be relegated". Are there still doubts about 777 Partners takeover of Moshiri's stake in the club, or is that goi...
by Chester Perry
Sun Mar 31, 2024 9:24 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Everton
Replies: 62
Views: 6684

Re: Everton

Their losses have doubled. So if this current upcoming charge is to do with this can we then expect a bigger points deduction? Or is that too simplistic a view? there is nothing about how many of those losses do not count under PSR - there are stadium loan costs (interest) for instance that are not...
by Chester Perry
Sun Mar 31, 2024 9:22 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Everton
Replies: 62
Views: 6684

Re: Everton

They are also winless in 12 games, Heard it all before. Leicester were going to be too good for Championship and would 'walk it' - they're now third. I'd also argue Leicester are in a more stable place than Everton, particularly off the field. Leicester are in a financial mess too, re PSR and are b...
by Chester Perry
Sun Mar 31, 2024 8:40 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Everton
Replies: 62
Views: 6684

Re: Everton

i 'think' this current report doesn't affect this season (judging that by reading the comments on the Maguire thread) posted on the MMT earlier Everton release their 2022/23 accounts - the ones that they received their second PSR charge for (the hearing was heard last week and we may have the judge...
by Chester Perry
Sun Mar 31, 2024 6:57 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Everton release their 2022/23 accounts - the ones that they received their second PSR charge for (the hearing was heard last week and we may have the judgement in the next few days https://resources.evertonfc.com/evertonfc/document/2024/03/31/d59075c4-85a5-4d84-adea-088920d1ce6f/Annual-Report-And-Ac...
by Chester Perry
Sun Mar 31, 2024 9:12 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

this is a tale of what most - not all - aspirant multi-club organisations are looking to achieve, including ALK/VSL the owners of Burnley FC. Actually achieving it is a different matter altogether from The Independent How Brighton’s sister club turned into the ‘cheat code’ of European football Les U...
by Chester Perry
Sat Mar 30, 2024 9:37 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

The Esk with a piece to follow up the detail of those conditions outlined in Josimar, he reminds us that hey actually formed part of the conditions 6 months ago as well, it is the hard deadline that is new - though it appears that Rights and Media Funding are not pushing for their money now as they...
by Chester Perry
Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:46 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

hmmm - are these the words of desperation or delusion? from The Guardian Farhad Moshiri assures Everton fans that 777 takeover is in “home straight” 777 Partners chief Josh Wander also remains upbeat over deal Both were replying to letters from Everton supporters’ group https://www.theguardian.com/f...
by Chester Perry
Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:38 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

talking of regurgitation, how about this from The Times it is like the La Liga/Relebant case to allow La Liga games in the US never happened, though there are still more hearings/legal arguments for that, the FIFA hurdle has so far proved effective though I am sure someone could come up with the mon...
by Chester Perry
Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:23 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Villa agree a new shirt sponsor deal for the next two seasons - the last allowing Vetting sponsors, I would think that £20m a year represents a significant uplift from their current deal, my guess is between 80% and 100% from The Telegraph Aston Villa agree £40m shirt sponsorship deal with Greek on...
by Chester Perry
Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

This season the Premier League had two deadlines for presenting them with last season's accounts, December 31 for those who made an aggregate loss over the previous two seasons and March 1st for everyone else - Companies House has different requirements - 9 months following the year end and there ar...
by Chester Perry
Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:43 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Part Five of 'The men who want to buy English football clubs' asks the crucial question from The Athletic The men who want to buy football clubs: Why is the English game so vulnerable? https://archive.ph/eOnU9 there is a podcast that goes with this series Who would buy a football club in 2024? http...
by Chester Perry
Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:24 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Part Four of 'The men who want to buy English football clubs' The nobody who tried to buy Manchester United and Inter Milan Welcome to the fourth part of our series about the men who want to buy football clubs. Here, we look at Thomas Zilliacus and his attempts to buy Manchester United and Inter Mi...
by Chester Perry
Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:41 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

The ‘wages’ part of this seems to be being brushed over. It’s one thing not being able to afford extraordinary costs such as the stadium, but not being able to pay players is another thing altogether You get the feeling that things are so tight that they are paying bills by priority and not running...
by Chester Perry
Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:36 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Burnley documentaries-who gets paid?
Replies: 16
Views: 1429

Re: The Burnley documentaries-who gets paid?

I've been involved in TV residuals over the years and it's a real minefield. Payments generally come out of profits and a lot of effort is made to keep those paper profits low. Wrexham probably receive some share (whether flat fee or percentage) as there is a fair bit of filming at the ground/with ...
by Chester Perry
Fri Mar 29, 2024 8:56 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

I have said all along that Fan Advisory boards were a smoke and mirrors type exercise from The Times Premier League clubs under fire for using fan boards for own PR Sixteen months after Fan Advisory Boards became mandatory in wake of the failure of the European Super League, there are questions abou...
by Chester Perry
Fri Mar 29, 2024 8:00 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Burnley documentaries-who gets paid?
Replies: 16
Views: 1429

Re: The Burnley documentaries-who gets paid?

Only if they decide to do the same. It is never as simple as that - expectations of players and agents also change, then there is the competitive fairness i it all - of course the National League does not have any form of FFP, but the spending that has gone on there for at least a decade has had si...
by Chester Perry
Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:00 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Burnley documentaries-who gets paid?
Replies: 16
Views: 1429

Re: The Burnley documentaries-who gets paid?

Fretters wrote:
Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:55 pm
Why? They're decent blokes who are fully immersing themselves in the club and community. Far better than lots of other owners. Good luck to them.
Paid League 1 wages in the National League - causing severe financial repercussions for other clubs as a result
by Chester Perry
Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:15 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Season tickets next season
Replies: 816
Views: 52473

Re: Season tickets next season

As is already known the rises in Season Ticket costs and the squeeze on concession prices is widespread Why Premier League clubs want to kill off season tickets - is yours at risk? As the Premier League modernises, a depth of feeling festers that those who have contributed to our country’s spectacle...
by Chester Perry
Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:12 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Part Two of 'The men who want to buy English football clubs' features a name familiar to this thread from The Athletic ‘Under every rock, we found a lie’: How the bid to be English football’s first black owner unravelled In the second of our series about the men who want to buy English football clu...
by Chester Perry
Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:04 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Somehow I missed this when it happened last week - Ipswich town owners sell a 40% stake in the club for £105m - valuing the club at £262.5m - to an American Private Equity Group CLUB STATEMENT | BRIGHT PATH SPORTS PARTNERS https://www.itfc.co.uk/news/2024/march/22/press-release-bright-path-sports/
by Chester Perry
Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:53 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

The Esk with a piece to follow up the detail of those conditions outlined in Josimar, he reminds us that hey actually formed part of the conditions 6 months ago as well, it is the hard deadline that is new - though it appears that Rights and Media Funding are not pushing for their money now as they...
by Chester Perry
Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:28 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Season tickets next season
Replies: 816
Views: 52473

Re: Season tickets next season

It’s been a truly woeful season. The club could write the book on how to systematically take apart the good feeling and good will. Those price increases for kids and concessions are outrageous. There are a lot of unhappy customers. they have done a TV show about it instead - but will it ever be air...
by Chester Perry
Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:14 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

The hope was that the Football Governance Bill would go through the process and be approved uickly, however we keep hearing of possible amendments that are likely to be popular with certain voters in an election year, which could actually delay the process. From The Telegraph MPs want to force Premi...
by Chester Perry
Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:24 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Season tickets next season
Replies: 816
Views: 52473

Re: Season tickets next season

Just been reading this about Season Ticket price increases at Manchester City the changes we are seeing at Turf Moor are widespread in the game - that does not give reason to follow the herd though, our club's owners made a point of telling us that they would be different, their approach to running ...
by Chester Perry
Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:05 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

A new series of five articles (over five days) looking at 'The men who want to buy English football clubs' - first up fraudster Chris Kirchner, from The Athletic The $25m fraudster who came so close to buying an English football club In the first of our series about the men who want to buy English ...
by Chester Perry
Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:41 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Season tickets next season
Replies: 816
Views: 52473

Re: Season tickets next season

They've called it 'Together We Are One' - that is, of course as long as you are not under-22 or over-65. Could just mean that they envisage a time when one price fits all it felt inevitable that the concessions were going to be hardest hit, it means the PR headlines can focus just on the Adult pric...
by Chester Perry
Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:15 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: HAPPY MONDAY!. FOREST, points deduction?
Replies: 142
Views: 10097

Re: HAPPY MONDAY!. FOREST, points deduction?

Steve-Harpers-perm wrote:
Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:55 pm
I’m sure we had a midfielder years ago who had his suspension increased after a ‘frivolous appeal’ against his red card!!
that is the FA - they still have that in their rule books, it is the only type of frivolous appeal penalty that I am aware of in English Football
by Chester Perry
Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:55 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: HAPPY MONDAY!. FOREST, points deduction?
Replies: 142
Views: 10097

Re: HAPPY MONDAY!. FOREST, points deduction?

I read somewhere that if appealed there was a chance the points deduction could be increased. No idea if that’s true, but I think it should be possible to prevent frivolous appeals. CP may know more on whether a points increase is a possibility at appeal. I am not aware of any penalty for a frivolo...
by Chester Perry
Mon Mar 25, 2024 6:08 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Earlier this week it transpired that Chelsea's new owners had reported the club themselves (again) for financial shenanigans under the Abramovich era - this time regarding the transfers of Willian and Samuel Eto'o (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67270626) and a number of payments out of Russi...
by Chester Perry
Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:02 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: so come May teams might be relegated then re-instated !!!
Replies: 9
Views: 1316

Re: so come May teams might be relegated then re-instated !!!

The Premier league is more corrupt than Blatter rules ignored or in Evertons case manipulated by smart barristers are you talking about the Premier League - the business, or the Premier League - the members organisation of 20 clubs, each operating at the whim of mostly billionaire owners who are no...
by Chester Perry
Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:42 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Season tickets next season
Replies: 816
Views: 52473

Re: Season tickets next season

randomclaret2 wrote:
Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:40 pm
Denise Coates has earned in excess of £1 billion in the last 4 years alone ( that's Billion, not Million ) . Whatever percentage of that allows season ticket prices to be frozen year on year is a drop in the ocean
she also pays her taxes
by Chester Perry
Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:41 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: so come May teams might be relegated then re-instated !!!
Replies: 9
Views: 1316

Re: so come May teams might be relegated then re-instated !!!

Latest on the fiasco : "So, we are still heading for a situation where we could have games on the final day of the season and we won't be sure what the bottom of the Premier League looks like because we won't have had the final decisions about these possible points deductions for Everton and Nottin...
by Chester Perry
Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:12 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Interesting piece on Leicester and why they are stalling the process on their charges around breaching financial rules - features significant input from the new guy on the football finance block - Stefan Borson, who I think offers much sounder assessments than Kieran Maguire - maybe because he actua...
by Chester Perry
Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:27 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

A new series of five articles (over five days) looking at 'The men who want to buy English football clubs' - first up fraudster Chris Kirchner, from The Athletic The $25m fraudster who came so close to buying an English football club In the first of our series about the men who want to buy English f...
by Chester Perry
Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:55 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Sadly, this is not a surprise Three years on, Football Index users are still trying to get their money back Some customers had five- or six-figure sums trapped when it collapsed in 2021 and say the site was not regulated properly https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2024/mar/25/three-years-on-f...
by Chester Perry
Sun Mar 24, 2024 7:35 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: James Trafford England call up
Replies: 194
Views: 10105

Re: James Trafford England call up

I read this earlier this week, an argument that he may be going to the Euros this summer - for the experience

from The Athletic

Assessing England’s Euro 2024 goalkeepers: Pickford a certainty, but who else?
https://archive.ph/6zp6K
by Chester Perry
Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:15 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

In their 18th article on the proposed takeover of Everton by 777 Partners Philippe Auclair and Paul Brown reveal the conditions that the Premier League have set for their approval of the takeover. 777 Partners also have another new court case from Josimar Football Conditional access The good news f...
by Chester Perry
Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
Replies: 9961
Views: 1004774

Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Sam Wallace on the hypocrisy of Leicester (and the others) fighting against FFP/PSR and other rules they voted to bring in. Sadly there is no mention of past issues with Leicester just the glory of their Premier League title and the difficulty of finding unknowns like Kante and Mahrez in the multi-c...