Whitgord wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2020 2:52 pm
Football is not “a normal business” by so many definitions. Not least the fact that most clubs are willing to, and indeed have to, run at a loss to carry on existing. What other business sector is like that. Therefore to compare football to other businesses is pointless. At the end of the day football survives because there are enough wealthy benefactors to keep clubs going and football authorities who don’t want to see the game collapse entirely.
Football is a business, not sure what you call a normal business, but you can take a few examples if you like, start up businesses, have an idea, sell it, or have a passion, I'll market it and sell it, I'll start a charity because I'm enthusiast about it, all these types of business have the same common theme as BFC, the people involved at the top have a passion. They are willing to risk there house, their savings in the hope of moving forward, growing, getting better, people start businesses in their parents garages and only their passion/drive means the succeed, they weren't even millionaires let alone billionaires.
Football does differ in that wealthy people are willing to put money in to the game/club and are willing to take a loss, I'm confident when I say owners of Man U, Man City were not brought up as fans, they didn't have a passion for that club in the way everyone on here has, put Everton, Arsenal in the same bracket. Look at Spurs, there you have a passion, the guy just has a lot more money that MG so he can afford more risk, lose more but he is first and foremost a business man and the club is run like a business like all football clubs. All clubs in the PL are part of a much larger business, Sky, clubs spend money to suit there budgets, some clubs were so wealthy the owners did not even notice if they lost a Billion, hence Fair Play in terms of spending power and a need dare I say to balance the books.
Anyone who thinks MG does not look at the books and balance them is in my humble opinion just not interested to know/understand the facts. The football side of things is the end product, but you can be in League two and still be selling your football, you just don't get paid as much for your product output. Many club owners change hands, typically for business reasons, not because some Billionaire in Kazakhstan is a fan of that club, there is money to spare, put it to work, not necessarily to make money but for, prestige, advertising, recognition of the product your selling world wide that is your core business generator. It can even be for tax reasons, but at the end of the day it's a business, I was merely just trying to equate some parts of BFC to a "normal" business and how the all fit and why SD says he has no budget and how the recruitment strategy is the BD side of things and should be the ones who present the Yearly Business Plan from which the recruitment budget is derived from.
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