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Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover

Post by agreenwood » Wed Apr 30, 2025 2:52 pm

Sorry, just realised the PL money won’t be in the next accounts.

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Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover

Post by RVclaret » Wed Apr 30, 2025 2:53 pm

agreenwood wrote:
Wed Apr 30, 2025 2:49 pm
You’d imagine selling Trafford and/or Esteve this summer, in addition to the £88m of player sales in the current year and PL money, should see us on the right side of the line regrading PSR.
Not sure why the selling of either of those two would be required with the following £88m in sales.

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Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover

Post by agreenwood » Wed Apr 30, 2025 2:56 pm

RVclaret wrote:
Wed Apr 30, 2025 2:53 pm
Not sure why the selling of either of those two would be required with the following £88m in sales.
Depends on the extent of our losses this season I suppose.

We’re going to need to post a healthy year next time to avoid penalties, which on paper is going to be much harder given it covers a season in the Championship.
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Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover

Post by Spike » Wed Apr 30, 2025 2:57 pm

Pace said we’d be amazed when we found out how it was all financed
Club record debts increasing year on year is shocking

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Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover

Post by Chester Perry » Wed Apr 30, 2025 2:57 pm

agreenwood wrote:
Wed Apr 30, 2025 2:49 pm
You’d imagine selling Trafford and/or Esteve this summer, in addition to the £88m of player sales in the current year and PL money, should see us on the right side of the line regrading PSR.
It would be a crying shame to see that trinity of players broken up just to meet FFP

however, it depends on what is left against their amortised value and the cost of acquiring Anthony, Hannibal, Edwards and Humphries as well as the promotion bonuses and additional performance related fees on existing squad players

I think they are not able to take the Leicester approach as the EFL has since closed that loophole

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Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover

Post by dsr » Wed Apr 30, 2025 3:00 pm

Tall Paul wrote:
Wed Apr 30, 2025 2:36 pm
One thing that does seem fairly is that a chunk of the money that you keep telling us would never be paid back, has been paid back.
Yes, that's good. It's a smidge under £100m owed by Velocity Capital to Burnley FC Holdings Ltd now.

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Post by Big Vinny K » Wed Apr 30, 2025 3:02 pm

£40m of contingent liabilities compared to £11m of contingent assets.

Suppose the positive thing about that should be that if we hit that maximum exposure it should mean good things have happened on the pitch and with our players (we hope !!)

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Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover

Post by ab1882 » Wed Apr 30, 2025 3:04 pm

dsr wrote:
Wed Apr 30, 2025 2:31 pm
We sold players for £88m after 31st July, but bought players for an initial £1m - presumably this means that all the fees for Flemming, Humphries, and Antony won't be included.
The initial £1m is odd to me.
After July 31st we permanently signed Etienne Green (Aug 7th), Worrall (Aug 22nd), Mejbri (Aug 28th), Laurent (Aug 28th) & Adewumi (Aug 28th).

Assuming the £88m is Bastien (Aug 8th), Odobert (Aug 16th), Twine (Aug 16th), Berge (Aug 22nd), Zaroury (Aug 22nd), JBG (Aug 23rd), O'Shea (Aug 25th), Al-Dakhil (Aug 27th), Weghorst (Aug 29th), McNally (Aug 29th) & Vitinho (Aug 30th).

Muric & Vigouroux should be in this annual report, likely Kompany too.

Only sold Egan since then, and signed Sonne & Banel with Flemming, Anthony, Humphreys & Edwards about to sign.

Only 2 loan players allowed at a time in the Prem, so harder to push fees to another accounting period.

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Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover

Post by dsr » Wed Apr 30, 2025 3:12 pm

Big Vinny K wrote:
Wed Apr 30, 2025 2:38 pm
Just going through them now.
Initial impressions are that I’m surprised at the size of our wage bill and also to a degree the level of interest. Pretty sure they are both record levels in the clubs history - and they aren’t the good kind of records our defence has been setting !!

In the context of FFP and Chester’s points then I’m assuming they have a plan to avoid breach. We’ve got one quarter left of the 3 year assessment period which I guess may mean restricting transfer spend up until the end of July. Though it may not hinder us either as we should have significant player sales in this current financial year and as said you would think the club is planning all this through.

The accounts are always news to us supporters but to the club and our accountants they should be very much old history and they will have a detailed view of where we are on a month to month basis and act accordingly to mitigate things like FFP (or we might just take the breach like other clubs do !!)
Restricting transfer spend won't matter. Anything we spend this summer will be counted as an expense over the period of the contract, starting next year not this year, regardless of whether we buy before or after the accounts year end date.

I would have thought the £88m sales in summer, which must have generated a fair wodge in profit above the remaining contract value, might well be enough to see us OK. We're about £52m down over the two years to 2024 but some of those costs (eg. cost of the academy) can be ignored.

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Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover

Post by Chester Perry » Wed Apr 30, 2025 3:15 pm

dsr wrote:
Wed Apr 30, 2025 3:12 pm
Restricting transfer spend won't matter. Anything we spend this summer will be counted as an expense over the period of the contract, starting next year not this year, regardless of whether we buy before or after the accounts year end date.

I would have thought the £88m sales in summer, which must have generated a fair wodge in profit above the remaining contract value, might well be enough to see us OK. We're about £52m down over the two years to 2024 but some of those costs (eg. cost of the academy) can be ignored.
It could very reasonably be argued that £10m - £15m (perhaps more) of that £52m is related to Academy, BFC Women and infrastructure/capital expense all of which can be discounted from PSR
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Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover

Post by Chester Perry » Wed Apr 30, 2025 3:31 pm

Tall Paul wrote:
Wed Apr 30, 2025 2:36 pm
One thing that does seem fairly is that a chunk of the money that you keep telling us would never be paid back, has been paid back.
On the face of it this is indeed a positive

worth noting that there is no longer a statement that the outstanding £97.6m that Velocity owe can be met by dividends - though the reserves they would have come from have been significantly diminished

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Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover

Post by Big Vinny K » Wed Apr 30, 2025 3:38 pm

Chester Perry wrote:
Wed Apr 30, 2025 3:31 pm
On the face of it this is indeed a positive

worth noting that there is no longer a statement that the outstanding £97.6m that Velocity owe can be met by dividends - though the reserves they would have come from have been significantly diminished
What’s your view on the outstanding loans now CP ?
Guess that there is still a big element of unknowns as to what might have happened since last July.

As an aside did notice that external consultancy fee come down by a million last year.

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Post by Chester Perry » Wed Apr 30, 2025 3:53 pm

Big Vinny K wrote:
Wed Apr 30, 2025 3:38 pm
What’s your view on the outstanding loans now CP ?
Guess that there is still a big element of unknowns as to what might have happened since last July.

As an aside did notice that external consultancy fee come down by a million last year.
It is too early to tell, though it is apparent there has been an awful lot of cashflow pressure and as we know loans can increase again

I have wondered if it related to FFP, a proportion of allowable losses has to be met with owner input (Manchester United did it one year with an overdraft facility) so while it cannot be via a bank loan this repayment may cover it

as for the management fee - £750k has been deferred (shown as a credit), so an actual £250k drop, itself a surprising given when they did this deferral before it was for £1m and an overall fee of £2.5m

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Post by Paul Waine » Wed Apr 30, 2025 4:25 pm

Key thing to be aware of is that Alan Pace signed off these accounts on 31st December 2024. So, nothing in the accounts or post balance sheet events extends beyond 31st December 2024. (This is very similar to 31-July-2023 accounts - signed off 19-Dec-2023).

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Post by NewClaret » Wed Apr 30, 2025 4:26 pm

Great news about the loan repayment. I always suspected that might happen when cash was needed.

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Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover

Post by Leisure » Wed Apr 30, 2025 5:37 pm

Income from catering dropped from £2.34m to £836,000. No wonder!

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Post by Big Vinny K » Wed Apr 30, 2025 5:47 pm

Leisure wrote:
Wed Apr 30, 2025 5:37 pm
Income from catering dropped from £2.34m to £836,000. No wonder!
Yep noticed that !
I know the catering hasn’t been the best but I’m not sure that would explain such a drop with the attendances remaining pretty much the same. Suspect it could more relate to a difference in how they categorise certain revenue lines. Especially bearing in mind the price increases in food and drink too.
And we already know from the other thread that they are not taking cash and keeping this out of the books !!

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Post by Chester Perry » Wed Apr 30, 2025 6:37 pm

Leisure wrote:
Wed Apr 30, 2025 5:37 pm
Income from catering dropped from £2.34m to £836,000. No wonder!
Previously in-house so that would have been total sales now just the fee and a share of any profit share


interestingly clubs in Europe are considering bringing catering and retail back in house as the overall income counts against UEFA new version of squad cost
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Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover

Post by Conroy92 » Wed Apr 30, 2025 8:18 pm

I am not very clued up on finances. But from my limited understanding.

It feels like we've pushed the transfer fees down the road with the loan to buys. Many people said these fees had been accounted for.

It feels like that's a strategory we'll have to continue as I'm not sure how you finance last summer's deals and this one at the same time, that'll continue to see the can kicked further down the road.

While we may have paid 30m back pre December 2024. There's nothing to say we don't take out more loans to help with our financing now we've been promoted. Kicking another can down the road.

Eventually the cans will meet.

Hope I'm a mile off and it looks rosey.

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Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover

Post by TsarBomba » Wed Apr 30, 2025 8:56 pm

I appreciate what you are saying re kicking the can down the road, but this could/should be offset by pretty big players sales we can expect in the coming year or two.

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Post by Spike » Wed Apr 30, 2025 9:24 pm

So how much in loans did the takeover leave the club in debt?
What do these accounts show our overall debt to be

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Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover

Post by summitclaret » Thu May 01, 2025 10:00 am

More from McGuire from the BE. He is fairly positive apart from interest rates.

https://www.burnleyexpress.net/sport/fo ... ts-5107727

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Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover

Post by aggi » Thu May 01, 2025 10:58 am

Conroy92 wrote:
Wed Apr 30, 2025 8:18 pm
I am not very clued up on finances. But from my limited understanding.

It feels like we've pushed the transfer fees down the road with the loan to buys. Many people said these fees had been accounted for.

It feels like that's a strategory we'll have to continue as I'm not sure how you finance last summer's deals and this one at the same time, that'll continue to see the can kicked further down the road.

While we may have paid 30m back pre December 2024. There's nothing to say we don't take out more loans to help with our financing now we've been promoted. Kicking another can down the road.

Eventually the cans will meet.

Hope I'm a mile off and it looks rosey.
It's fine so long as you get players that develop and you can sell for a hefty profit each time, it's when that dries up that you have a problem. You're always going to have some duds (I seem to remember Brighton spending some big money on an Iranian striker who was a total flop) but you need enough positives to outweigh the negatives and enough players to sell for big fees even in poor seasons.

Lots of clubs try and do it, not many succeed. Albeit lots of clubs that try and do it are starting from not having much and as a way to get established rather than a big budget and already established.

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Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover

Post by aggi » Thu May 01, 2025 11:01 am

summitclaret wrote:
Thu May 01, 2025 10:00 am
More from McGuire from the BE. He is fairly positive apart from interest rates.

https://www.burnleyexpress.net/sport/fo ... ts-5107727
The comparison to Sheffield Utd is an interesting one. Their wages hardly increased last season and they spent about £64m. A big chunk less than our £93m.

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Post by Big Vinny K » Thu May 01, 2025 12:15 pm

I am surprised at the £93m wage bill.
It’s the record in our history and surpasses the previous highest under Dyche (though from memory that previous figure was for an extended financial year period as we changed the year end)

The trajectory of the wage bill under Dyche was also a symptom of a very different model where we had a number of experienced players who had been at the club for a few years and after a sustained period in the EPL we ended up extending contracts to the likes of Wood, Tarks, Mee, McNeil, Westwood, Barnes, Pope. We also had the likes of Wout, Collins, Cornet on the books who we know were on decent wages.

The £93m in the last accounts reflects the biggest squad we have ever had and when you spent as much in the transfer market we did then these players are not joining us on low wages. We also had many of the players left at the club who we signed in the first season under VK and I’d imagine most if not all of these had automatic increases in their salary built in after promotion. We have since got a rid of a lot of this squad and guess the wage bill this season was back nearer to a £50m to £60m type figure but as we return to the EPL we have the bonuses to pay, the increase in salaries of existing players, whatever the agreed salary is of the loan players we are signing permanently (undoubtedly more than we paid them this season) and any new players we sign from here on in.

Reality maybe now that is it does not take much to take that salary bill back up to the £90m plus type figures and this is the levels the current owners are happy to work within as long as we continue to make decent profit on player sales each season.

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Post by CoolClaret » Thu May 01, 2025 12:36 pm

Just like the Dyche years, if the wage bill is all tied to bonuses, etc, then fair enough, though we've been a bit silly there, considering how many players we had on the books that have barely been used.

As usual, I'm not too keen on the model and believe our risk level is too high. Still, as long as we avoid a situation where we have players on huge base salaries without significant wage reductions on relegation, etc, then that'll do.

I do believe that ALK have learnt a lot on the job though and although I do not like/agree with the model in it's entirety, I think they're a lot more switched on/savvy than a damn site number of the boards in English football.

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Post by Chester Perry » Thu May 01, 2025 12:39 pm

CoolClaret wrote:
Thu May 01, 2025 12:36 pm
Just like the Dyche years, if the wage bill is all tied to bonuses, etc, then fair enough, though we've been a bit silly there, considering how many players we had on the books that have barely been used.

As usual, I'm not too keen on the model and believe our risk level is too high. Still, as long as we avoid a situation where we have players on huge base salaries without significant wage reductions on relegation, etc, then that'll do.

I do believe that ALK have learnt a lot on the job though and although I do not like/agree with the model in it's entirety, I think they're a lot more switched on/savvy than a damn site number of the boards in English football.
Just to be clear - bonuses are paid for promotion or staying up - if we had stayed up the bonuses would have taken the wages some way north of £100m
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Post by aggi » Thu May 01, 2025 1:19 pm

Big Vinny K wrote:
Thu May 01, 2025 12:15 pm
I am surprised at the £93m wage bill.
It’s the record in our history and surpasses the previous highest under Dyche (though from memory that previous figure was for an extended financial year period as we changed the year end)

The trajectory of the wage bill under Dyche was also a symptom of a very different model where we had a number of experienced players who had been at the club for a few years and after a sustained period in the EPL we ended up extending contracts to the likes of Wood, Tarks, Mee, McNeil, Westwood, Barnes, Pope. We also had the likes of Wout, Collins, Cornet on the books who we know were on decent wages.

The £93m in the last accounts reflects the biggest squad we have ever had and when you spent as much in the transfer market we did then these players are not joining us on low wages. We also had many of the players left at the club who we signed in the first season under VK and I’d imagine most if not all of these had automatic increases in their salary built in after promotion. We have since got a rid of a lot of this squad and guess the wage bill this season was back nearer to a £50m to £60m type figure but as we return to the EPL we have the bonuses to pay, the increase in salaries of existing players, whatever the agreed salary is of the loan players we are signing permanently (undoubtedly more than we paid them this season) and any new players we sign from here on in.

Reality maybe now that is it does not take much to take that salary bill back up to the £90m plus type figures and this is the levels the current owners are happy to work within as long as we continue to make decent profit on player sales each season.
A technical point but they have changed how wages and salaries are accounted for. Previously loan fees and contributions to wages for players we had out on loan were offset against wages. Now they are reported separately with wages also being grossed up by a similar amount.

Under the old method wages and salaries would have been £5.5m lower. Still pretty chunky at £88m though.

But yes, can't imagine wages will be small next season. Wouldn't be surprised to see a few experienced players coming in with the wages associated with that. Hopefully we'll continue to trim the squad though.

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Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover

Post by aggi » Thu May 01, 2025 1:23 pm

Chester Perry wrote:
Wed Apr 30, 2025 3:31 pm
On the face of it this is indeed a positive

worth noting that there is no longer a statement that the outstanding £97.6m that Velocity owe can be met by dividends - though the reserves they would have come from have been significantly diminished
It's still there. They talk about distributions rather than dividends which is slightly broader (and includes dividends) but probably just a change in stock wording.

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Post by Socrates » Thu May 01, 2025 1:39 pm

Chester Perry wrote:
Thu May 01, 2025 12:39 pm
Just to be clear - bonuses are paid for promotion or staying up - if we had stayed up the bonuses would have taken the wages some way north of £100m
Conjecture surely?

The bulk of those players weren’t here long enough to have benefited from a bonus for staying up.

That has to be guesswork.

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Post by Chester Perry » Thu May 01, 2025 1:39 pm

Chester Perry wrote:
Thu May 01, 2025 12:39 pm
Just to be clear - bonuses are paid for promotion or staying up - if we had stayed up the bonuses would have taken the wages some way north of £100m
I will add that it was probable that there were also additional transfer payments contingent on staying up (so not paid) - it is not unreasonable to believe that if the club had been successful in staying up, the booked £10m operational profit (before player sales) would have actually been transformed into an operational loss of several £m. I say this because there is no declared early enforced repayment of loans following the relegation.

It would have been interesting to see how such a financial picture would have been managed last summer.

Also worth noting that the profit of £15m from trading of intangible assets includes the £10m we (allegedly) received for Vincent Kompany.

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Post by Chester Perry » Thu May 01, 2025 1:42 pm

Socrates wrote:
Thu May 01, 2025 1:39 pm
Conjecture surely?

The bulk of those players weren’t here long enough to have benefited from a bonus for staying up.

That has to be guesswork.
based on the precedent of our previous Premier League stays (including under the current ownership, and the conventions of practice seen in the Premier League

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Post by ab1882 » Thu May 01, 2025 1:49 pm

2020 was the 13 months accounting period with staff costs of 100,094.

For what it's worth, the Wage:Turnover ratio (season) was down in 2024. From Key performance indicators of the annual reports.
2023/24: 69.94% (Relegated)
2022/23: 88.68% (Promoted)
2021/22: 74.53 (Relegated)
2020/21: 74.66% (Behind closed doors)
2019/20: 70.20% (Covid)
2018/19: 62.86%

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Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover

Post by Vegas Claret » Thu May 01, 2025 2:00 pm

just in case this hasn't been posted, EFL change in PSR rules
https://www.efl.com/news/2025/april/30/ ... ed-at-egm/

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Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover

Post by NewClaret » Thu May 01, 2025 2:30 pm

Chester Perry wrote:
Thu May 01, 2025 1:39 pm
I will add that it was probable that there were also additional transfer payments contingent on staying up (so not paid) - it is not unreasonable to believe that if the club had been successful in staying up, the booked £10m operational profit (before player sales) would have actually been transformed into an operational loss of several £m. I say this because there is no declared early enforced repayment of loans following the relegation.

It would have been interesting to see how such a financial picture would have been managed last summer.

Also worth noting that the profit of £15m from trading of intangible assets includes the £10m we (allegedly) received for Vincent Kompany.
Presumably if we had stayed up we would also have had higher revenues from placement money?

Also, does player trading come under the intangible assets line? If not, is the £15m not the full Kompany compensation?

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Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover

Post by Big Vinny K » Thu May 01, 2025 2:35 pm

Chester Perry wrote:
Thu May 01, 2025 1:39 pm
I will add that it was probable that there were also additional transfer payments contingent on staying up (so not paid) - it is not unreasonable to believe that if the club had been successful in staying up, the booked £10m operational profit (before player sales) would have actually been transformed into an operational loss of several £m. I say this because there is no declared early enforced repayment of loans following the relegation.

It would have been interesting to see how such a financial picture would have been managed last summer.

Also worth noting that the profit of £15m from trading of intangible assets includes the £10m we (allegedly) received for Vincent Kompany.
Sounds a pretty reasonable assumption to me given the level of contingent liabilities we are reporting.

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Post by Chester Perry » Thu May 01, 2025 2:39 pm

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Thu May 01, 2025 2:30 pm
Presumably if we had stayed up we would also have had higher revenues from placement money?

Also, does player trading come under the intangible assets line? If not, is the £15m not the full Kompany compensation?
around £2.9m per place so almost £6m if we had stayed up assuming a 17th place finish

coaches and backroom staff like players are intangible assets - particularly if we have paid another club compensation in recruiting them or indeed received compensation for their being taken from us while under contract - so if any had followed Kompany out of the club to Bayern then that would be added to the balance.

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Post by aggi » Thu May 01, 2025 2:47 pm

Noticeable that previously it was profit on disposal of player registrations, this year it was profit on disposal of player/staff registrations

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Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover

Post by Tall Paul » Thu May 01, 2025 2:48 pm

aggi wrote:
Thu May 01, 2025 1:23 pm
It's still there. They talk about distributions rather than dividends which is slightly broader (and includes dividends) but probably just a change in stock wording.
There's been another change in that previously it said the reserves were sufficient to settle the balance whereas now it says they're sufficient to enable a significant reduction in the balance.

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Post by NewClaret » Thu May 01, 2025 3:15 pm

Chester Perry wrote:
Thu May 01, 2025 2:39 pm
around £2.9m per place so almost £6m if we had stayed up assuming a 17th place finish

coaches and backroom staff like players are intangible assets - particularly if we have paid another club compensation in recruiting them or indeed received compensation for their being taken from us while under contract - so if any had followed Kompany out of the club to Bayern then that would be added to the balance.
Thanks. If Bayern agreed to pay £10m over 3 years is it all booked this year or £3.3m each year?

£15m seems low for Kompany and the players sold prior to 31st July.

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Post by CalamityClaret » Thu May 01, 2025 3:21 pm

agreenwood wrote:
Wed Apr 30, 2025 2:49 pm
You’d imagine selling Trafford and/or Esteve this summer, in addition to the £88m of player sales in the current year and PL money, should see us on the right side of the line regrading PSR.
True but what an awful blow that would be.

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Post by NewClaret » Thu May 01, 2025 3:31 pm

CalamityClaret wrote:
Thu May 01, 2025 3:21 pm
True but what an awful blow that would be.
I don’t think that’s going to be necessary but we might have to remain creative with the signings (loans with options if we stay up, etc).

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Post by CalamityClaret » Thu May 01, 2025 3:38 pm

Please excuse me being an accountancy simpleton but since the takeover are we paying off the debt, is it increasing or do we simply not know? If the greater minds could answer that it would be really appreciated.
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Post by dsr » Thu May 01, 2025 3:43 pm

NewClaret wrote:
Thu May 01, 2025 3:31 pm
I don’t think that’s going to be necessary but we might have to remain creative with the signings (loans with options if we stay up, etc).
Whoever we sign in summer makes no difference to the 2024-25 profit and loss. All the cost will be in 2025-26 and later.

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Post by NewClaret » Thu May 01, 2025 4:00 pm

dsr wrote:
Thu May 01, 2025 3:43 pm
Whoever we sign in summer makes no difference to the 2024-25 profit and loss. All the cost will be in 2025-26 and later.
Unless we sign them before 31st July presumably?

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Post by aggi » Thu May 01, 2025 4:56 pm

NewClaret wrote:
Thu May 01, 2025 4:00 pm
Unless we sign them before 31st July presumably?
Even if we sign them before 31 July the vast majority of the cost would be in future years. Say it's a 4 year contract with a £10m fee, that would be £2.5m per year in the accounts, so if signed on 1 July there would be an associated cost of ~ £200k in the accounts (plus a month's wages).

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Post by Paul Waine » Thu May 01, 2025 5:21 pm

aggi wrote:
Thu May 01, 2025 2:47 pm
Noticeable that previously it was profit on disposal of player registrations, this year it was profit on disposal of player/staff registrations
It's pretty unusual for another club to buy out the contract of a manager of a club that has just been relegated. Of course, the "player/staff" description is accurate in this situation.

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Post by Taffy on the wing » Thu May 01, 2025 5:26 pm

Leisure wrote:
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Income from catering dropped from £2.34m to £836,000. No wonder!
I blame the pies!

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Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover

Post by Paul Waine » Thu May 01, 2025 5:41 pm

CalamityClaret wrote:
Thu May 01, 2025 3:38 pm
Please excuse me being an accountancy simpleton but since the takeover are we paying off the debt, is it increasing or do we simply not know? If the greater minds could answer that it would be really appreciated.
Burnley are doing a lot more player trading than the club has ever done before. Most/all of this is being financed with borrowings either from banks/other financial institutions or by credit agreed with the selling club. When ALK acquired BFCHL they took out a loan of £65 million from MSD. This loan has been repaid by new borrowings a few times since then. ALK also borrowed money from BFCHL/BFACL. The total amount was £124 million at 31st July-2023. The amount has reduced to £97.5 million in the latest set of accounts to 31st July 2024.

On the other hand, the accounts also show that Bank loans and other loans total £112 million at 31st July 2023 compared with £100.9 million a year earlier.

Note 8. Interest payable and similar expenses breaks down the £19.0 million amount as: bank loan interest payable £11.1m, other interest payable £2.1m, finance expenses on player trading creditors £5.8m and a small amount on interest payable on finance leases and hire purchase contracts.

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Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover

Post by Leisure » Thu May 01, 2025 5:43 pm

Taffy on the wing wrote:
Thu May 01, 2025 5:26 pm
I blame the pies!
and no peas!

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