Andy_S
Member of the Barry Corr Fan Club
At a guess I'd suggest the fees we received for Humphrys, Hutchinson and Kelman wouldn't actually reach the £496,000 we owe the HMRC.
Please don’t tell me you are including meaningless pre-season games against Charlton’s youth team etc. We have won 3 games in 2020 across all competitions - let that sink in.That 7 months is not even accurate as we won several pre-season friendlies, including beating Charlton as part of 6 months unbeaten. I know we need to go and win league games again but it's coming. Five years ago when I looked to the club's future I saw storm clouds gathering, now I seem glimmers of blue.
It's not just hope. The facts show that we are improving in the league game by game. I know how bad things were but I also know that like steering a boat you don't see the results immediately. We're slowly coming back onto the right course. That started last season (well, actually under Powell before injuries cut it short) but we were setback by our late start and latest managerial change. Game by game we are getting closer.
I don't want us to go through what we have been through again and part of that means living within our means and maybe even saving for a rainy day. Come January we'll be able to reassess and create some more wage space by letting McCormack or White go. Maybe some players will have been shown not to be good enough but others might have stepped up.
Keep the faith. The good times are around the corner.
Player transfer income is shown in the club accounts when they are published. The last set of accounts published were for the 2017/18 year (season) so we are now two years behind. The 2018/9 accounts taking previous years as the norm should have been published in April 2020.
The income declared in the accounts have been:
2014/15 £115k
2015/16 £1,432k
2016/17 £1,147k
2017/18 £1,215k
This would cover Bentley, Payne, Leonard and a few academy players ( who I don’t know) plus maybe some ancient sell ons.
It doesn’t mean that all that income was received as cash in those years as the account show significant debtors - I guess were clubs pay in instalments over two or three years.
Player transfer income is shown in the club accounts when they are published. The last set of accounts published were for the 2017/18 year (season) so we are now two years behind. The 2018/9 accounts taking previous years as the norm should have been published in April 2020.
The income declared in the accounts have been:
2014/15 £115k
2015/16 £1,432k
2016/17 £1,147k
2017/18 £1,215k
This would cover Bentley, Payne, Leonard and a few academy players ( who I don’t know) plus maybe some ancient sell ons.
It doesn’t mean that all that income was received as cash in those years as the account show significant debtors - I guess were clubs pay in instalments over two or three years.
Very interesting. Given this not inconsiderate income, how on earth have we been left in this financially desperate position?
If you can't run a club on that income on top of the matchday income then something is very badly wrong!
Does anyone have the inside track on what we received for Bishop, Hutchinson, Humphrys and Kelman?
The real value lies in sell ons.
Please don’t tell me you are including meaningless pre-season games against Charlton’s youth team etc. We have won 3 games in 2020 across all competitions - let that sink in.
This season, again, in all competitions we are played 8 lost 6 drawn 2. There are few signs of hope while the spine of the team has done nothing but show us again and again that they are simply not good enough.
We need wholesale changes ASAP and a bunch of 20 year old loanees is not going to cut it. Of course, whether we can afford it is another thing but if we want to stay in the league we are going to have to find some investment and fast.