Reds Will Comply with Financial Fair Play Despite Posting Loss
The American company has stopped the rot since buying out failed duo Tom Hicks and George Gillett in an acrimonious coup and their projected numbers show that losses will fall to £25mil from 2015 – 2016 with an even further reduction expected between 2018 – 2019. With the prospect of securing Champions League football for next season looking like a reality, Liverpool will be watching the numbers carefully to insure they’re not going to run afoul of UEFA’s stringent new rules.
With that firmly in mind, the Reds management team has either strengthened or signed new commercial partners to increase revenue with the usual names of Standard Chartered and Carlsberg being joined by household names like Vauxhall and Dunkin’ Donuts. According to the rules, the Anfield outfit leverage certain costs, including the wages of any player signed prior to July 2010, against their losses. When you factor in youth development, community projects and infrastructure updates – all of which can also be offset against losses – Liverpool will be in a good position moving forward.
“Given where Liverpool Football Club was only a few years ago, the progress that has been made since FSG acquired the club has brought back much needed stability with an ambitious vision which everyone is focused on” said managing director Ian Ayre. The books show that bank debt has been reduced by £19.9mil and turnover has exceeded £200mil for the first time and that a large portion of the losses were down to player departures with Joe Cole and Alberto Aquilani receiving sizeable pay-offs on their departures from the club.
I was hoping if Liverpool got champion league football they be spending around £70-80m. That looks unlikely tho. More likely they stick with buying young cheap players like Aspas, Alberto, Coutinho etc.
If we got Champs league I would argue they wouldn’t need to spend 70-80 mil. I mean, we really will only need 2-3 starters cumulative at that point. Two in the summer and one in the winter with depth players along the way and we’re set.
Seems so. an early warning to expectant fans for world class players next season.
The champions league will cover all our debt. getting us back in positive is a priority. We will still have funds available for transfers remember we spent over 40 million in player last summer. All we have to do now is buy players that will fit right into our first eleven, our continue with same crop as we have enough youngster to give a shot
Liverpool don’t need anymore stars, we need only the right player irrelevant of his price……………..look at Spurs £30m Lamela, £26m Soldado…………….are they stars now!!!
Don’t be foolish. Foreign players can take a long time to settle in our league, Mertesacker for example was shocking for a whole season and now he’s a very important player for arsenal. Players don’t become useless overnight!