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In terms of the future plans, especially if we are diverting/extending our previous time scales. As other have mentioned it doesn’t take 3 years to find a plot of land for a training ground. Maybe I’m entitled but ultimately such delays will lead to people asking questions. And I couldn’t agree more, I’ve got no issue with Europe’s league in the medium term but my point remains that if that’s what we achieve how do we push beyond it? Maybe people disagree and are being too polite but for me, it’s quite simple. We need revenue to compete with the big boys and the only way we can now raise revenue to a level whereby we can be competitive has been closed(related party deals). Others may suggest we strike deals with others which we absolutely can however it will be a lower rate, only Adidas have been mad enough to pay us crazy money this far. Anyways let’s see what the future holds.
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Do you consider perma Europa league contention to be success? My personal concern with the rules as they are is we get stuck with this being the best case (we may push CL every now and again like last season sometimes but our ceiling will be 7th) I think it’s a matter of perspective and a lack of communication from the club which isn’t helping either.
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Once politicised it will be a case of who can lobby enough to get what they want.
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Thanks Ben, I stubbornly refuse to sign up for Elons Nazi breeding ground. That being said, the new rules are even more revenue dependent and seemingly without the ability for any direct owner investment.
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Yes, we did indeed.
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Wanted to read it but paywall. That being said, it has been discussed that the new rules would make things even worst for us.
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Pif got us for a great price by most valuation metrics.
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It’s not a question of being out of ideas, it’s a question of not being successful enough to warrant brands sponsoring us and not Liverpool for example. If you look at commercial deals across the league, big clubs get big money, the rest get scraps.
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The bot was an auto correct typo apologies. And as mentioned given our commercial and match day income will lag the others player trading is all we will have left. And that’s working on the assumption they want to challenge for honours.
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How are we bridging the ever increasing gap if we aren’t doing it via player trading ? Im just repeating my earlier posts at this bot so I’ll give it a rest but something has to give and we will all find out what in due course.
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This is one deal which we don’t know the details of and it’s obviously an optimistic once. If we aren’t successful when it’s up for renewal I want expect it to be renewed at the same valuation. Also lovely, we have a good kit deal. We still need to find another 200m per annum to get on the level of the lowest big six 6 clubs.
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It’s based upon the issues I’ve outlined previously. Yes, we still have some low hanging fruit such as training ground and Training kit (I’m guessing stadium is a no go) but once we sign them deals the path to growing revenue will slow. We’ve had some great free hits with Adidas Sela and noon but they’ve all been signed now. The biggest brands want to be linked to the highest clubs and in order to be become one of the big boys we need success. We can’t obtain that consistently because we have a small budget it’s a vicious cycle. I don’t want to be negative but I’m yet to come across a theory which I believe is more realistic. our growth model will be player trading and that’s fraught with its own dangers.
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Of course all clubs have the ceiling, but what’s our path to revenue growth? I can be almost certain our revenues won’t be close to spurs in 10 years. We simply don’t have a path to it imo. Our way to inflating our sponsors would be related party which are essentially capped, spurs have also built a stadium which prints money, meanwhile we continue to scratch our heads deciding what to do. Ultimately, if in a sponsor why would I sponsor us? When I can sponsor a team with a much bigger audience.
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Thank you for sharing this, I appreciate it. Sadly I think bridging the gap is practically impossible as the catch up mechanics we had at our disposal have been either closed or fully utilised. (Our FFP position being favourable and our ability to sign related party deals with minimal fuss). We don’t have any competitive advantage over those above us and a common them I’ve notice throughout these types of posts is basically it will be fine in time which isn’t realistic Imo.
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Our revenue needs to increase at a faster rate than those above us in order for us to “catch up”. Anything less and we are falling further behind. As of the current rules, the only way we will be able to make up this ground is by trading players and trading better than anyone else does. For us to compete on a consistent basis the task is Herculean, the gap is huge and we are significantly behind in all aspects and that’s after we’ve dropped 400m.