by Snowflake Royal »
31 Jul 2020 13:02
NewCorkSeth Snowflake Royal NewCorkSeth Well they have made 120 million in transfers over the last 5 years.
Thats where you are wrong, one club doing it shows it can be done by other clubs.
That's not the same as making a profit.
If one club succeeds and 23 don't... what does that tell you about the success of trying to spend to make money.
What's Brentford's record signing? How often do they pay out £1m plus on transfers?
What's their wage to income ratio?
How much profit have they made in each of the last 3 years?
They made a 20 million profit last season because they frequestly buy players for fees in the region of 1-3 million and sell them in 2-3 seasons for much more.
Their income is low when you exclude player sales, the owner said they must make 15 million in sales every season for the model to work, which they comfortably do.
What other clubs spend money to make money in that way??? Brentford have embraced the selling club model. Nobody else has. Christ if Bretford had received a 10 million offer for Moore they would have taken it. Thats completely different. Thats what we should copy.
They dont publish their wages but it is apparently Jansson on 20k a week as their top earner. The same wage as Rafael is reportedly on.
Just go look at their transfer history. They buy players for 2 million then sell them for then sell them for 12 million.
So yeah, unless we embrace the whole model, which we can't really do just immediately, it doesn't work.
And as of 2018 they made a loss in the two previously reported seasons and their outgoings were about double their incoming.
So basically, they're betting the farm on having someone they can sell for big money, at a time when fees are likely to collapse.
So using them as a reason to spend £3m we don't have, when we need to save about £10 -15m , and have no one to sell for £10m doesn't really work