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Regarding profit on player disposals its always worth remembering accounting profit and cash profit are not one and the same thing.
To give a simple example:-
Robbie Clogger is signed for £6m on a 3 year deal. After 2 years of him clogging, the club realises he's crap and sells him for £3m.
On a cash level - £3m loss.
On an accounting level - £1m profit.
The £6m transfer fee is spread over 3 years for his contract - so £2m of cost is booked in year 1, £2m of cost booked in year 2, so his carrying asset value at the end of year 2 is £2m.
So when we sell him for £3m, we now have a £1m profit to recognise in year 3.
All standard accounting stuff but does trip people up.
Regarding wages and budgets - I would note I would expect us to always have a London-weighting factor to our wage bill which will inevitably cost us more than clubs in areas with much lower cost of living. London can be pricey even for footballers I am sure!
And I'm sure on an admin side, albeit much lower levels, our club shop manager earns more than the club shop manager for Preston etc, all because London is more expensive to operate in to start with.
Interesting note that Mrs Reuben now has a charge over our training ground, being paid at 8% per annum.
Not unusual to have a big asset like that mortgaged but an interesting tidbit nonetheless.
Also notes that including the Eze sell on, our cash outflow for post year-end player trading is still an outflow, not an inflow. The accounting treatment won't work like that though so it will be interesting to see in 12 months time how it did play out.
Tim Cahill had a very good career in the top flight.
Generally seem to be solid players in England in the second tier, Mass Luongo much maligned (and to be fair never was a solid national team starter) but he's done OK for himself in tiers 2/3 for most of his career.
None of us obviously have a clue about what players are and aren't paid, but this just highlights the madness of the footballing world.
If it were correct, another way to put it is Kealey Adamson is paid £156,000 a year to be a player in our development squad and occasionally turn up for a bench appearance in the first team.
Madness. I hope he is paid absolutely nowhere near that. That is more than executive directors will be paid, without their bonuses mind, in companies that are bigger than QPR FC when we take company size metrics into account. And we all wonder why football clubs are money blackholes?
It seemed because it was Valentine's Day Wham were getting a lot of plays, and I can only assume someone stuck Wham's Greatest Hits on then walked away. Bizarre.
And given other half time antics...many congratulations to the young couple getting engaged and I hope you have a long happy life together but...I really hate public proposals.
2pm stood outside SAR and the handful of people are all getting frisked going in. These people are probably the least likely to be rabble rousers.
At 2.30pm on Ellerslie when we went in it is of course impossible to frisk everyone because there's hundreds of people going in at once, but stewards were still pulling as many as they could aside.
Why?! It's annoying enough being treated like a criminal at away games, don't need it at home as well!
I've got a whole playlist on Spotify I fondly call my "Sporting Nerd" playlist - music heard from all sporting venues I've been to over the years, or takes me back to certain places, stuff from Olympic Games...there's all sorts. I like to play it on my way to games or when I'm off to a running race, helps get me the feels.
I'll go left field for now and go with this and explain why...
January 2011, freezing cold Saturday. Burnley v QPR. I've driven up from Northamptonshire as I still lived at home on my own, got there early, parked up in that cricket ground behind the goal, went in pretty much when the gates opened.
Stood in that away end behind the goal, no fkr there at that point, freezing cold, raining, this comes on over the tannoy. Couldn't get any further from California that day than cold, rainy Burnley on a January Saturday.
Whenever I hear it now it takes me back to Turf Moor in my little brain.
Anstey's ground is tiny and floods a lot so in the unlikely event we drew them away in a cup it would almost certainly be moved elsewhere. Leicester being the obvious option, or Hinckley for a more standard non-league ground.
Ex-Leicester goalkeeper Conrad Logan is manager there and I understand he has a lot of pull and contacts in the ex-pro scene so is able to pull senior players in on an ad-hoc basis when they need it. David Nugent is coaching there too and plays the odd game, they had Martyn Waghorn for a short period earlier in the year.
Beat Hartlepool United away in the FA Trophy too this year which was the biggest win in their history.
I think any club with a gambling sponsor has had it removed for the stickers.
I've been trying to collect, although I feel I'm quite behind and need to get a shift on before shops stop selling them toward the end of the year. Moving house in December with a 6 month old baby caused a bit of stress, to put it lightly...
Guns in the boardroom was 4 years earlier at the beginning of the 2005-06 season, in a 2-1 win at home the Sheffield United. Bircham scored a screamer.
Just to balance it out I've lived in Leicester since 2013 (well, actually out in the county now, left the city just before Christmas) and I hate them.
I briefly wished them well when Marti was in charge as long as they lost to us, because I liked Marti, but now they've binned him off they can go back to being the club I dislike more than any other.
I was probably the unhappiest person in the city at their 2016 triumph! Although I will concede that those golden years were great for the city itself, I liked living there.
The rule used to be 10 points or more and in 2006-07 Napoli and Genoa played out a very convenient 0-0 draw on the final day of the season to be promoted in 2nd and 3rd and be 10 points ahead of 4th place Piacenza.
Nothing untoward about it I am sure.
That was the season Juventus were in Serie B too from the Calciopoli scandal.
"I'd have a lot more sympathy for the National League's three up campaign if they extended the same to the leagues below them"
To be fair they do relegate quite a lot of teams, but as they start feeding into the regional leagues its natural that the leagues below will have less teams coming up when the next level splits into 3/4 separate leagues, as otherwise the maths just doesn't work and you'll be relegating a third of the league to give the leagues below more promotion spots!
I feel unnecessarily offended that West Ham scraped a win against us and were garbage, and seemingly since have been in really good form and now look like they might get out of it.
Even a late draw tonight is a result they would have seen as a good one before kick off.
Personally loved the idea of a 40% fill-rate for a Tuesday night against Preston in that place.
I liked Sam Field, I'm sad he's left but he's always been a good egg so I'll wish him the best.
Good player and probably suffered the most this year from the Nicolas Madsen revelation.
Hayden probably shades it over Field for me but is older, Varane should but is nowhere near consistent enough so I'd have Field over him. Morgan still an unknown for a consistent Championship starting spot.
I'll try retain some chill as we've still got to play them and its not beyond our capabilities to gift them three points, but after clamouring for him for months Leicester have now entered an immediate Gareth Ainsworth-esque death spiral with Andy King in charge and I am 100% here for it.
I will laugh my tits off if they end up going down.
One thing I would add is Gavin Ward has been reffing at this level since at least 2010 (on the basis I remember him giving us a last minute penalty against Portsmouth in the title winning season which Tommy Smith put away).
How the hell does he look so young still? What's his secret?!
Leicester has an independent chocolate shop (Cocoa Amore in the Lanes, if anyone is going to the away game and plans on being in the city centre beforehand...) and they do amazing bars. The only trouble is, its quite expensive (£5 easily a go) but it also reflects the quality of the ingredients you are buying.
As an aside, they also do chocolate making workshops which are fun to do.
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