Playing Budget

Sparks will never give a straight answer I’d imagine but I’d like to see the management fees and interest paid to the German holding company under transactions with related parties

 

For whatever reason no-one was interested in doing at City before Rhodes and no-one has been after. We had a few good years because someone (GR) saw the potential and made it work, but then (along with the Rhodes' at the time) milked it for every last drop.

That's the reality at Bradford City, there's nothing out there to suggest it will ever change.

 

Which begs the question again - where did Sparks think the money for a promotion push was coming from? In times gone by, from my understanding, the board and manager take a look at the league at the beginning of the season, and identify if its a weak league or not. If it is, and they feel we've got a real chance of going up this year, they identify the players we need to make that happen, and allocate the budget accordingly. In otherwords, make a real push for it to happen. Did that conversation happen with our board and the manager. Certainly we've been told that DA was involved in indentifying targets, even before he joined the club. So I presume some sort of action plan was in place and agreed. And Ryan went public saying that this is going to be our season. So what went wrong? Now we've scraped the barrel during the last window, been told there's no money to sign out of contract players, and biting non leagues hands off when they come in with an offer, leaving our squad dangerously thin on the ground. And all this without "going big" in the summer. I'm struggling to understand that if this season was indeed going to be "our season", how we were going to achieve it when there obviously wasn't any money available.

 

I think Sparks is naive. I get the impression that because Adams succeeded with Morecambe on a limited budget that Sparks saw him as pretty much a sure thing and went overboard.

What he's got to realise is that will have consequences further down the line if the success doesn't follow.

 

Why would you are Rupp’s spend money when you have Rhodes accountant style operation? You wouldn’t. Should he? Yes for sure.

 

If there is a failure to gain promotion this season, Sparks has no chance of talking about promotion to sell season tickets or sponsorship and that will only hurt the club and by extension us poor bastards who were unlucky enough to be made Bradford City fans.

 

If Sparks told me it was raining I'd check to see if the ground was wet.

 

And out of the black and into the red. Topical eh.

 

Where is that guy from clipper logistics when you need him ?

 

There was no need for him to exaggerate our performance expectations for this season. We would all have accepted that, with a new manager coming in, there was a need to assess, consolidate and start rebuilding the squad.

It was irresponsible and, to be fair to Adams, unfairly brought immediate pressure to bear for a quick fix. Given the squad he was inheriting, he didn't have the required quality of players to match the CEO's aspirations.

 

That image has the operating loss as a negative. Surely a negative loss is a profit?

 

The ifollow income wasn't a massive sum of money. Less that income from away fans and POTG home fans

 

POTG fans last season would have been very, very minimal. The football was absolutely dire for the majority and not many are paying £25 to watch that. In fact, I'd say many more might have been inclined to put ifollow and at least bet the club a percentage of that money.

 

Lets face it, We see 12,000+ season ticket supporters, while Rupp sees 12,000+ Mugs

 

And away fans

 

Don't think so Stork, @Dennis would be in a better position than I to confirm

 

I don't think it does mean that but brackets usually means a negative figure. So technically a negative loss is a profit