Salary Cap

I am sure that when Lawn and Rhodes were running the club,they stated that commercial and sponsorship deals paid the rent and other costs,and the season ticket money went to the playing budget.I am sure that Roger Owen will be able to confirm or deny that.

 

@Feats Don't Fail Me Now - cracking post but something is missing

 

can not see the bars and food contracts paying much into the pot this season if they are closed

 

I know that, but that's the point I have raised. People are saying that the salary cap won't leave us with any money as we have to cover all the overheads. We were already covering them with the other income streams. So now we are in a position where the outgoings on players will be circa 1m less than the income from ticket sales. What are the club going to use that surplus for? I understand it's a business and it's his money when all is said and done but it doesn't sit right with me if he is pocketing it and not investing it in the future of the club.

 

I suppose we were paying back Mark Lawn's loan under the previous owners but, like him or loathe him, he was a local lad and a lifelong fan. It somehow seems different to be paying back Rupp, a man with no interest in Bradford or even football, who bought the club with the specific intention of making money.

 

It might not sit well with some who think £149 is the norm, but in a business sense you have to rinse your customers for every penny you can get. And football is primarily a business. Asking £149 for season tickets and then expecting Rupp to pick up the slack has some brass neck about it.

 

He could have paid Vaughan £300k over his contract I know which I'd rather have, broom broom .

 

Fully understand that, its his toy and he can do with it what he likes. On the back of that it's my money that I am paying to support his business, if I am not seeing something from that then I am not interested. Like you say my local landlord doesn't ask me for handouts, I pay my money and I get my drink. Then every so often he uses the money he has earned through providing a service to update his facilities. If I go to the pictures to watch a film they do the same and every other type of leisure industry does, otherwise they fail eventually. We only have to think back a couple of weeks and this same business was asking people to leave the money that they had paid for a service that hadn't been provided as it would cause them some difficulty otherwise. They are also doing the same at this moment with season tickets, please buy one even though you won't get watch even half the games but we need you to support the club, well really if it's his business and he can do what he wants he should be saying " you can't get in yet so don't worry about it, I have it covered. As soon as fans are physically allowed to attend we will sell tickets on a pro rata so you don't have to pay for what you haven't had". How does that sound ? Not as appealing i guess as us mugs paying for a service we are clearly not getting.

 

Strange attitude we pay money because we want to go and watch our team you know the one we support the one that will be here long after Rupp isn’t
And we won’t be buying £150 tickets half the price of most rivals to help the club but to see the team in these difficult times. The club like a lot of others could have put tickets on sale weeks ago to help the club city didn’t in fact they are still not back on sale.

 

So, forgive me because I must have missed the announcement, but which league 2 club owners are doing this?

 

I am all for supporting my club and I know I am probably sounding negative right now, I haven't got a problem with paying whatever the going rate is, as I have done previously. My issue is that he isn't a lifelong fan trying to do well, he is a business man who bought the club to make profit. Now I am happy to see him make profit from the club but In return I expect to see him strengthen and grow the club and there is no clear proof that he is trying to do that. All we keep hearing is he is funding the club but that is his absolute minimum requirement. We keep losing players and not replacing them with a similar or higher ability and that doesn't shout strengthening to me.

I don't support other clubs and what they do or don't do is of no consequence to me. I imagine none of them are but I bet they are doing the best they can in the circumstances.

 

Only thing I would say on Rupp is if we had not been so badly mismanaged in the last 3 years and lost so much money it would have been nice to have used the mcburnie money for something more worthwhile than filling the void left by Rahic.
But I guess he bought the club and has the right to that sell on as the owner. Just very frustrating all that money, which we may never see the likes of in one season for a long time is gone

 

Yeah there is a strong feeling of frustration that the clubs best ever transfer windfall will never actually benefit the club other than to settle previous misdemeanors.

 

This popped up in my Google news feed.

Some unsurprising opinions though!

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/aug/27/a-really-bad-thing-for-players-views-on-the-football-league-salary-cap-league-one-league-two

 

A good article that shows the complete mess the salary cap has made. So effectively in a years time Sunderland will have the same financial restraints as Acrrington if Accrington decide to spend upto £2.5 million.? It's madness.

 

Omar Beckles would have been a very good signing always seemed to do well against us.