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Two are above us, one in a league above. Come 5pm tomorrow only The team in the league above will still be above us.

 

Edin. Parky left a year earlier. Stuart got us to the pkayoffs with a mainly Parky-assembled team but at the end of the year Edin didnt want to pay the going rate to keep again players like McArdle.

Cullen loan wasn’t anything we could control but club decision was to get in cheaper alternatives, paying fees even if needed, for players on a lower basic wage (Poleon for 80k ish, 150k on Reeves was it?).

 

Just doing the maths of the season ticket sales, they would have brought in not far off £2m or in weekly wages £38k which should be perfectly sufficient at our level (a 25 assumed squad puts that at £1500 per head as average)
We’re covering ourselves fine I’d say, if anything there’s the chance of making a profit this year.
I’m going to assume as was mentioned above that Sparks has had direction to get us back in the black so there’s likely some tied hands when it comes to recruitment and any player fees

 

I think we have enough in the squad to stay in a play off place, if so January will be very interesting, I get all this self-sufficiency stuff but Stefan has to back the manager if as I believe we will still be there or there about's.

 

Think it’s the second Rhodes son.
Rupp Rhodes-Julian’s little bro

 

Totally agree and although he is guilty of missing a few the lad puts a shift in against some big hairy arsed central defenders so it could quite easily happen, then we could struggle.

 

Not been funny but surely Adams would have asked and been told what the budget was before he took the job so no point in moaning about it now.

 

So presuming the other income covers the rest of the costs, management, youth team, rent, rates, etc etc. The £2m you talk off is an average of about £150 per ticket. Which gives £38k a week, so yep £1500 per player but from that you have employee NICs thus reducing it down to £1300. Not sure what better striker we would get on that

 

I've said it before. Rupp to Bradford City, is like what Peter Jones is to all the various businesses he funds via Dragons Den. He doesn't really care about these businesses he put money into, and he's certainly not going to be actively managing them, as he's got loads more going on in his portfolio. The reason he put cash in, is that he's hoping to get lucky and the business takes off, and he's handed a return on his investment. As long as he's not losing money, he's going to stay involved - on paper. As soon as he's losing money, or it looks like he might have to put some more in, he'll sell up and be off.

Rupps the same. I don't think we're his only investment. I'm sure he's got loads of others. Some he might even be interested in. Rahic did the Dragons Den sales pitch to him, and he invested. Didn't quite turn out like he invested, but as long as he's not losing more than he's prepared to, why not just let the club tick along incase something happens.

I feel this is why Sparks is so vocal and passionate and positive thinking about the club. He's covering up and putting glitter on, because he knows Rupp won't. I think as time goes on, Sparks will be off. Same way pointy shoes did. You can only falsely smile so much before it starts to hurt.

 

Is Rhodes that rich ?

 

no

 

Even if he takes a cut on the purchase price of the club he’s going to want a return on his investment that he’s put in to keep the club afloat.

 

We are back to the same old question. Let's say Rupp will accept half what he paid, so £3m. I still don't see anyone on the horizon who is going to pay that AND also funds to progress the club. It's looking more and more incredible that he paid £6m even though we were in a better place back then

 

Hes already got that back from McBurnie.

 

Personally from McBurnie ?

 

How sad is that but I agree 100%.
Or as it is now the Premiership.

 

The answer is much more obvious when you consider the football club could be around in 2-300 years whereas a person with a mortgage definitely won't

For an individual a mortgage comes with considerations that don't apply to a business that should have a long term future I'd much rather Bradford City were currently paying off the mortgage on VP than endlessly paying rent

End of the day it makes no sense for City to be paying rent on the stadium because they could theoretically be doing so for the rest of time unless there are plans for a new stadium you are aware of that I'm not otherwise it's paramount that that money isn't just wasted on Gibb's pension fund and is actually going towards ownership and cost cutting in the long term

 

I bang on about him all the time and I know there’s a phrase careful what you wish for but he really is an abysmal owner. Surely with the fan base we have, similar to Portsmouth for example we can look at going for some kind of fan ownership/consortium ?

 

You’re correct the acceptance is killing us between fans we must expect more!! Maybe it’s because the city itself is done for and there is a natural ‘defeatist’ mentality.

 

Idle, with the teams sat in L1, I'd be happy to establish ourselves in L1