As I have been referred to again about the contents of the accounts a few comments.
- what I said is that from the only published information we have (the filed accounts) there is no evidence of management charges, misappropriation etc. That doesn't mean there couldn't be but there is nothing to say there is. The only way anyone finds out for sure is for us to analyse the records - never going to happen
- some of the claims made on here would have to be disclosed in the accounts in order to comply with law and regulation. If they are not then the auditor has a duty to include that information in the audit report Again there is the possibility of error but no evidence of that. the answer according to some is apparently obvious deception and collusion or sheer incompetence, Or simply nothing to see. take your choice
- the pension is the clubs share of the actuarial calculated deficit of the EFL pension scheme(300K +) plus the contributions for 2015. No great mystery and the details are disclosed in 3 separate places in the accounts 2015
- Wages & salaries. Lot of assumptions being made so I am going to make a few of my own. We know the directors got £314k. We don't know the stewards payments but say average of 50 stewards for 5 hours at £8 ph for 25 matches (including cups etc) that's 50k. then there is the commercial and admin staff (20 in all but exclude 2 directors say 18) That includes the likes of shop and ticket staff, commercial managers, club accountant etc say an average of £20kpa = 360k pa. That leaves £3.57m for players, managers & coaching staff. There are 105 of those and that gives an average salary of 34k or £654pw. That's of course before dealing with where agents fees and payments to former managers are disclosed. The 34K is an average of course as the senior players would be on more and academy players less. similarly would the manager earn that ?
-player dealing. From 2008 to 2015 the club has had player sales of £15.9m and player purchases £7.86m. That information is from the accounts which means the profit of £8m has been applied to reducing the losses shown in the accounts, ie paying the expenses of keeping going. Could the expenses include a cut or payment to SISU see comments above.
- With a charge for interest on loans included in the accounts but not physically paid and accrued to increase debts why would they need to hide large amounts in order to extract value?. In any case if they are performing functions for the club then they are entitled to be reasonably recompensed.
Does it really make sense for SISU to put in new loans in order at least in part to extract funds to themselves? Knowing there is every chance they wont get their capital back?
- Fishers comment on operating profits before player sales, exceptional items and interest. These are the details disclosed in the group accounts (I have taken those figures rather than Otium because it excludes any inter group transactions and the football club is the only trading part in any case)
- 2009 £6.16m
-2010 £6.96m
-2011 £6.8m
-2012 £5.3m
- 2013 £6.9m
-2014 £5.4m (excluding the 1.5m write off of the Otium purchase cost)
-2015 £4.7m
No great improvement in those years, can only hope 2016 & 2017 are better but the only way that happens with dwindling crowds is by slashing costs (wages in particular which can seriously affect achievement) so improvement in operational profit is a double edged sword. Bottom line is the club requires player sales and non payment of interest to keep going