You use the word 'we' a lot in your post. Who is 'we'? Would that be CCFC or SISU? We, if you mean CCFC, have no money to buy anything. Anything SISU buys on our behalf will be in the form of a loan or debt loaded on CCFC.I have mentioned this in another thread and some can't see it working. <snip> So I would mind the opinion of a few of more sensible posters
Basically if you are to believe SISU that we are building a new stadium. Even if it was part funded by debt and part by investors. I would guess the club would still get an extra 20 million debt.
We pay 1-5-2 million interest per year on 9 million debt to ARVO.
So double that you are and add the existing debt we would be paying 5-6 million a year in interest. In the Championship interest counts against your FFP. So the new revenue streams that are so important for funding the squad will need 6 million off them.
My idea is we offer Wasps half of what the new stadium would cost us in debt. In this hypothetical example 9 million. We want 49% of ACL. However we say as part of the deal wasps must clear half the loan with the money (7 million).
We then inherit 3.5 million of the remaining 7 million loan.
Wasps reduce their risks straight away they now only have a 3.5 million loan. They also have CCFC committed as a fellow anchor tenant long term to the Ricoh.
To entice wasps to take the risk we guarantee we will spend the remaining 11 million on a squad that can take league one by storm and get to 6th in the championship.
The appeal for Wasps ACL will automatically increase in value when we sign the deal.
They get an instant return on their investment.
A successful CCFC would bring in crowds comparable to Wasps and far more valuable sponsorship and advertising revenue.
The moment we hit 6th CCFC get to sell the premiership dream ( ie 100 million for last place to someone) finally getting a return on their investment.
Wasps then get a partner with genuine premiership aspirations so again more money for ACL.
For me this idea is more likely to get SISU a return on their investment than building a new stadium.
You use the word 'we' a lot in your post. Who is 'we'? Would that be CCFC or SISU? We, if you mean CCFC, have no money to buy anything. Anything SISU buys on our behalf will be in the form of a loan or debt loaded on CCFC.
We pay 1-5-2 million interest per year on 9 million debt to ARVO....
Including debt, which you are doing, wasps paid £20mil. You are offering £9mil for basically half... The value would have increased with wasps coming in. Why would they sell half for less than they paid for it.
First of all - 'we' don't pay that amount, the interest is accrued to the debts and not paid out. This is recognized by OSB.
Second, the debt is owed to the shareholders. Not an outside bank or company. If the club cannot repay the debt then it's the shareholders who lose their money. The debt and the share value is equally of zero value until the club starts to make a serious profit.
Third - and this is the important bit that nobody talks about - the debts (made up of loans and interests) are seemingly being converted to equity to make sure the club can upkeep a decent wage bill under the SMCP/FFP in this league.
The debt level and the interest rate is really un-important unless you are either Hoffman trying to take over the club for £1 or another feeling the need to steer discussions away from one of the dozens other sensible topics.
First of all - 'we' don't pay that amount, the interest is accrued to the debts and not paid out. This is recognized by OSB.
Second, the debt is owed to the shareholders. Not an outside bank or company. If the club cannot repay the debt then it's the shareholders who lose their money. The debt and the share value is equally of zero value until the club starts to make a serious profit.
Third - and this is the important bit that nobody talks about - the debts (made up of loans and interests) are seemingly being converted to equity to make sure the club can upkeep a decent wage bill under the SMCP/FFP in this league.
The debt level and the interest rate is really un-important unless you are either Hoffman trying to take over the club for £1 or another feeling the need to steer discussions away from one of the dozens other sensible topics.
Why do we only want 49%? Surely we want 50% to be equal partners?
(To entice Wasps into the deal)
You don't know what the interest would be, given that wasps are only paying c£1.4m pa on repayment and interest, I don't think you can suggest that we would be paying another £5-6m pa interests. Scaremongering.
(It's the rate SISU are currently loaning money at. They will likely need to go to ARVO again for their share. So it is the most logical explanation unless we go with yours and they loan it from CCC. )
I would welcome OSB's thoughts on your proposal and whether he thinks wasps would be receptive..
£11m wouldn't be enough to get promoted from league one and push for top 6 in championship, you would use half of that in league one, which would leave you with just £5.5-6.5m for championship, just about enough to scrape survival.
(What have Bournemouth spent)
It makes me laugh, when it comes to football people just treat money and spending like its Monopoly money.
(Our owners are intending to on a monopoly stadium I am just suggesting something more sensible )
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Bournemouth spent over £15m in one season in league one just to get promotion.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/27224806
And that might be the rate at which Sisu are currently lending money but it doesn't mean that's the rate they would do it for the stadium.
I can borrow money on one of my credit cards for 18.9%, or I could get a loan at around 4% or a mortgage at c1.5% tracker.
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Bournemouth spent over £15m in one season in league one just to get promotion.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/27224806
And that might be the rate at which Sisu are currently lending money but it doesn't mean that's the rate they would do it for the stadium.
I can borrow money on one of my credit cards for 18.9%, or I could get a loan at around 4% or a mortgage at c1.5% tracker.
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They did not spend 15 million pm their squad, their debt was 15 million.
I am talking about spending the 11 million on top of the 7 million we will probably use and spend in that season anyway
The 11 million is additional money we would have been wasting on the new stadium to be spent purely on the squad
1. CCFC would not own the new stadium. Tim Fisher has already stated that it would be owned by another legal entity and CCFC would pay rent.
(Paid for partly by debt (SISU) and partly by the other investors
2. Why would Wasps agree to sell half at cost? What's in it for them?
(Wasps spent 5.5 million and got 14 million debt. They will get 9 million reduce their debt to 3.5 million. Have 50% of a company that instantly increases in value. They gain another anchor tenant and a business plan that shows CCFC will be investing an additional 11 million on their squad. Which will lead to increased revenue streams for ACL.)
3. If Wasps agreed to sell for debt, they would now have greater risk, not less. They have the risk that we don't pay the debt
(We have the debt they reduce theirs by two thirds )
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I really want to believe this, but have a hard time wrapping my head around it. Are you basically saying because no one would buy us with the debt it's worthless? As in no one would take it on in the same way the equity is worthless as no one would pay for the shares?
If nothing else it puts off potential investors surely? Doesn't it mean we're stuck here until we fluke the Prem or is there another realistic short term exit strategy?
Working with Wasps/ACL is the only sensible option left. Anything else doesn't make sense.
Loading the club up with massive interest debt to pay for a stadium no one wants is going to kill the club.
Sisu need to sit down with Wasps and sort something out. If they keep picking fights that they can't win then they will lose everything.
Bournemouth spent over £15m in one season in league one just to get promotion.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/27224806
And that might be the rate at which Sisu are currently lending money but it doesn't mean that's the rate they would do it for the stadium.
The average person can borrow money on one of my credit cards for 18.9%c(outside 0% period), or could get a loan at around 4% or a mortgage at c1.5% tracker.
I would suggest that with the asset as security (like a mortgage) the rate would be significantly lower than what ARVO are charging.
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First of all - 'we' don't pay that amount, the interest is accrued to the debts and not paid out. This is recognized by OSB.
(And recognised by me, also it will be recognised by the FL if we get promoted to the championship and it gets deducted from the FFP we so desperately need to increase)
Second, the debt is owed to the shareholders. Not an outside bank or company. If the club cannot repay the debt then it's the shareholders who lose their money. The debt and the share value is equally of zero value until the club starts to make a serious profit.
(No argument there and that is irrelevant to the point I am making. The chances of making serious profit will be more via my suggestion than a new stadium)
Third - and this is the important bit that nobody talks about - the debts (made up of loans and interests) are seemingly being converted to equity to make sure the club can upkeep a decent wage bill under the SMCP/FFP in this league.
(FFP as covered above)
The debt level and the interest rate is really un-important unless you are either Hoffman trying to take over the club for £1 or another feeling the need to steer discussions away from one of the dozens other sensible topics
(Sorry that's where you are wrong do some reading on FFP in the championship and interest paid on debt and loans)
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What happens if wasps change the seats?
It all goes back to what will wasps want or be prepared to give. It's likely they will want significantly more than £100k per annum rent, but highly unlikely they are going to want to give any more the 50% of matchday revenues away. Then we are left back at square one.
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That fat tub of lard posing as CCFC chairman should be kissing Nick Eastwood's arse 24/7 in trying to get the best deal for CCFC.
dongonzalos said:(And recognised by me, also it will be recognised by the FL if we get promoted to the championship and it gets deducted from the FFP we so desperately need to increase)
Godiva said:The debt level and the interest rate is really un-important unless you are either Hoffman trying to take over the club for £1 or another feeling the need to steer discussions away from one of the dozens other sensible topics
(Sorry that's where you are wrong do some reading on FFP in the championship and interest paid on debt and loans)
Tbf, he'd have to join the back of the queue behind you, shmmeee, mmm, dongo...
Ok lets plunge the club millions in debt and move it out of the city because of the colour of the seats (which when Mark Robins proposed a few years ago half of the posters on here thought it was a good idea anyway).
The average person can borrow money on one of my credit cards for 18.9%c(outside 0% period), or could get a loan at around 4% or a mortgage at c1.5% tracker.
I would suggest that with the asset as security (like a mortgage) the rate would be significantly lower than what ARVO are charging.
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I never said they spent £15m on their squad. I'm saying they used £15m on top of the revenue the club made in order to get promoted. It wasn't their debt, it was one year's losses.
So what your saying is. We already lose £7m, so we should throw another £11m so we're losing £18m on a punt to get out of this league? Like I said Monopoly money. Utterly fanciful.
So that's the £11m gone, wasps have pocketed their £9m, getting to the championship brings in an additional £5m. So the next season we're on course to lose £13m before the players get an automatic pay rise due to promotion, and before we've added to the squad. What's next?
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How will building a new stadium put the club in more debts?
Yes, that's the reality. The shares and the debt is worth nothing to the owners with the state the club is in. Long record of suffering financial losses, no assets worth mentioning, the rent may be low but it's only set for another three seasons and the income streams are extremely limited.
On top of that you have the customers fighting the owners launching endless campaigns to make them leave. You have the local council who clearly don't offer any support to the - once - proud football team.
Who in their right mind would take that on?
Sisu is stuck with the club as the club is stuck with sisu. There are in my view no short term resolution.
It will put the club and its associated companies into more debt.
Or are you saying the company that will ultimately own this new ground will not be part of the CCFC group of companies?
How will building a new stadium put the club in more debts?
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