Intereting figures from 2011/12 season

[Rovers-on-Thames]

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[Rovers-on-Thames]

OK, apparently that didn't work, here goes again.

http://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/54397/championship-debt-profits-wages-to-turnover-etc-201112

don't know how reliable these figures are but some interesting features;

• Rovers paid the 3rd lowest for player wages
• West Ham, Southampton and Reading paid the 1st, 2nd and 4th highest on player wages and all got promoted
• Rovers had the lowest revenue of any club at 8m and lowest match day revenue of just over 2 m
• Leeds had barely any debt at this time and were one of only 5 clubs making a profit
• Clubs receiving parachute payment money only did moderately well
• 8 Clubs had more than 50m in debt in including Forest, Leicester and Brighton

[BobG]

I didn't know we were carrying a 6 going on 7 figure debt these days. Did anyone? Or is that debt simply a function of timing rather than really having spent more than has come in or is going to come out of the directors trousers?

BobG

[Muttley]

I didn't know we were carrying a 6 going on 7 figure debt these days. Did anyone? Or is that debt simply a function of timing rather than really having spent more than has come in or is going to come out of the directors trousers?

BobG

Best part of £10 million in loans - mainly from JR and (presumably) TB & DW (can't tell from the accounts now as they are no longer directors).

The £3.6m loss last year had to be funded somehow and they chose loans as the best way of doing it, rather than shares. The disadvantage of loans v shares is that they tend to be repayable on demand so if John, Dick or Terry threw their toys out of the pram and demanded repayment that could leave us in a sticky situation (not that they would do that of course).

[BillyStubbsTears]

Sobering figures

Looking at the income and profit/loss figures, we clearly spent a lot more than Barnsley and Peterborough, and about the same as Watford. Kind of shows that the management of the club had gone to pieces, if we were paying that level of money, but had a squad as poor as the one that started and finished last season.