Out of contract players

Yes crossed my mind too Dave….a bit of PR. Did you listen to the podcast Episode 2? It’s well worth 25 mins of your time.

 

Which podcast?

 

Unfortunately that's football these days. To compete at the higher levels you're gonna have to be prepared to run at a loss. But then most of the football league and premier league run at a loss and don't get promoted so by that Stockport are well run as are Wrexham.

 

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“ How to build a Premier League Team “

 

Ok.

 

They are only “ well run “ because they chucked cash at it and invested. Wrexham were a basket case until the film star turned up. A club in debt can also be extremely well run, they need to be for sure . County’s owner added an additional £8m on top of his initial purchase costs to buy the club, to invest in players and that was two seasons ago.
Is our owner going to do the same?

County press release
said:

“It has always been Mark’s plan to make sure the money he put into the Club was GIFTED and did not want to burden the Club with long-term loans. This puts the Club in a strong financial position and for this, we are very grateful. His investment both on and off the pitch has been vital to securing promotion to League 2 and we hope to capitalise on this momentum as we look to climb the leagues”.

 

Youmbi gone.

 

Where?

 

Wrexham have made losses? Are you sure?

 

No where yet-just not at City

 

Chapman has been quite a disappointment hasn’t he? Seeing as he played in one of the best England youth teams of recent times

 

Just gone. Into the abyss.

Of the other kids - I think Wadsworth and Jeffreys will get 1 year deals.

 

Coming from Boro and Blackburn, I bet he is on a decent wage at City. Should free up a nice bit of money for someone else.

 

In a football sense, not in a commercial sense. The owner “ gifting” and commercial activities are supporting the football side ie transfers , signing on fees, high agents fees and wages. Which on moderate crowd size has to be loss making. MKD are the same.

 

But United, Tiktok, Expedia etc all sponsor them. They turn over £10m.

Just because it's sponsorship doesn't mean it's a loss. Those sponsors on the face of it are odd, but the fact they get put into the extremely successful documentary means it's worth it for them.

I'd bet they don't make any losses. I'd like to see their accounts though.

Edit: here we go, from Wrexham site:

In the season where promotion was achieved by both the Men’s and Women’s senior teams, Turnover for the year was £10.478m (2022: £5.972m) with the loss increasing to £5.113m (2022: £2.913m).

Income was increased across the board, with the most significant with our retail operation reaching £3.430m (2022: £1.303m) and Sponsorship / Advertising rising to £1.883m (2022: £1.053m). The increase in Football revenue £1.314m (2022: £0.531m) can be attributed to our success in the FA Cup.

The payroll of the Club increased to £6.9058m (2022: £4.050m).


The amount owed to The R.R. McReynolds Company, LLC at the year-end was £8.977m (2022: £3.714m).

The financial losses suffered by the Club since the takeover shouldn’t be repeated, with income generated by the Club now sufficient to meet the operational costs of the Club going forward.

 

I said the Commercial Side is supporting the loss making FOOTBALLING side. And you just repeated the self same thing .

 

Was rumoured over the weekend but seems likely now. Link was to Hartlepool, team he supports and is from that way but today he's put a picture of him arriving at Hartlepool station on instagram and tagged his agent on it.

Hopefully the kick on he needs. The way that lad has dropped off is weird, as this season when he did play he didn't look bad, just never got going. Ben Whitfield is a free agent, local lad and used to the narrow wide man/drifting 10 role we have in the system.

 

Chapman in Hartlepool. Has he been released?

 

No, he was just spending his day taking pictures of train station signs, which he does in his spare time. Got a right collection with Bentham being his proudest one to date. Apparently.