| QPR Accounts... on 22:44 - Mar 6 with 3267 views | YorkRanger |
Curious nothing on the official website | | |  |
| QPR Accounts... on 22:46 - Mar 6 with 3262 views | Blue_Castello |
iF it does how the bloody hell is that going to help, as far as I read the situation all the debt is owed to the board in the same way as all of Chelsea's debit is owed to Abramovich.
If the current board pull the plug , then I can only see us back into Administration or completely folding, where the hell will we find millionaire / billionaire owners who want to buy a club with our debt.
Derbys post seemed a very balanced assessment, it's shit but the owners have known these figures for months and over the coming months we have to get our house in order. [Post edited 6 Mar 2014 22:50]
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| QPR Accounts... on 22:46 - Mar 6 with 3257 views | paulparker |
I think that depends on who departs in the summer
If it's still Arry & co i can see an uprising
Before today if you had a pop at saint Tony on this MB
You were shouted down as a looney Chelsea fan
TF has made cock up after cock up and patience
Is getting thinner than my hairline
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| And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
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| QPR Accounts... on 22:48 - Mar 6 with 3254 views | onlyrinmoray |
Just did a bit of research as Im waiting for my Liverpool supporting son to start hurling insults Liverpool lost £ 50 mill Not sure if that is comforting but I know that all the big clubs lose millions each year Its just that " little ol QPR" have lost such an amount that its such a big deal | | | |
| QPR Accounts... on 23:40 - Mar 6 with 3189 views | daveB |
just a bit on financial fair play, way i read it these losses don't apply to us until next season, all about what we lose this year which to be honest is still going to be big. Likely we'll have a transfer embargo but that doesn't come into effect until January which might do us a favour. Really you are better off not going up under these rules.
http://www.financialfairplay.co.uk/financial-fair-play-explained.php
Note: The newly relegated clubs must comply with the FFP rules in full. During their first December in the Championship, a newly relegated club does not have to submit their accounts for the previous season (i.e. the accounts relating to the season when they were in the Premier League). However QPR, Reading and Wigan will need to submit their accounts for the 2013/14 season to the Football League (and will be hit with a sanction if their 2013/14 accounts show that losses exceeded the permitted thresholds). | | | |
| QPR Accounts... on 23:57 - Mar 6 with 3161 views | daveB |
also worth pointing out Leicester will face a big fine when they go up, Forest as well if they make it, both have posted big losses as well, not in our league but big for this league | | | |
| QPR Accounts... on 00:10 - Mar 7 with 3148 views | ColombiR |
Excellent stuff from Dave Mc - considered and not at all sensationalist so don't see what can be attention-seeking about it.
Particularly pertinent point about Fernandes' ability to retain the fans' support through his interaction on twitter, in the pub etc. I have no problem with this interaction, I applaud his openness, but it's all irrelevant given that he has run our club disgracefully badly.
Can't see what's particularly alarming about today's news in particular - you don't need to do many sums to work out that our wages are way beyond sustainable and have been since the first season in the Prem at the very least, but probably since the start of the Briatore era.
Personally I struggle to get too excited or upset about these numbers and care more about what the money is being spent on. At first I hated the fact we were living beyond our means but then I decided I could put up with being supported by the wealth of an owner as long as that money was being spent sensibly (as was case during our promotion year). If we spent the money properly that will probably lead to more success and a more enjoyable team to watch, therefore there's a smaller chance of debts being disastrous (even if that "sustainable" is not the QPR I've loved over the years - i.e. we can be attractive to big investors, somehow be a part of this horrendous Canary Wharf mark II).
As we're wasting it horrendously the danger is higher that it will end in disaster. Which will be painful but there are enough of us fans to ensure the club doesn't die, even if the entity we are today does actually go out of business (if Portsmouth somehow didn't then I don't think we could).
In any case we're beyond the point of being able to control it. If I thought about how poor a state the club is in all the time I'd never get any sleep. So I'll take the highs and lows of victories and defeats until we become something a little bit more likeable. | | | |
| QPR Accounts... on 00:22 - Mar 7 with 3134 views | AndyB |
And I still believe that someone with deep enough pockets (probably us or Leicester or both) will challenge FFP in the Euro courts and it will be found illegal.
It is restriction of free-trade | | | |
| QPR Accounts... on 00:31 - Mar 7 with 3119 views | PunteR |
Very good article by Dave mc.
I'm really p***ed off with it all. Its embarrassing. With all the things that's happened to QPR in the past, Fernandes had a responsibility to look after our club. He hasn't.
What's frustrating for me is it didn't have to be like this. They just had to be patient and build the club properly. It should be all about the prep work . | |
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| QPR Accounts... on 01:05 - Mar 7 with 3108 views | Nov77 |
That's one of the best written pieces I've seen in a long time, david mc is right to ask these questions. | |
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| QPR Accounts... on 01:12 - Mar 7 with 3092 views | FredManRave |
Agree with the points made, especially the one about prep work or apparent lack thereof. As we are all well aware Fernandes is (was?!) a successfull businessman before he came to us, he's got an impressive business CV and is actually a qualified accountant. So you'd therefore have to assume that the takeover group did some sort of due dilligence before investing in the club and I remember Fernandes tweeting that he would speak to football club chairman for their opinion and advice but the way they've acted since day one wpuld suggest that neither of these actions were actually done, or certainly not to any great detail.
And people have mentioned, even on this thread how Fernandes has been unlucky with managers, specifically Hughes but then if the guy had set up a proper realistic business plan with wage structure etc at the outset and hadn't fawned over Hughes to the extent of leting him interview us and had actually had a back bone and been able to say no (Cesar!) to Hughes and hadn't himself got involved with certian deals (Park!) then maybe we wouldn't be in this situation.
As for the actual numbers, I have no idea of what they actually mean for the future of our club but I do know that yet again our club is being looked down upon, ridiculed and looked upon as how not to run a club. We're so far removed from the club we were just 3 years ago, the results on the pitch, the atmosphere in the ground and now the confirmed financial results from last year confirm what, imo, has been a disastrous "reign" so far by Fernandes. | |
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| QPR Accounts... on 01:14 - Mar 7 with 3088 views | QPR1882 |
So is the transfer windows.
What other business do you know is allowed to hire or fire twice a year only ? Can you imagine being a builder and know you cant take any big contracts on until after Christmas because you could not get any Brick layers in until Jan. | | | |
| QPR Accounts... on 08:50 - Mar 7 with 2973 views | 08olesen |
13 players out of contract and parachutes payments or premiership, will make them much better reading next year. Harry off the bill too | |
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| QPR Accounts... on 09:02 - Mar 7 with 2949 views | BrianMcCarthy |
Superb article by Dave McIntyre. | |
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| QPR Accounts... on 09:16 - Mar 7 with 2933 views | imustbemad |
The way I read it you are better off not going back up as you will be hit by a massive fine. If we are going to be hit with transfer embargo we have next window to prepare and I'm not sure if it affects the ability to use mid season loan market.
The FFP rules seem ludicrous for clubs coming back down especially for teams that are playing in the premier league for several years. This is why we seen so many managers sacked this season in the EPL. I believe this year is the most since the start of the EPL. | | | |
| QPR Accounts... on 09:29 - Mar 7 with 2913 views | HantsR |
This in The Times today.
Queens Park Rangers have drawn up plans to drastically reduce their losses after announcing that their net debt had risen to £177 million, illustrating the scale of their lavish spending in the Barclays Premier League last season.
The West London club made a £65.7 million loss in a vain attempt to avoid relegation from the top flight last season, greater than the shortfalls suffered by Manchester City and Chelsea over the same period. Wages leapt to £78 million covering the year to May 31, 2013, eclipsing their turnover by more than a quarter, and was higher than that of Borussia Dortmund, last season’s Champions League finalists . The German club’s wage bill was £60  million.
QPR’s efforts to get their house in order will be helped by a number of highly-paid players leaving when their contracts expire in the summer and the club could recoup money from the sale of players such as Loïc Rémy and Adel Taarabt, who are on loan at Newcastle United and AC Milan respectively.
The sales may start to stem the losses but only promotion to the Premier League would help to eat into the debt. QPR are fourth in the Sky Bet Championship and fans who have fretted over their team’s chances of even making the play-offs this season are now perhaps more concerned about the club’s financial management and the possibility of a hefty punishment for failing to fall in line with Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules.
Tony Fernandes, the club’s owner, trumpeted prudence and common sense when he took charge of the club in August 2011, but the accounts reveal that he and his fellow owners had to invest in a further £73 million in loans, taking their total lending to about £160 million, in addition to a £15 million short-term bank loan taken out at the end of last season.
The Malaysian could become another owner who is a testament to failed ambition. “Football needs to change; there are clubs who are spending money that if they were in a real business they could not afford,” Fernandes said in 2011. “For the sake of football, proper business sense has to be made.”
The headline figures in the accounts are not pretty and neither is the detail. Television provided 70 per cent of the £60.6 million turnover and the parachute payments after relegation will make up only half of that shortfall this season. The playing and coaching staff grew from 84 to 107 and primarily accounted for the additional £20 million spent on wages. Júlio César – one of three goalkeepers whose weekly aggregate cost was about £150,000 – earned about £90,000 a week and the Brazil player has remained on the club’s books for half of this campaign. The next set of accounts, which cover this season, could also make for grim reading.
No wonder that QPR are among the clubs who have made a legal challenge to the Football League’s FFP rules. The rules require clubs to limit their losses this season to £8 million or face sanctions: either a transfer embargo or, if they have been promoted to the Premier League, a fine.
QPR must submit their finances for this season to the Football League in December, when the calculation will be made. The Football League says that it is confident that it will be able to claim any fines from sides achieving promotion, even though the clubs would no longer be under its jurisdiction.
“A critical driver of any club’s value is its presence in the Premier League,” Fernandes said in a statement . “The financial results reflect the club’s focus on trying to achieve on-pitch success.”
QPR do not expect the news to affect their plans for a new stadium, though, which is part of a much wider development in West London. “We are continuing to make progress in relation to both a new training ground and larger stadium,” Fernandes said. | | | |
| QPR Accounts... on 09:31 - Mar 7 with 2906 views | daveB |
I like Fernandes, I want him to do well and he talks a good game but every big decision he has made has been wrong so far and I have very little faith that he will get the next big ones right. It's been just as crap as under Flavio but with a smile and good intentions | | | |
| QPR Accounts... on 11:46 - Mar 7 with 2839 views | themodfather |
i opened the link with great fear....then read...presented with"great pleasure" and it's followed by a horror story, bram stoker couldn't dream up!!
off to find some strong alcohol! | | | |
| QPR Accounts... on 12:20 - Mar 7 with 2804 views | essextaxiboy |
I agree , The European clubs are working hard to find ways around it .
It will all collapse as unworkable and illegal IMO | | | |
| QPR Accounts... on 08:43 - Nov 4 with 1634 views | PlanetHonneywood |
Not sure if the bond scheme is still open, but could you have a quick butchers to see if we get promoted in the next few years? | |
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