How easy is it for the investors to take money out of the club? 08:42 - Jan 6 with 7600 views | AlfieMooresSon | We've had mixed views on this, but if we sell two players in the window for say £10Million, can the investors simply take £8Million to recoup some of their money, and just say here's £2Million to spend? Or are their rules in place to protect clubs from this? | | | | |
How easy is it for the investors to take money out of the club? on 19:01 - Jan 6 with 1273 views | A_Fans_Dad |
How easy is it for the investors to take money out of the club? on 15:06 - Jan 6 by Dr_Winston | Yup. There are a multitude of reasons why they can't just take money out of the club. The Glazers can pay themselves dividends because they are the sole owners of Man Utd. If Kaplan and co wanted to pay themselves dividends they'd have to pay the same to the Trust as shareholders. Any "management fees" will be in the club's accounts. They'll have to be. I'm fairly confident that there won't be anything significant in there at all. |
Is that the same Trust that was completely shut out of the original sale by any chance? One day we may find out if that had any legal ramifications. If the owners break the law, who is going to get them in to the UK to prosecute them? | | | |
How easy is it for the investors to take money out of the club? on 14:48 - Jan 7 with 1179 views | leighton1318 | You need profits to pay dividends (simplistically). I don’t think we will be making profits any time soon. Another way is to lend money at high rates of interest, which I think was the case at Man Utd at least for a while, but you need cash flow incoming to pay that interest. Also the Revenue may have tightened the rules on that (‘excessive’ borrowing) in the last few years. Don’t think either of those methods are likely to give our shareholders meaningful cash out any time soon. At best we may be getting closer to cash flow break even (a large part of Birch’s brief, you would think). Even with a net profit of say £10m on this window (the sale of Ayew and others) - would this do much more than pay the bills for a while longer? It feels to me like there is still more to do to balance the budget. Only guessing though. | | | |
How easy is it for the investors to take money out of the club? on 15:21 - Jan 7 with 1160 views | SwanDownUnder | Our Trust Director who is big buddies with Birch has access to the books anyway. | | | |
How easy is it for the investors to take money out of the club? on 20:36 - Jan 7 with 1080 views | SwanDownUnder |
How easy is it for the investors to take money out of the club? on 15:21 - Jan 7 by SwanDownUnder | Our Trust Director who is big buddies with Birch has access to the books anyway. |
History repeats, we're meant to be in court with them? | | | |
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