Mondays Meeting

It's about the story that came out where supposedly Rodgers was working his ticket. It was meant to have been leaked by a board member, AKA Lawwell.

 

Hahahaha "closed case" regarding the leak?

* off. Knew that would be the case as soon as there was talk of an "internal investigation" regarding it.

Internal investigation would've went something like this:

MN: It was you right enough eh Peter?

PL: Aye

MN: Cool. Case closed. No telling anycunt.

 

See the thing I don’t get in all this is they are finance driven people. Like all of the decision makers, Desmond, Lawwell, others non ex Board people.

Since COVID we had played in CL 3 of the 4 seasons, our finances have been transformed.

In terms of financial performance:

1. Our cash at the bank has gone from £16.6m to £77.3m so we have retained £60.7m of profits as cash in the club.
2. Taking our last season in the EL to last year our revenue grew from £88.2m to £143.6m so an increase of £55.4m or 63% increase. Yes expenses have increased from £91.7m to £117.1m so £25.4m, 28% increase so our income increased by more than twice the rate of our income.
3. We have managed to sell players each year for record fees and had 3 of our top 5 sales during that period. Likely we could have done even better had we let Maeda go.
4. The assets on the club balance sheet have gone from £178m to £262.6m so a £86.4m increase in balance sheet value in 4 years.
5. Pre tax the club has generated £110.3m profit in 4 years, largely fuelled by CL revenues.
6. Last season we had record performance in all three revenue pillars (or at least within £28k when it comes to merchandise sales).

Yeah we could have arguably spent our money more wisely on signings, but by and large the club has been financially transformed by being in the champions league.

So, why when presented with a two legged tie against Kairat Almaty or Slovan Bratislava, an open goal in European qualifying, why wouldn’t you spend £15m to capture at least £30m more in revenue? Especially knowing you could sell a Maeda and Yang to recoup £20m+ if it doesn’t go well or even in advance.

Their decision making makes absolutely no sense. It is self defeating for their purpose.

Even refusing to sell Maeda and Yang has literally probably cost the club about £12m in what we could expect to get for them in January.

To come out and say that you have no regrets about how that summer window goes makes absolutely no sense.

 

My point along. It isn't about money its about incompetence. Maeda+ cl money is +70mill..if we had been anyway organized our business would have been done and we would have easily negotiated kairat, then let maeda go with his replacement already in the building. It's like some within the club are trying to tie Nicholson and Rodgers hands behind their back

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