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In Sickness and in Wealth: a Guide to the Latest 4 The Guardian | Thursday 19 May 2011 The Guardian | Thursday 19 May 2011 5 Inside sport special report Premier League finances In sickness and in wealth: a guide to the latest All details from most recently filed official information at Companies House. Debts are borrowings from banks, financial institutions, owners or other sources. All turnover category totals have been rounded to the nearest million. Arsenal Aston Villa Birmingham City Blackburn Blackpool Turnover £382m ▲ Turnover £91m ▲ Turnover £56m ▲ Turnover £58m ▲ Turnover £9m ▲ up from £316m in 2009 up from £84m in 2008 up from £27.5m in previous year up from £51m in previous year up from £7m in 2009 Gate and match-day income £94m Gate and match-day income £24m Gate and match-day income £7m Gate and match-day income £6m TV and broadcasting £85m TV and broadcasting £52m TV and broadcasting £42m TV and broadcasting £43m Retail £13m Commercial £14m Commercial £7m Commercial £9m Commercial £31m Property development £156m Player trading £1m Wage bill £110m ▲ Wage bill £80m ▲ Wage bill £38m ▲ Wage bill £47m ▲ Wage bill £13m ▲ up from £103m in previous year up from £50m in 2008 up from £27m in previous year up from £46m in 2009 up from £6m in 2009 Wages as proportion of turnover 29% Wages as proportion of turnover 88% Wages as proportion of turnover 68% Wages as proportion of turnover 81% Wages as proportion of turnover 144% Profit before tax £56m Loss before tax £38m Profit before tax £0.1m Loss before tax £2m Loss before tax £7m following £46m profit last year following £46m loss last year following £20m loss in 2009 following £4m profit in 2009 following £1m loss in 2009 Net debt £136m Net debt £110m Net debt £16m Net debt £21m Net debt £4.3m Interest payable £19m Interest payable £5m Interest payable £1m Interest payable £0.7m Interest payable £0.06m Highest paid director Highest paid director Highest paid director Highest paid director Highest paid director Not stated Ivan Gazidis £1.7m Unnamed director £0.237m Karren Brady £0.725m John Williams £0.358m Accounts for the year to 31 May 2010 Accounts for the year to 31 May 2010 Accounts for the year to 31 May 2010 (£26K for one month plus £699,000 pay-off ) Accounts for the year to 30 June 2010 Accounts for the 10 months to 30 June 2010 Ownership Ownership Ownership Ownership Owen Oyston 76.3% Arsenal Holdings plc major shareholders are: Reform Acquisitions LLC Ownership Venkateshwara Hatcheries (Venky’s) of Pune, India Valery Belokon 20% Kroenke Sports Enterprises UK (US company) 62%* (US company, owned ultimately by Randy Lerner) Birmingham International Holdings Red and White Securities Ltd (Jersey company) 27% (incorporated in the Cayman Islands) Money put in by owners £104m Money put in by owners £2.7m owed to Oyston’s company, *includes agreed purchase of Nina Bracewell-Smith’s 15.9% Money put in by owners £206m £100m in capital, £4m in interest-free loans Segesta, and £276,000 owed to Oyston personally; Belokon £116m in cash for shares, £90m in loan notes Money put in by owners £15m was owed £603,000 (repaid in December). Karl Oyston owed Money put in by owners Nil loan from Carson Yeung the club a £26,751 interest-free loan he had taken out Turnover Turnover Turnover Turnover Turnover £382m £91m £56m £58m £9m Wage bill Wage bill Wage bill Wage bill Wage bill £110m £80m £38m £47m £13m Debt as % of Premier League total Debt as % of Premier League total Debt as % of Premier League total Debt as % of Premier League total Debt as % of Premier League total 5.3% 4.4% 0.6% 0.8% 0.2% State they're in State they're in State they're in State they're in State they're in Arsène Wenger’s team’s big-match These are sobering figures, from Despite turning around the These are the valedictory figures of the These figures from Blackpool’s promotion collapses, major shareholders pocketing Martin O’Neill’s final season in charge, previous season’s £20m loss in the former chairman, John Williams, who season show how far the Seasiders millions selling to Stan Kroenke and signalling why reality bit for Randy Championship, and Alex McLeish’s side wrestled 10 years in the Premier League, gambled on climbing up into the Premier 6.5% increases to ticket prices have Lerner’s “good American” takeover lifting the Carling Cup, Birmingham are the Carling Cup in 2002 and four seasons League money pot. Valery Belokon, cracked the Emirates Stadium halo. The at Villa Park. Lerner has problems to the Premier League’s headache club. in the Uefa Cup from a modicum of a Latvian industrialist, paid £4.5m in figures look healthy – highest Premier address despite £206m invested. Their £24.65m has to be found for the club and financial backing by the trustees of the 2006 for 20% of Blackpool, which has League club turnover, £56m profit, but turnover of £91m at the 42,582-capacity its Cayman Islands-registered holding late Jack Walker’s estate. The takeover long been owned and bankrolled by the truer state of finances came in the Villa Park is the Premier League’s company to “operate within its agreed by Venky’s, the Indian chicken company, the publisher Owen Oyston, and run by six month accounts to November 2010, seventh highest, but is so far behind banking facilities”. So far £7.15m of that is one of English football’s oddest; it his son, Karl. Although credited with with income from selling the flats in the Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal money, underwritten by Polly Chu, who sacked Sam Allardyce and Williams doing so shrewdly, and avoiding paying old Highbury (worth £156m to May 2010) they risk becoming a seller of players to runs casinos in Macau, has come in, but quickly left. Under Steve Kean, Rovers agents, the wage bill was 144% of the no longer coming in. Arsenal lost £6m. the top clubs. the share issue for the other £17.15m has have plummeted into a relegation battle. total income, making a £7m loss. Outlook Will fare well when Uefa’s Outlook Scaling back after O’Neill’s not completed. Outlook Were punching above their true Outlook A season in the Premier League financial fair play rules come in, because sixth-place finishes were achieved with Outlook Carson Yeung-led regime size with a £3m annual subsidy from should have transformed finances, their income is high. But the “Arsenal financial losses. Size and turnover should needs to find substantially more money. Walker’s estate. Will struggle if Venky’s whether they stay up or go down. This way” no longer looks so pure. see them into Europa League places. Relegation could be catastrophic. does not show it is a sensible owner. season’s vast income has been banked. Manchester City Manchester United Newcastle United Stoke City Sunderland Turnover £125m ▲ Turnover £286m ▲ Turnover £52m ▼ Turnover £59m ▲ Turnover £65m # up from £87m in 2009 up from £278m in 2009 down from £101m in 2009 up from £54m in 2009 same as 2009 Gate and match-day income £18m Gate and match-day income £100m Gate and match-day income £21m Gate and match-day income £13m TV and broadcasting £54m TV and broadcasting £104m TV and broadcasting £16m TV and broadcasting £39m Commercial £53m Commercial £81m Commercial £15m Sponsorship and royalties £8m Commercial activities £5m Wage bill £133m ▲ Wage bill £131m ▲ Wage bill £47m ▼ Wage bill £45m ▲ Wage bill £54m ▲ up from £82m in previous year up from £123m in 2009 down from £73m in previous year up from £30m in 2009 up from £50m in previous year Wages as proportion of turnover 106% Wages as proportion of turnover 46% Wages as proportion of turnover 90% Wages as proportion of turnover 76% Wages as proportion of turnover 83% Loss before tax £121m Loss before tax £79m Loss before tax £17m Loss before tax £5m Loss before tax £28m following £93m loss in previous year following profit of £22m in 2009 following loss of £15m the previous year following profit of £0.5m in 2009 following £26m loss in previous year Net debt £41m Net debt £590m Net debt £150m Net debts £8m Net debt £66m Interest payable £4m Interest payable £107m Interest payable £2m Interest payable £6,000 Interest payable £2m Highest paid director Highest paid director Highest paid director Highest paid director Highest paid director Garry Cook £2m David Gill £2m Unnamed director £0.174m Unnamed director £0.119m Niall Quinn £0.326m Accounts for the year to 31 May 2010 Accounts for the year to 30 June 2010 Accounts for the year to 30 June 2010 Accounts for the year to 31 May 2010 Accounts for the year to 31 July 2010 Ownership Ownership Ownership Ownership Ownership Wholly owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan Malcolm Glazer and his family via Red Football Limited Mike Ashley via his company St James Holdings Limited Owned by online gambling company, bet365 Group Ellis Short via Drumaville, a company registered in Jersey via the Abu Dhabi United Group, Partnership and Red Football General Partner Inc, both controlled by Denise Coates, the daughter of chairman, Peter, registered in United Arab Emirates registered in the low-tax State of Nevada, US Money put in by owners £140m and family Money put in by owner £115m in loans £47m in the year (£19m cash, £28m interest-free loans) Money put in by owners £493m Money put in by owners Nil Money put in by owners £43m in cash £28m in cash, £15m in interest-free loans Turnover Turnover Turnover Turnover Turnover £125m £286m £52m £59m £65m Wage bill Wage bill Wage bill Wage bill Wage bill £133m £131m £47m £45m £54m Debt as % of Premier League total Debt as % of Premier League total Debt as % of Premier League total Debt as % of Premier League total Debt as % of Premier League total 1.6% 23.4% 6.0% 0.3% 2.6% State they're in State they're in State they're in State they're in State they're in Almost £500m cash from Sheikh More itemisation of the Glazer family’s Figures from Newcastle’s promotion Stoke’s achievement in establishing Difficult not to wonder whether this Mansour has been poured into City in monstrous, debt-laden takeover.
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