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Gate and Wages as Matchday income, TV and Sponsorship and Corporate Football activities, Property Proportion of Loss before Tax, Profit before Tax, Interest payable, Highest paid Money put in by Team Ownership Turnover, £m £m Broadcasting, £m Merchandising, £m advertising Hospitality, £m Commercial, £m £m Player Trading, £m Hotel, £m Retail, £m Development, £m Other income, £m Wage Bill, £m Turnover (%) £m £m Borrowings, £m Net Debt, £m £m director, £m owners, £m Current state Outlook Notes Arsene Wenger’s team’s big-match collapses, the club’ s major shareholders pocketing millions selling to Stan Kroenke, and 6.5% increases to Arsenal’s already Arsenal Holdings PLC major expensive ticket prices have cracked the Emirates shareholders are Kroenke Sports Stadium halo. The figures look astonishingly healthy – Arsenal will fare Enterprises UK (registered in highest ever Premier League club turnover, £56m well when Uefa’s Delaware, owned by US resident profit, which prompts the question about whether more financial fair play Stan Kroenke) - 62%* might have been spent on the team. But the truer state rules come in, Red and White Securities of Arsenal’s finances came in the six month accounts because their Limited (registered in Jersey, to November 2010, with income from selling the flats in income is high, owned by Russian resident the old Highbury (worth £156m to May 2010) no longer £120m in the six Alisher Usmanov and Farhad coming in. Arsenal lost £6m, and chief executive Ivan months to Moshiri) - 27% Gazidis complained about rising player wages. The November. But the Includes the agreed purchase of club put ticket prices up, but neither the outgoing “Arsenal way” no Accounts for the Lady Nina Bracewell-Smiht’s shareholders, nor Kroenke, will put any of their money longer looks so year to May 31 Arsenal 15.9% 382 94 85 31 0.5 13 156 110 29 56 136 19 1.7 -Ivan Gazidis 0 in pure 2010 Now scaling back These are sobering figures, from Martin O’Neill’s final financially after O’ season in charge, signalling why reality bit for Randy Neill’s sixth place Lerner’s “good American” takeover at Villa Park. finishes were Lerner, vastly more popular than the Glazers at achieved with Manchester United and Tom Hicks and George Gillett, financial losses. Liverpool’s chased-out Americans, because he has put Their size and money in to Villa, not taken it out, has problems to turnover should address despite £206m invested. Villa illustrate the see them into Accounts for the coming ruthlessness of financial fair play: their turnover Europa League year to May 31 of £91m at 42,582 capacity Villa Park is the Premier places, but Lerner 2010. Money put in League’s seventh highest, but is so far behind Chelsea, is learning the vital by owners is Reform Acquisitions LLC, a USA Manchester United and Arsenal, they cannot importance of £116m in cash for company, owned ultimately by 0.237 - unnamed realistically hope to compete with them, and risk finding the right shares and £90m Aston Villa Randy Lerner 91 24 52 14 80 88 38 110 5 director 206 becoming a seller of players to the top clubs manager in loan notes Accounts for the 10 months to June Despite turning round the previous season’s £20m loss 30 2010. Karren in the Championship, and Alex McLeish’s side lifting Brady's £725,000 the Carling Cup, Birmingham are the Premier League’s Uncertain. Blues’ pay consisted of current headache club. The accounts showed Carson Yeung-led £26,000 for one increased turnover and a small profit, but carried a regime needs to month and warning that £24.65m had to be found for the club and find substantially £699,000 payoff its Cayman Islands-registered holding company to more money even for leaving after “operate within its agreed banking facilities.” That, the if the club stays in the Carson Yeung- auditors cautioned, “may cast significant doubt upon the Premier led takeover. The the [club’s] ability to continue as a going concern.” So League. money put in by Birmingham International far £7.15m of that money, underwritten by Polly Chu, Relegation could owners is a loan Holdings, incorporated in the 0.725 - Karren who runs casinos in Macau, has come in, but the share be financially from Carson Birmingham City Cayman Islands 56 7.4 42 7 38 68 0.1 16 1 Brady 15 issue for the other £17.15m has not completed catastrophic Yeung These are the valedictory figures of the former chairman, John Williams, who wrestled 10 years in the Rovers were Premier League, the Carling Cup in 2002 and four punching above seasons in the Uefa Cup from a modicum of financial their true size, with backing by the trustees of the late Jack Walker’s a £3m annual estate. The takeover by Venky’s, the Indian chicken subsidy from Accounts for the company, is one of English football’s oddest; they Walker’s estate. If 10 months to June sacked Sam Allardyce and Williams’ quickly left, amid Venky’s do not 30 2010. The talk the new owners were aiming for fifth place. Under show they are money put in by Steve Kean, Rovers have plummeted into a relegation sensible owners, owners is £100m Venkateshwara Hatcheries 0.358 - John battle, and so far there is no evidence that Venky’s the club will in capital, £4m in Blackburn Rovers (Venky’s) of Pune, in India 58 6 43 9 47 81 2 21 0.7 Williams 104 have put money in struggle interest free loans Accounts for the year to May 31 2010. Money put in by owners is £2.7 m owed to Owen Oyston’s company, Segesta and £276,000 owed to These figures from Blackpool’s promotion season show A season in the Owen Oyston how far the Seasiders gambled – as other Premier League personally. Championship clubs do - on climbing up into the should have Additional Premier League money pot. Valery Belokon, a Latvian transformed information: Valery industrialist, paid £4.5m in 2006 for 20% of Blackpool, Blackpool’s Belokon was owed which has long been owned and bankrolled by finances, whether £603,000 which publisher Owen Oyston, and run by his son, Karl. they stay up or go was repaid in Although credited with doing so shrewdly, and avoiding back down. With December. Karl paying agents, Blackpool ran a wage bill 144% of the no major spending, Oyston owed the club’s total income, making a £7m loss. Had they not this season’s vast club a £26,751 Owen Oyston (76.3%), Valery won promotion, the club could have run into difficulties, income has been interest free loan Blackpool Belokon (20%) 9 13 144 7 4.3 0.06 Not stated 2.976 but Ian Holloway and his team hit the jackpot banked he had taken out Controversial Chairman and FA board member Phil Gartside spent recruitment of two years advocating a Premier League second Owen Coyle from division, to cushion the financial blow for relegated rivals Burnley has clubs. The now increased parachute payments, £48m proven successful. Accounts for the over four seasons, were introduced partly to mollify that Bolton’s challenge year to June 30 worry. Bolton’s finances show why Gartside has cause is to stay in the 2010. The money to be terrified of relegation: a 14th place finish, after 10 Premier League put in is loaned by consecutive seasons in the Premier League, achieved without huge Davies at 5% Edwin Davies (95%), resident in at a loss of £35m, with debts up to £93m and £85m losses and subsidy interest from his the Isle of Man, a tax haven, via 0.532 - Phil loans in from the club’s Isle of Man-based owner Edwin from the club’s company, Bolton Wanderers his private trust, Fildraw 62 9 38 1 3 2 4 8 46 74 35 93 5 Gartside 85 Davies owner Moonshift This was the year, 2010, that Roman Abramovich’s Chelsea’s income former chief executive, Peter Kenyon, said Chelsea is third highest would be making enough money commercially to break behind Manchester even. Instead the club won the title with the Premier United and League’s highest wage bill, £174m, and recorded a Arsenal, but given £78m loss. Abramovich’s relentless ambition pushed Abramovich’s Accounts for the his spending on the club since 2003 to £739m. While obsession with year to June 30 Abramovich is always cited by Uefa president Michel winning, the club 2010. The money Platini as a supporter of financial fair play, because the will be hard- put in is Roman owner wants to reduce his subsidy, Chelsea’s £75m pressed to break Abramovich’s Roman Abramovich, registered spending in January on Fernando Torres and David even, and comply loans to the parent at Companies House as a 0.825 - Peter Luiz suggests Abramovich will find it hard to restrain with financial fair company, Chelsea Russian resident 213 11 2 5 185 10 174 82 78 734 0.8 Kenyon 739 himself play Fordstam Still at Goodison Park, a club both blessed and hobbled by their noble history and mission statement motto: Nil Satis Nisi Optimum: nothing but the best. The club has If Everton could wriggled with frustration for years at grand old appreciate their Goodison’s commercial limitations, and on the income blessings – homely of £79m, with a wage bill less than a third of Chelsea’s, old ground, steely David Moyes’ team has again performed creditably. manager, strong This does not feel like enough to a club which believes team – they could it should be among the champions, but chairman Bill be happy, but the Shares in the Everton Football Kenwright has pushed the finances as far as he can.