Profit & Sustainability Rules Change

I am from Los Angeles, CA and not from Burnley or Brighton. Sorry to bother this board with my question. Have no idea what NSC is, though.
 
Just another football club website.

Welcome to our MB.

Are you another American fan of our club?

Yes, I lived in a beach town in North Carolina when Bournemouth came up and thought it the perfect club to follow. I have enjoyed it and Eddie Howe makes it easy. Still struggle with the vernacular and obviously, selling/buying/loaning players. Nothing like that in American sports, so totally new thought process.
I am glad that Bournemouth isn't a selling club. I've met a number of transplants here, but almost all are from London area. I met one lifelong Wolverhampton fan and he was a treat to talk to about the Premier League this year. He was a carpet designer and he said everyone who grew up around his town was in the carpet business. Who knew.

I do accept that odd questions would raise eyebrows, so seriously, no offense taken.
 
Oh dear oh dear oh dear... who cares a monkeys about this ere Financial Fair Play bollux....there is no such thing...the whole PL is BENT....Everton .... West Ham..... Bournemouth and Boscombe...Brighton and Hove...the ManChesters.....Chelsea....Watford....Saints.....Liverpool....Burnley ..the Whole Shebango!....and going lower I don't imagine Crewe, Northampton and Exeter are too squeaky transparent!!!
Can we just Play.......Football!
 
Yes, I lived in a beach town in North Carolina when Bournemouth came up and thought it the perfect club to follow. I have enjoyed it and Eddie Howe makes it easy. Still struggle with the vernacular and obviously, selling/buying/loaning players. Nothing like that in American sports, so totally new thought process.
I am glad that Bournemouth isn't a selling club. I've met a number of transplants here, but almost all are from London area. I met one lifelong Wolverhampton fan and he was a treat to talk to about the Premier League this year. He was a carpet designer and he said everyone who grew up around his town was in the carpet business. Who knew.

I do accept that odd questions would raise eyebrows, so seriously, no offense taken.
Welcome to the board. I spent some time o N Carolina beaches years back. Wright bothers made the first flights there.
 
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Does spending 80 million with not much offset endanger Bournemouth per this rule. Not really sure how it works.

and there was me thinking, welcome to the board Neil....
 
I am from Los Angeles, CA and not from Burnley or Brighton. Sorry to bother this board with my question. Have no idea what NSC is, though.


Welcome!


NSC is North Stand Chat, a Brighton football message board.
http://www.northstandchat.com/forumdisplay.php?20-The-Big-Board


They're our rivals, sort of, and are absolutely fixated with our financial situation.

They're convinced we illegally cheated out way into the Premier League and keep banging on about it every time football finances get into the media.
 
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Welcome!


NSC is North Stand Chat, a Brighton football message board.
http://www.northstandchat.com/forumdisplay.php?20-The-Big-Board


They're our rivals, sort of, and are absolutely fixated with our financial situation.

They're convinced we illegally cheated out way into the Premier League and keep banging on about it every time football finances get into the media.

...and they can beat us in the league ( 10 years and counting ) and remember a certain Boxing day match in a retail park which used to be a proper in town football ground.......
 
I met one lifelong Wolverhampton fan and he was a treat to talk to about the Premier League this year. He was a carpet designer and he said everyone who grew up around his town was in the carpet business. Who knew.
Suprised you could understand him if he was from Wolverhampton. Are you sure he wasn't saying 'Carpenter' instead of 'Carpet fitter'?
 
First off the FFP that applies to the PL is completely and utterly different to the FFP that applies to the Championship. The former to drawn up and governed by UFEA with the PL agreeing to it, the latter is a self imposed Football League matter. So the rules and scope of the two versions of FFP are very different and shouldn't be confused, it's an easy mistake that many people fall into, not least in the UK, sometimes even in our media.

It boils down to adding up your income over the course of 3 years, and limiting the net spend on transfers to less than you've earned in income. Reviewed each year taking the previous 2 into account also. So if for example you want to splash out one year but reign it in the next, you can.

AFCB earns north of 100m per year in income currently. I don't have the 3 years of accounts to hand to tot it all up, but it's substantial income. Using very fag-packet numbers, as long as our transfer fees, player wages, and agent fees don't add to up to some 250-300m, we're ok.

It's worth noting we've posted operating profits in recent years, a 14m operating profit I believe it was last year.

We're certainly spending a lot in recent months and have moved well up the table in transfer fees paid. However our wage bill remains relatively low down the table, due to many of our players being in the younger stages of their careers. As an example, Crystal Palace are struggling to find money for signings currently, but they have a squad of experienced players, multiple of them on 6 figure salaries. That's how they choose to apportion their budget, and that's absolutely fair enough. Different strokes for different shareholders..

Our approach seems to be to put together this group of young players, even if it takes lot of money to get them, and then build them up. As long as we continue to stay up and as long as those young players develop well, it's a sound tactic that in the medium term would give us a squad full of valuable assets. The only danger to us is more of those young players going the way of Jordon Ibe as opposed to the way of Ake or L.Cook or Brooks.
 
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Yes, I lived in a beach town in North Carolina when Bournemouth came up and thought it the perfect club to follow. I have enjoyed it and Eddie Howe makes it easy. Still struggle with the vernacular and obviously, selling/buying/loaning players. Nothing like that in American sports, so totally new thought process.
I am glad that Bournemouth isn't a selling club. I've met a number of transplants here, but almost all are from London area. I met one lifelong Wolverhampton fan and he was a treat to talk to about the Premier League this year. He was a carpet designer and he said everyone who grew up around his town was in the carpet business. Who knew.

I do accept that odd questions would raise eyebrows, so seriously, no offense taken.
Welcome OBX, when I saw your username name I thought, North Carolina!
Have some friends who spend time in the Outer Banks.
 
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