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All details from most recently filed official information at Companies House. Debts are borrowings from banks, financial institutions, owners or other sources
Wage bill
8.82%
Wage bill
3.80%0.43%
Wage bill
0.09%24.18%13.12%
Wage bill
0.67%1.37% 1.23%1.53%
Wage bill
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State they're in State they’re in State they’re in State they’re in State they’re in
Arsenal can justifiably claim the rudest Still a relatively happy home under the David Sullivan and the Gold brothers Punching above their weight simply Still in the Premier League and bailed
financial health in the Premier League. ownership of the “good” American, left Birmingham City in a lean state by surviving in the Premier League, out financially through the backing
Arsenal’s borrowings were to make a Randy Lerner but he appears to have financially before they collectively although Rovers were only ever there of Davies, who made his fortune in
genuine investment – build the Emirates decided he will not put bottomless pocketed £40m for selling the club due to £100m spent and written off kettle technology, lives in the Isle of
Stadium, and apartments in the old money in. Martin O’Neill may want to Grandtop in October. The club was by the former owner Jack Walker and, Man, and puts his money in at a price.
Highbury, which are now providing more to spend, but for Lerner it has been almost debt-free, while Sullivan and since his death, the trustees of his Chairman Phil Gartside talked of the
3.80%
huge returns. The £316m turnover was
the highest by an English football club,
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sobering that even with an excellent
manager, £105m invested gets a great
0.67%1.37% 1.23%
the Golds had been prepared to sustain
the £20m loss in the Championship to
2.23%6.89%23.88%2.68%
estate. Chairman John Williams has
talked the trustees into providing £3m
0.5% 4.09%1.60%
“fear factor” surrounding relegation,
due to the financial gap between the
ever. old club only to sixth. There is a hard back Alex McLeish and keep the players funding, which he believes can give the Premier League and Championship. His
There are three principal challenges: for edge to Lerner’s method too; the money who would win promotion. Whether club the edge they need. Rovers will proposals for a two-tier Premier League,
Arsène Wenger to deliver success on is loaned in from his holding company Grandtop’s chairman Carson Yeung always struggle without huge backing to which would help soften the blow, were
the field; the Emirates must remain full, in the US, and interest is charged. fulfils his promise of providing £80m compete against bigger clubs, but they rejected. Even with Davies lending
and the ownership war between Stan His US company also charged huge to spend on players remains an open are shrewdly-run and have made it as a money in, survival in the world’s
Kroenke and Alisher Usmanov must be 8.82%
management fees, £7.7m, in 2008-09, question. 0.43%
Premier League member to the £3.1bn 13.12%
richest league remains Wanderers’ most
satisfactorily resolved. . although they were not actually paid. TV deals now due to roll in from 2010-13. realistic aspiration.
Wage bill £103m ▲ Wage bill £83m ▲ Wage bill £123m ▲ Wage bill £65m ▲ Wage bill £30m ▲
0.67%
up from £90m in previous year
Wages as proportion of turnover
14%
56%
2.23%6.89%
up from £54m in previous year
Wages as proportion of turnover
54%
95%
0.5% 4.09% 44%
up from £121m in previous year
Wages as proportion of turnover
1.7% up from £55m in previous year
Wages as proportion of turnover
0.58%2.30%
18%
108%
up from £12m in previous year
Wages as proportion of turnover
0.01%
150%
56%
Loss before tax £55m Loss before tax £93m Profit before tax £22m Loss before tax £13m Profit before tax £0.5m
Debts £394m Debts £37m Debts £717m Debts £123m Debts £17.4m
Interest payable £40m Interest payable £2.7m Interest payable £69m Interest payable n/a Interest payable £0.15m
Highest paid director Highest paid director Highest paid director Highest paid director Highest paid director
Rick Parry £4.238m Garry Cook £1.515m David Gill £1.838m Peter Storrie £1.2m Denise Coates £1.3m
82% Figure includes a £3m pay-off
3.80%0.43%
Accounts for the year to 31 May 2009
0.09%24.18% 13.12%
Accounts for the year to 30 June 2009
1.37% 1.23%1.53%
salary in 2008
23.88%2.68%
paid to Coates by Bet365 Group
Accounts for the year to 31 July 2009 Ownership Ownership Accounts for the year to 31 May 2009 Accounts for the year to 31 May 2009
Ownership Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan owns 100% of club Owned by Malcolm Glazer and his family via Red Football Ownership Ownership
Kop Investment LLC owns club via Cayman Islands tax haven Via the Abu Dhabi United Group, registered in the United Arab Limited Partnership and Red Football General Partner Inc, Owned by Balram Chanrai via Portpin Limited, registered Owned by Bet365 Group controlled by Denise Coates,
Company registered in Delaware, a low tax US state. Tom Hicks Emirates both registered in the low tax state of Nevada in the British Virgin Islands, a tax haven daughter of chairman, Peter and family
2.23%
and George Gillett are equal owners
Money put in by owners
0.5% £395m Money put in by owners
0.58% Nil Money put in by owners
0.01%
£53m Money put in by owners £24m
Money put in by owners Nil in loans from owners in interest free loans, which they are preparing to convert
Interest-bearing loans into shares
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0.09%24.18% 13.12%
Wage bill
0.67%1.37% 1.23%1.53%
Wage bill
6.89% 23.88%2.68%
Wage bill
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Wage bill
Premier League debt Premier League debt Premier League debt Premier League debt Premier League debt
State they’re in State they’re in State they’re in State they’re in State they’re in
Appalling. Tom Hicks and George Sheikh Mansour has invested £395m Scandalous. The grim details of the The Premier League’s cautionary tale. A club rebuilt in the Premier League,
Gillett promised they were not “doing into City in two years, paying off the Glazer family’s 2005 takeover finally The recipe is simple: owner (Sacha owned by lifelong supporter Peter
a Glazers” when they bought Liverpool club’s debts, spending massively on dawned on the wider world after the Gaydamak) subsidises overspending, Coates and his family, subsidised by
in 2007 but they have, saddling the players and pumping up the wage bill prospectus in January for the family to club signs unaffordable squad and wins the vast online gambling revenues of
club with the £185m debts they took – all for a fifth place finish. Mansour’s borrow £500m for the third time in four the FA Cup, owner runs out of money, the family’s bet365 group (£3.5bn bets
on to finance their own takeover. Royal intention to spend what it takes of his years. The Glazers have never put a cent club cannot pay the wages, the PAYE tax taken in 2008-09, profits of £72m). Since
.67%1.37% 1.23%
Bank of Scotland and Wachovia are
2.23%6.89%
giving only short-term extensions for
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Abu Dhabi oil fortune to buy City into
the European elite remains unshaken,
0.5% 4.09%1.60%
into United, but have charged £12.9m
in management fees since 2006 and
0.58%2.30%
on them or their other commitments.
Portsmouth’s administrator’s report
0.01%
Coates bought Stoke for the second
time in 2006, the family has invested
repayment of £250m bank loans and the and they are likely to outspend all personally borrowed £10m from the club revealed total debts of £122.8m and the £39m. They are preparing to convert
£40m interest charged is a major drain. other clubs again this summer. The in December 2008. Interest, fees and higher profile of a Premier League club this investment from loans to shares
Hicks and Gillett did loan in £144m only cloud on the blue horizon is Uefa’s other charges on the debts the Glazers fallen insolvent exposed more widely so the club will have no debt. Coates
from their Cayman Islands holding introduction of “financial fair play” took on to buy the club, which they then the leagues’ “football creditors” rule. describes this as “a superb position
company at 10% annual interest payable rules. They require clubs to break even made United responsible for paying, That means 85 ordinary staff could be given the perilous current state of many
by the club. Failure to qualify for the after 2013, and to no longer be reliant, amounted to £460m in four years. The laid off and ordinary creditors including Premier League and Championship club
Champions League and slipping to as City have so dramatically become, on club made a profit in 2009 only because St John Ambulance left unpaid, while finances.” He acknowledges that the
seventh will cost Liverpool over £30m. the chequebooks of owners. they sold Cristiano Ronaldo. players must be paid in full. club must become self-financing.
8.82% 0.43%
Wage bill £13m ▲ Wage bill £167m ▼ Wage bill £49m ▲ Wage bill £46m ▲ Wage bill £34m ▲
up from £10m in previous year 30% down from £172m in the previous year 3% up from £44m in previous year 9% up from £39m in previous year 18% up from £14m in previous year 142%
Wages as proportion of turnover 118% Wages as proportion of turnover 80% Wages as proportion of turnover 61% Wages as proportion of turnover 69% Wages as proportion of turnover 67%
Loss before tax £12m Loss before tax £47m Loss before tax £7m Loss before tax £8.4m Profit before tax £2m
Debts £13m Debts £726m Debts £41m Debts £207m Debts £15m
Interest payable £3m Interest payable Nil Interest payable £4m Interest payable £2m Interest payable £1.6m
Highest paid director Highest paid director Highest paid director Highest paid director Highest paid director
No directors were paid during the year Peter Kenyon £2m Robert Elstone £0.244m Alastair Mackintosh £0.137m Understood to be Russell Bartlett £1.035m
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3.80% 0.43%
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0.09% 24.18%13.12%
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0.67% 1.37% 1.23%1.53%
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6.89%23.88%2.68%
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4.18%13.12%
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0.67%1.37% 1.23% 1.53%
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Wage bill
4.09% 1.60%
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2.30%
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State they’re in by an issue of new shares State they’re in State they’re in State they’re in
Mightily relieved that Quinn found Another cautionary tale. The white Dave Whelan’s pet project is in Apparently very healthy after Premier
Short, a private equity investor from State they’re in knight at Upton Park was Bjorgulfur reasonable form as long as he keeps League survival. Following Morgan’s
Dallas, and persuaded him to finance the Apparently thriving, but we are yet Gudmundsson the club faced meltdown pouring money in. Wigan’s improbable takeover from Sir Jack Hayward in
club’s overspending, just as its previous to see how Spurs have financed the when his fortune collapsed and it was rise to the Premier League is due solely August 2007, Wolves did what aspirant
Irish investors were being burned by the huge spending on players for Harry repossessed. The previous year, 2007- to Whelan’s patronage and decent Championship clubs have to do –
recession. Short has invested £67.5m Redknapp and where the funding will 08 was the worst; the Hammers posted management by those he has appointed. gambled financially to win promotion.
89%23.88% 2.68% 0.5% 4.09%
and converted it into shares, a pure
investment into Sunderland, with a
1.60%
come from for the proposed new 56,000
seat stadium. The policy has borne
0.58% 2.30%
a £72m loss and in May 2008 and 2009
the club was in default with the bank.
0.01%
The accounts note net liabilities, owed
to all creditors, of £54m, predict “further
This 2008-09 picture shows them
making a £5m loss, serious in the
further £10m loaned in interest free. fruit, though; the club is making a tidy Sullivan and Gold have shrewdly paid losses anticipated in 2010 and 2011” and Championship, after spending 94% of
Quinn says Short remains committed, £113m turnover and after claiming the for 50% of West Ham half of what they state there is “a material uncertainty the turnover on wages, but the gamble
and believes a club with Sunderland’s cherished fourth place, will increase received for selling their Birmingham which may cast significant doubt about worked as the club reached the Premier
tribal support will grow in stature and earnings next season. Enic, the holding stake, and are looking to run the club the company’s ability to continue as League land of plenty. Wolves are
ultimately be more valuable financially company owned by Levy and Lewis, tightly, while pitching for generous a going concern.” Whelan pledged to debt-free and in a good position to sign
too. Pressure willintensify on Steve invested almost £15m via a new share terms to occupy the Olympic stadium keep putting the money in so his Wigan players next season, although Morgan
Bruce next season for a better return on issue, genuine investment by the after 2012 to secure more control. venture continues. continuously warns that his club, and all
all those millions than 13th place. owners towards the new stadium. clubs, should live within their means.