Blackburn Rovers Sold

They were actually sold for £43m - so only Zidane (from memory) is worth more. He probably was, too.
 
I know you missed the top levels in the last few years Gilly, but Kaka, Ronaldo.

Wasn't Figo about £45m originally too?

EDIT: Ah no, £37m.
 
drunkenmaster said:
Well, technically they've bought the club for 23mil + 20mil debt, so 43mil.

Not quite sure how you think a midtable premier league club can't make a decent return on 43mil to buy to be honest. You get money for the final position, cup games, tv money is INSANE for every club in the league. Some of the lower end clubs are actually pretty profitable, the ones that keep a sane wage budget, younger squads or less famous squads have the potential for pretty huge profits. PRoblem is most clubs get in the league spend millions upon millions to stay in the league and overstretch themselves massively.

31k capacity stadium isn't half bad either, better than a lot of teams in the league.

I really can't understand how the club cost so little though, 43 mil total seems ridiculously low. Were the current owners desparate for the cash? Blackburns revenue must be way higher than 43mil. Utd would cost 4-5 times their yearly revenue to buy out, as would most clubs.

From what I can tell Ashley bought Newcastle for £134 mil before he paid off huge sums of debt, which were WAY higher than Blackburn had and the club was on the brink of going under due to the debt(it was around 100mil wasn't it). So Newcastle were basically more desparate with way more debt, yet cost not far off 6 times as much.

Get the feeling Blackburns previous owner was very very desparate for the cash for something else, saving another business or something maybe. Hell, surely the stadium alone has to be worth a lot more than 23mil, seems very very strange.
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I would imagine that like most clubs with a small fan base, that Blackburn lose money every year unless they make a profit in the transfer market. (E.g. from signings like Santa Cruz)
 
Weebull said:
I know you missed the top levels in the last few years Gilly, but Kaka, Ronaldo.

Wasn't Figo about £45m originally too?

EDIT: Ah no, £37m.
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I refuse to recognise that Ronaldo and Kaka were worth more than Zidane.
 
jakeke said:
Man City are doing what Walker did? Spending loads of money in the attempt to go from a small club to one who wins the league? Chelsea also did it recently. It's not exactly unique what B'burn did
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It's hardly the same. Jack Walker was a boyhood fan who wanted to get the club back to former glories. He wasn't doing it for profit or personal prestige, but for the love of the club as any fan would. That to me is very different to City or Chelsea who to their owners are just a premier league entry and a collection of facilites.

For all the talk of Rovers buying the best players, very few went on to win anything else of note. The only one I can think of is Le Saux at Chelsea.
 
Gribs said:
For all the talk of Rovers buying the best players, very few went on to win anything else of note. The only one I can think of is Le Saux at Chelsea.
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Sutton, Shearer, Henning Berg, Sherwood, Colin Hendry were all pretty big signings back in the day.
 
To be fair just because a player doesn't win anything after leaving the club doesn't mean to say that they weren't a top/expensive player when they were purchased. Shearer, Sutton, Flowers, Warhurst, Ripley, Batty, Gallacher etc were all £1.5m+ buys. May seem like peanuts now but you've gotta remember that was big money at the time. I don't think there is any question that Blackburn 'bought the title' if people like that sort of phrase but that is just the Premiership era for you - nobody wins the league without spending big.
 
Seems like a pretty good price to me, especially for a premier league team thats actually not too bad. I mean Portsmouth were asking for more than that to buy their mess of a club.
 
I always find it funny that the amount JW put into the rovers squad that won the league is the same as some Clubs pay for 1 or 2 players now.
 
amazing to think of a team like Blackburn who are one of 4 clubs to actually win the premiership

Chelsea, United, Arsenal and Blackburn not even Liverpool are in that list but amazingly Blackburn are!

Saw their owners at the game against Villa - I think it is fair to say they'll be eating lots of chips and graaaavy lol
 
drunkenmaster said:
Get the feeling Blackburns previous owner was very very desparate for the cash for something else, saving another business or something maybe. Hell, surely the stadium alone has to be worth a lot more than 23mil, seems very very strange.
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There was no previous owner really. It was left in the Jack Walker Trustee's type committee thing.

They wanted to find the right buyer for the club, not the highest bidder. Hence why it has taken 3 years.
 
You can get Rover's half season ticket for a £125. Includes 11 games apparently which is amazing value for a Premier League side!

psd99 said:
amazing to think of a team like Blackburn who are one of 4 clubs to actually win the premiership

Chelsea, United, Arsenal and Blackburn not even Liverpool are in that list but amazingly Blackburn are!
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Aye, they then went down for their efforts.

Leeds United could also have been in that list but didn't finish that high.
 
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