** Official ** January 2010 Transfer Thread- Rumours & Speculation in here

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I read the gunmen apparently fired most of their bullets into the Togo kit bus. Perhaps his City kit was full of holes.
 
Stag said:
I'm no expert on Utd's finances, but without the money they got for Ronaldo they would have made a £30m loss. Surely that doesn't bode well?
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No not at all

they are near enough £50m in profit now - and they spent £20m or near enough on players in the summer - so they would have been £70m in profit without those players, therefore only £10m in the red wihtout the sale of Ronaldo (compared to about £20 - 30m in 2008 which is what I said first off ;))

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http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/news/united-post-48m-profit-19551190.html

2008 had a £21.8m loss - and without the player purchase in 2009 and Ronaldo sale Utd would be £10m in the red (basic calculations show this), and it also states in the same article year on year Utd are making a £10m profit -
 
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FrankJH said:
No not at all

they are near enough £50m in profit now - and they spent £20m or near enough on players in the summer - so they would have been £70m in profit without those players, therefore only £10m in the red wihtout the sale of Ronaldo (compared to about £20 - 30m in 2008 which is what I said first off ;))

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http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/news/united-post-48m-profit-19551190.html

2008 had a £21.8m loss - and without the player purchase in 2009 and Ronaldo sale Utd would be £10m in the red (basic calculations show this), and it also states in the same article year on year Utd are making a £10m profit -
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Slightly confused by your maths there? :confused:
 
Have to jump in with a rofl @ Ade. Maybe getting shot at made him forget who he plays for.

Anything else on rumours of Beckford going to Bolton?
 
Stag said:
Slightly confused by your maths there? :confused:
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Seems to me Frank is saying that it's unlikely Man Utd would have spent £20m in the transfer market had they not gotten the money they did for Ronaldo. Which makes sense to me, since the large majority of that twenty mil went on his "replacement" in the squad.

Thus, it's not really £50m profit - £80m for Ronaldo = £30m in debt, it's more £50m profit - £80m for Ronaldo + £20m that wouldn't have been spent = £10m debt.

EDIT: Still must be slightly worrying that a supremely popular club like MU would be scraping by were it not for that windfall though. As an Arsenal fan, paying off a debt we owe on our swish new stadium is one thing, as at least there's a point to it, but if we were using all our finances to pay off some blokes debt (that he only accrued by trying to take us over), I'd be thoroughly annoyed with the situation.
 
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Stag said:
Slightly confused by your maths there? :confused:
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He's basically saying that if you ignore transfer dealings and looked at how much profit/loss the business is generating, Utd would have only lost ~£10m which is less than the loss they made last year.

Unfortunately for Frank he's comparing 1 set of accounts with transfers to 1 set of accounts without transfers.

Off the top of my head, Utd's main deals last summer were signing Berbatov and selling Pique, Campbell and Saha; give or take an outlay of £20m (?).

Using those figures Utd would have more or less broke even last year if you ignored transfers compared with a ~£10m loss this year. So if those figures are right then Utd are in actual fact ~£10m worse off than last year.
 
Looks like the FGY only played 45 minutes.

So 2 ex Arsenal players seen in Arsenal shirt today that I thought I'd never seen in the Arsenal shirt again.
 
just got a text off a mate. He took a picture of Henry outside of Anfield. Said he was on his way for talks.

Am uploading it to imageshack now....
 
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