03 Feb 2018 06:50:36
Hi Edd002, love your somewhat strange sarcastic sense of humour makes me smile (sometimes 😊) question for you as I'm not that great at understanding the business side of football teams! Theoretically with clubs valued at 500-600 million or so what is there to stop the owners who have let's say at Liverpool 5-6 players worth 100 million or so and probably 10 or so players worth 50 million or so just basically selling off all the players and asset stripping the club and in essence getting much more for their money? Sorry if it's a silly question but it's just thought about even more recently with such high transfer fees?

{Ed002's Note - I rather think you are over valuing the Liverpool players.}


1.) 03 Feb 2018
03 Feb 2018 11:04:42
not even Man City have a squad that valuable.


2.) 03 Feb 2018
03 Feb 2018 11:15:30
Nescafe where do you get this from? 5-6 players £100m+ no side in world football has that. We have 1 or 2.


3.) 03 Feb 2018
03 Feb 2018 11:59:40
I think his question was hypothetical.
Say the clubs players have a market value of £500m but the clubs been valued at £400m could the owners just sell the playing staff and make more money than if they where to sell the club as a whole?
I think if a club had playing staff worth more than £500m though that the club would be worth more than £500m.

{Ed002's Note - And money owed on the players would need to be paid off etc.}


4.) 03 Feb 2018
03 Feb 2018 12:21:06
GOLD B. Although your example of clubs owning 5-6 high value players is a bit out, your question is still valid.

ED, is there anything stopping owners asset stripping a football club, including selling players? As far as I’m aware there isn’t.

I know of some non-league teams have been bought and asset stripped for their land. Some councils have stopped it and others don’t which is mad.


5.) 03 Feb 2018
03 Feb 2018 17:26:39
Take your point edd about me over valuing the players slightly but with reference to money owed on players having been purchased surely large amounts are owed also to the owners ref coutinio and other transfers? Also is the ground not a pretty hefty asset? I am not suggesting that they should do it for a minute but it just seems to me the clubs are valued lower than their assets which doesn’t happen in other businesses! On a slightly different note are owners not tempted to sell up now with the prices of players etc surely going to top out sometime soon as all of this money in the game is surely not substanable?

{Ed002's Note - if the debts to the owners would be paid off you are simply suggesting they take their own money back. The rest would be taxable. The club are certainly not valued less than their assets. Players are intangible assets. I rather suspect you are missing what the value of the club relates to.}