Football club finances / FFP

[Magma]

it wasnt a sudden realisation thing that

 

[Jatz]

Well that's lovely

 

[ADL9798]

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/liverpool-fc-worth-nearly-1bn-9198074

Liverpool now the 8th most valuable club in the world according to Forbes and are now worth $982 billion. That's a 42% ($300m) increase on their 2015 valuation.

"Forbes go further and have named what they refer to as the Super Six – clubs which rank in the top 10 around the world in five crucial areas: social media following, matchday revenue, broadcasting revenue and commercial revenue.

Liverpool are named in that Super Six alongside Barcelona, Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United and Real Madrid. Forbes says that “these teams have created a large, global following and have figured out how to monetize it.”"

Well that's nice innit?

Liverpool FC’s value has jumped by 42% to almost $1bn (£644m) with the club now ranked the eighth most valuable football club in the world in this year’s Forbes list.

It means the value of the club has jumped by almost $300m in just 12 months after being valued at $691m in last year’s table where the Reds were ranked in 10th place.

Liverpool have leap-frogged Italian giants Juventus (ninth) and AC Milan (10th) primarily on the back of the recent £5.136billion domestic television deal for Premier League clubs.

Forbes go further and have named what they refer to as the Super Six – clubs which rank in the top 10 around the world in five crucial areas: social media following, matchday revenue, broadcasting revenue and commercial revenue.

Liverpool are named in that Super Six alongside Barcelona, Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United and Real Madrid. Forbes says that “these teams have created a large, global following and have figured out how to monetize it.”

Based on the 2013/14 figures the Reds ranked seventh on social media, eighth on commercial and matchday revenues and ninth in TV revenue.

If that is the good news the bad news for owners FSG and chief executive Ian Ayre is that Liverpool’s Premier League rivals are expanding at just as quick or at an even greater rate.

Real Madrid retain their place as the most valuable football team in the world for a third straight year, but Manchester United could soon topple them.

The reigning European champions’ value has dropped 5% to £2.13billion this year, with Barcelona second with a value of £2.07billion.

Manchester United though are hot on their heels and are now valued at £2.03billion, up 10% and more than three times that of Liverpool.

Officials at Old Trafford signed a long-term kit sponsorship deal with US car giant Chevrolet worth a reported £53million per season.

Next term a huge £750million deal with Adidas – a “global technical sponsorship and dual branded licensing deal” running for 10 years – will commence and United believe it is the biggest kit deal in sport and may well help them surpass Barcelona and Real Madrid.

Also of concern for Liverpool will be the seemingly inexorable commercial rise of Manchester City and Chelsea.

Among the top 20 clubs, Manchester City’s value has increased the most at 59% to £905m, leaving them the fifth most valuable club while Chelsea weren’t far behind, rising 58% to £898m and sixth place.

Arsenal are also deemed more valuable than Liverpool, ranking seventh at £859m.

German giants Bayern Munich are rated the fourth most valuable club but miss out on the Super Six because of the lower broadcasting revenues available in Germany.

Altogether there are eight Premier league clubs in the world’s top 20 including Tottenham, Newcastle and West Ham.

Forbes’ top 10 most valuable teams of 2015:

1) Real Madrid $3.26billion (£2.13billion)

2) Barcelona $3.16billion (£2.07billion)

3) Manchester United $3.10billion (£2.03billion)

4) Bayern Munich $2.35billion (£1.54billion)

5) Manchester City $1.38billion (£905million)

6) Chelsea $1.37billion (£898million)

7) Arsenal $1.31billion (£859million)

8) Liverpool $982million (£644million)

9) Juventus $837million (£549million)

10) AC Milan $775million (£508million)

 

[Zidane98]

That's a great result. Once project anfield is finished our value will sky rocket. All achieved spending reasonable amounts of money.

 

[Magma]

suuuupppeeerrrr ssiiiiixxxxx

 

[WealstoneRaider]

Everyone loves talking up their own club excessively don't they. Bloody numpties

 

[Magma]

well we cant all have rock climbing walls

 

[WealstoneRaider]

Let's have a little bit more British self-depreciation rather than all this American style jingoism eh. Bleeding awful trait

 

[hawkman]

8th most valuable club in the world, 9th best club in England

Starts another 10 page fight between Tottenham and Liverpool fans

 

[Jatz]

Everyone loves talking up their own club excessively don't they. Bloody numpties

Yeah, this 'super six' thing is absurd.

We all know who the best club in England are

 

[WealstoneRaider]

Yeah, this 'super six' thing is absurd.

We all know who the best club in England are

Indeed - the table doesn't lie.

These scousers are so desperate to ram this stuff down our throats it just stinks of failure to be honest

 

[Cooldude]

So much fewm, so much salt, so much jelly

 

[moomba]

Match day revenue, broadcast revenue, commercial revenue is basically the Deloittes list. Plus social media following. What was the fifth criteria?

 

[moomba]

By the looks this was first released in May last year (same super 6 with Bayern missing out), same increase in our income, but only 4 criteria). Not sure why making the news again now.

 

[Zidane98]

8th most valuable club in the world, 9th best club in England

Starts another 10 page fight between Tottenham and Liverpool fans

And the only English club good enough to qualify for the quarter finals of the Europa League.

 

[moomba]

Good to see the Europa League being treated with the respect it deserves by supporters, rather than an inconvenience.

 

[ADL9798]

By the looks this was first released in May last year (same super 6 with Bayern missing out), same increase in our income, but only 4 criteria). Not sure why making the news again now.

New valuations by Forbes I think, the figures for us are definitely different to the ones they released last year. Guessing they'll release a new one every year.

 

[moomba]

If its based on the Echo article you posted that was dated May 2015.

As far as I know that was the last one released.

 

[ADL9798]

If its based on the Echo article you posted that was dated May 2015.

As far as I know that was the last one released.

I'll show myself out.

 

[SM]

http://www.theguardian.com.it/footb...cial-fair-play-investigation?CMP=share_btn_tw

Hm.

 

[chef]

http://www.theguardian.com.it/footb...cial-fair-play-investigation?CMP=share_btn_tw

Hm.

Link doesnt work

 

[SM]

Link doesnt work

That's weird, can't find the tweet I linked it from. It was about Leicester cheating FFP in their promotion season.

EDIT: http://www.theguardian.com/football...ball-league-financial-fair-play-investigation

 

[Jatz]

Basically talking about us doing that to avoid a fine isn't it?

I don't think the Football League could do anything about it now anyway, even if we are actually guilty of anything. QPR were only in trouble with the Football League once they were relegated back into that division and even then, it's gone nowhere.

 

[Jatz]

After looking further, that guy has released pretty much the same article every 6 months for the last 18. If they were genuinely looking into it there'd be more noise other than just one individual.

And I was right, they can only act on anything when we next appear in the Football League.

Also, the irony...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...0160411-_-Politics-_-428081407-_-Imageandlink

 

[SM]

Basically talking about us doing that to avoid a fine isn't it?

I don't think the Football League could do anything about it now anyway, even if we are actually guilty of anything. QPR were only in trouble with the Football League once they were relegated back into that division and even then, it's gone nowhere.

Yep, you're in no trouble because you won't go back down. But standing in International Waters mooning the authorities because they can't get you wouldn't be a great look.