http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/record-profits-means-jurgen-klopp-7472205
This is pure spin.
1) Liverpool's £240m debt went with Hicks and Gillette. It was the terms of RBS's firesale. Ludicrous comparison.
2) The £47m debt has ben there since they bought the club. It was called the 'stadium' debt -i.e that was owed to the architects and so forth who'd 'worked' on H&G's castle-in-the-sky new stadium plans. It wsn't written off as it didn't effect any FFP (remeber that?) figures. Nevertheless, that and the £200m paid to RBS valued the club @ £250m - £250m less than Hicks had turned down in a final offer from DIC only 18 months before, as he was allegedly holding out for the £660m ($1bn) valuation from Forbes from before the financial crash. Tee hee on that, but they still got it undervalued because, according to RBS, they had 'immediate' plans to start stadium work. Hmmm.
3) As sort of admitted, the bulk of the £60m profit is the proceeds of the sale of Suarez. Much as we wasted a lot of our transfer budget in the last two summers, that's almost exactly what it all was - the transfer budget generated by the revenue of the club. Most of the Suarez money hasn't been touched.
Now look, I don't object to Jurgen getting that (and a bloody lot more, I pray) rather than Brendan. Ford aside, Brendan bought total crap, and don't just blame the 'committee', as Brendan's last transfer act was to stamp his foot and insist on meeting Benteke's buy-out clause. What will we get back from that? But, please God, can we get away from this failed moneyball idea, the one that culminated in us buying Balotelli because we were, supposedly, convinced we could turn his career around and make him a £50m player? Hopefully Jurgen has his eye on players that will contribute towards his plans for strengthening the squad of LFC, not the banl account of LFC with some future idea of turning us into some glorified football player car lot.
Rant over.