That's really interesting. Sticking to those rules is going to be quite a challenge for some clubs. Without knowing all of that, my gut feeling and interpretation of the approach KLD is taking has always been that its a long term thing and not necessarily something that's going to start showing its benefits to their full extent within only a season or two. So I think you may well be right that their strategy is intended to develop perhaps more slowly than people might want.
As i have said previously i find it all quite interesting, guess thats due to my figures based work background. The strange thing is these rules have had their name changed by the powers that be from FFP to Profit and Sustainability Rules, Financial Fair Play hints at it being fair and still allows smaller clubs to compete, these are aimed at clubs being sustainable, no mention of competing.......
For a club like us if you base it on what our anticipated turnover is of £35 million excluding players sales. Players sales are then added onto the income figure so (as an example) in the summer we sell 3 players for £50 Million - Total Income 85 Million, that still only gives us £59.5 Million to play with, that has to cover incoming transfers and wages for players and playing staff. If you took an average playing side salary of £15k a week with a 25 man squad and 5 playing staff thats £23.4 million per year in wages alone, which would only leave £36 million for transfer fees.
This is what we are trying to compete with. An £8million player being their 4th choice striker and being left out of the squad
I'm not sure the model is naive, putting it bluntly the people behind it want it to make money. Uncle Tony's playoff dash last season must've scared them, for a minute it looked like we had the foundation of a Premier League team that would've needed significant investment had we been promoted. What we're about to see is closer to the original plan, a few seasons of selling our best players and investing in new ones to build up the club's finances, improve the team then presumably bounce up and down selling players and collecting parachute payments like Burnley under Sean Dyche. This first cycle is going to be the worst, as we don't have the money to put back into the next set of players. It will be interesting to see how much of that money is put back into the club, ideally most or all will go into making it easier to cope without our best players.
KLD is worth about £2b. His family own the Louis-Dreyfuss group which was reported as making £800m profit in the financial year prior to Sept 2023. Professional football is a notorious money pit. Surely if all he was interested in was making money, he'd find something more profitable to squander his time and money on?
You'd think so, but he's a young lad who grew up watching his dad running a football club. He wants to do the same. I don't think he intends to make his fortune from us, he just wants the club to run a profit. In his mind that'll set him down the path of responsible club ownership. The challenge being how. He might have £2bn in assets but I suspect we are the equivalent of a goldfish in a bag. If he can keep us alive long enough he might be allowed to own a Ligue One club one day.
I'm sure he does want to emulate his dad and run a football club. The rest of it is just speculation though. Even if his main aim is to run a club like Marseille, getting us running sustainably and in a good financial position is as beneficial to us as it is to him.
That's absolutely wild mate, what an imagination. If you really believe KLD only wants to cop the parachute money why would he make a significant investment had we been promoted? And do you honestly believe he needs to 'prove himself' to a Ligue One club that's half our size and half our income. If he wants to buy one there's nothing stopping him.
It will be hard for all of us in the short term. Robert Louis Dreyfus was an extremely successful businessman and marketer before he bought a majority stake in Olympique de Marseille. Kyril Louis Dreyfus dropped out of a degree in sports and business management at Leeds Beckett University before he bought a stake in SAFC.
I'm sure he would've if Olympique de Marseille were offering As it was, he had to get his L plates elsewhere
He doesn't though, what football experience do most owners of clubs have ... zero is the answer. You could buy a French club if you had the money.
The Oakland A's started moneyball and won nothing, Boston copies it and wins the world series 2 years later. They just spent 60 million on 2 players instead of 120 million on one though. lol
Despite messing my maths up earlier, it does show how we will have to develop players to sell for profit to even think about being competitive. How many clubs are going to be one bad window / bad season away from serious penalties when these new rules really bite? Maybe a financial reset is coming for all but the "big 6"
Seen some very interesting comments on this thread about what everyone believe the buzz word Model means. I'm enjoying the read.Hypothetically speaking..... what if the "model" dictates KLD has a time line goal on his ownership here? Is the "model" a short term deal for him, let's say within 5 years? What if KLD wants out? What if he's been listening to offers for the club in the region of let's say 120-30 million for the club from several interested parties? We as fans just see the football side of the players we bring in. Just adding my 2 pennies in. lots of "what ifs" in my post i know, but It could be a very..... interesting summer.
Next season is where we will see the model actually start working properly in my opinion. We have assets worth decent money for the first time so this is how the model will have its first effective opportunity to sell for big money and re invest even half of the money on a higher calibre of youth which enables you to kick on.
