£110m loss for past 13 months

[havrey0123]

He is 350 million in, not 500m, and that comes with assets he can sell that previously debt was held against.

This may come as a shock to many people, but its also possible he doesnt see it as an investment. He may not have purchased Everton simply because wanted to make a big profit, he may have purchased it because he has enough money, and enough from other investments, and wanted to own and build a dominant team for bragging rights. He might just want to walk into a group of his fellow billionaires and have bragging rights. Its not that different than people who own and modify vehicles. Its a status symbol to them. Almost all cars are depreciating assets and lose money, but that doesnt stop millions of people from pumping money into them they know they will never see back.

Bragging rights for what.
Spending 500m on buying and investing on a football team and then sell for a loss is nothing to brag about.
Also abramovich was in his 30's when he bought Chelsea, moshiri will be 65 next year. Hence the question what's his end game here.

 

[havrey0123]

There's no way he invested as a way of making a profit. I'm sure there'll come a point where he stops putting more in but I doubt he's going to pump 500m in and build a stadium and expect and sort of a return in his lifetime.

They key is to be self sufficient by that point.

Doesn't make sense.
Who would invest in a business to make a loss.

 

[Nymzee]

It’s cool, we’ll never run out of broadcasting money.

 

[PeregrineT]

Well no mate, he is 500m in so far.

350m in interest free loans and 150m in buying shares.

Fair enough, forgot he was likely including that.

So then for those interested, hes paid 150 million for shares, and then paid off 60-80 million in debt depending on who you ask. So what he valued his portion of the club was 210-230 million. If we use 230 million, that means he has invested 270 million into the rest of it, in the form of mostly players, wages, and stadium costs. When he purchased the club players the combined players(according to transfermarkt) were 256 million. Currently they are 433 million. We know 20 million has been spent on the stadium, so that basically leaves 73 million of his money squandered, and likely a good portion of that was on the wages of Silva, Koeman, BFS, and a few of the players. In order to make it profitable, thats what he really has to recoup to break even on his investment, either through increased revenue, player sales above their current day market values, or increased value of the club shares due to all of those. If the players are worth 500 million, and a stadium is worth 500 million, than yes, the club is worth 1 billion at that point.

 

[Neiler]

It’s cool, we’ll never run out of broadcasting money.

Heard a stat the today, yesterday’s match between UTD and Mordor was the second most watched game in Sky Sports history with 3 mill odd in the UK watching.

Leicester VS Newport a few years ago on BBC brought in 6.5 mill viewers.

A clever person will find a way to make money beyond the paywall.

 

[BigDunc1985]

Doesn't make sense.
Who would invest in a business to make a loss.

Someone who is doing it for fun/fulfilment rather than money.

He's in for 500m so far, the club is about to put another 500m in stadium debt on. Is anyone paying 1bn+ for us in the next few years?