Shrimpsvoices

First & foremost, this is not designed nor intended to be a discussion of the current situation hence O/T. However, what's going on and the club's finances have made me wonder why people become football club directors. Any numbers I might mention are entirely made up, this is a theoretical situation to help discuss why people do it.

Imagine you're a club director, you're having a business discussion with a financial advisor and you lay it all out, £25K loss per month, struggling to pay wages, expenditure greater than income for the last X years, etc. You also forget to mention your Ltd company was a football club. First thing they'd say it's insolvent, next thing would be to close it down immediately and walk away. Yet loss making football clubs survive thanks to generous directors.

Love of the club? A long-term investment? 15 minutes of fame? Some situations remind me of Bullseye, look what you could have had.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the financial burden that directors are under in a loss making situation and I'm not trying make light of it, I'm just wondering why they do it, and would I in their position. I don't know.

It's like the old addage....

How do you become a millionaire football club owner?

Start by being a multi-millionaire football club owner.

What gets me is when the Director returns home and tells his Mrs he has just given the club another few thousand pound. They must either have very understanding partners or more spare cash they know what to do with.

I think for many especially in years gone by it was love of the club look at your Bill Kenwright's , Doug Ellis etc but now at the top end these people just can't keep it so at Prem level it's more about 15 mins of fame or investment.

At our level it used to be local businessmen invest in his local club but even at our level the sums of money it is taking to stay afloat it is needing someone with much deeper pockets which is ridiculous that to run Morecambe you probably need to be a multi millionaire.

P/T Indie wrote:What gets me is when the Director returns home and tells his Mrs he has just given the club another few thousand pound. They must either have very understanding partners or more spare cash they know what to do with.

I think for many especially in years gone by it was love of the club look at your Bill Kenwright's , Doug Ellis etc but now at the top end these people just can't keep it so at Prem level it's more about 15 mins of fame or investment.

At our level it used to be local businessmen invest in his local club but even at our level the sums of money it is taking to stay afloat it is needing someone with much deeper pockets which is ridiculous that to run Morecambe you probably need to be a multi millionaire.

Which would tend to suggest that clubs with a small fan base cannot survive the losses year after year and should really be in lower league football with much less costs all round. There would probably still be losses but it might be losses that local business men might be prepared to cover.