What did we get for £50m debt?

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Did anyone ever get their head around SUFC buying that Health Club down South ? :confused:
 
Did anyone ever get their head around SUFC buying that Health Club down South ? :confused:

I forgot about that. We've since sold it though and made a few hundred grand in the process.
 
De quelle surprise.

It didn't really go over your head did it?
Or are you quibbling over whether it's £48m or £50m?
I'd have to re-check the accounts but I think there was an argument for it being £50m but I'll settle for us being in much better shape at just £48m.
 
I forgot about that. We've since sold it though and made a few hundred grand in the process.

Yeh, I remember it getting sold, its just that I have woken up some mornings and wondered how and why, but never woke up owning a Health Club.

That McCabe must be able to put it away :rolleyes:
 
It didn't really go over your head did it?
Or are you quibbling over whether it's £48m or £50m?
I'd have to re-check the accounts but I think there was an argument for it being £50m but I'll settle for us being in much better shape at just £48m.

Its NOT £48m either. £48m is the total of a combined £22m NONE ASSET BASED DEBT and £26m debts to the McCabe family/Scarborough group

So we are £26m in debt!
 
Its NOT £48m either. £48m is the total of a combined £22m NONE ASSET BASED DEBT and £26m debts to the McCabe family/Scarborough group

So we are £26m in debt!

Brilliant. So we don't have to repay the £22m. Things are looking up.
 
Right, time to tot it up.
I reckon we've got:
1) A nice new corner stand
2) A nice new hotel
3) A year in the sun
4) Some very highly paid players in the Championship
5) A tv screen from Darlington
6) A Chinese football club that seems to be in a spot of bother
7) Some nice new academy bits and bobs

Is there anything else?
Given Pompey are not that much more in debt and have several years in the Prem and an FA Cup to show for it, I reckon we've been a bit short-changed.

Are you a bit slow on the uptake len? I ask because the accounts were out in November and the AGM was early December and you've apparently only just noticed.

You were at the AGM and I don't recall you ripping into the Board about the shambles they're presiding over.

Why not? Surely a great mind like yours could be put to better use than just tedious repetitive keyboard whingeing?
 
When in a hole, what's the advice?

Don't try to shag a camel, there's not enough room?

Don't piss up, it'll come back at you?

Have a crafty wank, nobody will see?

Step out of it?

Look for gold?

Look for a ladder?

Borrow a periscope?

Have another wank?
 



Are you a bit slow on the uptake len? I ask because the accounts were out in November and the AGM was early December and you've apparently only just noticed.

You were at the AGM and I don't recall you ripping into the Board about the shambles they're presiding over.

Why not? Surely a great mind like yours could be put to better use than just tedious repetitive keyboard whingeing?

It's because I'm thick and the only information I read before the agm was the official site telling us we'd made a £12m profit.
 
When in a hole, what's the advice?

Ask and ye shall receive

£22m is secured against the assets of the PLC, one of which is the Hotel. The hotel earns money through operation of itself ergo it pays towards the debt that it has created.

Over time this operation will reduce its own debt. Its also against the PLC and not the club so if times get harder and the PLC's position gets worse then the assets for which it hold would be sold to reduce/eliminate the debt.

All of this equals the football club still remains.

This is not new information, its just the information that the ones who choose to bleat about it forget to include.

Would you rather that the club BE in £50m debt? or would you rather that the club have £26m bank debts just to prove you right?
 
Don't try to shag a camel, there's not enough room?

Don't piss up, it'll come back at you?

Have a crafty wank, nobody will see?

Step out of it?

Look for gold?

Look for a ladder?

Borrow a periscope?

Have another wank?

The gold would certainly come in handy for repaying the remaining £26m.
 
What happens if Copthorne say 'no ta', we're pulling out?

People say it is watertight - well we thought that with Walker.

I totally disagree with your assessment of it MAQ.

We owe £48m. The assest are depreciating. I don't think the fee we get from Copthorne covers all the mortgage but might be wrong
 
MAQ, thanks - it's debt. It's money that has to be repaid.
McCabe's debt will also reduce as it's repaid.
Money will have to be found within the business to repay both.
We are £48m in debt and that money has to be repaid. Not tomorrow or next week but it has to be repaid.
 
What happens if Copthorne say 'no ta', we're pulling out?

People say it is watertight - well we thought that with Walker.

I totally disagree with your assessment of it MAQ.

We owe £48m. The assest are depreciating. I don't think the fee we get from Copthorne covers all the mortgage but might be wrong

Of course the Copthorne could pull out, however they will have signed a lease for a number of years minimum, which if they broke would have to buy out.

The hotel is a franchise and if they did the PLC could bring another franchise in. Wether that be another hotel or a change of use. Either way its viable and the property alone is probably worth at least a third of the debt against the PLC
 
What is interesting is that we went UP to the Prem with a debt of around £11M if memory serves. Promised land my arse.
 
MAQ, thanks - it's debt. It's money that has to be repaid.
McCabe's debt will also reduce as it's repaid.
Money will have to be found within the business to repay both.
We are £48m in debt and that money has to be repaid. Not tomorrow or next week but it has to be repaid.

Noone is debating that any debt has to be repaid, What im stating is that the £22m against assets is a debt of the PLC and not the Club. They are two Seperate entities.
 
Noone is debating that any debt has to be repaid, What im stating is that the £22m against assets is a debt of the PLC and not the Club. They are two Seperate entities.

Can't believe I'm hearing this. Limited is 100% owned by plc. They are NOT separate entities for the purposes you say they are - ie limited liability.
 
Some people just read and understand what they want to. Those who don't actually understand the figures properly will believe what they want, those who are trying to explain it i'd just give up, you're fighting a losing battle.
 
Noone is debating that any debt has to be repaid, What im stating is that the £22m against assets is a debt of the PLC and not the Club. They are two Seperate entities.

Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa hold the horses.... (Or camels)

the PLC is £22million in debt and the Club as in footballing side is £26 million in debt???
 



Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa hold the horses.... (Or camels)

the PLC is £22million in debt and the Club as in footballing side is £26 million in debt???

No, he hasn't got a clue what he's talking about.
The £48m is owed by the business. The notion that because it's not owed by the football club it's ok is a complete red herring.
 

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