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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795669603321

Autore

Maguire Kieran

Titolo

The price of football : understanding football club finance / / Kieran Maguire ; foreword by Kevin Day

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne : , : Agenda Publishing, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

9781788213288

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 pages)

Disciplina

796.334

Soggetti

Soccer - Economic aspects

Soccer teams

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Football club financial reports -- 2 The balance sheet -- What is an asset? -- Types of asset -- Non-current vs current assets -- Tangible assets vs intangible assets -- Liabilities and equity -- What is a liability? -- Types of liability -- Non-current vs current liabilities -- Financing vs operating liabilities -- What is equity? -- Recording transactions in the club balance sheet -- 3 The profit or loss account -- Income -- Costs/expenses -- Finance/interest -- Pre- and post-tax profit -- 4 The cash flow statement -- Cash from operations -- Cash flows from investing activities -- Cash from financing activities -- How to create a cash flow statement -- Part II The price of football -- 5 Players (and agents) -- How does a club value a player? -- Supply and demand -- Available financial resources -- Contract length -- Release clause -- How to show football player transactions in the accounts -- Transfer fees -- Amortisation -- Contract extensions -- Impairments -- Player sales -- Case study 1: Ousmane Dembele -- Case study 2: Andy Carroll -- How to calculate the sales price of players sold? -- Case study 1: Juventus -- Conditional/add-on fees -- Paying by instalments -- Signing-on fees -- Football player wages -- Agents -- 6 Ticket prices -- 1966 and all that -- Rising living standards -- Football is an addiction -- The rise of the football tourist -- All seater stadia --



Player costs -- 7 Broadcasting and sponsorship income -- Why do broadcasters like football so much? -- Why does the football industry like live broadcasting so much? -- How is the money shared? -- What of the future for broadcast rights? -- 8 Financial fair play -- UEFA rules -- Premier League rules -- Short-term cost controls.

Profitability and sustainability rules -- English Football League (EFL) rules -- Championship -- Leagues One and Two -- Part III Football club financial analysis -- 9 How to analyse club accounts 1: trend analysis -- Case study: Manchester United Plc year ended 30 June 2019 -- Historic comparisons -- Matchday income -- Broadcast income -- Commercial income -- Competitor comparisons -- Costs -- Wages -- Player transfer amortisation -- Gains on player disposals -- Profits: operating, EBIT and EBITDA -- Analysing the balance sheet -- Net debt -- Receivables and payables -- Football net debt -- 10 How to analyse club accounts 2: ratio analysis -- Performance ratios -- Cost control ratios -- Matchday income to wages -- Income per fan -- Interest cover -- Effective tax rate -- Balance sheet ratios based on player trading -- Player signings to income -- Player reinvestment rate -- Squad ageing -- Transfers owing percentage -- Financial gearing (leverage) -- Conclusion -- 11 Valuing a football club -- Balance sheet value -- Stock market values -- Comparative sales values -- Comparative profit or loss account multiples -- Discounted cash flow model -- Step 1: Calculate the free cash flow (FCF) -- Step 2: Calculate the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) -- Step 3: Calculate the terminal value (TV) -- Step 4: Calculate the total value -- The Markham Multivariate Model -- (Revenue + net assets) -- (Net profit + revenue)/revenue -- Stadium capacity percentage -- Wage ratio percentage -- The MMM calculation -- Summary of values -- 12 Ownership models: love, profit, vanity and insanity -- The local fan made good -- The butterflies -- The trophy asset -- The flipper -- Fan owned/member clubs -- 13 Red Flags - things that make you go "hmmm": creative accounting and football finance -- Better late than never -- Controlling the narrative -- Abbreviated accounts.

Complicated club structures -- The devil is in the detail: footnote disclosures -- Case study: Derby County -- 14 Football finance in a post-Covid-19 world and Project Big Picture -- Twenty-five per cent distribution of collective broadcast revenues to EFL clubs -- Reduction in the size of the Premier League and abolition of the Carabao Cup -- Parachute payments -- Voting rights -- Glossary of accountancy terms -- Further reading -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This revised and updated second edition of the bestselling guide to understanding football club finance includes analysis of the most recent club accounts, as well as the impact of Covid-19 on the game's finances, the latest legal rulings on club affairs, and expanded coverage of "creative accounting".