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Toon looks really bad…..ah

Sport written by Doug Scott

Aswell as the poor old Toon being relagated having looked at some of their finances things get really scary…….here are some things to watch for at your football club…….scary observations:

1. Many players get loyalty bonus’s if they see out there contracts, normaly a years salary
2. Many clubs pay for players in in stalments at the end of each season, most urchases are setep to have 4 X 25% payments

Lets look at what is about to happen at Newcastle:

1. Who is leaving and out of contract and what were they estimated to being paid per year? Owen (£6 million), Viduka(3 million), Lovenkrands, Cacapa and Edgar (£5 million combined). So lets call it £10 million being conservatively
2. Over the past 3 to 4 years Newcastle as a club has spent over £100 million on players, so they are probably due to pay an installment of £20 million plus at the end of June ( the end of the football year)

So now the players out of contract have gone, but we still have a load of players being paid a fortune. Reports were that 15 players were on over £50K per week, and only 3 of them will have gone as they were out of contract. We now have to persuade some other players to leave. Now as they have not asked for a transfer we as a club have to pay them their loyalty bonus…..lets say another £10 million to shift some of them on. As they also have now left the club we have to settle the debts on the transfer instalments……lets call it £25 million. Mind you we do get some money back from the transfer fee…lets say £25 million and not the £100 million we paid for some of them ( think Alan Smith bought for £6 million, sell for £1.5 million, Coloccini bought for £10 million, sell for £2.5 million).

The club will also have to subcidise some of the players wages who left the club as no one is going to pay someone like Alan Smith the reported £60K per week he is currently on. So lets say it costs the club another £10 million over the next 2 years.

So basically in the next month or so NUFC  have to pay £10 million to players and £20 million to other clubs and in the next 2 years shell out another £10 million to old players who have left the club.

Total spend after revenue from selling players £40 million. Balloon payment for being relegated £15 million.

Result loss of £25 million and no quality players…but club financially ok going forward as long as we stay in the Championship.

The other option is to not sell anyone, bank roll the club to the tune of £30-50 million and hope that the players at the club are good enough to get promoted, which I don’t think they are. If the club does not get promoted then sell everyone and loose £40 million.

Anyone in Dubai want to buy a club?????

Course we could be Liverpool and have a even bigger wage bill and bigger debt and yearly losses.

Doug

Smiley builds profile????

other written by Doug Scott

Tim O’Shea a  friend and a extremely bright guy has launched a blog. Now as he has been a person who has hidden and kept a very low profile doing seo for a long time in many sectors I wonder why?????

Anyway read away as he can help tell you how to build a site to 400,000 visitors per day www.blurtit.com ….thats right 400K per day.

Doug wondering

Natwest website is down

other written by Doug Scott

www.natwest.com

404 Not Found

Sorry not able to get a screen shot…but seems to have been down for 7 hours now…can someone grab me one and email it please

Our Staff - The Vouch

Fun, What we are doing written by Doug Scott

Some of the guys in our office as you may know or may not know are in a band, well yesterday they had a bit of a breakthrough and were playing on Radio 2 with Janice Long.

The Vouch with Kid Rad

Many people have already met them at the A4U events in the bandanas.

Good to see they have not quite finished there website, that bit sounds familiar.

The Vouch

I was genuinely surprised how good they sound, I am a hard man to please as they know. But well done Joe, Josh, Adam as it was brilliant.

All the best

Doug

Bruce Grobelar - did he take a bung?

Fun written by Doug Scott

Bruce Grobelar the bookies favourite to win Hells Kitchen surprising quit last night. Does anyone think he took a bung?

Doug

Joke of the day

Fun written by Doug Scott

I hate all this terrorist business.

I used to love the days when you could look at an unattended bag on the tube and think,

‘I’ll have that!’

Doug

Speedsell or Speedcell - good idea?

other written by Doug Scott

Was looking at some stuff and found these guys:

http://www.speedsell.com/

Who can recycle all those electronice games. Nice idea think we may have to do something with them on www.recycle.co.uk

Doug can now sell all that stuff.

Pirate Bay Guys found Guilty

other written by Doug Scott

When will an industry realise that they should embrace the future. What is the point of trying to close down free sharing of music etc etc etc They have been trying it for 10 years and still can’t do it.

One day people without brains will evolve…..probably into monkeys.

Here I sit playing spotify and looking at a product that will revolutionise an industry.

Doug
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Spotify Tool

Fun written by Doug Scott

Want to see what other people are listening too then have a look at this:

Spotify Playlists

There is a competition running over at Share My Playlists to win a Sony PS3. All you have to do is put together a well thought-out Spotify playlist and then submit it to the site. Full details here:

The competition closes midnight May 2nd so plenty of time.

Doug loves Spotify and is jealous of Johny

R4i for Nintendo DSi

Fun written by Doug Scott

Revolution R4i for Nintendo DSi

Click here to get details on one

These guys who devised this little tool must be a happy bunch. If you have a Nintendo DSi then got to be worth looking at it.

The R4i adapter is a mini electronic cartridge which is the same size as the original game cartridge, so allowing you to load anything onto it. This means dozens of backed up games can be held on the one card.

Dougs son wants one:)