Non taken Parrot.
OK so I don't know that all the current ownership want to do is maintain league status but I'm as certain as I need to be to know that the owner is not here for egotistical or philanthropic reasons, would you agree? What else is he here for then, is it not safe to assume that he invested in NTFC as a going concern in order to make himself wealthier and considerably so, given the overt risk involved? Why therefore it is not also safe to assume that he would want to work to best business practice by minimising losses rather than spunk money arbitrarily in a vain attempt at on field success? What commercial sense does that make? He is a very successful businessman.
I can only see any merit from our club owners point of view of increasing losses beyond necessary if it is done as a method of upping the anti and therefore pressure on the council and other involved parties to get them to agree to a deal because the consequences of no deal is no club, or if it has been achieved by incompetence. Those for me are the two options. The fact the average league two club has operating losses of 1million pa is a red herring. If I was standing in DB's shoes I would see average as failure.
Why are they mutually exclusive? If the figures that have been chucked around on here, and the evil schemes afoot for KT/DB to extract the whole lot, are anything near accurate then they can lose a fair chunk having a crack at on-field success for fun and still walk away well up on the deal.
Let's be absolutely clear, if these guys cared about their pockets and nothing else, they wouldn't be here and nor would their money. That is unless they're thick as pig s**t, and I suspect your guess on that front would be the same as mine.
None of this means I think the sun shines out their backsides or that I'm happy with the stand etc. etc. It's just reality as I see it.
As an aside, that £3m wages figure in the Deloitte report is
all club staff and includes signing-on fees, bonuses, other benefits and employers' NI. So your £113k will be very toppy if you're trying to get to an average first team salary.
