Some folks will worry about how certain clubs operate nowadays.
Well, Leicester City chairman Thai business man Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, based in Bangkok earlier this January wiped out £194m of debt owed by the club to King Power in a show of his commitment, records state !
So for the year-ending 31 May, 2022 including lifting the FA Cup (2021), the Club retained its primary playing assets while making further significant investments in player acquisitions & salaries.
As their expenditure over recent years has been "supported" by loans from their "parent company King Power" but as of now all of those repayments & relevant interest have now effectively been relieved after they were converted into shares via a "debt-to-equity" conversion. 🤐
So, King Power have basically backed City’s spending through loans over the past few years.
As the interest payments were never cash payments they just got added to the value of the debt. Charging interest on a debt that was never going to be paid is a bit farcical.
So obviously from an FFP perspective if you are no longer going to be charging interest then that is one less expense in your FFP calculations. So there is a benefit in how they've been doing their business within FFP rules presently.
Adding this summers sales of Maddison, Barnes & Castagne for £106 million an interesting way plus £111.2 million parachute payments to do "football business".
They now are targeting more income by the expansion of their East Stand at King Power Stadium & the retail, leisure & office facilities that are planned for outside the ground.
But the fact that they don’t expect the loan to be repaid doesn’t mean the owners may not get their money back someday as if they sold the shares with the value of PL clubs continuing to rise they should still make a tidy profit - key being "PL club".
Crazy, crazy game ! 🤑
Who are the mighty King Power.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Power