All the talk of allowing investors in....

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Silly, all the players got pay cuts when we were relegated, when we were promoted they will have had their pay increased. The club is run on a budget which mainly comes from 3 sources, TV money, sponsorship and gate receipts, very much in that order. Stewarts £3m comes in through sponsorship and without it, we would have £3m less to spend.
The club does not make money, it runs on what it generates. Unfortunately that is not as much as the other teams in this league.

I'm not sure you are right about the sponsorship. Sponsorship originally, for sure, but more recently loans - I'm fairly sure.

Obviously there's a big difference. Sponsorship doesn't have to be paid back (would it also be classed as "income" under ffp, allowing a bigger wage budget?)

Loans are a debt for the club.

Either way I'm not criticising TS. He's done more for the club than any other chairman in my 50 odd years of supporting the club.

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I'm not sure you are right about the sponsorship. Sponsorship originally, for sure, but more recently loans - I'm fairly sure.

Obviously there's a big difference. Sponsorship doesn't have to be paid back (would it also be classed as "income" under ffp, allowing a bigger wage budget?)

Loans are a debt for the club.

Either way I'm not criticising TS. He's done more for the club than any other chairman in my 50 odd years of supporting the club.

I am right Wrinkly. Tony puts in £3m per season in the championship and it is put through as sponsorship. In the season before Huddersfield were promoted, our sponsorship was almost twice theirs.

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I am right Wrinkly. Tony puts in £3m per season in the championship and it is put through as sponsorship. In the season before Huddersfield were promoted, our sponsorship was almost twice theirs.

The sponsorship dropped from £2.9 million in 2016 to £1 million in 2017.
The amount owed for loans from ASD went up from £600,00 2015- to £1.3 million 2016 - to £3.8 million 2017

edit I also see that the sponsorship was £970,000 in 2015