batleyrhino wrote:
And all of that is one aspect of income, without either sticking to the same playing budget or knowing what it’s changed to, how can they rebuild the overall budget to know they would forecast a £4M loss?
All business budget - the ones I work in three years with quarterly updates. You have to take a view of what you think commercial activity will be for the rest of the 2020 season i.e. none and the 2021 season - conservative estimate says 50% guys like Rob Oates have been round long enough to understand or have a feel for sponsorship activity. £4m is probably worst case and it could £3m this year and £1m next who knows.
On the squad the vast majority will already have been committed e.g. Gale, Hurrell, Martin etc. so 80% of the spend will be known. In the scheme of things this is a very small business it has 4 revenue streams: Sky, Spectators, Corporate/facilities and match day income. Outflows: Playing staff, admin support, infrastructure, match day, interest - this is not difficult to forecast.
