£250,000 signing for £2 quid

[Lincoln.yellow1]

Would you spend £2.00 extra at every home game to be guaranteed at £250,000 striker came into the club every pre-season every year over and above the clubs player budget....??? yes, of course we would....!
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Here’s the maths.......!!
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Our average home attendance (home fans only) is around the 6000 mark......
We have 23 home league games each season..... (excluding any cup games)
Put a £2 levy on on all (home) tickets sold
Put a £2 levy on each game for season ticket holders (£46 quid over a season)
That would give you 6000 (average gate) x 23 (amount of home games) = 138,000 x that by the £2 quid meaning a staggering £276,000 which would definitely bring in an above average striker in league 1, or alternatively bring in a player out of contract and pay above the going rate in wages to possibly atract a championship player...??
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12th man fundraising worked before, it could work again.....
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Ps
No, I haven’t got anything better to do this morning apart from trying to get motivated for our disintegrating season....!

 

[Blox21]

Depends on who’s choosing said striker .

 

[Sarge]

Would you spend £2.00 extra at every home game to be guaranteed at £250,000 striker came into the club every pre-season every year over and above the clubs player budget....??? yes, of course we would....!
.
Here’s the maths.......!!
.
Our average home attendance (home fans only) is around the 6000 mark......
We have 23 home league games each season..... (excluding any cup games)
Put a £2 levy on on all (home) tickets sold
Put a £2 levy on each game for season ticket holders (£46 quid over a season)
That would give you 6000 (average gate) x 23 (amount of home games) = 138,000 x that by the £2 quid meaning a staggering £276,000 which would definitely bring in an above average striker in league 1, or alternatively bring in a player out of contract and pay above the going rate in wages to possibly atract a championship player...??
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12th man fundraising worked before, it could work again.....
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Ps
No, I haven’t got anything better to do this morning apart from trying to get motivated for our disintegrating season....!

li

Interesting concept @Lincolyellow1 ....given OUFC have a few board members who have got a few quid, some of which will be hopefully invested in OUFC, a bit of genuine information regarding certain board members involvement in the club, especially financially, would be enlightening.....trouble is for what ever reason mushroom treatment is all that's on offer from the current regime. Question is why?

 

[Essexyellows]

Trouble is said £250k striker also requires a salary, agents fee`s etc.

Would I trust the current crop to invest wisely? In true Dragons Den style............. I`m out.

 

[ZeroTheHero]

And would you trust the club management to spend the 'striker levy' on a striker, or would it be diverted (wholly or partially) into other areas?

 

[ljs]

Would we get a bonus back if 'our' striker was sold on for a couple of million?

 

[Deleted member 222]

And would you trust the club management to spend the 'striker levy' on a striker, or would it be diverted (wholly or partially) into other areas?

You mean things like paying the tax man?

 

[ZeroTheHero]

You mean things like paying the tax man?

Yes. Or paying past owners for the club. Or paying directors for the valuable work they do. Or paying Doris the tea lady because they've been locked out of their PayPal account.
Stuff like that.

 

[Oufc28]

Is £250,000 really going to get us a good enough striker? The top goalscorer in the leagues below are going for almost triple that. I think realistically to get a good League 1 goalscorer you need at least £500,000

 

[Archieyellow]

Why don’t someone set up a player fund that supports can donate to, if say 6000 gave £5 that would give you 30k, some would give more some less but if we did it monthly/ weekly it would soon build up for the start of next season there should be a few quid

 

[Sarge]

Why don’t someone set up a player fund that supports can donate to, if say 6000 gave £5 that would give you 30k, some would give more some less but if we did it monthly/ weekly it would soon build up for the start of next season there should be a few quid

Wasn't there during the dark days of the conference the 12th man fund set up initially to help fund players .. .. wasn't that dispensed with? Can't remember why, or what happened to 12th man fund in the end

 

[Archieyellow]

Wasn't there during the dark days of the conference the 12th man fund set up initially to help fund players .. .. wasn't that dispensed with? Can't remember why, or what happened to 12th man fund in the end

It’s looking like the dark days are back

 

[Archieyellow]

Wasn't there during the dark days of the conference the 12th man fund set up initially to help fund players .. .. wasn't that dispensed with? Can't remember why, or what happened to 12th man fund in the end

It’s looking like the dark days are back

 

[Essexyellows]

Yes. Or paying past owners for the club. Or paying directors for the valuable work they do. Or paying Doris the tea lady because they've been locked out of their PayPal account.
Stuff like that.

She needs sacking, causes nothing but trouble & disruption!

 

[ZeroTheHero]

She needs sacking, causes nothing but trouble & disruption!

Yeah, all the financial problems are down to her wage demands. I've heard we are trying to offload her to Northampton and will replace her with a kettle and a box of Lidl 'finest' (i.e. less crap) tea bags. Can't tell you where I heard this, but rest assured I'm ITK...

 

[WokinghamYellow]

we would need to pay Tax on the income too so it wouldnt be the full amount......hmmm but would we actually pay it?!

The reality is it would be much less available after costs from a £2 increase

 

[Foley]

Mmm MAPP as boss apparently spent £250k plus for a certain Kane Hemmings.
MAPP was great OUFC manager but struggled with strikers.
Oh and no.manh supporters can't or won't pay for an extra striker.

 

[Marked Ox]

I'd prefer if we were trying to raise cash as supporters then it went into a fund as some form of insurance if the worst does happen.

 

[Village-Yellow]

Just set up a New Co with say 10,000,000 shares available for allotment.

Each £2 subscription buys a share.

No income subject to tax as this is a share subscription.
Each subscriber has a share of the pot (diluted as further shares are issued)
Use shareholder funds to acquire assets (players)
Loan them to OUFC
Find a gem whose stock goes up in value and sell.
Profits after tax used to acquire further players and/or pay out a small dividend.

Simples....A bit like buying a share in horse bloodstock.

But I guess there are FA rules that block this scenario? Wasn’t Tevez owned by a consortium?

 

[Marked Ox]

Just set up a New Co with say 10,000,000 shares available for allotment.

Each £2 subscription buys a share.

No income subject to tax as this is a share subscription.
Each subscriber has a share of the pot (diluted as further shares are issued)
Use shareholder funds to acquire assets (players)
Loan them to OUFC
Find a gem whose stock goes up in value and sell.
Profits after tax used to acquire further players and/or pay out a small dividend.

Simples....A bit like buying a share in horse bloodstock.

But I guess there are FA rules that block this scenario? Wasn’t Tevez owned by a consortium?

Yes, there are rules against 3rd party ownership.

 

[NottsYellow]

The VAT to be paid on receipts of£276k would £46,000.
Rather than a striker, perhaps putting the money towards a new community owned ground might be more favoured? Guaranteeing bank loan repayments of £250k per annum over 25 years would generate how much of initial capital?

 

[daveoufc]

Wasn't there during the dark days of the conference the 12th man fund set up initially to help fund players .. .. wasn't that dispensed with? Can't remember why, or what happened to 12th man fund in the end

We helped bring back jamie cook with it . His goal at home to luton i think was well worth it.

 

[Sarge]

We helped bring back jamie cook with it . His goal at home to luton i think was well worth it.

Worth every penny @daveoufc .... from 12th man fund helping to buy /fund players it then disappeared .... my memory on how n why seems to be filed in the dark recesses with dark memories of the conference years for me.... anyone recall how n why 12th man fund imploded?

 

[Basham Wonderland]

Isn't it already £28 for a seat in the SSU outpatient's ward??? £30 to watch League 2 football!? You've got to be spanking my spaniel.

And it's not as though the cost could be passed onto those in the East Stand. Times are tough on Universal Credit.

North Standers should foot the bill. £85 per child should do it.

 

[Shropshire U]

The only way that schemes like this would get any traction is if we had fan ownership.
The thought of giving any extra on ticket prices to the likes of Tiger, Kassam and the sort of egotistical wannabes who own football clubs is plain sick-making.

 

[MarkG]

The only way that schemes like this would get any traction is if we had fan ownership.
The thought of giving any extra on ticket prices to the likes of Tiger, Kassam and the sort of egotistical wannabes who own football clubs is plain sick-making.

I have a lot of sympathy for Lenagan who got suckered in to funding the club and lost around £4million on it. Would have been £7million if Charlie and Stu had their £1million bid accepted instead of Eales’s £4Million.

 

[LondonRoader]

The only way that schemes like this would get any traction is if we had fan ownership.
The thought of giving any extra on ticket prices to the likes of Tiger, Kassam and the sort of egotistical wannabes who own football clubs is plain sick-making.

That is the problem a lot of fans can’t see, their love and passion for THEIR club that is owned by businessmen trying to make money, it’s hard to justify putting money into someone’s trainset for them to leave at the end of the project hoping to have made millions.

 

[nick68]

I think it's a shame that all the subsequent comments are very negative given the enterprise and positive nature of the original post, well done for taking your time to think of a way of improving things.
Whilst i appreciate it's a difficult time to find positives we need to try rather than just allowing the constant negativity to take over.

 

[Anthomic]

Have not seen much of a return for the £70 increase in the price of my season ticket this year to date.