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oldskyblue58

CCFC Finance Director
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #1
Mr Appleton has filed his final progress report at Company House dated 27/09/13.

Main points are

- Otium paid £1,500,004 for the following
Goodwill £1
Business Intellectual Property £1
FL & FA shares £2
Benefit of any continueing Contracts £466,742
Equipment £1
IT System £5000
The debts, benefit of all guarantees, indemnities and security rights in respect of them, including any Rates rebate. £1,000,000
any other assets £28,254

"the Company's accounting policies are complex and confusing"
"sought answers.....to ascertain whether any of the Company's assets have been either sold at undervalue or transferred for improper consideration..... investigations, thus far, have found no evidence to suggest the company or its directors both past and present have entered into such a transaction"


Conduct of directors past and present will be included in confidential report to Dept of Business Innovation & Skills

"I have found no evidence of an improper financial relationship between the Company and connected entities" Investigations to continue

Legal fees £400,764 plus VAT

Joint administrators fees from 21/03/13 to 27/09/13 £513,109 plus VAT (for 1571 hours of work)

PR fees £22,500 plus VAT

No assets left to sell




The collection & payment account so far is

Receipts

From Otium (as abovE) 1,500,004
Deposit account interest 3
Third Party Funds 40,251

total 1,540,258

Payments

Pre appointment costs PA 15,000
Pre appointmt - solicitors 17,751
disbursements 793
Legal fees 400,765
Administrator paid on account 200,000
PR costs 22,500

Total 656,809

Balance still left 883,449

313,109 still to be billed by administrator (forms part of the £513,109 above total)



make of it all what you will. There is more to the report but it is really statutory stuff that has to be included

Away from the report ARVO have cancelled part of their charge over the CCFC Ltd assets but left a charge over the following items
lease
premises licence
cash
some business records
any insurance claims
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #2
What does that mean?
 

bezzer

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #3
Nick said:
What does that mean?
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We're fooked!
 
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Godiva

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #4
oldskyblue58 said:
PR fees £22,500 plus VAT
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Really ????
 

lewys33

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #5
Doesn't really surprise me that he has found nothing and earnt a wedge for it. I really am in the wrong profession.
 

bigfatronssba

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #6
£2 for the FL share? I could have paid double that!

£5k for an IT system that seems to work when it wants?
 

oldskyblue58

CCFC Finance Director
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #7
Nick said:
What does that mean?
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It means that after selling the assets or rights to assets for £1.5m and paying out the legalsetc ( including his full costs of 513k) he has £570k still in the pot to pay the liquidator or to distribute to the creditors.

It means he has not found anything so far that he can report as wrong doing in terms of transferring assets etc or in the actions of the directors
 
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oldskyblue58

CCFC Finance Director
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #8
Godiva said:
Really ????
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apparently - to a company called Macca Media - on a monthly retainer per the report
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #9
So the 520k is just sat there doing nothing? Is that about the same amount they were to pay ACL that the league said they must pay?
 

lewys33

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #10
Nick said:
So the 520k is just sat there doing nothing? Is that about the same amount they were to pay ACL that the league said they must pay?
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If the league said they have to pay that, is that considered part of the liquidation process, or just seperate?
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #11
oldskyblue58 said:
apparently - to a company called Macca Media
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To be fair, they have some high profile clients - http://www.maccamedia.co.uk/
 

oldskyblue58

CCFC Finance Director
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #12
Nick said:
So the 520k is just sat there doing nothing? Is that about the same amount they were to pay ACL that the league said they must pay?
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No i dont think it is because it will be used to pay the liquidators costs first

It wasnt CCFC Ltd that had to pay ACL it was Otium
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #13
Macca Media is that NOTW tosser who kept turning up, was representing Appleton.

As we expected on the rest really. Amazing how hard it is to find something that's been sent to you by several people and reported in the press isn't it?
 
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Deleted member 5849

Guest
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #14
oldskyblue58 said:
Goodwill £1
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Sorry, this genuinely made me lol!
 

oldskyblue58

CCFC Finance Director
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #15
Deleted member 5849 said:
Sorry, this genuinely made me lol!
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NW I must admit to laughing myself when I read it right along with " business intellectual property" :laugh:
 
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shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #16
Deleted member 5849 said:
Sorry, this genuinely made me lol!
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It's kind of like throwing a pound coin at a stripper isn't it?
 

lewys33

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #17
shmmeee said:
It's kind of like throwing a pound coin at a stripper isn't it?
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Strippers are good for something though right?
 

oldskyblue58

CCFC Finance Director
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #18
So what were the continuing Contracts, if CCFC Ltd never did or has held any players contracts ? How does PA or TF explain that away?

it reads in the report
"the benefit (sublect to burden) of any continuing Contracts £466,742"
 
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lewys33

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #19
oldskyblue58 said:
So what was the continuing Contracts, if CCFC Ltd never did or has held any players contracts ? How does PA or TF explain that away?

it reads in the report
"the benefit (sublect to burden) of any continuing Contracts £466,742"
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I'm sure there will be something us pond life would have missed
 
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RPHunt

New Member
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #20
Legal fees £400,764 plus VAT

Joint administrators fees from 21/03/13 to 27/09/13 £513,109 plus VAT


I make that about £1.1m, or nearly £200k per month, since the club was put into administration. As we are led to believe that the process could run for some time yet, I cannot see there being anything left for creditors to share if costs continue at this rate.

I suspect this realisation was behind the letter by Bob Ainsworth to the Football League asking them about the, so called, conditions that the League had imposed on Otium before the granting of the "golden share", i.e. that Otium "meet the financial offer made to creditors under the proposed CVA.”

These figures seem to expose this commitment as bogus and the Football League, in their reply to Mr Ainsworth, have made it clear that they are not interested and have no intention of ensuring that this commitment is enforced.
 

skyblueinBaku

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #21
oldskyblue58 said:
apparently - to a company called Macca Media - on a monthly retainer per the report
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I'm at a loss to understand why the administrator needs the services of a PR company.
 
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RPHunt

New Member
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #22
skyblueindorset said:
I'm at a loss to understand why the administrator needs the services of a PR company.
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He obviously felt he couldn't pull off the fairy tale he has been telling without some assistance.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #23
Surely the PR for the administrator should come out of his fees or through his company expenses?
 
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Deleted member 5849

Guest
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #24
Apparently it's common practice for administrators to hire a PR company in high profile cases.

Quote from an administrator "oh you have to. When we dealt with... we were making press releases every day to make us look good"
 

skyblueinBaku

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #25
Deleted member 5849 said:
Apparently it's common practice for administrators to hire a PR company in high profile cases.

Quote from an administrator "oh you have to. When we dealt with... we were making press releases every day to make us look good"
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Well, they didn't do much of a job, did they? Appleton didn't look particularly good.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #26
skyblueindorset said:
Appleton didn't look particularly good.
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I agree, he could have invested in a makeup artist......
 
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Deleted member 5849

Guest
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #27
skyblueindorset said:
Well, they didn't do much of a job, did they? Appleton didn't look particularly good.
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Not sure even for the money they get paid I'd take on the job iof football administration (if I was qualified, of course ) look at the hassle Guilfoyle got from plymouth fans, for one.
 
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RPHunt

New Member
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #28
Nick said:
I agree, he could have invested in a makeup artist......
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"I have found no evidence of an improper financial relationship between the Company and connected entities"

That, to me, sounds like the work of a makeup artist.
 

SIR ERNIE

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #29
RPHunt said:
Legal fees £400,764 plus VAT

Joint administrators fees from 21/03/13 to 27/09/13 £513,109 plus VAT


I make that about £1.1m, or nearly £200k per month, since the club was put into administration. As we are led to believe that the process could run for some time yet, I cannot see there being anything left for creditors to share if costs continue at this rate.

I suspect this realisation was behind the letter by Bob Ainsworth to the Football League asking them about the, so called, conditions that the League had imposed on Otium before the granting of the "golden share", i.e. that Otium "meet the financial offer made to creditors under the proposed CVA.”

These figures seem to expose this commitment as bogus and the Football League, in their reply to Mr Ainsworth, have made it clear that they are not interested and have no intention of ensuring that this commitment is enforced.
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Good post RPH.

Makes you laugh eh?
£1.1m and still rising in legal/administrators fees kind of puts the £150k/per annum Ricoh rent into perspective doesn't it.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #30
SIR ERNIE said:
Good post RPH.

Makes you laugh eh?
£1.1m and still rising in legal/administrators fees kind of puts the £150k/per annum Ricoh rent into perspective doesn't it.
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Without getting into it, wasn't it £1.2m we were paying at the Ricoh?
 

lewys33

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #31
Nick said:
Without getting into it, wasn't it £1.2m we were paying at the Ricoh?
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The Ricoh Arena ........ Paul Appleton.

GOOD CALL!
 
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RPHunt

New Member
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #32
SIR ERNIE said:
Good post RPH.

Makes you laugh eh?
£1.1m and still rising in legal/administrators fees kind of puts the £150k/per annum Ricoh rent into perspective doesn't it.
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Yes, even at the original revised £400k a year offer, that is three years at the Ricoh.

SISU and 'value for money' don't belong together in the same sentence.
 
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dadgad

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #33
Nick said:
Without getting into it, wasn't it £1.2m we were paying at the Ricoh?
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Oh Sweet Jesus!
You're quite incapable of moving on aren't you?
 
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dadgad

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #34
RPHunt said:
Yes, even at the original revised £400k a year offer, that is three years at the Ricoh.

SISU and 'value for money' don't belong together in the same sentence.
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Precisely.
 
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dadgad

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 14, 2013
  • #35
RPHunt said:
"I have found no evidence of an improper financial relationship between the Company and connected entities"

That, to me, sounds like the work of a makeup artist.
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Haha!! ;-)
 
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