Cost of Sales (1 Viewer)

mrtrench said:

As we seem to be settling into a pattern of selling the cream of our youth team as they start to get into the first team, I'm interested in the costs to the club to generate the income.

If we assume we train the kids from 8 to 18 (random assumption) and we recoup £1.5m per year from sales, how much has each of these sales cost for training etc.

Does anyone know the annual cost of running the academy? If we assume one comes good per year the profit per player is £1.5m less the annual cost of the academy.

And secondly, is this sustainable do we think now that Rioch has gone?

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Nick said:

Isn't it about 600k or so for the academy ccfc puts in and then the grant pays around the same?

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chiefdave said:

Some clubs have closed their academies as a result of the EPPP as they don't feel they are sustainable anymore.

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Captain Dart said:

The transfer dealings have averaged £1.75M profit p.a. in the last 3 years.

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mrtrench said:

Do we think that the stream of talent will dry up now Rioch has gone?

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chiefdave said:

All transfers or just academy graduates?

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mrtrench said:

Huge time lag in operation here. If it takes 10 years from finding the players until they are sold, we will only see the full effect from 2023.

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