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Got myself a cheeky 14 day trial with this website so I thought I'd share. Profit before tax forecast to be at around the £150m! (I know you'll like this one John Thomas John Thomas )


Financial Forecast Tottenham Hotspur:Spurs set to post a new world-record profit
2 September 2019 2:30 PM
Photo: Getty Images Tottenham Hotspur chairman Daniel Levy is looking into another amazing financial year for the London club. With tight cost control, their pre-tax profit is expected to top the £150 million mark.
As part of our business analysis initiatives at Off The Pitch, we have analysed the major happenings in the recently closed 2018/19 financial year for all Premier League clubs.
Here are Tottenham Hotspur's 2018/19 finances predicted.

MADS CHRISTIAN FOGT JENSEN, ANALYST [email protected]

Looking at the recently closed financial year of 2018/19, Tottenham are set to follow up on the world-record pre-tax profit of £139 million reported in 2017/18.
Spurs enjoyed another fine season, securing fourth place in the Premier League and a Champions League run all the way to the final. In particular, the Champions League will help Tottenham finance the mounting expenses from the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, which was officially opened at the end of the 2018/19 season.
With tight cost control, their pre-tax profit is expected to top the £150 million mark, despite facing a decrease in profit from player sales of more than £66 million compared to the previous season.
Below is Off The Pitch’s forecast for the 2018/19 annual accounts of Tottenham Hotspur.


Turnover
Moving from White Hart Lane to Wembley in 2018 saw Tottenham increasing their matchday income by £35 million, as the average match attendance more than doubled along with stadium capacity.
As Spurs played almost every match of the 2018/19 season on Wembley due to the delay in opening the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the club’s matchday income is expected to be significantly more than the 2017/18 level of £71 million.
Given the continued presence in the Champions League and mixture of seats in the new stadium, matchday income is estimated to exceed £80 million.
In terms of broadcasting income, Tottenham will receive an additional £1 million from the Premier League despite dropping a place in the table compared to last season. This increase is driven by a general rise in Premier League payments of 1.5 per cent as well as facility fees increasing due to one additional live TV match being broadcasted. Such an increase almost perfectly offsets the shortfall in prize money from the FA as Spurs did not manage to repeat last season’s run to the semi-finals.
By reaching the Champions League final this year, however, Off The Pitch estimates that Tottenham will exceed €100 million in prize money.
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Compared to being knocked out in the round of 16 last season, the prize money is estimated to increase by £36 million, bringing the overall broadcasting income for Spurs to an estimated total of £236 million.
Commercial income rose 43 per cent to £109 million in 2017/18, primarily as the previous kit deal with Under-Amor was replaced with a more lucrative deal with Nike - worth an additional £20 million.
With a number of major deals coming into effect in 2018/19, commercial income is expected to exceed the 2017/18 level of £109 million and be in excess of £130 million. As a result, the total income is estimated to increase to around £450 million.
HOW WE DID IT
The forecasting method is based on incremental changes from the previous accounting year.

Turnover estimates are based on the officially reported Premier League, FA and UEFA payments, as well as the values of, for example, new sponsorship deals reported by reliable sources.

Wages are estimated based on newly signed contracts, departing players and managerial changes.

Player amortisations are based on straight-line amortisation of transfer fees over the period of the contract.

The profit on player sales is based on the initial transfer fees paid for the departing players, the booked value calculated in accordance with above-mentioned player amortisations and the transfer fees received for selling the player.
Wages
Spurs have managed to keep wages relatively low and retained an optimum squad size despite their increasing competitiveness at the top of the Premier League in recent years.
With a wage bill of £148 million in 2017/18, Spurs have been paying more than £100 million less than the average wage bill of £257 million that the rest of the top six clubs paid in 2017/18. By tying up the likes of Harry Kane, Dele Alli and Heung-Min Son on long-term contract extensions, however, Tottenham are estimated to see a rise of £11 million in 2018/19, bringing their wage bill to a total of £159 million.
Player amortisations
Due to the low investment activity in 2018/19, Spurs are not expected to see a significant rise in player amortisations. 2019 will be Lucas Moura’s first full season in Tottenham, thus his amortisations are expected to have double the impact of 2018, when he was acquired in the January transfer window.
An additional amortisation bill of £2.3 million is thus estimated for Tottenham. This is partly offset by Mousa Dembélé, who was sold in the January window of 2019. The last of his initial amortisation has been released, amounting to £0.5 million, and consequently, Tottenham’s player amortisations are expected to increase by £1.8 million.
However, Spurs had player impairments amounting to £15 million in 2017/18, which is not expected to recur in 2018/19. As a result, the total player amortisation is estimated to decrease by £13 million to a total of £59 million.
Profit on player sales
Without any major player sales in 2018/19, the profit generated by such means is expected to take a heavy downfall compared to the £73 million reported in 2017/18. Mousa Dembélé and the academy player Keanan Bennetts were the only players sold at a total price of £6.8 million, according to transfermarkt.com.
Dembélé was almost fully amortised, however, with only a half-year remaining on his contract, and with Bennetts as an academy player the estimated profit from these sales amounts to £6.3 million, equal to a decrease of £67 million compared to 2017/18. Look at the table below for further details on the calculation.


Recap
Despite less profit being generated by player sales, Tottenham are estimated to look ahead at a year of pre-tax profit in excess of £150 million – an increase of more than £12 million compared to 2017/18.
This is primarily due to their Champions League run all the way to the final, as well as their ability to keep costs relatively low compared to the rest of the “Big Six” clubs. The forecast might be subject to change, however, if depreciations from their new stadium start running from 2019 – 2019/20 season will be the first full year in the club’s new stadium.
According to the annual report of 2017/18, Tottenham had assets under construction amounting to £784 million, which haven’t started depreciating yet. As the stadium officially opened at the end of the 2018/19 season, it’s not expected that depreciations will start increasing before 2020.
 
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And another! Commercial Income has increased by 151.6% since 2014 to roughly £109m. This season forecasts an even bigger increase to in excess of £130m.

Interesting to see that our commercial revenue was £109.1m, and Woolwich got £106.9m in commercial revenue. Surpassing them based on this area bodes we'll for the future even if the football doesn't not at the moment:


Off The Pitch Analysis: Tottenham rules Big Six in growing commercial income
31 May 2019 8:12 AM
Photo: Getty Images Tottenham are not only having great success on the pitch they have also increased their commercial income substantially in the last five years.
Offthepitch.com has analysed the five latest accounts of the 13 teams consistently in the Premier League during that period to see how their commercial revenue has developed.
The analysis reveals that Tottenham are at the top in terms of increasing their commercial income over the last five years in relative terms.
The Gunners are at the bottom in terms of relative growth, but their new kit deal might change their commercial income.
Commercial income provide the firepower for elite transfers, says chief economist at EY UK.

PETER HØYER [email protected]

Tottenham have had great success in increasing their commercial income substantially in the last five years.
An analysis by offthepitch.com shows that the club have increased their commercial income by 151.6 per cent since 2014 to £109 million.
This huge relative growth makes Tottenham the most successful club of the "Big Six" in terms of increasing commercial income. And even though most income in Premier League clubs come from broadcasting rights, the commercial revenue should not be underestimated.
...the more commercial income they can generate, the more competitive they can be in the talent market"
“For clubs in the top six, commercial income is very important in providing the firepower for elite transfers and wages,” Mark Gregory, chief economist at EY UK, told offthepitch.com.
“All of these teams can rely on large television payments and European TV fees, so the more commercial income they can generate, the more competitive they can be in the talent market,” he said.
According to Gregory, TV income for the big six accounts for 50 per cent or less of total revenues – with this figure being closer to 60 percent for Spurs. But for the rest of the division, TV can provide 70 to 90 per cent of income.
Increasing activity
Besides Tottenham, other clubs have also succeeded in growing their commercial income. Crystal Palace and Everton have seen outstanding growth, respectively increasing their income by 214.8 per cent to £15 million and 237.1 per cent to £42.8 million. Of course, it should be noted that the absolute numbers are significantly smaller than those of the bigger clubs.
Even so, what the three clubs have in common is that they have been very active in getting new sponsors and more lucrative deals. For example, Crystal Palace sealed a record shirt deal for the club with ManBetX in June 2017. The deal is reportedly worth £6.5 million per season and the club saw its income from sponsorships increase by £3 million in 2017/18.
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Everton have also been extremely active with their £48 million deal with Kenyan gaming company Sportspesa at the end of the last campaign. The deal lasts for five seasons, and brings in £9.6 million per season.
Furthermore, the Toffees has made a profitable arrangement with furniture company USM – for example, a naming rights deal for the club’s Halewood facility to be renamed to USM Finch Farm – reportedly worth at least £20 million over five years.
Finally, Tottenham have made extended deals with both Nike and insurance group AIA securing them respectively - and reportedly - £30 million and £51 million per year until 2033 and 2022. On top of this, in the last year the club announced deals with Audi, IWC Schaffhausen, HPE, 1xBET and EA Sports, and can look forward to getting income from naming rights for their new stadium.


Importance for clubs outside the top six
The high levels of growth in commercial income for Everton and Crystal Palace could be quite important for the clubs.
According to Mark Gregory, they will give the clubs a stronger competitive edge. This will be the case for Crystal Palace in particular, whose growth, according to Gregory, shows that they are becoming more established in the Premier League.
“For clubs outside the top six, commercial income is important as short-term cost control limits annual increases in wage bills to £7 million plus increases in commercial income but excluding increases in TV revenues. Commercial income is critical therefore in creating space for higher wages which is important in the battle for talent,” Gregory said.
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21 May 2019 12:01 PM

The chief economist also stressed that it varies which sector is the most important for commercial income, but in general sponsorship, kit deals and advertising are the main drivers rather than hospitality, conferences etc.
TV coverage, size of crowd and international reach drive the value of sponsorship, advertising and kit deals, according to Gregory, hence the big six and especially the top two or three brands tend to do the best. But this also means there is great potential for growth for other clubs.
“Clubs with larger gates such as Newcastle United, West Ham and Everton ought to be able to grow their commercial revenues faster than others over time,” he said.
Woolwich out or in?
At the bottom of all current Premier League clubs who have been in the league over the last five years, we find Woolwich.
The Gunners’ commercial revenue has risen just 38.5 per cent to almost £107 million, placing them below their arch-rivals Spurs in absolute numbers for the first time ever.
Woolwich have seen scant increase in their income in recent years. Comparing the latest figures to 2015 instead of 2014, the club have only managed to raise their income by 3.5 per cent, since the big difference seems to come from their kit deal with Puma in January 2014 worth £30 million a year.
Woolwich’s new kit deal with Adidas is reportedly worth £300 million or £60 million per year and runs for five years
“I expect not qualifying for the Champions League has impacted Woolwich’s income,” Gregory assesses.
Even though the London club have made some progress in getting new sponsors – £30 million deal with Rwanda in May 2018 – it seems that their most recent deal will make the wheels spin again.
Woolwich’s new kit deal with Adidas is reportedly worth £300 million or £60 million per year and runs for five years.
The deal is one of the most lucrative kit deals in the history of football, only topped by Barcelona’s Nike deal worth £100 million per year, Real Madrid’s Adidas deal worth £98 million, Manchester United’s Adidas deal worth £75 million per year, and Manchester City’s Puma deal worth an annual £65 million.
 
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If an NFL team ever does come to our stadium I don’t see any way it financially boasts Spurs, I’m sure the NFL team need to make money too, split the running costs I suppose at best.

Would be two completely separate businesses sharing a stadium nothing more nothing less....
 
If an NFL team ever does come to our stadium I don’t see any way it financially boasts Spurs, I’m sure the NFL team need to make money too, split the running costs I suppose at best.

Would be two completely separate businesses sharing a stadium nothing more nothing less....

I think the overall NFL profits will undoubtedly go to the NFL team. I think it will boost us mostly as we will receive rent off of them, thus increasing our revenue streams and our ability to pay off the stadium quicker.

Extra reach for the stadiums viewing will also give us a greater chance of getting larger commercial and sponsorship deals, as well as raise the profile of the club overseas.

We won't see a penny of the NFL wedge, it'll be more for the use of our infrastructure or to split the ownership costs/ charge them for using it etc. When you consider that the Dallas Cowboys stadium cost $1.2bn or the MetLife stadium cost $1.6bn etc, our place has its appeal seeing as any franchise looking to dip its toe into London won't have the huge risk of paying for a stadium at top whack, only to see it flunk like a few think an NFL franchise over here might long term.

They've been eyeing this market up a fair old bit and for a fair old amount of time, they know it could potentially be huge for the game over there and the financial rewards massive so our joint, for a reasonable bit of cost to them over a 10-20 year period in the city they want takes a huge element of risk away. All we had to do is build a changing room and a retractable pitch at the cost of maybe £60m and in doing so we have taken most of the financial risk away from such a decision.
 
You said we needed a new squad though John.
The players were shit

Now they’re too good for us?
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Liar Liar Pants on Fire :sonpoint:

You're making it up as you go along, Sammy.

Not the best start to the day for you mate.. ..I have a day's work ahead, i'll check in to tonight and see if you've recoverred some respectability.
 
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Liar Liar Pants on Fire :sonpoint:

You're making it up as you go along, Sammy.

Not the best start to the day for you mate.. ..I have a day's work ahead, i'll check in to tonight and see if you've recoverred some respectability.

Grow up John.
Own your opinions you fraud

Slagged off the squad and chairman for half a decade for lack of investment and poor signings and “shitting on” Poch, now you’re going to try and deny it.

Absolute turn coat
 
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And another! Commercial Income has increased by 151.6% since 2014 to roughly £109m. This season forecasts an even bigger increase to in excess of £130m.

Interesting to see that our commercial revenue was £109.1m, and Woolwich got £106.9m in commercial revenue. Surpassing them based on this area bodes we'll for the future even if the football doesn't not at the moment:


Off The Pitch Analysis: Tottenham rules Big Six in growing commercial income
31 May 2019 8:12 AM
Photo: Getty Images Tottenham are not only having great success on the pitch they have also increased their commercial income substantially in the last five years.
Offthepitch.com has analysed the five latest accounts of the 13 teams consistently in the Premier League during that period to see how their commercial revenue has developed.
The analysis reveals that Tottenham are at the top in terms of increasing their commercial income over the last five years in relative terms.
The Gunners are at the bottom in terms of relative growth, but their new kit deal might change their commercial income.
Commercial income provide the firepower for elite transfers, says chief economist at EY UK.

PETER HØYER [email protected]

Tottenham have had great success in increasing their commercial income substantially in the last five years.
An analysis by offthepitch.com shows that the club have increased their commercial income by 151.6 per cent since 2014 to £109 million.
This huge relative growth makes Tottenham the most successful club of the "Big Six" in terms of increasing commercial income. And even though most income in Premier League clubs come from broadcasting rights, the commercial revenue should not be underestimated.

“For clubs in the top six, commercial income is very important in providing the firepower for elite transfers and wages,” Mark Gregory, chief economist at EY UK, told offthepitch.com.
“All of these teams can rely on large television payments and European TV fees, so the more commercial income they can generate, the more competitive they can be in the talent market,” he said.
According to Gregory, TV income for the big six accounts for 50 per cent or less of total revenues – with this figure being closer to 60 percent for Spurs. But for the rest of the division, TV can provide 70 to 90 per cent of income.
Increasing activity
Besides Tottenham, other clubs have also succeeded in growing their commercial income. Crystal Palace and Everton have seen outstanding growth, respectively increasing their income by 214.8 per cent to £15 million and 237.1 per cent to £42.8 million. Of course, it should be noted that the absolute numbers are significantly smaller than those of the bigger clubs.
Even so, what the three clubs have in common is that they have been very active in getting new sponsors and more lucrative deals. For example, Crystal Palace sealed a record shirt deal for the club with ManBetX in June 2017. The deal is reportedly worth £6.5 million per season and the club saw its income from sponsorships increase by £3 million in 2017/18.
Newcastle reach commercial new level: Financial freedom to pay debt back to Ashley and fund big transfers this summer
18 April 2019 5:00 PM

Everton have also been extremely active with their £48 million deal with Kenyan gaming company Sportspesa at the end of the last campaign. The deal lasts for five seasons, and brings in £9.6 million per season.
Furthermore, the Toffees has made a profitable arrangement with furniture company USM – for example, a naming rights deal for the club’s Halewood facility to be renamed to USM Finch Farm – reportedly worth at least £20 million over five years.
Finally, Tottenham have made extended deals with both Nike and insurance group AIA securing them respectively - and reportedly - £30 million and £51 million per year until 2033 and 2022. On top of this, in the last year the club announced deals with Audi, IWC Schaffhausen, HPE, 1xBET and EA Sports, and can look forward to getting income from naming rights for their new stadium.


Importance for clubs outside the top six
The high levels of growth in commercial income for Everton and Crystal Palace could be quite important for the clubs.
According to Mark Gregory, they will give the clubs a stronger competitive edge. This will be the case for Crystal Palace in particular, whose growth, according to Gregory, shows that they are becoming more established in the Premier League.
“For clubs outside the top six, commercial income is important as short-term cost control limits annual increases in wage bills to £7 million plus increases in commercial income but excluding increases in TV revenues. Commercial income is critical therefore in creating space for higher wages which is important in the battle for talent,” Gregory said.
Aston Villa sign new partnership in pursuit of fixing huge decline in commercial income
21 May 2019 12:01 PM

The chief economist also stressed that it varies which sector is the most important for commercial income, but in general sponsorship, kit deals and advertising are the main drivers rather than hospitality, conferences etc.
TV coverage, size of crowd and international reach drive the value of sponsorship, advertising and kit deals, according to Gregory, hence the big six and especially the top two or three brands tend to do the best. But this also means there is great potential for growth for other clubs.
“Clubs with larger gates such as Newcastle United, West Ham and Everton ought to be able to grow their commercial revenues faster than others over time,” he said.
Woolwich out or in?
At the bottom of all current Premier League clubs who have been in the league over the last five years, we find Woolwich.
The Gunners’ commercial revenue has risen just 38.5 per cent to almost £107 million, placing them below their arch-rivals Spurs in absolute numbers for the first time ever.
Woolwich have seen scant increase in their income in recent years. Comparing the latest figures to 2015 instead of 2014, the club have only managed to raise their income by 3.5 per cent, since the big difference seems to come from their kit deal with Puma in January 2014 worth £30 million a year.

“I expect not qualifying for the Champions League has impacted Woolwich’s income,” Gregory assesses.
Even though the London club have made some progress in getting new sponsors – £30 million deal with Rwanda in May 2018 – it seems that their most recent deal will make the wheels spin again.
Woolwich’s new kit deal with Adidas is reportedly worth £300 million or £60 million per year and runs for five years.
The deal is one of the most lucrative kit deals in the history of football, only topped by Barcelona’s Nike deal worth £100 million per year, Real Madrid’s Adidas deal worth £98 million, Manchester United’s Adidas deal worth £75 million per year, and Manchester City’s Puma deal worth an annual £65 million.

Good post. The commercial income is what seperates us from the big boys. ie we need to grow it.

If commercial was 130m, matchday 110m with the new stadium, 145m for domestic tv. Another 50m for our CL run assuming we dont get as far as last year. We should trunover 440m ish.

As we all know, puts us comfortably in the bracket of buying 50-60m pound players like Fernandes, Ndombele and Lo Celso. At a push we can get to 70m.

As a note, teams usually pay half the money up front and the rest spread over a number of years. ie 25m now, then 10m over 3 seasons.

We still have the opportunity to rent to nfl team and sell the stadium rights. That could bring in another 40m a year. Taking us up to almost 500m a year. Thats top 5 in the world. On a par with City, Bayern, PSG and probably due to recent success Liverpool.
 
Loaded up a game of football manager 14 the other day.

We had a shitty little stadium. Our rivals had 2 to 3 times as much money to spend on players and wages.

We had Chadli, Vlad, Soldado and a load of other dross.

You cant say anything other than ENIC have done a top notch job. We havnt quite seen the full spending power from the new stadium because of the massive rebuilding job needed on the squad.

But theres not way we could have signed players like Lo Celso and Ndombele just 5 years ago. Over time we will keep spending and replace the aging stars and come back stronger than ever.
 
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