pompeyfan Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 I've wondering how club finances work as my club is skint even though the fair play rules said we're on course to make a £185m profit this season and we made £235m profit last season. Yet my wage budget was only £1.9m per week and transfer budget was £10m - the transfer budget has been dropped to £0 and the wage budget to £1.4m pw as the club is £16m in the red - so what has happened to all the profit the club has made? I'm on my 1st save which I started with Portsmouth in season 2013/14 in League 2 and am currently in season 2027/28 still with Portsmouth, I got to the Premier League in 5 seasons and have been there since, with the last 2 seasons also in the CL - over the course of the game I've only spent £157m on players in total, and recouped £127m, every season I've been on course to make a profit according to the fair play rules with the lowest in the Premier League being a £35m profit, but normally around £85-90m profit apart from the last 2 seasons when it was £235m and this season £185m - so where is all this money disappearing to? because even if I used my total wage budget and transfer budget and say another £30m on top in expenses/player bonuses, I should still have well over a £100m left from last season and shouldn't be in the red. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auqakuh Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 If you want to know what happened to the money... go look at the finances page in-game? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pompeyfan Posted December 3, 2013 Author Share Posted December 3, 2013 If you want to know what happened to the money... go look at the finances page in-game? I did, that's why I was asking as I thought profit = money left after everything has been paid out, but there isn't any sign of the profit only losses. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
santy001 Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 Money spent on things like youth development, youth academies etc doesn't count towards the total. It means a portion of the clubs expenses won't count towards that limit, clubs who spend a lot on youth development may still lose money (as my Irish team currently do) but when it comes to the FFP calculation are still turning a profit. Edit: Also I think the calculation is based across the FFP monitoring period which is a few years, so with premiership revenues and current expenditure then it may indeed look to be a substantial amount. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayahr Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 You could take and post screenies of your income and expenditure pages. Maybe we may be able to help then Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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