The Long Awaited Accounts....

[themossman]

We had an Angian windows guy round a few years ago. Threw a sample on the floor and jumped on it to show how strong it was. Scared the life out of the Mrs. I had to escort him out. In hindsight I don't think he was a well man.

[Hopadop]

Two accountants fighting.

"Whoever wins....We lose"

[PeterWithe]

An old boss of mine used to tell a story about selling vacuum cleaners door to door, one of the demonstrations was to edge past the lady of the house on the doorstep and throw soot on the floor, then use the new fangled vacuum cleaner to get it all up.

Reckons he did it once to a battle axe in Aston only to find out she didn't have any electricity. I never did believe him. He told a more convincing one about getting dog shit on the sleeve of his new suit from the arm of a chair in a Chelmsley flat.

Anyroad, we digress.

[CT Villan]

He told a more convincing one about getting dog shit on the sleeve of his new suit from the arm of a chair in a Chelmsley flat.

That made me chuckle more than it should 

[Drummond]

I like the way this thread is going.

Downhill faster than an Eel down Everest?

[kippaxvilla2]

Who's players' values would we have written down so quickly?  And this was the year the Benteke proceeds would've been recognised and Delphs?  Looks like they've just piled every bit of bad news into Lerners last hurrah before takeover.

[Villafirst]

I hope Dr Xia has deep pockets. Lansbury reputed to be on 40k p/w, Hourihane 28k p/w and Hogan 30k p/w, plus others on big wages. Relegation would be disastrous. A worrying situation. The downward spiral started with that imbecile Lerner...

[brian green]

When I was renovating 21 Rue de La Cite in St Malo (known as the Worthing of Brittany), I got a quote for double glazed windows from a local Scaramouche with a hand written addendum that I got translated as "does not include glass".

[oswald funkletrumpet]

We had an Angian windows guy round a few years ago. Threw a sample on the floor and jumped on it to show how strong it was. Scared the life out of the Mrs. I had to escort him out. In hindsight I don't think he was a well man.

Bugger i was after a new well to replace my bore hole

[Percy McCarthy]

An old boss of mine used to tell a story about selling vacuum cleaners door to door, one of the demonstrations was to edge past the lady of the house on the doorstep and throw soot on the floor, then use the new fangled vacuum cleaner to get it all up.

Reckons he did it once to a battle axe in Aston only to find out she didn't have any electricity. I never did believe him. He told a more convincing one about getting dog shit on the sleeve of his new suit from the arm of a chair in a Chelmsley flat.

Anyroad, we digress.

Playing up to your rampant prejudice no doubt.

[Steve kirk]

I know these are not Doctor Tony's accounts but maybe one of his tweets with some reassurance about the clubs financial future would be helpful.

[Risso]

I know these are not Doctor Tony's accounts but maybe one of his tweets with some reassurance about the clubs financial future would be helpful.

Not sure that would be required to be honest.  He obviously bought the club and based his due diligence on all of the available information, so none of this should be a surprise to him.  You'd hope at least.

When I've got a minute I'll sit down and work out how much Lerner's utter failure has cost him in total.  Must be a truly eye-watering sum, and I doubt the sales proceeeds even touched the sides.

[dave.woodhall]

I know these are not Doctor Tony's accounts but maybe one of his tweets with some reassurance about the clubs financial future would be helpful.

Not sure that would be required to be honest.  He obviously bought the club and based his due diligence on all of the available information, so none of this should be a surprise to him.  You'd hope at least.

When I've got a minute I'll sit down and work out how much Lerner's utter failure has cost him in total.  Must be a truly eye-watering sum, and I doubt the sales proceeeds even touched the sides.

Someone I know and who I found out much later had been approached to be part of a consortium last summer told me that the figures he saw put it at a bit over £150 million.

[PeterWithe]

An old boss of mine used to tell a story about selling vacuum cleaners door to door, one of the demonstrations was to edge past the lady of the house on the doorstep and throw soot on the floor, then use the new fangled vacuum cleaner to get it all up.

Reckons he did it once to a battle axe in Aston only to find out she didn't have any electricity. I never did believe him. He told a more convincing one about getting dog shit on the sleeve of his new suit from the arm of a chair in a Chelmsley flat.

Anyroad, we digress.

Playing up to your rampant prejudice no doubt.

I'm not sure that 'rampant prejudice' against the general population of Chemsley would have been good for either my family relations or my wallet, more that the family the story was about were well know in the office as being utter tramps.

[cdward]

I don't understand how the tangible assets are now worth c.£40m less than before.
Assuming these include VP and BMH, what has changed? 
I'm guessing there must be some clever accounting reason why you would say these are worth less than previously estimated.
Unless that shop in New Street was more valuable than we thought.