Players we have made a profit/loss on

[Skashion]

Flitcroft.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I think we made a loss when we sold Anelka to Fenerbache.

That was a disgraceful bit of business. £7 million was it? For a top centre forward who was in his prime. Even bolton outdid us big tiem with Anelka. They knew he was going so they signed him up on a new contract and sold him for a decent price not long after.

Dead right.

I think we are probably the only club in football not to have made a profit on Anelka.

 

[Boff]

Ankle biter Brown?

 

[jim_tolmies_perm]

Pound for Pound Paul Stewart was excellent business by the wigmeister

Bought for 200k and sold for £1.7m - dont forget gazza was only 500k more.....


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[Prestwich_Blue]

Depends how you define a profit. Seems a silly thing to say but when we buy a player, we write off the contract value over the life of the initial contract. So if we pay £20m for someone on a 4-year contract, we write off £5m a year to Player Amortisation in the P&L account. If we sell that player part way through his contract then the profit/loss is based on the outstanding balance rather than the original outlay.

In the above example, selling the player after 2 years for £12m would give us an accounting profit of £2m. If hte player stays for the length of his contract and we renew it then any money received is pure profit.

 

[Duphrates]

Does Stephen Ireland count?
or is it just players we bought then sold?

/edit and Neds for that matter. In fact all academy players!

 

[allblackcitizen]

Did we make a little money on Danny Allsop? Seem to remember we bought him for £10k and maybe sold him for £50k, or is that just wishful thinking?