Max Rebo's Big Blue Nose 0 Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 (edited) Ok, I thought I'd change the record somewhat from the usual stuff with a post about our future once all this has been ironed out. Let's imagine that we are five years on and are back playing in the top tier of the Scottish League. We have no sanctions, no bans from from Europe, no embargos or and hopefully zero debt. Is that hard to imagine a club of Rangers size as a sustainble club? A club that will never see these dark days again? What follows will be layman accounting and I apologize for that but it's just something that I've been thinking about during all this madness. Ok let's look at our income streams first of all. 1. Season tickets It's safe to say that once we are back on our feet and have greater clairty regarding our status there will be a desire from fans to buy season tickets. Going on the premise that approximately 40,000 fans will buy tickets at an average of £400, that brings in something like £16 million in revenue. 2. Match day tickets On top of the 40,000 ST there is usually about 5,000 match day tickets sold at £25 per ticket and that multiplied by 18/19 home fixtures bring in sum of approx. £2.3 million. 3. Coprorate match packages To keep things very simple, let's go on the premise that we could bring in £1 million from this venture during a season 4. Shirt Sponsorship/match day advertising Again keeping it simple, let's say that we could gain £2/3 million per year from this 5. Merchandising/strip sales Possibly £5 million per year 6. TV revenue Possibly £1 million a year Going on these basic estimates, it's safe to say we could easily gather approximately £30 million per year from the revenue streams listed above. This does not factor any monies gained from European competition or any other avenues that could be explored (foreign markets, RFFF, etc.) Ok, now for the outgoings and the biggest one is obviously players wages. If we are to sustain a profitable club surely we need a better approach to wages and the balance of our squad IMO (between experience and youth). I genuinely feel we need a wage structure that doesn't get breached and that would mean a salary cap of £10,000 a week for all players. If we can gather both an experienced and young squad of 24 competitive players surely we could maintain a wage outlay on the playing squad and general staff of about £15 million per season? As I have openly stated above, my accounting skills are naive at best but in my eyes we could easily make a healthy profit every year with a sensible business model that would see us never get in this mess again. Or am I just a naive dreamer? Edited June 22, 2012 by Max Rebo's Big Blue Nose 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GovanAllan 0 Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 (edited) You want a job Max. Not a bad appraisal mate, corporate is actually a far bit more (I now what i used to pay) if we fill the hospitality areas. Rangers can easily be run within its means, yes we may not win just as much but we will still win things. Long and hard road on the way back to all that but it won't be dull. Edited June 22, 2012 by GovanAllan 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Rebo's Big Blue Nose 0 Posted June 22, 2012 Author Share Posted June 22, 2012 You want a job Max. Not a bad appraisal mate, corporate is actually a far bit more (I now what i used to pay) if we fill the hospitality areas. Rangers can easily be run within its means, yes we may not win just as much but we will still win things. Cheers GA. I've gone with the lowest possible figure for most of these income streams TBH. I agree we may not win as much but there are players out there that can do a very good job for smaller wages. Who would have thought Sone Aluko would have been such a success? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GovanAllan 0 Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Cheers GA. I've gone with the lowest possible figure for most of these income streams TBH. I agree we may not win as much but there are players out there that can do a very good job for smaller wages. Who would have thought Sone Aluko would have been such a success? Agreed Max 10,000 basic wage is still a bloody good wage for playing in the SPL once you add on win bonus and the rest it's a good take home pay for playing football. There are some really good players out there who won't cost a lot to buy or pay and the youth set up must be run better of course. I would hope to find a fair few gems on the youth side of things on the way back up. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyk 158 Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Good post and can be achievable IMO. I think it's also a great chance for the fans to have more say in the running of the club if they can pull in the same direction and have someone who can lead the way, easier said than done I know. We could even run a membership scheme with monthly payments where prizes won etc, it would all be hard to start with but if there is a good reasonable plan in place then i'm sure fans would back it and buy into it. If only..... 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GovanAllan 0 Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Good post and can be achievable IMO. I think it's also a great chance for the fans to have more say in the running of the club if they can pull in the same direction and have someone who can lead the way, easier said than done I know. We could even run a membership scheme with monthly payments where prizes won etc, it would all be hard to start with but if there is a good reasonable plan in place then i'm sure fans would back it and buy into it. If only..... We are crying out for a well run membership scheme mate, worldwide it would bring in Millions in revenue for the club. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
der Berliner 4,151 Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 A decent membership scheme will indeed help ... and possibly bring someone onto the board of directors too. Then there are Rangers radio and TV subscriptions, which probably will go up if we drop out of the SPL-TV deals. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Rebo's Big Blue Nose 0 Posted June 22, 2012 Author Share Posted June 22, 2012 We are crying out for a well run membership scheme mate, worldwide it would bring in Millions in revenue for the club. Agreed. A bit like a continual RFF. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest govansw1 Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 A decent membership scheme will indeed help ... and possibly bring someone onto the board of directors too. Then there are Rangers radio and TV subscriptions, which probably will go up if we drop out of the SPL-TV deals. http://www.RangersUnite.com could be the answer. I have registered my interest with them. It's at least worth having a read thro'. There are always Threads/Posts on these forums RM, GersNet crying out for Fan involvement. In line with Max looking forward 5 years you could add £20M from Fan Membership. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GovanAllan 0 Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Agreed. A bit like a continual RFF. Not a bad idea to hand it over to them, give them a seat on the board to oversee how the money is spent. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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