How much did we make in the end?

riverroyal · by **riverroyal** » 14 May 2007 10:56

So, eight in the Premiership, brilliant.

Does anyone know how much we made this season? I heard we got Â£20 million TV and about Â£7m prize money plus Â£1.25 from the cups, plus season ticket/match ticket sales and merchandise. Anyone know?

M4 Junction 11 · by **M4 Junction 11** » 14 May 2007 10:59

You are Sir John and I claim my Â£5

Behindu · by **Behindu** » 14 May 2007 11:03

No one will 'know' until the acounts are published, and even then we'll only know what the accountants chose to reveal.

I do predict that it will be the biggest ever year for us financially and we may even show a small profit !

Whistle · by **Whistle** » 14 May 2007 11:34

Will we be the biggest locally-owned business in Reading in terms of turnover?

Barry the bird boggler · by **Barry the bird boggler** » 14 May 2007 11:36

I heard that overall we could make as much as Â£31.50 this season.

Silver Fox · by **Silver Fox** » 14 May 2007 13:40

riverroyal wrote:plus Â£1.25 from the cups

Imagine how little we'd have made if we'd lost at OT?

Behindu · by **Behindu** » 14 May 2007 13:49

Whistle wrote:Will we be the biggest locally-owned business in Reading in terms of turnover?

I'd hope not. I believe football clubs are generally nowhere near as big a business as people think, and certainly not as big as the publicity they get.

If there aren't businesses based in the Thames Valley doing a lot more than the football club then things are bad.

As an example Barracude (who run pubs and are based in Marlow) had a turnover of Â£100 million last year. Are we likely to turn over that much ?

Whistle · by **Whistle** » 14 May 2007 15:33

No, we'll turnover 35-50 mill??

But we're not based in Marlow.

Behindu · by **Behindu** » 14 May 2007 15:39

Define 'local' then !

Just happened to spot the Marlow one in a newsletter, and if there is a random company in Marlow doing Â£100 million I suspect there will be plenty within spitting distance of the Mad Stad doing at least as much.

Deadlock · by **Deadlock** » 14 May 2007 16:16

You wouldn't have to spit far to reach the brewery. I wouldn't though, they'd bottle it and sell it to Sharpy.

Behindu · by **Behindu** » 14 May 2007 16:18

Deadlock wrote:You wouldn't have to spit far to reach the brewery. I wouldn't though, they'd bottle it and sell it to Sharpy.

Isn;t the Brewery owned by Newcastle and Scottish though ? It's just a production facility and the query was locally owned businesses (hence I'm assumming Microsoft, Dell and the Pru are not included !)

Yorkshire Royal · by **Yorkshire Royal** » 14 May 2007 16:55

Isn't Yellow Pages, or Yell a Reading originating company? They must have some healthy turnover...

Behindu · by **Behindu** » 14 May 2007 17:17

ING are Reading based as well...

And Primark HQ is in Reading !

Forbury Lion · by **Forbury Lion** » 14 May 2007 17:29

Yorkshire Royal wrote:Isn't Yellow Pages, or Yell a Reading originating company? They must have some healthy turnover...

Possibly not profit though, they're regulated heavilly as they have a monopoly. Besides we don't want a yellow away kit

Behindu · by **Behindu** » 14 May 2007 17:43

What do Yell have a monopoly in ?

Apart from shouting a lot....

Whistle · by **Whistle** » 14 May 2007 19:13

Reading-based and locally owned like yesteryear's Huntley&Palmers, Sutton Seeds, Simonds Brewery, Exell?, Cocks Reading Sauces etc.

How about Horsemans?!

From Despair To Where? · by **From Despair To Where?** » 14 May 2007 20:45

I'd imagine the club's annual turnover compares unfavourably to that of the Morrisons on the Basingstoke Road. Yes, I know Morrison's isn't a local company but it puts into persepective how big football clubs are in the grand scheme of business.

Jackson Corner · by **Jackson Corner** » 14 May 2007 23:09

Mr Mad said we would be lucky to break even this season.

Silver Fox · by **Silver Fox** » 15 May 2007 08:22

According to today's Telegraph we made 23.64M from the league and 0.78M from the cups, finishing 9th in the money league

M Brook · by **M Brook** » 15 May 2007 09:11

Link here. Many other end of season stats. Well done Marcus and how comes we didn't get the Fair Play entry into the EUFA cup?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.j ... nsta14.xml