As Albion fans scour NSC* on a regular basis every day for hints and revelations of new signings, research undertaken at Mod Towers suggests that if Tony Bloom’s investment of over £200 million in the club results in promotion, it would have a massive impact on the club valuation.

For those clubs in the Championship with their noses pressed to the window of the Premier League, the situation is challenging. Losses averaged over £9 million per club in 2013/14. Those ...

The 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil was a fantastic spectacle (unless you were a fan of England, Spain, Italy or Portugal, all of whom were expected to do far proceed further than the group stages).

Much has been said and written about FIFA, in terms of its governance, transparency and ethics, but there has been relative silence with regards to the financial success or otherwise of the competition itself.



FIFA has just published its annual report, (which runs to an impressive 156 pages) and ...

There's been a lot of talk about the Albion not investing in the team in recent months, so NSC has trawled the archives to see whether or not the club has splashed the cash in finding the most expensive signings in the history ...

In 1983 Liverpool signed one of the highest paid players in England from a south coast team that had just been relegated from the top tier, at the time he was earning about £1,400 a week from his former club. The new Premier League TV deal announced earlier this week could herald the first £500,000 a week player. This will be an increase of nearly 36,000%, where at the same time average wages in the UK have increased by 345%, ...

On the day that Deloitte published the football rich list, revealing that all the clubs in the Premier League last season are in the top 40 richest clubs in the world (and that included the likes of Palace), we've got out our magnifying glasses and taken a long look at the Albion accounts published last week.

The Argus billboard heading of a 76% rise in ...

The Rivals

There was surprise recently when Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan announced he would stand as an opponent to incumbent Sepp Blatter at the FIFA congress on 29 May in Zurich. Blatter originally declared in 2011 that he would not be standing for re-election this year, partly on the grounds of his age (he will be 79 at the date of the vote).

The History

Blatter has held the role since 1998, and has been re-elected three times since then. FIFA's reputation has been sullied in relation to claims of financial irregularities and the nature ...

The price of going down is something I last heard discussed on a rugby club trip to Amsterdam*, but I've been asked to apply the same question to the Albion's perilous league position.

Apart from the joy of a Sussex derby match at Crawley next season, and some 'new' grounds in the form of Chesterfield and Fleetwood ...

Parachutes

Following the recent article penned on the Financial Fair Play (FFP) changes announced last week, it's fair to say that @bozza and I have been taken to task in a series of emails by Albion CEO Paul Barber.

Paul's viewpoint is that my comments didn't deal with all of the issues raised at the Football League meeting last week, (a point I concede, but, the Football League press release didn't deal with a number of issues that Paul thinks are very significant). He was especially concerned about my criticism of 'Greater Good' comment ...

What difference does it make?

The new rules for Financial Fair Play (FFP) announced by the Football League Championship earlier this week provoked head scratching, chin rubbing, calculator tapping and cynical indifference in equal measure from Albion fans.

The latest incarnation of FFP (which I suspect won't be the last), attempts to address some of the criticisms of the 'old' (i.e. current) rules, which were deemed by some to give clubs relegated from the Premier League too great an advantage over more established FL members. ...

The reason why the Albion are struggling this season is because we're not scoring enough goals, right?

If that's what you are thinking you're wrong. A more detailed analysis of our results since moving to our theatre of cocoa, reveals that points have been earned through not conceding goals, rather than scoring ...

The Albion's tenure in the top flight for the only four years in the club's history is full of myth and legend. One of the most common questions asked is in relation to the 1982/3 cup final run, culminating in two four goal thrillers at Wembley. Some fans have asked ever since about the monies generated after victories against Newcastle, Manchester City, Liverpool, Norwich and Sheffield Wednesday, and the final/replay against Manchester United.

NSC, at great expense, has managed to gain hold of the old financial paperwork in relation ...

We all know that Uncle Tony is the Albion's saviour, and without his benevolence we certainly wouldn't have The Amex in it's current degree of splendour, and just maybe wouldn't have a club at all.

Tony is a notoriously private man, and keeps his cards close to his chest both as a professional poker player, and also from a personal perspective.

Many fans wonder how Tony made his riches, and how much he is worth. An investigation into his UK based wealth isn't particularly revealing though, which suggests he either made his money overseas or it is kept well hidden ...

Albion fans may have been scratching their heads about a small story in the Argus (and I'm not talking about player recruitment for once) advising that four non-executive directors had each bought £5,000 shares in the Albion at face value 'to comply with company law'.

The Albion company structure

The way the Albion is structured as a business is as follows:

Brighton and Hove Albion Holdings Limited owns 100% of two active trading companies

• Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club Limited
• The Community Stadium Limited

Brighton and Hove Albion Holdings Limited has just over 76 million £1 shares ...

"We're top of the league, we're top of the league, Financial Fair Play, we're top of the league", so sang an Albion wag at Birmingham yesterday as yet another five yard pass from JFC went to an opponent or bounced off CMS's shin.

Sadly the analysis was about as accurate as the Albion's ...