[Football] Frank Lampards Derbys ground

I remember the good times said:

Is this allowed under FFP?
Surely the ground has been sold for double its worth, now that's a good bit of business. But a sponsor or director can only pay into a club the true value of an item. For instance, sponsorship of the shirts. The FA already have a guide price (let's say £1million) and so Derby cant 'sell' sponsorship for £10million just to get money laundered into the club.
I believe Man City are in trouble over this at the moment.

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NooBHA said:

What it does is allow him to have a crack at the PL for another few years without having to invest any more funds personally

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mikeyjh said:

That's definitely not true! Someone still has to stump up any losses the club incurs.....

Edit - I don't really know this! I shall keep my trap shut on matters that could be construed as 'accounting'

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Easy 10 said:

Can't see that being the case.

The Amex cost circa £93m, the training ground a couple of years on cost around £36m IIRC. There's a lot more infrastructure involved in building a stadium thats used by 30,000 people every other week I should think.

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FatSuperman said:

That's not how Mel is going to value it Easy. It's got to be on square footage of football pitches. If he uses any other measure he's not going to have any funds for the playoff push next season.

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Easy 10 said:

Can he just arbitrarily decide on what basis he's going to value it at then ? I'd have thought there would be existing parameters and regulations in place that dictate the valuation of a stadium and training ground.

I might want to inflate the value my house based on the enormous square footage of my back garden, whilst putting less emphasis that I'm in a 1 bedroom bedsit with shared bathroom / toilet facilities, next door to a plutonium disposal facility. But shirley a surveyor would have a rather different valuation.

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