Mike Ashley’s transfer profits year by year
Posted on June 15th, 2013 | 90 Comments |
Firstly, they are broken down season by season from 2007-8. However, it should be noted the major transfers into the club in his first season as owner were either done in the days of Freddy Shepherd, or were arranged by Shepherd and completed in the transitional period of Ashley takeover, or the first days under the club’s new Chairman at the time, Chris Mort. Players in these two catagories include signings such as Viduka, Barton, Rozehnal, Smith, Cacapa, Enrique, Faye and Beye.
The following ones then display the season by season figures from the 2008-9 season (Ashley’s first full season as owner), with the first purely Ashley signings such as Fabricio Coloccini, Jonas Gutierrez, Xisco and the rest starting to come in. Of course, these are then followed by successive seasons up to the present day.
Finally, there is the overall picture showing the total expenditures and revenues from the whole period combined.
The figures are taken from German football transfer website, “Transfermarkt” and I can’t vouch for their absolute accuracy in all cases, though they do give a reasonably fair picture overall.
| Transfer profits and losses – The Ashley years (2007-). | |||||
| Season | In | Out | Expenditure | Revenue | Profit/Loss |
| 2007-8 | 18 | 17 | £33,308,000 | £27,412,000 | -£5.896.000 |
| 2008-9 | 24 | 15 | £30,954,000 | £36.432.000 | +£5,478,000 |
| 2009-10 | 18 | 22 | £5,513,200 | £23,804,000 | +£18,290,800 |
| 2010-11 | 23 | 17 | £11,616,000 | £36,740,000 | +£25,124,000 |
| 2011-12 | 27 | 29 | £23,025,200 | £14,115,200 | -£8,910,000 |
| 2012-13 | 22 | 22 | £28,569,200 | £13,024,000 | -£15.545.200 |
| 2013-14 | 0 | 2 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Total transfers 2007-8 to 2013 | |||||
| Season | In | Out | Expenditure | Revenue | Profit/Loss |
| 2007-13 | 127 | 123 | £132,985,600 | £151,527,200 | +£18,541,600 |
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In – Total amount of players coming into the club including loans, bairns etc… Out – Total amount of players leaving the club, whether sold, released, retired or whatever. |
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So there you have it. According to Transfermarkt, there has been an overall profit of around £18.5 million on transfers since the 2007-8 season, the season when Ashley took over the club. However, as I mentioned early in this piece, all the major signings of the 2007-8 season were planned by and signed when the club was in a transitional phase of ownership. Ashley’s transfers only really started after the third coming of Keegan with players such as Jonas Gutierrez, Danny Guthrie, Sebastien Bassong and Xisco. taken from this period, the overall profit on transfers has been even greater. As you can see below on my final table, it has been £24,437,600.
On the other hand, it can also be seen that there has been a marked increase in Newcastle United’s transfer spend in the last two seasons, with a deficit on player trading of almost £9 million in the 2011-12 season, rising to a deficit of around £15.5 million as the club went on a rare January spending spree in a bid to avoid relegation to the Championship.
| Transfer profits and losses 2008-13. | |||||
| Season | In | Out | Expenditure | Revenue | Profit/Loss |
| 2008-14 | 110 | 106 | £99,677,600 | £124,115,200 | +£24,437,600 |
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In – Total amount of players coming into the club including loans, bairns etc… Out – Total amount of players leaving the club, whether sold, released, retired or whatever. |
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Strange, I don’t seem to recall the interest free loan being reduced by £24million over the same period?
I wonder where the moneys gone? Its a mystery worthy of Scooby Doo that one. :/