Aberdeen face losing up to £5M and are "fighting for their future" as Coronavirus crisis deepens

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[Coopertrueblue]

How sad, never mind

 

[evo14]

Ah well, maybe 4 years of takings from Rangers games would have helped.

 

[HamiltonJungleBear]

Oh dear. What a shame.

 

[Getstiffed]

Good.

Now if we just stop sharing links to newspapers they'll go along with them eventually.

 

[JRei8790]

Oh my sides....

 

[Xavi Hernandez]

Unfortunately this just illustrates the magnitude of our potential short fall as well.

 

[Marlo Stanfield]

oh dear what a shame

 

[Noddy]

How sad, never mind

Rangers won't escape this you know.

 

[Oxford_blue]

How sad, never mind

This’ll put paid to their great business plan of reducing capacity etc etc

 

[EH47]

I'll save my concerns for Rangers, and Rangers alone.
Aberdeen and their likes can go fucking hang.

 

[Forth Bear]

Fuck them.

 

[Danger Zone]

Haven’t Dundee Hibs been spending big to get promotion? Surely the Tannadice Tesco is more likely than ever now. Can’t wait to scan my shopping on the exact spot where Laudrup clinched 9IAR

 

[SHAWLANDS LOYAL]

It would bring me to tears, ones of absolute joy, if this bastard club went to the wall.

 

[MFK Bear]

Bye bye.

 

[stuh]

Rangers won't escape this you know.

Correct and I'll worry about when it's about Rangers not sheep shagginx fc

 

[bearspakora]

I though they had tens of millions in the bank for their new stadium ?

 

[madride]

At least there’s some good news in these difficult times

 

[Noddy]

Correct and I'll worry about when it's about Rangers not sheep shagginx fc

A very short sighted view. But carry on.

 

[Britannia]

That made great reading. Jelly and Ice Cream......

 

[Talktalk]

Oh dear. What a shame.

I wouldn’t gloat as they won’t be alone, Barca are saying the same thing so we will probably be in the same boat going forward as ever other club will.

 

[GovanRearLoyal]

Rangers won't escape this you know.

No club will some will inevitably go out of business but you can guarantee it it’s an Aberdeen, Hibs, Hearts or Sellick then there will be no demotion to lowest league

 

[dickadvocaat]

Karma for them at last.

 

[ItsInTheNet]

 

[DazRFC94]

Can’t believe this would happen to the 5th best supported club in Scotland

 

[stuh]

A very short sighted view. But carry on.

Not as short sighted as rhats that put us down though..

 

[The Golden God]

I wouldn’t gloat as they won’t be alone, Barca are saying the same thing so we will probably be in the same boat going forward as ever other club will.

Barcelona have horrendously mismanaged their wages to turnover ratio over the years.

 

[jcdbluebear]

I would like to offer them an equal amount of sympathy for their difficult financial situation, as they gave us in 2012.

 

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magic

 

[dickadvocaat]

Offer them £10 and a packet of chews for Lewis Ferguson

 

[jprfc]

Bye bye Aberdeen

 

[okbear]

This shows how fragile finances must be in Scottish football.

I'm pretty sure every club will be using the government initiatives to make up salaries for the majority of their staff as well.

 

[Talktalk]

Barcelona have horrendously mismanaged their wages to turnover ratio over the years.

May be so but they’re in the same boat as Aberdeen. Many clubs who overpay will cop it unless there’s a super sweet sugar daddy behind them

 

[Oxford_blue]

Rangers won't escape this you know.

Likely not, but we didn’t glory in anyone else’s demise previously. We can only trust a Rangers are in a better position to cope than the sheep

 

[Mview83]

Folk laughing - we have to be in a similar situation no?

 

[StuGers]

Unfortunately this just illustrates the magnitude of our potential short fall as well.

Maybe I’m being naive, but how so?

Surely our TV money will still be there. Our merchandising should be affected too much (of what we get anyway).

Ticket sales I would have thought wouldn't be too bad considering the vast majority of our ticket sales are already taken up by season tickets.

Now we won’t be paying appearance / goal bonuses etc. and we would have been paying standard wages anyway.

We also won’t be paying steward and policing costs, not electricity etc.

Plus our water costs are free as we steal it from the local church.

 

[Albertz Left Peg]

 

[MCKAY72]

Aberdeen are another club who would rather cut our allocation and have empty stands rather then generate ticket revenue from us.

 

[Gazmac]

Hopefully this will be silence of the lambs

 

[Xavi Hernandez]

Maybe I’m being naive, but how so?

Surely our TV money will still be there. Our merchandising should be affected too much (of what we get anyway).

Ticket sales I would have thought wouldn't be too bad considering the vast majority of our ticket sales are already taken up by season tickets.

Now we won’t be paying appearance / goal bonuses etc. and we would have been paying standard wages anyway.

We also won’t be paying steward and policing costs, not electricity etc.

Plus our water costs are free as we steal it from the local church.

I assume by TV money you are referring to the Europa League money. Not sure if this is dished out per round or is paid out once the competition is completed? Is there a danger of this not being paid, or a certain percentage of it, because it might not be completed?

On the contrary, I think you are naive to think we will ride this out without any problems. I don't think it's wise to laugh up our cuff at other teams.

Any business model relies on future income streams. We have no certainty with any at the minute and like businesses throughout the country, wages and bills will need to be paid in the short term.

 

[AzorIbrox]

Are we going to be okay until this all blows over, would it be sensible to ask people to take wage cuts to help the club at this tough time?

 

[Sawneybeane]

Good. They can go rot as far as I'm concerned.

 

[giogaddi]

Oh dear, what a shame.

 

[Dugsy]

Just because this will affect us doesn’t mean that we can’t have a little smile in the direction of others who shat on us.

 

[Korova Milk Bar]

Horrible club and fans, I will be delighted to see them go under.

 

[Stez64]

It was a fucking hoot to half the country back in 2012...

Fùck them all

 

[BlueLagoonCo]

A very short sighted view. But carry on.

Explain?

 

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That will be McKenna away to his boyhood heroes for £2.5m then

 

[ald]

Much as I don’t like them, and might even a couple of weeks ago have shared the sentiment expressed by many on here, I confess that I take no pleasure in seeing anyone suffer at the moment. This Coronavirus is absolutely awful - for the health and lives of so many and for the jobs and prosperity of so many people in our country.

 

[Cooper_11]

It would give me great measure to see Aberdeen and Dundee United fold forever.