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Leicester City ranked among Europe's most valuable clubs

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Leicester City ranked among Europe's most valuable clubs

The Foxes beat Napoli, AC Milan and Inter Milan on the table

 

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David Dubas-Fisher

00:01, 23 MAY 2018

City will finish in Premier League this season

 

Leicester City have been revealed as one of the most valuable football clubs in Europe.

The club has an enterprise value (EV) of €596m (£523m) according to the latest KPMG Football Clubs’ Valuation report.

An “enterprise value” is the amount it would take to buy the company.

The Foxes’ EV is the 15th highest in Europe, the seventh highest in England, and represents a 29% increase on last year in Euros and a 35% year-on-year increase in sterling.

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Leicester City landed more prize money this season than the GDP of at least two countries - https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/leicester-city-landed-more-prize-1591219

 

Leicester actually find themselves above some of Europe’s biggest names.

Napoli (€518m), AC Milan (€514m) and Inter Milan (€491m) are all lower down the list than Leicester.

Jamie Vardy scored 20 goals for Leicester City in the Premier League this season (Image: Plumb Images/Leicester City FC via Getty Images)

Manchester United take the top spot with an EV of €3.26bn (£2.86bn) ahead of Spanish giants Real Madrid (€2.9bn/£2.56bn), Barcelona (€2.8bn/£2.44bn) and German side Bayern Munich (€2.6bn/£2.24bn).

Manchester City are Europe's fifth most valuable club with an EV of €2.16bn (£1.89bn).

They’re followed by Arsenal (€2.1bn/£1.84bn), Chelsea (€1.77bn/£1.55bn), Liverpool (€1.58bn/£1.39bn), Juventus (€1.3bn/£1.14bn) and Tottenham (€1.29bn/£1.13bn).

 

West Ham (€531m/£466m) and Everton (€512m/£449m) also make the list of the top 20 most valuable clubs coming 16th and 19th respectively.

 

Andrea Sartori, KPMG’s global head of sports and the report’s author, said: “Despite this year’s growth being lower than last year’s 14 percent growth, the football industry continues its rise, showing for the second successive season an EV increase (9%) for the top 32 clubs included in our ranking.

“Overall growth is driven by different factors, one of these being the increase of operating revenues of the top 32, at 8%.

“Eye-catching transfer deals and spiralling staff costs have not prevented such clubs from registering a striking upward trend, as the profits before taxes increased by some 17 times in comparison to the previous year.

“One of the reasons for this growth can be found in the significant influence exercised by English clubs, as well as the improved financial health of many mid-size clubs within the ranking, which also reflects compliance with the UEFA financial fair play regulations.”

 

The report is calculated using the latest available financial statements for each club. It therefore doesn’t include the business and sporting results achieved by each club in the 2017/18 season.

Clubs: EV (£bn)

Manchester United FC: 3.26 
Real Madrid CF: 2.92 
FC Barcelona: 2.78 
FC Bayern München: 2.55 
Manchester City FC: 2.16 
Arsenal FC: 2.1 
Chelsea FC: 1.77 
Liverpool FC: 1.58 
Juventus FC: 1.3 
Tottenham Hotspur FC: 1.29 
Paris Saint-Germain FC: 1 
Borussia Dortmund: 1.06 
Atlético de Madrid: 0.9 
FC Schalke 04: 0.673 
Leicester City FC : 0.596 
West Ham United FC: 0.531 
SSC Napoli: 0.518 
AC Milan: 0.514 
Everton FC: 0.512 
Internazionale Milano: 0.491

Bayfox

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1 minute ago, whoareyaaa said:

i'll go halfs with ya

Ok, we may have to own 90% of 1 and 10% of the other and vica versa and call it quits to make it round onwership rules tho :thumbup:

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So if we had a proper ground and shirt sponsor what would we be worth then

 

Oh and another 18k seats..

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But according to a number of lcfc fans, we should be greatful for being in the PL and happy with the odd top half finish.

 

Think small time, you will always be small time!

 

Think big, dream big! 

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14 minutes ago, 4everfox said:

15th most valuable club in the world and Leicester fans be like 'we couldn't get him as manager' or 'no way would this player join us'... 

Club value has less to do with being able to draw in top talent than which competitions you're in and your general club prestige. Ricardo Pereira won't have rummaged through LCFC's accounts when deciding if he should sign.

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8 minutes ago, Beechey said:

Club value has less to do with being able to draw in top talent than which competitions you're in and your general club prestige. Ricardo Pereira won't have rummaged through LCFC's accounts when deciding if he should sign.

Any excuse to belittle the club from you lot of doom mongers

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2 minutes ago, 4everfox said:

Any excuse to belittle the club from you lot of doom mongers

Mate I'm the optimist in most circumstances, but claiming players give a shit about the accounts of a club other than how much they're going to be paid is madness. They care much more about winning things. We need to push on and get into Europa next season.

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Can we buy Derby now as our feeder Club?

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Just now, Beechey said:

Mate I'm the optimist in most circumstances, but claiming players give a shit about the accounts of a club other than how much they're going to be paid is madness. They care much more about winning things. We need to push on and get into Europa next season.

 

Riiiiight, because a clubs value isn't directly linked to what we can afford to pay our players. I thought it was pretty common knowledge that the only teams that are willing to financially compete with us are the top 6.

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35 minutes ago, 4everfox said:

15th most valuable club in the world and Leicester fans be like 'we couldn't get him as manager' or 'no way would this player join us'... 

Totally agree some on here have a virtual obsession with putting us down from not wanting to expand the ground to who will not want to manage or play for us. The future is bright the future is blue "with a bit of gold thrown in ".

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15 minutes ago, 4everfox said:

Riiiiight, because a clubs value isn't directly linked to what we can afford to pay our players. I thought it was pretty common knowledge that the only teams that are willing to financially compete with us are the top 6.

It isn't really strongly tied if you've see the formula that's used here. I'd argue (it's not even an argument, they are spending more than us, at least on transfers) Everton are way ahead of us in terms of monetary investment in their playing squad. There's absolutely no way to measure a wage cap or wage structure in this formula. Percentage of revenue that is wages isn't even part of the equation.

 

EV = market value of common stock + market value of preferred equity + market value of debt + minority interest - cash and investments

 

I'm delighted we're 15th, but it effectively means nothing other than being able to wave our dicks around.

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1 hour ago, Beechey said:

Club value has less to do with being able to draw in top talent than which competitions you're in and your general club prestige. Ricardo Pereira won't have rummaged through LCFC's accounts when deciding if he should sign.

No but he would have looked at the figure on the contract.....

 

But money allows you to buy players of a better standard, Manchester City didn't just start signing world class players, the started by buy the best they could attract, players who move for money Tevez, Robinho, Adebayor , until they could compete on a equal footing with the likes Man Utd, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool in terms of competitions and prestige.

 

 

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53 minutes ago, Beechey said:

It isn't really strongly tied if you've see the formula that's used here. I'd argue (it's not even an argument, they are spending more than us, at least on transfers) Everton are way ahead of us in terms of monetary investment in their playing squad. There's absolutely no way to measure a wage cap or wage structure in this formula. Percentage of revenue that is wages isn't even part of the equation.

 

EV = market value of common stock + market value of preferred equity + market value of debt + minority interest - cash and investments

 

I'm delighted we're 15th, but it effectively means nothing other than being able to wave our dicks around.

 

No an exact science but it still a measure of how far we have come.

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13 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

No but he would have looked at the figure on the contract.....

 

But money allows you to buy players of a better standard, Manchester City didn't just start signing world class players, the started by buy the best they could attract, players who move for money Tevez, Robinho, Adebayor , until they could compete on a equal footing with the likes Man Utd, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool in terms of competitions and prestige.

 

 

 

Very true indeed, but Man City were competing in Europe semi-regularly (nothing like other big teams though) before the oil money started flowing, we need to get to that position of qualifying for Europa/CL on a semi-regular basis as well. We've taken our first steps for sure.

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It's all about trophies, not money.

 

Players don't now sign for Manchester City because they've got lots of money, it's because they actually win domestic trophies and the league. 

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