Even if Esbjerg fB took allede money, the club servant in the course of a year, and threw them into the North sea, it would still not lose as large sums of money, as it has lost total over the last three years.
yesterday presented Esbjerg yet another deficit, this time at 9.5 million dollars, which brings the three most recent accounts, up to 72 million in the minus. And for the third year in a row the club had to borrow money to keep the operation going.
It is not unsustainable, acknowledges the director, but we will return to. First: This minus is actually both good and bad news.
– If we consider that the last three years we have lost over 70 million dollars, so is it, therefore, I allow myself to write that in isolation it is not satisfactory that the low deficit of 9.5, but the development is satisfactory, says ceo Brian Knudsen for advice.dk.
The previous two years, sounded the deficits of 38 and 24 million, so there is certainly progress. The director expects that it will continue in 2019, when the record with a little luck and good sporting results going in zero.
– Under given assumptions – one is that we are still a player in the premier League, and we can get a good place in the new season – we have an expectation that 2019 will be the year where we come in plus/minus. Whether it is $ 500,000 in surplus or deficit, we can say that we have a profitable operation.
the Explanation of the progress is, partly, that team is moved up in the League again, the team ended the year 2018, in fourth place, and that the EfB sold Anders Dreyer for 17 million in the summer. Brian Knudsen says that the club must sell again in a year, if the goal to go in the zero must be met.
the Director’s raining still with that Club must borrow the money of what he calls the friends of the house, in order to ensure the operation of the club. It was the case in 2017 and 2018, and this will be the case again in 2019. He will, however, not say how much money it should use.
– We have made arrangements with the good people from our area that we have been given the liquidity available, and it means that the budget hangs together. It is number different than last year, says the director Knudsen.
as mentioned It is the third year in a row, Esbjerg sponsors and co-owners can borrow the club money. In addition, you can put the also after nedrykningen in 2011 had around with hat in hand in order to survive economically, after the team were relegated out of the premier League.
Brian Knudsen, who was himself one of the house friends, when he was in Sydbank, which at the time was to support the club financially, dare not say, on the local patrons one day lose patience.
– I have no sense of. We have made the agreements, as we must. I don’t know how long it continues. I’m just humble and succumbs me in hesitated over that some of you will be to stick your hand under it here so you can present the Superliga football-Esbjerg, he says.
And then we promote it with the durability or the lack of same. For EfB's debt rose in 2018, from 44 million to 60 million, and now stand the club, then front to borrow money again.
– If you have no money in the bank, you to borrow in the bank. We have been here; we’ve been out at some people to borrow. It is not viable to continue to borrow money, then we’ll know that the debt is increasing year on year, says the director.
that is Precisely why it is so important to the club’s plan holder, and that the deficit will disappear. This requires, among other good results on the track, and the next chance is on Saturday, when Esbjerg get a visit from AC Horsens.
