No chance. This isn't just helping pay wages and other daily running costs until a new owner can be found.
WU is a club in a very serious financial mess. It's somehow been operating with annual losses of over $10m each year since Covid. The sale to dodgy KAM Sports was their last hope. Sadly for them it's all over.
Cue the agents for WU's players now getting a flurry of phone calls from the other ALM clubs.
Looking at some old Stuff articles. Gold Coast United lost a reported $19m over it's lifetime (chicken feed for Clive Palmer). The Welnix owners had to pump about $2m into the Nix in their first season as owners post Terry to keep the club aflot.
So you can see WU's effective paper loss (or negative equity position) now of $55m is huge
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/aug/08/a-league-club-western-united-licence-withdrawn-under-football-australia-regulations
A winding up process established by creditors of the club, including the tax office, is under way in the federal court. The club has outstanding debts of more than $16m. On Friday afternoon, the matter was adjourned until 28 August.
WU is a club in a very serious financial mess. It's somehow been operating with annual losses of over $10m each year since Covid. The sale to dodgy KAM Sports was their last hope. Sadly for them it's all over.
Cue the agents for WU's players now getting a flurry of phone calls from the other ALM clubs.
Looking at some old Stuff articles. Gold Coast United lost a reported $19m over it's lifetime (chicken feed for Clive Palmer). The Welnix owners had to pump about $2m into the Nix in their first season as owners post Terry to keep the club aflot.
So you can see WU's effective paper loss (or negative equity position) now of $55m is huge
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/aug/08/a-league-club-western-united-licence-withdrawn-under-football-australia-regulations
A winding up process established by creditors of the club, including the tax office, is under way in the federal court. The club has outstanding debts of more than $16m. On Friday afternoon, the matter was adjourned until 28 August.
Western United lodged its 2023-24 accounts with Asic last week, which showed a loss of $11m for the year and the value of its liabilities exceeding its assets by $55m.