FSG are not shit

[Denny Crane]

Sky reporting that ticket prices have been frozen again for next season.

They should be cutting prices by at least 30%. This is a club who charge people for the privilege of purchasing fucking tickets. Don't forget with Thomas Cook they are complicit in touting to an extent and running a scheme who can pay more get to jump the queue.

 

Appoint Kompany to the board.

 

Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany has urged Premier League football clubs to cut ticket prices for fans.

 

The two-time Premier League winner said fans helped create "a lot of atmosphere" at matches helping clubs sell the TV rights.

 

"Use that competitive advantage to lower the price for the fans," he said.

 

Kompany's advice stems from his recent dissertation on the topic for his Masters in Business Administration, which he graduated from last month.

 

He told the BBC Radio 5 live's Wake Up to Money programme that it was for business reasons that he wants to see the cost of a ticket reduced as part of the Premier League's long term strategy.

 

Kompany's research - based on speaking to 25 fellow elite footballers - concluded there was "a real financial value and benefit in fostering home advantage".

 

"The study concluded that you get better home advantage depending on the atmosphere that you can create within your facilities, and that is linked to the people who enter your stadiums.

 

"Those that live for the club, and are probably more attached to the club than anybody else. But those are probably not always the guys who can afford it," he added.

 

According to the recent Annual Review of Football Finance by Deloitte, the proportion of Premier League revenues that come from matchday ticket sales has fallen from 29% in 2007/8 to a projected 15% in the 2017/18 season.

 

When compared to the rest of Europe's top leagues, in 2015/16 the Premier League was less reliant on ticket sales (17% of revenues) than Spain (20%) and Germany (19%), but more so than Italy (11%) and France (11%).

 

In that season the television revenues in England's top division were more than double that of its nearest rival, Spain's La Liga.

 

Kompany said because the Premier League was generating two or three times the revenue of the other top five leagues in Europe from TV, it should focus on this.

 

He said this meant creating "the best atmosphere in the stadium; meaning the right people in the right place

 

If the Premier League did not cut ticket prices, he warned it could reach "breaking point" by squeezing too much out of its home fans.

 

"I think you can use a logic to say you can generate more revenue in the long term, if you can make a product that is the most authentic that exists in the world, then use your marketing powers to sell it across the world and make more revenue that way," he said.

 

He noted generally clubs performed better on their home turf.

 

"For every pound that you lower the ticket price, if you can recover it in that home advantage, you maybe won't have a loss," he said.

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42574469

[Pureblood]

It's not convenient to forget, it's just embarrassing to remember.  Second means nothing.

 

[stringvest]

no, you're first loser.

 

[Denny Crane]

Proving a counter-factual is damn near impossible.

 

However, if you had started a thread on October 2010 and advocated new owners who turned up once a season, sacked Kenny for winning 1 of the 3 trophies he entered, jacked ticket prices to the highest in the country outside London, while presiding over the least successful side since 1972, and the least successful decade since the 50s - I think one or two eyebrows may have been raised.

 

When they do eventually leave, I think John and Tom will write a book, because this counterinsurgency strategy that they've employed has been enormously successful and I wouldn't have believed it.

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[stringvest]

Kompany does have a point.  Meffs do make more noise generally, and would certainly do it at the football.  People who run football clubs are usually not thick.  But they are more greedy than intelligent.  Or their shareholders/stakeholders are.  

 

In football, as in all walks of life, in the land of the greedy, short term profit will always trump long term investment.  That's why the country has such poor productivity.  Investment in stuff or people is passé.

[Ranxerox]

So let’s say their manager and their scouts were worse than ours (which isn’t the case I know) and they fell behind. Do you think Levy would finance over their shortcomings? Would he fuck. They’d be mid table where they belong. They are consistently over performing with a squad of relatively cheaply acquired and underpaid players. We routinely throw more money at bad players. Let’s hope that’s coming to an end. We commit more funds than Spurs to our playing staff. We just don’t get the same bangs per buck.

Spurs finishing above us 6 of 7 seasons is fact, imagining them falling to mid table is purely hypothetical.

 

They also managed to build a new stadium at the same time.

 

We'll just have to agree to disagree as to whether they're shit or not.

[Numero Veinticinco]

Klopp needs to break his finals curse too, get the fa cup European Cup won!

[Boss]

Just for balance, under their ownership the club signed world class players like Suarez, Mane and Salah at what were, in hindsight, highway robbery prices.

 

Yeah and Mkhitaryan, Guerreiro, Alli, Icardi, Salah (first time around), Diego Costa and Willian were highway robbery prices as well and they shit out of those deals.

 

They cost us £15m in the last 4 months by trying to thwart a bidding war for Van Dijk and lets not forget they arsed around with Salah's fee for about a month (over a coupe of million) which could've saw another team gazump us.

 

The recruitment team should get the credit, not them.

[Numero Veinticinco]

They also managed to build a new stadium at the same time.

How are they paying for that, btw? Costs 750m doesn't it?

[M_B]

How are they paying for that, btw? Costs 750m doesn't it?

 

Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and HSBC. And their billionaire owners.

[Scooby Dudek]

They should be judged on us winning trophies or not.

 

They've fallen short so far, but it's very convenient for some to forget that we should have won the title in 2014 and were finalists in two cup competitions in 2016.

A great man once said;

 

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

[Harry Squatter]

Maybe Kompany should suggest that him and his team mates take a pay cut which is passed onto the fans or buy all the spare seats up at the Etihad and give them to families who have no chance of affording them. Its good that he's raised the issue but it seems a bit hypocritical when footballers keep pushing for obscene wages, signing on fees and bonuses.

[stringvest]

Maybe Kompany should suggest that him and his team mates take a pay cut which is passed onto the fans or buy all the spare seats up at the Etihad and give them to families who have no chance of affording them. Its good that he's raised the issue but it seems a bit hypocritical when footballers keep pushing for obscene wages, signing on fees and bonuses.

 

 

above us only Sky...

[stringvest]

Spurs finishing above us 6 of 7 seasons is fact, imagining them falling to mid table is purely hypothetical.

 

They also managed to build a new stadium at the same time.

 

We'll just have to agree to disagree as to whether they're shit or not.

 

maybe they should just go after Levy and the Spurs management and scouting team.  We can offer them even more money.

[VladimirIlyich]

Maybe Kompany should suggest that him and his team mates take a pay cut which is passed onto the fans or buy all the spare seats up at the Etihad and give them to families who have no chance of affording them. Its good that he's raised the issue but it seems a bit hypocritical when footballers keep pushing for obscene wages, signing on fees and bonuses.

Beat me to it.

[VladimirIlyich]

above us only Sky...

Superb.

[Elite]

Only reason they bought VVD. Cunts.

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

Only reason they bought VVD. Cunts.

 

And Keita payed for in the summer.

 

Netspendastic.

 

Cunts.

[Elite]

And Keita payed for in the summer.

 

Cunts.

£0 net spend.

[clangers]

They've got till the end of the month to prove they're not just balancing the books. They better have a plan this time.

[Special K]

They've got till the end of the month to prove they're not just balancing the books. They better have a plan this time.

They have, rinse LFC. It's always been their plan

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

£0 net spend.

 

That's how they roll.

[Boss]

Anti FSG crowd spot on once again.

[moof]

£0 net spend.

So you’re saying we’ve swapped coutinho for Van Dijk and Keïta?

 

Sounds like good business, to me.

[moof]

Anti FSG crowd spot on once again.

Sure thing, buster.