11 out of 20 Premier League clubs could have made a profit without any fans attending games due to money money from sponsors and Tv money. Begs question why fans are paying £50+ to attend games https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footbal...port&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_sport
Footballs a sport built up by the masses , now owned by a handfull of private induviduals and their representative corporations . Shame .
Lol, I seem to recall a Tartan army type sitting on the crossbar at Wembley. Bay City Rollers tartan trousers and a scarf tied to his wrist. That wasn't you was it?
They are paying it to help pay the hyper-inflated transfer fees and player wages since the inception of the premier league.
I see Sky are getting blamed again for fans being fleeced. If anything, football should be dirt cheap thanks to the money from Sky subsiding clubs.
I think football should be more accessible to the fans. We should adopt the same kind of pricing as clubs do in the Bundesliga rather than fleecing them. Failing that, would love to see some kind of strategy whereby fans paid a certain maximum price for a season ticket, then if tickets reached a certain amount so much was discounted and so on and so forth. I think 20k at Oakwell paying 150 each is better than 10k at 300+... more matchday revenue, shirt sales etc. and better atmosphere. I'm not sure if this has ever been done before?
There's no doubt fans are to blame too. No one holds a gun to anyone's head to pay the subscription. But to believe Sky are interested in football one iota beyond making shedloads of money out of it is equally naieve. Sky are not benefactors of any sport. They remove free access to it from tv and sap the grassroots interest in whatever sport they get their grubby hands on.
20k fans would cost the club more per matchday than 10k fans with the same income due to stewarding and policing costs, etc, so you couldn't do a straight reduction on the ticket price.
Good point, but wouldn't that potentially be recovered by other revenue streams from doubled attedances such as beverages, shirts, programmes etc?
Oh I’m not saying Sky are remotely interested in helping a sport or it’s fans, at least not past anything they do to make themselves look better. However they’re not at fault for ticket prices, this is purely the clubs’ greed. In terms of grassroots, the PL/FA should be collecting a good chunk of the money they’re receiving and giving it to grassroots but they wont.
Agree with you there. It's a simple solution. Pay players less, charge fans less. The meltdown on here when we don't pay players what they want however suggests that's never going to happen. With Sky's help we bring it all on ourselves.
Depends who you were playing i guess. There are many matches played with stewards only in the ground and few police on the streets. Think West Brom have done it in the premiership and quite a few others too. Barnsley playing against Bournemouth for example would hardly require much policing.
Any idea what the bundesliga teams get from tv rights? Would be an interesting comparison if someone can find out. Also the average wage in the prem and bundesliga.
Depends who you were playing i guess. There are many matches played with stewards only in the ground and few police on the streets. Think West Brom have done it in the premiership and quite a few others too. Barnsley playing against Bournemouth for example would hardly require much policing.
A hefty amount by looks of it: http://bundesligafanatic.com/20170629/the-cross-pressured-bundesliga-here-comes-the-new-tv-deal/ Average prem league player wage now in excess of 50k... cant find similar for Bundesliga recently but in 2016 there was about 15k difference (EPL 43k, German 28k) , so im guessing possibly around 35k now??
Premier League are as much to blame as the FA are scared shitless Interestingly over same time period Championship was 8th highest paying league in the world. In terms of Bundesliga all I could find was average wage ifor Bayern s £6 million a year