https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c798e4lyxr7o This should make for joyful reading this morning.
On the article above, the part I found most shocking was the revelation that we only employ 820 non-playing staff, but pay them a combined total of £220m per year. The only club with a higher non-playing staff wage bill is Real Madrid (£361m), but they employ 1163 staff. I highly doubt this money is going to the canteen staff or cleaners, which suggests to me that the club is riddled with a lot of people at middle management and executive level earning a king's ransom for sustained incompetence.
When it comes to ticket prices, us and United are the biggest piss-takers in the world by a country mile.
Interesting how the journalist gets the economics back to front. The only reason the various new stadia are viable is that 10-15% of the fans are wealthy and are willing to pay £3k to £20k per season for a high quality hospitality experience. This means a bigger stadium can be built so that more low priced seats are available.
You've completely misread the table. The £220m is operating costs excluding wages. There are thousands of casual workers at the stadium for each event mostly hired from agencies and we have to buy the food and drink that is consumed. Because we have more events than anyone else we are bound to have higher operating costs. Actually I think the costs being that low is more of a problem. We should be selling more food and drink I suspect.
Matchday revenue doesn't stop at ticket sales, though What that list really underlines is that Chelsea set the (unintended pun alert) gold standard for taking the piss with ticket prices, yet their fans don't seem to spend much money once they're through the turnstiles, especially when you compare their figures to the Milan clubs as Chelsea make as much in ticket revenue as Milan and £15m more than Inter, yet there's £400k between the Milan clubs' matchday revenue with the Chavs being the particularly unpleasant sandwich filling Which makes it look remarkably like Todd Bollo is more interested bankrolling crypto scams (again) than he is getting some decent eateries at the stadium
You can't tell that from the data. Our average is pushed up a lot by the price of premium seats but I find mine quite good value despite them costing around £600 per match. The food quality is very high and would cost at least £200 in an equivalent London restaurant, all drinks are included and are very high quality so easy to drink £100 worth and you get amazing seats plus a parking space.
Disappointing game last night, once again Spurs were bullied into a poor performance. I suspect teams have noticed our lack of a midfield enforcer and our reliance on skilled but lightweight players. I suppose our nearest to this is Bentancur, but he is often too far back to stop the opposition at source as they converge on our defences. Does anybody think it would be worth trying Van de Ven in a midfield role?
Forget the new terminology....isn't what we need to help make this system/strategy work is to have an old-fashioned sweeper?
Only just seen the post match interview from Ange this morning, apparently the issues were not being aggressive enough and a ‘tricky pitch’ What a cop out.
Food, drinks a good view and parking. I notice you don’t mention the most important thing about a football match (at least to me anyway) and that’s the actual reason you’re there to watch a game and see your team play well and win. Now I understand you more
To be fair, a few players studs did get stuck into the pitch The fact that was the closest they came to getting stuck in all night was an issue, mind
Wasn't there a similar problem in the last game too at our place? Several of our players slipping and sliding - Udogie even changed his boots, didn't he? Does this clubs incompetence stretch to boot selection as well?
Or a more left field option (er, I mean midfield option) perhaps Danso? He seems to have some ball playing skills and has been seen running forward from time to time.
If football is the priority, how do you deem it good value when the performance, entertainment and results this season haven’t been anywhere near good enough.
A good DM will be someone whose primary position is as a DM. Playing a CB there seems counter productive
But we don't do league tickets for under £50. And IMHO it's a big reason why there are so many empty seats at the lane. There are thousands available for this weekend v Bournemouth but nothing under £51 for adults. The clubs ticket pricing is awful
