Football teams get the majority of cash through TV deals and sponsorships. I know it may be hard to hear for all you die-hards but we fans are kinda superfluos. mind you having said that, the football should be free to watch then. ****ing AA out!
Sky, BBC, ITV and any other provider you can think of. point is, that money from spectators is a tiny % of a clubs income.
Spectators pay Sky, Sky pay the clubs. The matchday income may not be a massive part of a Premier League clubs income, but it's still the fans that that are funding the clubs.
http:////www.ftbpro.com/posts/ben.rosenfield/1105606/bayern-munich-president-uli-hoeness-slams-premier-league-ticket-prices Explaining his decision to keep season tickets at Bayern lower than their counterparts across Europe, Hoeness said: "We could charge more than €130 (£104). Let's say we charged €380 (£300). We'd get €2.5m (£2m) more in income, but what's €2.5m to us?" "In a transfer discussion you argue about the sum for five minutes. But the difference between €130 and €380 is huge for the fans." "We do not think fans are like cows, who you milk. Football has got to be for everybody." "That's the biggest difference between us and England." If only our chairman would talk such sense!
Shortly after making that statement, he was banged up for tax fraud. He still had the right idea on this one though.
The majority of people who pay SKY don't go to matches so they aren't spectators at the clubs themselves. A lot of clubs could let people in for free if they didn't pay such over-inflated wages. A couple of decent sponsorship deals would bring in more than our gate receipts. Of course the chance of there being anyone at our club capable bringing in a couple of such sponsorship deals is another matter...
if you want to get technical and split hairs, then yes OK, I can do that. I meant the income on an actual matchday from Joe Public going to local stadia, and paying to watch 22 men on a pitch chasing after a ball for 90 minutes.
Some fans @ Goole last saturday were saying that the Stuttgart game could well be off. Well for the first team at least. The development squad maybe sent out instead. Reason, SB not happy at playing thursday @ home in the EL 2nd leg and then going over to Stuttgart for a sunday game. Twt as always what happens with it.
The committee certainly would, I can't speak for every CTWD member, but I suspect they would rather carrying on buying a ticket, then having a pointless name change.
Good article here from Martin Samuel http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ar...-efficiency-The-Bundesliga-Martin-Samuel.html Compare this to Germany, where the Munich clubs received £168.7m from city and regional governments to develop the infrastructure around the AllianzArena, including an upgraded railway station and a broadened motorway with new exit. German clubs can be supporter-owned because the state often picks up the tab left for English club owners. It is this inclusive thinking that allows Bundesliga match tickets to double as train passes — a fine plan, but not so easy to implement when the journey to Old Trafford might pass through several privatised networks. And there is the issue. The problem with the new financial rules that will govern European football is that they work on the principle that one size fits all, when clearly it does not. The German model differs from the Spanish model which differs from the English model, if there is a model at all. Richard Scudamore, chief executive of the Premier League, does not believe a single defined structure exists — and looking at the ownership of, say, Wigan Athletic and Blackburn Rovers, he may be right. Certainly, in Germany, the state appears to have greater appreciation of football’s worth to the community. Hertha Berlin did not provide any of the £194.5m required to redevelop the Olympiastadion; 1FC Koln’s stadium reconstruction was financed by the city of Cologne; the city of Frankfurt paid for the £120.5m refit for Eintracht Frankfurt; Stuttgart’s stadium is owned by a council-controlled subsidiary and central government went half in with Lokomotiv Leipzig. Why arent our council doing this?? Or shall we just complain indirectly about the Allams as usual.
There are councils working with football clubs here, Man City's partnership with the council has resulted in a massive development of the Sport City area and Swansea also get their new ground through a partnership with the council and a property developer, but it takes two to tango.
There are investigations going on regarding the way German councils used taxpayers money in some of these projects.You can imagine the uproar in this country if similar things happened here. Especially in Hull with an eggchaser eruption of it's not fair outrage.
