I remember when CR7 was preparing to leave Utd, a manc on the radio here said he should have been paid the equivalent in Zimbabwean dollars, then forced to count that money every day as a punishment... Must have run into the trillions at the time.
The financial fair play rules are wrong if they are what people are saying because Sky will control who wins the premier league. Whichever club they decide to give the most TV money to will be able to make the most transfers. There will be ways round it anyway. Whats to stop Short setting up a marketing company. He pays the players large amounts for contracts and image rights while SAFC only pay them a small wage to play football for the club. Short would make a massive loss from his marketing company but he could write it off against tax. You could be very clever about it all and believe you me there are far cleverer accountants than me about with a lot more time to think about it. There will be so many loop holes its all pointless, the only clubs that will lose out are the smaller poorer ones.
Nah surely we earn more than that... Taking season tickets out of the equation... 19 home games excluding cup fixtures. call it 40,000 attendence every week which is roughly our average. Call it an average £30 a ticket which is very low... £22,800,000 Something's got lost in translation here, unless I've missed the fact that we're giving free tickets away. That's a very, very rough estimation but £13m has got to be too low if it's including season tickets.
You have to remember the concessions as well so the £1 a game scheme we had going for kids, and i think even next season its only £79 a season ticket for them, its not like all 40,000 are adults. I got the info from http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/55741334 btw its from the Gaurdian and with a season ticket you get a couple of games free, so 30,000*400 = 12 million but again some would have been families with kids. (actually quite a lot would have been)
If that's the case we're selling tickets that average at roughly £17.11 a pop. How are we ever going to move forward if we can't fill the stadium with tickets going that cheaply?
but its not that cheap really, £400 each for 2 adults 2 kids is nearly a grand to fork out. go for 1 week its probably £80, and if you are not from the area, its a bloody pain in the arse to get to. I have no idea how many ST we sold last year, but i know on 606 there were lots saying they had one but they lived away and would only get to a few matches, that to me is a bit daft as your seat will be empty, if 8,000 do that every game, then thats the 8,000 shortfall (not saying it is but it could be a smaller amount than that but it all adds up)
That will see my season ticket go back, lady ****ing gaga TBF Gordon has a poorly leg so his heating bill will be higher, him being home all day I am in the City structure, top dog ****ing amazing Guardian reader, should have known My head hurts
