£100m price tags and £250k per week wages. If you do not regularly look, Just try the red button on BBC1 and go to page 302. This is the football page. then go to headlines and one of the options is the gossip column for that day. Between 8 and 20 pages long normally it is a summary of the paper talk of possible transfers mainly among the top teams. the figures being quoted as possible bids for decent but not the very top players is mind bogglin and I seriously question where this ends because we overdid the superlatives years ago and yet if anything the spiral has got worse. It bares no relation to anything, not wages in real life or the ticket prices at the ground or the profitability of the club, it is, as described in Private Eye, Planet Football. Has the inflated price structure improved the quality of the product? Have the sky high wages translated into better entertainment and superior skills? Emphatically NO. You only had to see Rooney against Iceland to see that it is just a one way gig - take every penny and sod the fans.
It started with rock stars and has moved on to football. Does it improve the performance. No. It's all about money now.
It's actually all about supply and demand. As long as we fan's continue to pay for our overpriced; tickets, subscriptions, shirts, merchandise, beers, pies and other ****e. We perpetuate the greed and inflated pay. Obviously foreign money now boosts the coffers, but fans collectimely need to say enough is enough. Won't happen, cause there always someone who pay .......unless you're villa or ipshit then there are a dwindling few who might! Bah!
Maybe, but we can't be held responsible for players getting paid six figures. The new shirts aren't THAT expensive
If you look at what we the real fans pay its nothing compared with the sky money, can't see it is sustainable as soon as Sky move on the whole thing will implode So much football on TV now it's boring it won't last forever If we should stop buying anything it's Sky and BT not shirts or season tickets
I don't see it changing any time soon, as ManUre are about to spend around £120M (including wages) on Pogba!!! # ludicrous
Some will no doubt profess the opposite, but the excess amount of money in the game has completely ruined it, and no, the product has not improved in any way. Unfortunately there seems to be no way to beat it, and even we now, are beginning to join it too (holding out for £20 mill for Brady is a case in point). I don´t particularly blame us for trying, and in today´s inflated market, that´s probably not that unrealistic, but there´s something drastically wrong somewhere, when an average, and now relegated, Premier League player, can cost that much.
Just ordered my long sleeve player fit 6 times XL away shirt pre order with Skybet championship badge 23 and Doughnuts on the back for a very reasonable £118 including shipping . You know why ? because I'm a real fan not some fairweather moaning Idiot . I may not get to a game for a few years and now we are not in the Premier league possibly only see the odd game on TV at the pub but this purchase is more important than actually watching any games.
What I don't understand is why the PL continues to allow clubs to fleece fans, despite the TV deals making up a far greater proportion of revenue now than anything you can generate from fans. The league is already by far the richest in the world, the extra few million made from fans each year is irrelevant. To their credit Man City have capped prices at reasonable levels, but why the league hasn't enforced that across the board I've no idea. There's an opportunity to use this massive income to do more than just line the pockets of millionaires, I don't understand why there's no appetite to act on it, when doing so does little if anything to damage the precious "product", and may remove the ugly fan protests (Arsenal spring to mind) that somewhat harm it.
It will be interesting to see what exorbitant prices NCFC charges 'casual' fans for tickets this season - especially when we play teams who've just come up from League Surely, it's better to charge slightly less and sell most of the seats, than to charge a higher price, so that the casuals will only really turn up for the games against the better teams!!!
Trouble is Norwich fans are generally very loyal and our stadium not big enough that generally most home games are almost always sold out. Even when we went to league 1 our percentage of the ground fully was very go.
Could be worse, DD. You could have held out until we signed this guy and then paid £126+ based on the extra lettering required on the back http://www.edp24.co.uk/sport/norwic...aunch_7m_bid_for_britt_assombalonga_1_4611747
