How do you know? What if it means reduced priced tickets? free tickets for schools? lower kids prices etc...? see how easy it is?
Agree with ACS, I can see us easily getting 80k regularly. Every game sold out at 52k, 25k backlog, then improved club, corporate, etc., and a better team we should be fine. I reckon 70-75k is probably the right kind of number, mind.
I disagree.... I believe it already has been. I couldn't care less what happens after success as long as we see it tbh. Be positive mate.... they'll have a good idea on capacity.
Where do you think the money for the new stadium will come from? It won't just be sponsorship. Ticket prices will increase significantly. The people that currently can't get tickets through the ballot won't be able to anyway due to pricing and focus on corporate. Any increase in capacity will target corporate because that is where the money is. Lets take the opportunity to not be like every other club. Keep what we have and redevelop/ modernise. I can guarantee you that if we go with a new stadium we will regret it.
If people don't want to pay they won't gave to...prices will increase whatever happens... that's life. Let's take the opportunity not to forever be a bridesmaid and go after winning trophies.
You don't need a new stadium to win trophies. .... Prices increase yes. Prices to attract corporate and only the rich.
I don't know how accurate the numbers reported are , but it appears the noises are 80k. The sheik is way off when he said nufc can't do 80k... they could get that now, so when things really get going they'll get that regularly. This concern about what happens after success is very strange... nobody will care we'll have won stuff and will probably keep going.... it might take decades to win a cup.
I'd say aim for 75-80k initially with room for expansion later to 90k if required. As someone said earlier - 52k currently with 25k who can't buy a ticket most weeks is the 75k - 80k mark already and plus corporate sales could easily fill 80k currently.
City, as an example, can't fill it because they're just a bit of a plastic club. I know they've got a following but for decades they were the small club from Manchester, and with kids becoming so diverse, preferring gaming for example, it's a lot harder to attract fans who aren't already indoctrinated into supporting Man U. Newcastle don't have that issue and it's been easy to re-energise a fanbase after years of Ashley. I mean, we had a ST waiting list under that fat gimp.
I don't think it needs to be that big; it's not really all about the matchday, it's about other events, so adding NFL, gigs, boxing, etc. Spurs' stadium is 62.5k. I'd say we should probably aim for around 70k mark and leave it at that, you don't really need to go bigger and we've also got to mitigate against a digital future.
We're not going to get 80,000 on a cold Tuesday night in January playing Bournemouth. We'd struggle to get 65k for that. We'd get 80k for Liverpool, Man Utd, Man City, Chelsea, Spurs, Villa and Sunderland only.
