I imagine that the likes of Levy and even some fans think £51 for a ticket is cheap enough. Even PS comment about the wealthy subsidising the stadium etc shows that. That’s just one of many reasons why there is such a big disconnect between the majority of fans and the owners.
I agree with you about the pricing, but it's not reflected in the attendance. I think our average is about 100 under capacity. There'll be a lot on the ticket exchange, for a variety of reasons, but they'll probably sell most of them.
I think the £50 is a decent price and well worth it. Compared to other sporting events and arena concerts it’s less than what you would probably pay for a lot of those. If you don’t have a season ticket though then if you want to go regularly it does start to add up but what can be done? We still pretty much sell out all the big games where they sell for much more so if demand is outstripping supply then can’t see much changing. So many Sunday games doesn’t help as those are usually the ones you see on the ticket exchange. We’re either in the champions league or no Europe at all next season so hopefully there’ll be a few more Saturday 3pm kick offs.
I enjoy watching Tottenham and I understand that we won't win so much when we have a lot of injuries and occasionally we will have a season where things go pear shaped. I don't waste my time trying to work out what's going wrong when the data tells me that maybe nothing is. Makes all the games more enjoyable whatever the performance or result.
I actually think they could sell some tickets cheaper and charge even more for the expensive ones like mine. But the reason for the disconnect is that a large number of fans think that the only thing that matters is trophies and wrongly think it is ENIC who are somehow stopping us winning them. If pricing was the main issue they would be protesting outside the ground during matches
Hasn't been happening lately...there were thousands unsold v City yet the attendance given was 61000 approx...they are counted as attendance cos season ticket holders have already paid for them. Bit like what was happening at Arsenal from 2016-2021 ish...sold out even though thousands of empty seats could be seen
Trophies massively matter, I’m sure how a fan can think otherwise. Ask a fan of any of the big clubs what’s important and they will say winning titles and cups. ENIC own the club and make the big decisions, if it’s not down to them then who is it down to?
£50 plus to see Bournemouth, Ipswich, Southampton and Leicester (the only 4 category C games ... the cheapest games) ain't reasonable to me. There's approx 3000 tickets available between £38 and £50 for Category C games. To me that's outrageous. The cheapest tickets for Category A games is £71 ... there are around only 300-500 of those. The next cheapest is £78 and there's less than 1000 of those. My last NLD ticket at WHL was £45. My NLD wembley tickets were about the same. To have nearly double the price is out of line imho
My discontent is the ticket prices ... can see a point of not being able to afford to go at all in the not too distant future. I have no issue regarding the really expensive bits of the ground but it feels like those of us who have supported the club through difficult times and those that went to the Wembley **** hole for nearly 2 seasons are being priced out. Just like the City game, there are thousands of tickets available for Sunday.
Just look at the data. In every European League more than 90% of the Trophies are win by the richest 3 or 4 clubs. We have not been in that group since the early sixties. None of our previous owners seemed to notice that football was moving in a way that made wealth more important. We've finally got one that does understand this but are playing catch up with 3 clubs that have been bigger than us for 60 years and two doped with dodgy money.
Previous owners won more trophies though. I get the club are all about increasing income to try to catch up financially with the other teams but money doesn’t guarantee success. You still need to have the right people in charge on/off the pitch.
The top 4 clubs winning everything is quite a recent development in England as the disparity between them and the rest has grown. While money doesn't guarantee success it enables you to hire better people. The number of managers who have succeeded multiple times without money is very low. Brian Clough is the only one I can think of.
Spurs income has increased since the new stadium, do think they’ve hired better people since? Because results would say otherwise.
You are not following my argument. We've still only got the sixth best squad because although we're catching up on revenue we are still not able to spend as much as the other five. For a short period we had great recruitment so we had the third or fourth best squad and came much closer to winning things but that was never sustainable. So it looks like something has gone wrong when all that has actually happened is that we are back in our rightful position. Our current league form is worse than expected but isn't unlikely statistically particularly with so many injuries so I'm discounting that as a blip for the moment.
Spurs don’t have the 6th best squad though. Spurs are currently 13th in the league. Yes they may have overachieved in league positions in the past if you follow the finances but this season has been a massive letdown.
The 6th best squad can easily be 13th with 30% of the season to go after being wrecked by injuries. Everyone wants to ignore that but I don't understand why. It's the obvious explanation. Man Utd are doing even worse...with a more expensive squad. Chelsea have finished bottom half with a better squad. There is always scatter on any dataset but in the long run money is the only thing that really matters.
