"The Club made a loss after all charges including amortisation of player contracts, the rebate to broadcasters centrally agreed by the Premier League, interest and tax of £63.9m (2019: profit of £68.6m)." So on paper the profits of the season before offset the loss of the season after. "Premier League matchday and catering receipts were £81.9m (2019: £64.2m) with 14 of the 19 Home matches played prior to the COVID-19 outbreak at the THS with fans" A cursory check gives 22 attended home games (for all purposes) for the season. I assume "matchday" means ST + gate revenues for the total number of games, and not doing a Goon "60,000" (including ST revenues for games when the stadium was in lockdown - were refunds given to ST holders ?? ) .
So let's see if I've got this straight...there's a Rule of 6, but for us it's a Rule of 2000/4000? Of course, what nobody's explained is whether the food and drink facilities will be open, as that's where clubs make their profit on matchdays (especially us, with our Boxpark under the South Stand), and similar can be said for clubs whose matchday profits are generated by plastics on a daytrip visiting the megastore
Given we were making £1m per NFL game on beer sales alone, and presumably for matches the figure was reasonably close to that, it's reasonable to expect beer sales to bring in a minimum £20-25m over a course of a normal season coupled with various other events (likely closer to £25-30m) - in other words, a couple of seaosns ago a game where we went 1-0 up in the 5th minute and were clinging on at full time for the three points likely helped the club out for wage restructuring...
So here's something that's worth talking about: Gareth Bale is one of several players taking action against EA for using their likeness without their consent To be more specific, the annual gougefest that is Ultimate Team, as EA make an obscene amount of money every year off their gambling mechanics on the promise of getting a Bale, or an Ibrahimiovic, or whoever - without any compensation going to the players in spite this being where the money is made with FIFA every single year please log in to view this image
personally i don't care much for the players who are already taking millions out of the game. I don't care much for EA sports either or the lawyers who will be making a mint from the litigation. Going forward, i expect football games to go back to what PES was with fake names and fake teams if this is successful. On the whole, i hope the players lose
Yeah, the players don't seem to have a winning hand here, in my opinion. The clubs will either force it into their contracts from now on or the games companies will stop buying the licenses.
It's not the base game which is the issue here, it's the Ultimate Team which a.) Is outlawed in both Holland and Belgium, as loot boxes fall foul of their gambling regulations b.) Raked in $716m for EA from FIFA 20. Not the base game, the microtransactions (and Madden made a similar figure last year) while the base game netted them $30.4m. No, that is not a typo And that's the point: most other games with loot boxes either sell cosmetic items (i.e. Overwatch, Fortshite, Call of Duty) which is already problematic but we'll leave that for another time, or if they have the likeness of real people they pay through the nose for the license (i.e Star Wars Battlefront II, and boy did they go overboard with the loot boxes to claw that money back...) but that's not what is happening here, as FIFA and Madden are selling the likenesses of real people and they're hardly along, as 2K do the same thing with their NBA franchise while Konami do this with PES's myClub - and it has to be said that Diego Maradona slapped Konami with a lawsuit a few years ago due to their selling his likeness in PES17 without asking, just as EA had to drop the NCAA Football and NCAA Basketball franchises after losing in court (here's some background on that one) meaning there is legal precedent for Zlatan et al taking action against EA On top of that, let's be honest here: FIFA and Madden need the players, not just for the front cover as that's become a major part of engagement in the last few years, but they need the players in order for Ultimate Team to work because while you can and do see people losing their **** because they got peak Iniesta for their Ultimate Team, you won't have anywhere near that level of interest or engagement if it was some generic Spanish bloke nobody knows And the fact that EA make twenty times more from Ultimate Team packs than they do from the game they are part of, and it's pure profit for EA as the players aren't getting a cut of that, that's not something to handwave away because without FIFA, EA lose one of their biggest cash cows
As someone who has never owned a games console I say bring back subbuteo and post Covid a good ol game of blow football , but I won't play with my mate dirty Barry as he flicks and also spits too much onto the pitch
I can picture it now "fancy a game of blow football?" *room clears faster than Laurence Fox's house on his birthday*
