Easy answer, I'm on the dole of course, I only nip out for an hour or 2 on a night when I go on the rob
Not to mention the fact that you are probably buzzing your tits off, having drunk too much Sunny-D, which you buy as a job-lot from the local Aldi.
Really looking to 'Pool beating Leicester for us, tonight, to take us within 2 points of the top. None of this "drawing-and-then-holding-hands-in-front-of-our-blubbing-simpleton-fans" bollocks! I'm looking for Klipperty to prove that he's more than a second-rate Hodgson.
Even Klipperty Klopp is slating 'Pool! Ouch! I genuinely believe that Klopp could be the first manager in 'Pool's history to turn his back on the club. I bet the Yanks are wishing they'd never bought the club, even if they did get it cheap!
The Chinese transfer record has been broken for the third time in 10 days, with Jiangsu Suning spending £38.4m to sign Brazil midfielder Alex Teixeira. Teixeira was a target for 'Pool, of course. I can just imagine how this deal was played out... Agent: "Hey, Tex! How are things?" Tex: "Great, actually. I hear you have an offer for me?" Agent: "Two offers, in fact! Liverpool really want you to sign for them, but there's this Chinese club that are offering you a ****-load of money to go and play for them." Tex: "Okay. What do you think I should do?" Agent: "Well, it's a matter of pride for you, I suppose. Do you want to play serious football at a strong, vibrant football club? Or do you want to go and play for a bunch of nobodies, who no one has ever heard of?" Tex: "You're right! My pride is far more important to me! Tell Jangsu Suning to have the contract ready!"
I see theyre having a protest at the ticket prices, they need to see the whole picture, how are Lfc supposed to pay for the players they've bought? with their success?
planned 77th min walk out for the next game apparently, alljokes aside its a bit steep for most normal people. i see the prem clubs voted not to bring in a ticket cap last week or so, something will need to be put in place to make sure the"normal" fan can attend matches without it costing least £150 for the day out
Fans have got to get it into their heads that "their" club doesn't belong to "them." Increasingly, it belongs to faceless corporates who don't even like football, and they view it purely as a money-making machine. They look at the 30-50,000 punters inside the stadium as the lucky ones - there being 100 times that many punters outside the ground, around the world, who will never get to see a live game, but who make the club more money several times over than the few inside the stadium. Why shouldn't these faceless corporates keep putting the prices up, to find out just how much they can squeeze out of fans. Their attitude is: if you can't afford to pay what we want to charge, provided there is someone else behind you who can, tough luck! I have especially no sympathy for Mousers on this subject. Their club would (and should) have gone into Administration, but it was salvaged by the bank selling the club's assets to the current Yanky mob for peanuts, on the basis that they would be able to service the bank's debt (which is all the bank cares about). Do you really think these Yanks who have come in - being the same bunch that have been running corporate sports companies in the USA for years - really give a flying **** about what the average Mouser thinks? They owe you diddly-squat - and guess what? that's exactly what they are going to give you! If you want to feel that your individual custom means something to a club, go and support one of the many clubs that are struggling at grass roots level, and that would be only too grateful for your patronage. Otherwise, shut up, and be content to be used as the consumer trash that you are!
tbh I havn't been to a match since they told me I had to sit down and watch it. It was worth the £20 day out (beers, burgers and travel inc.) but I can think of better things to do with the minimum of £50 on a saturday, and I know I'd enjoy every minute of it, which I can't say about watching West Ham over the years.
I'd have to agree. And if you have kids, how many times a year can you afford to keep paying a few hundred quid every other weekend? What HIAG says is true, though. The Septics couldn't give a flying **** about Soccer, there here to make money!
Wrong on so many levels that. Starting with the fact that the owners of a football club are merely the custodians, the club's belong to the supporters, without whom they wouldn't exist. Football clubs aren't like any other business. They form part of the fibre of the local community and people invest not only time and money following their chosen club, but there's also the emotional attachment which you can't simply 'swap' to another club you biff. All the kopites are saying is that the pricing is forcing the local lifeblood of the club out of the stadium. It's ****ing tragic that on the verge of yet another £30m per annum hike in the TV cash that their club is seeking to price out locals, who are largely working class folk who already spend a large proportion of their disposable income on their football club. But it's alright because some middle class Johnny from wherever will happily pay the price......meh.
Nobody is saying it's right, Tobes, it's not! Far from it. But to these guys, it's a business, and now it's a global business. HIAG is right that they probably increasingly make more money from the Far East than they do from just about anything else. As cold as it sounds, it's all about bucks, the rest is conversation. That's the way they think!
its sad but i agree, although you state it like its a purely exclusive Liverpool problem which it isnt, I get you hate with a passion all things scouse and im not sure how much a ticket at yours is but im sure if the club started out pricing the "normal" fans so much so that they start seeing attendances suffer then protests and banners and such would ensue. its a sad day when fans who have gone to games for years and shown support both in the stands and financially are then priced out of supporting their team every game. Yourselves will probably come into difficulties when you have your new stadium, prices will have to go up to pay for it, less funds for transfers and all that but thats the way of the game today, its a business pure and simple
