Footballers and wages
Discussion
Are teams finally starting to get tough with players and wages, Liverpool have had to trim theirs, to many players picking up massive wages and being average. Sneijder not playing as he won't take a 1.6m pay cut per year, I can see some of these stars moving to places like Russia just to try to pick up the wages.
A shame next year when the prem money shoots up the fans won't see a reduction in prices. To much of the income of a club is spent on wages now that clubs seem to be making a stand on players wages its about times fans did to with ticket prices.
Is it impossible that all supporters for 2 weeks did a boycott of home games? Soon, if not already your average working class man will not be able to watching the team he has supported all his life.
A shame next year when the prem money shoots up the fans won't see a reduction in prices. To much of the income of a club is spent on wages now that clubs seem to be making a stand on players wages its about times fans did to with ticket prices.
Is it impossible that all supporters for 2 weeks did a boycott of home games? Soon, if not already your average working class man will not be able to watching the team he has supported all his life.
m3sye said:
Is it impossible that all supporters for 2 weeks did a boycott of home games? Soon, if not already your average working class man will not be able to watching the team he has supported all his life.
Not sure how that would help smaller clubs who survive on weekly ticket sales, doubt it would concern the bank accounts at City/ChelskiIts upto the Premier League to take the FFP seriously.
Edited by robmlufc on Tuesday 8th January 23:00
robmlufc said:
Not sure how that would help smaller clubs who survive on weekly ticket sales, doubt it would concern the bank accounts at City/Chelski
Yeah know what you mean regarding the smaller clubs! As for others I think it would have a positive affect if the fans were adamant they were not going to carry on paying these stupid prices .Next year the premiership is seeing a 70% rise in income from television money, surely this need to be passed onto fans as well
I think things are changing apart from the very elite players at the very top clubs. I'm sure i heard on talksport that City are sending back 2/3 rds of their allocation back to Arsenal for this weekends game, the £63.00 ticket price is just madness on top of the price to get down here & food etc
robmlufc said:
Black can man said:
the £63.00 ticket price
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=m...
Pothole said:
Fittster said:
What I find strange is that everyone seems to know what weekly salaries various players are on. What's the source of the info?
Clubs and agents?Most businesses don't make a habit of telling the world the salaries of each employee.
Fittster said:
On the spurs thread there's a story that a new signing is getting 20K a week. Why would either the club or an agent feel the need to tell the press what he's on?
Most businesses don't make a habit of telling the world the salaries of each employee.
I thought that was strange too, unless Levy is advertising high wages to tempt the cream of young talent to join Spurs & get well paid for doing so. Most businesses don't make a habit of telling the world the salaries of each employee.
One thing for sure is that levy is not stupid & he would have known about this before it went to press.
Terminator X said:
A lot of players (perhaps all) are self employed so their income is in the public domain.
They're paid hugely ott of course wtf needs 100 large ones a week, fookin obscene when the majority are scraping by.
TX.
Would you turn it down to do a job that you enjoyed? Hell for £100k a week, I would do a job I hated!They're paid hugely ott of course wtf needs 100 large ones a week, fookin obscene when the majority are scraping by.
TX.
I was chatting to an exec of a milk-drinking league 2 side and asking about the prices as they are a little steep for a league 2 side compared to when another local team when they were in the premiership could charge the same
his arguement was that there was so much money from sponsorship and tv money coming in the tickets would have little effect on the income
but the fact these top 5-6 clubs can put the prices so high shows IMO how little regard they have for their fans.
his arguement was that there was so much money from sponsorship and tv money coming in the tickets would have little effect on the income
but the fact these top 5-6 clubs can put the prices so high shows IMO how little regard they have for their fans.
there's an alternative.
use the tv money to subsidise the ticket costs
Thats what they do in germany and its not affected the strength of their league or the quality of players. Sure the top money makers will be in spain but german football delivers to its fans on so many levels - free transport to away games etc.
the more fans that can afford and get to games means more chance of their merchandise being sold both on match day and in terms of supporters
use the tv money to subsidise the ticket costs
Thats what they do in germany and its not affected the strength of their league or the quality of players. Sure the top money makers will be in spain but german football delivers to its fans on so many levels - free transport to away games etc.
the more fans that can afford and get to games means more chance of their merchandise being sold both on match day and in terms of supporters
maisoumenos said:
There's much noise about footballers wages but they are nothing compared to f1 drivers who race for only 19 or 20 races a year.
A fair point. It's not really about the players and how hard they work for their cash, not their fault people offer them silly money. More about where our ticket money goes and how to reduce the price of a ticket. Edited by robmlufc on Wednesday 9th January 07:35
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