Footballers and wages

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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.

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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

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DSLiverpool said:

Boycott your prem team and go and see your nearest other division team for a month (in my case Tranmere) would be a better idea if your not a season ticket holder BUT as I know for LFC Thomas Cook will take any spare capacity, throw a pasty in the mix and call it corporate hospitality then all sorts of "fans" buy them. i should know as the 4 seats to my left are Thomas Cookers paying £250+ per seat and most are going to a game for the first time!!

Good idea but the working fan isny powerfull enough anymore.

Do you think football would survive without the atmosphere created by the normal fan though Dave? I dont, the corporates would not be interested, I think they like the noise created by the 'normal' fans, its part of the day out for them. How many times to you see them not watching the game and just watching the kop and taking photos?

Without these for me the game just would not exist as it does today, as soon its going to get to a point where the grounds are dead.

Germans do it right, but like digikal has said they have safety standing (double the amount of fans) to compensate for the loss in ticket prices.

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DSLiverpool said:

OK lets try and get this off the ground - national no support week - need to form a action group (with a witty name) and get some PR - anyone here do PR?

Nope but there must be someone? FACEBOOK/FORUMS/YOUTUBE - are always good free advertising? I think someone would need to put something together as to why we are doing and why they should do it...

I honestly believe with the right press behind it this would work. Fans need to take a stand against prices before it becomes to late.