Liverpool fans protest over 2% season ticket rise



HarrogateMackem said:
End of the day someone like Liverpool could offer all their tickets for free and they'd still be ok because of the sponsorships, commercial deals and TV Money. Prise rises are pure greed.
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Correct - pure greed…….from the players. Let’s not forget that the vast majority of every club’s income goes to the players.

The average weekly wage for a Premier League first team squad player is now above £60k plus add-ons. There was some research done earlier in the season that calculated that if every Premier League first team squad player was earning 5-10% less (putting that into context the average yearly salary would still be £3m plus add-ons) and the saved money was diverted to reducing supporter ticket prices, then football would be free to everyone down to National League North / South level.
 
Redandwhitedust said:
I've said for years. If a regular businesses treated their customers like clubs treat fans, they'd fold in weeks.

Imagine a restaurant that upped its prices every year, served increasingly crap food, and where the service was shit?

What would happen? It would close.

But in football? There's a loyalty and belief that the restaurants food would be better if they changed a chef, or changed a manager, or if someone new bought them. But in the meantime, we need to put up with the price rises because we are loyal customers.

It's bollocks
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And which other industry has to put up with its customers demanding that it continuously employes better and more expensive employees? Imagine a group of diners at a single Michelin star restaurant protesting because the restaurant wasn’t a double Michelin star restaurant and the head chef wasn’t Gordon Ramsey.
Redandwhitedust said:
The rise in the wages of the playing squad and transfers will dwarf the cost of the electricity at Anfield
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Correct. Supporters demand that the clubs buy better players every season. Better players cost more money in transfers and higher wages. Where is this extra money going to come from? Even we have fans who - despite knowing that we are losing money each week - want us to spend more money on better players, then moan about ticket prices increasing.
 
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Kent Boy 2 said:
And which other industry has to put up with its customers demanding that it continuously employes better and more expensive employees? Imagine a group of diners at a single Michelin star restaurant protesting because the restaurant wasn’t a double Michelin star restaurant and the head chef wasn’t Gordon Ramsey.

Correct. Supporters demand that the clubs buy better players every season. Better players cost more money in transfers and higher wages. Where is this extra money going to come from? Even we have fans who - despite knowing that we are losing money each week - want us to spend more money on better players, then moan about ticket prices increasing.
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Exactly.

Football is a business.
But it's not a business like any other. It's a business that has an insane loyalty. But that loyal customer base is demanding

It's in its own little bubble. And I'm not sure how sustainable it is.

At the top level (champions league/premier league) it seems unsustainable for customer and business. Customers always want more, business has to spend more to deliver it. Employee wage spiralling up

That's not how economics work in any other industry
 
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chunkyshanhawk53 said:
Hmmm
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Inflation currently is over 3%. Your wages should have risen by as much, the prices on everything should have risen by as much meaning if so your relative affordability would have remained the same.

If people (like me) haven’t had their wages rise in line with inflation then their ire should be with their employer not the club that are raising their prices at a rate less than inflation. LFC are doing their fans a favour.
 
Geppetto said:
The club backed down last time tbf.
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Theyll probably back down again this time but then introduce something like an increase in membership fees for the chance to buy tickets and 10% increase in corporate.

End of the day the top clubs would happily have no season ticket holders, Liverpool could sell the stadium each week to tourists who spend money in the club shop whereas Jimmy from Liverpool buys a shirt once a season and a scarf from the bloke outside when he was 12.

Sure Liverpool do corporate where you go to Aintree or something and then coach to the match as they can't fit everyone into the corporate at the stadium.
 
Lucky1985 said:
Inflation currently is over 3%. Your wages should have risen by as much, the prices on everything should have risen by as much meaning if so your relative affordability would have remained the same.

If people (like me) haven’t had their wages rise in line with inflation then their ire should be with their employer not the club that are raising their prices at a rate less than inflation. LFC are doing their fans a favour.
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Interesting logic
 
Lucky1985 said:
Inflation currently is over 3%. Your wages should have risen by as much, the prices on everything should have risen by as much meaning if so your relative affordability would have remained the same.

If people (like me) haven’t had their wages rise in line with inflation then their ire should be with their employer not the club that are raising their prices at a rate less than inflation. LFC are doing their fans a favour.
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Canny. :lol:
 

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