Kompany is absolutely spot on. It's only really repeating what fans have been saying for a long time, but at least it gets some media coverage when it comes from a high profile player.
Hopefully at some point the clubs will start to listen, and the away ticket price cap was a good start, but I won't hold my breath. Whilst fans are too pre-occupied mocking rivals' attendances, rather than addressing the underlying reasons for it, then there's little hope. Supporters need to come together on this, but probably won't.
Probably not. There is so much points scoring on this especially by the rags etc. Yet almost every single shot of a throw in, at the swamp, has an empty seat in the background.
But Kompany's angle of 'the product' being better, with more of the 'right' people in the ground, & it being aimed at the people who actually pay the clubs for 'the product' as a way to improve it, is a great angle imo, better than just appealing to clubs or fan pressure groups.
We have already seen a shot across the bows re teams like Newcastle's setup v City 'boring' Premier League subscribers around the world, if people such as Kompany could get the paymasters to start thinking like this re ticket prices, & they pushed for a change, to improve the quality of the product, then it would get done, no question.
There is absolutely no reason fans in the UK should pay more than ones in Germany, other than the clubs here milking more money out of them, because they can get away with it.
Sky etc could pretty much stop that overnight.
Bayern are charging 70 euros for the best seats at the sides for Bundesliga games. But behind the goal at both ends, lower tier, right across the width of the pitch, is 15 euros.
Watch their games on tv & look at where the 'atmosphere' is coming from. Sky could probably engineer that same situation in the Prem.