City V PSG ticket Prices: Club Statement

Pretty obvious from that statement that the club don't give a fuck about genuine fans as there will be plenty of tourists ready to take the seats.

We are/have become everything about the rags we have took the piss out of for years.
 
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we are the east stand said:
Pretty obvious from that statement that the club don't give a fuck about genuine fans as there will be plenty of tourists ready to take the seats.

We are/have become everything about the rags have took the piss out of for years.
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Yep but Khaldoon will still roll out the bullshit at the end of the season. He knows exactly what's going on regarding price increases,yet some think the sun shines out of his rear end.
 
This all goes with the territory I'm afraid. We can either have £60 top price tickets in the QF of the Champions League watching some of the Worlds best players on show, or we can watch bottom 8 football with journeymen players and flip between leagues every few years, but pay less. I am not defending high ticket prices, which are without doubt a piss take. However, the World has changed since I first started watching football and the corporate machine has hijacked the game. The 'ordinary' fan is a dying breed and grounds will be increasingly populated by occasional visitors. Most will increasingly rely on TV coverage for their weekly 'fix'. It's sad and for those of us who have our club running through our veins, it borders on tragedy, but, 100 years ago, people went to the Music Hall on a Saturday night and now they watch X Factor on TV instead because theatre prices are extortionate.
 
Hung said:
This all goes with the territory I'm afraid. We can either have £60 top price tickets in the QF of the Champions League watching some of the Worlds best players on show, or we can watch bottom 8 football with journeymen players and flip between leagues every few years, but pay less. I am not defending high ticket prices, which are without doubt a piss take. However, the World has changed since I first started watching football and the corporate machine has hijacked the game. The 'ordinary' fan is a dying breed and grounds will be increasingly populated by occasional visitors. Most will increasingly rely on TV coverage for their weekly 'fix'. It's sad and for those of us who have our club running through our veins, it borders on tragedy, but, 100 years ago, people went to the Music Hall on a Saturday night and now they watch X Factor on TV instead because theatre prices are extortionate.
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You mean to watch psgs players put in a shift, because ours are fucking dreadful
 
AZUL said:
I would rather pay less but I don't feel the club owes me anything
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As we don't owe them anything either.

Hung said:
This all goes with the territory I'm afraid. We can either have £60 top price tickets in the QF of the Champions League watching some of the Worlds best players on show, or we can watch bottom 8 football with journeymen players and flip between leagues every few years, but pay less. I am not defending high ticket prices, which are without doubt a piss take. However, the World has changed since I first started watching football and the corporate machine has hijacked the game. The 'ordinary' fan is a dying breed and grounds will be increasingly populated by occasional visitors. Most will increasingly rely on TV coverage for their weekly 'fix'. It's sad and for those of us who have our club running through our veins, it borders on tragedy, but, 100 years ago, people went to the Music Hall on a Saturday night and now they watch X Factor on TV instead because theatre prices are extortionate.
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The one glaring issue with this is that our ground is very regularly unpopulated for these games so we don't have the demand from tourists.

We are that poor at the moment, I can't believe anyone would willingly fork out £55 to sit on the back row of the ES to watch this currently, let alone over a ton to take your couple of kids/16-21.

I see the apologists are focusing on the £40 tickets (which is only £40 if you are a SC holder or citizen member (which you had to pay for).

The upper tier CB and ES which the club are happy to have tiered pricing in for ST, but only one price for this. That's 12,000 tickets at £55 or £50 if you are "fortunate" to get the discount.

There are probably only around 10,000-14000 tickets for our fans at £40-45.
 
kippaxblue76 said:
They will make millions if not billions without stinging the average for an extra £20/£30 for a ticket or for that matter £50/£100 increase on a ST.
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They are on the verge of losing £50m. You would think their board meetings would be focusing on what to do about this rather than pissing of half the fan base.
 
Hung said:
This all goes with the territory I'm afraid. We can either have £60 top price tickets in the QF of the Champions League watching some of the Worlds best players on show, or we can watch bottom 8 football with journeymen players and flip between leagues every few years, but pay less.
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This is bullshit (although the rest of your post is fine) so nothing personal. The income from the tickets that the likes of you and I buy is probably about 7-8% of our total revenue. Maybe £30m out of £360m. The club could drop prices by 10% across the board and it would cost them £3m, which is the equivalent of one minor sponsorship.

In addition, we get €6m flat payment for just getting to the last 8 and probably the same again from the CL market pool, in addition to waht we would have got if we'd gone out in the last 16. So even if we get tonked 12-0, we'll have made an extra €12m or nearly £10m. In marking up the price of tickets so high, we'll probably make around £125k extra than we would have made by reducing those prices by £20 but in a stadium that is three-quarters full at most with a lot of our core support missing.

The club could even let us in for nothing and still make around £8m from these two games just from UEFA. But we're not asking to be let in for nothing, we're happy to pay a reasonable price which takes into account the historic nature of the game as well as the need to ensure the stadium is packed and buzzing. But what the club have said is "It's a big game so even though we were about 12,000 down for the Kiev game, we'll put prices up by 50% and miraculously expect all these people to pay that and come out of the woodwork."

They must know we won't come close to selling it but are prepared to accept that for the sake of an extra £125k when even before they sell one ticket, they've made nearly £10m before we even kick a ball. It's a kick in the balls to the fans and it's certainly not something that needs to come with the territory.

WE DO NOT NEED TO ACCEPT THIS!
 
kippaxblue76 said:
They will make millions if not billions without stinging the average for an extra £20/£30 for a ticket or for that matter £50/£100 increase on a ST.
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Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
They are on the verge of losing £50m. You would think their board meetings would be focusing on what to do about this rather than pissing of half the fan base.
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So so true that it's actually laughable. Professional owners, people with 'football business' degrees and us laymen on an internet site know better.
 
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