Leicester City 2016/17

[Marvin]

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Fair enough then. But if rich dudes pumping dough in is part of your legitimate income, why cant we all do it. I'd be interested to know how you get such a massive income. When travelling here or abroad, there are never masses of MCFC shirts to be seen, as you do with Man U, Liverpool Arse, and more so in recent years Chelsea. This suggests that merchandising isnt a major factor. Also, you dont fill your ground every week, and dont charge Arsenal prices, so gate reciepts dont provide a massive amount. It is a cery strange rule.

We averaged 54,000 last season. The only games which don't sell out are Cup games. Match-day ticket prices were around £46 against Sunderland and the same for West Ham. City's match-day income will be around £60m now that the ground has been extended. To put that into context, leciester's match-day income was around £11m for the season ending 2015. match-day income is a relatively small part of a club's income nowadays about 15%. Commercial Income, Champions League and TV deals represent the lion-share of income. City were accused of using Middle-Eastern sponsors such as the Etihad Group to circumvent the Fair Play rules, but those sponsors are a relatively small slice of commercial income and much smaller compared to deals like Man Utd's Chevrolet deal.

Leicester's income will explode now, and if they maintain the success on the pitch they'll be able to obtain all the lucrative sponsorships that other successful clubs have managed. It is difficult staying at the top. In the two seasons that City won the title, the following season there was a really noticeable drop in the intensity of the players. I think you need players like Vieira, Terry, Lampard etc who are never ever satisfied by success.

Good luck against Arsenal. I hope Leicester beat them. Still regarding Arsenal as bigger contenders to City than Leicester.

 

[Thaksinssoldier]

I can't remember but did they bring their full allocation?

No they did not, irony of fucking ironies.

 

[adrianr]

Really? Im more deluded than you thought! Id like to see where 54 million went on top of the team that won the Championship.
As for FFP, plenty of clubs have infringed that. I seem to remember being told that their number included yourselves. I cant claim to understand it. I reckon we are sailing close to the wind with it now, hence the difficulty in negotiatig stupid wages for Vardy, Mahrez, Schmiecal and now Danny Drinkwater. Todays "big" clubs have those among their number who threw cast amounts of filthy lucre around to establish themselves. Now their ,"bigness", is assured, no one else is allowed to do it. As we are on an MCFC forum, lets use MCFC as an example. How are your club allowed to spebd another 140 odd million, plus wages, and remain compliant, when mine are resirting to sculldugery to keep players aquired for peanuts?

There is something really wonderful watching this particular penny drop with other fans as their clubs look to come up the ranks.

 

[linekers boxers]

I can't remember but did they bring their full allocation?

Yes we did. The highlights are still on the web, unless a few thousand were dressed up as sky blue seats, there were plenty empty.

 

[CTID1988]

Yes we did. The highlights are still on the web, unless a few thousand were dressed up as sky blue seats, there were plenty empty.

54,693 was the attendance for that match

 

[BlueTG]

Yes we did. The highlights are still on the web, unless a few thousand were dressed up as sky blue seats, there were plenty empty.

As with just about every single club in the world, you're not one to throw stones in glass houses about attendances.

 

[Marvin]

Yes we did. The highlights are still on the web, unless a few thousand were dressed up as sky blue seats, there were plenty empty.

Maybe some fans left before the end. But I was at that game. One of a long line of poor performances but it was packed as ever for home league games.

Are you really going to argue with City's average attendance of 54,041? If you are you are just a WUM because the facts say one thing and your argument says another.

 

[Sky Blue]

Yes we did. The highlights are still on the web, unless a few thousand were dressed up as sky blue seats, there were plenty empty.

Fucking yawn.....he's in full on red **** mode.

 

[BlueTG]

Maybe some fans left before the end. But I was at that game. One of a long line of poor performances but it was packed as ever for home league games.

Are you really going to argue with City's average attendance of 54,041? If you are you are just a WUM because the facts say one thing and your argument says another.

Ask him about his clubs average attendances of 13,000 odd in league one. Not that they were much better until they were challenging promotion in the championship.

They certainly weren't packed to the rafters until they were on the up.

 

[Phil1]

Yes we did. The highlights are still on the web, unless a few thousand were dressed up as sky blue seats, there were plenty empty.

Ironic username seeing as Linekers boxers were also full of shit.

 

[IanBishopsHaircut]

Yes we did. The highlights are still on the web, unless a few thousand were dressed up as sky blue seats, there were plenty empty.

You're fucking Leicester mate...this decade's Blackburn Rovers...wind it in