franksinatra said:
The club has shown its greed and its intent to wring the last penny from the real fan or replace them completely. Still at least some footballer like Sagna who I doubt gives a jot for the club will be paid handsomely for turning up for training. The fact is price rises like this could be more than avoided if the waste and disastrous transfer policy of the past couple of years had been avoided. Still it is not just City.
Well said. The FFP excuse is spouted by apologists who will still be defending the club when normal season ticket prices hit £1,000. One look at the numbers and upcoming revenues from TV, Champions League and commercial show that these price hikes are completely needless - and the same goes for any well off club in this country. Tens upon tens of millions in new revenues are set to fill the club coffers, but they still want to squeeze a few million more out of the fans. It's true our match day revenue is behind several clubs, but we offset that with good commercial revenues and of course our near permanent place in the Champions League elite, which always means cashing in despite our persistent failure there.
Our fan base lacks the hub other clubs like United (MUST) and Liverpool (SoS) have to challenge or question decisions. We get hit by price hikes, we moan online, but we don't really question them on a stage where it matters. City, a club conscious of its public image (see: the 180 on Viagogo), but not having said image put under any real stress by the fan base. They must be laughing at how passive the fan base is, like dogs who they can hit as many times as they please, only for it to crawl back obediently.
The truth is, and this is one of the most unpopular things that could be said on BM, we're greedier than United. Yes, greedier than United! Words you'd never have expected to hear 8 years ago. United are a club with a bigger fanbase yet announced price freezes for the 5th time in 6 years in January, despite missing the Champions League revenue. People will use the "BUT £299 SEASON TICKETS!!!!!" rebuttal, but how many really have a chance of getting one? And United's most expensive season ticket is £950. Ours is now £1,750. Our soulless execs upstairs have turned us into a greedy corporate whore of a club, betraying the huge working class fan base that follows it.
