Did they factor in the Mangala implication, via season ticket price rises from 2014?
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ELIAQUIM MANGALA is set to end his Manchester City misery by returning to Porto.(the Sun, so it’s probably a load of shite)
The French international defender, 28, cost City £32million from the Portuguese giants back in 2014.
And you think £800,000 makes a difference to City}
Please!
Honestly. The money City have pissed up the wall is unbelievable. Yet they still mange to scrape £800k from the fans via unnecessary season tickets price rises every season.
And people/fans like you will always find a reason and an excused to justify the continual season ticket price rises that bring in less than a £1,000,000 pound a season.
Correct.
Probably a disliked response coming up but with FFP and a brilliant team on the pitch, someone has to contribute to it. The bottomless pit of money that has been mentioned by a few on here is irrelevant. Should we sign mbappe in the summer few would be complaining about a 3% increase. A successful team incurs massive bonuses that need to be funded within the constraints of FFP. Potentially, had we won fuck all last season there would probably be a freeze on prices for next season. Re-signing players contracts like aguero and Silva on less per week would have been stacked with massive bonuses based on trophies etc so by default those costs will have majorly increased.
Anyway, I'll shut the fuck up. My beloved club well and truly fucked me over in the 2003/4 season, and the season after so my season ticket after 20 odd years was well and truly shoved back up the club's arse!
£800k a season does not go towards signing one of those players. What does it go to? The club have never explained that.
You seriously think the club don't factor in all costs?
I am sorry but you just don't get that it is a business decision, made by business people who have access to all the data and I'm fairly sure they don't make such decisions without weighing up the pros and cons.
Throwing the signing of Mangala into it is a bit desperate, We've made plenty of bad signings over the years, as has every club.
You tell me what the 800K is for.
What springs to mind?
Admin? Security? Flag wavers? The matchday experience? Season ticket tins? Face painters? Musicians outside the stadium%. Ping pong outside the stadiums. Volleyball outside the Stadium. Etc.
I used Mangala as an example if the club wasting millions, even though City have staff who are supposedly experts in scouting players. The comparison is with £32mill wasted, plus wages, compared to £5mill gained through season ticket price rises since 2014.
Saying we made plenty of bad signings is correct. And shows once again how much money we have wasted through poor decisions, on and off the pitch.
Thank you!
Of course it goes towards signing and paying those players, just as sponsorships, prize money, TV revenue and the rest do. Ticket sales may be a smaller part of the pie than it used to be but it still is a part of it and it all counts.
No it doesn’t. Stop it!
£800k from a 3% season ticket price rise does not go to signing a £60mill player.
£160mill from winning the PL, sponsorship deals, kit deals, etc, does.
It all goes towards it. Some more than than others (as I said) but they are all a part of it.
Once again. As many City fans on here have posted. Including me.
They are dropping vup schemes, platinum, moving to cheaper seats, drinking and eating less in the stadium, etc, which added up, is probably costing City more than the annual season ticket price rise. Just me dropping the domestic Cup schemes had cost City more thsn my £20 season ticket price rise.