Cheap ass scousers want cheaper tickets

[Power n Glory]

I don't mind Liverpool moaning about them but I will absoutely not accept criticism about the ticket prices from Man City and Chelsea fans, which I have seen on both Bluemoon and The Shed End. Just hyprocrisy.

Can their small minds not realise that it's only because of their inflation of the football market through offering ridicolous salaries and transfer fees that it's now come to us charging these ticket prices for us to even stand of a chance of competing fairly.

All in all, £93 is a tad ridicolous London or not - at the very least get it down the the £70 range. Hopefully the club use the increased commerical revenue to ease the burden of the matchgoing fans on top of spending more on signings.

They've inflated the market with crazy wages and transfer fees but we've never tried to compete with that. We've only just started paying players over £100k. Prior to this season, we'd try to keep wages low and on an even scale. We used to have a load of unproven talent on £30k-£60k. We hardly ever spent over £15m on a signing. Even if the FFP starts to work and clubs reduce their outgoings by a significant amount, the clubs won't slash ticket prices.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Probably more reasonable than the booking fee they charge tbh.

Nah.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Initial post wasn't really aimed at 'pool supporters - mostly at who should be subsidising them....

Liverpool FC will pocket 45% of a reputed average gate of £3,000,000 - that's £1,350,000 - surely they could afford £10-20 subsidy for their 9,000 fans (£90-180,000) still leaving them with £1,170,000 -£1,260,000)?

Why should Arsenal FC have to reduce the cost for 'pool fans?

Because the prices will be reduced for everyone. And since the price for everyone will be lower, matchday revenue will be lower and we won't take as much as we originally would so it's not as if we're somehow getting one over you. On the other hand, both clubs may even get the same/more since this game is sandwiched between far bigger games, all no doubt category A, and likely to feature weakened team/s. I would think this fixture is a much more attractive proposition to watch, now it is cheaper. As you say, the difference for the clubs is tiny, negligible, but the difference for fans is rather large especially when you take travel into account.

Your fans were calling for it too, so it's not as if this was some sort of demand the club made.

In any case, going by the Black Scarf people, all this does is bring it in line with your policy last season.

[Niall_Quinn]

Sure, but we all want £40m signings and the money to pay their wages.
Gate receipts are a significant percentage of our income. I agree it's not right but nor are lots of things in the modern game.
Whaddaya do?

Do we really want all that? Or would it be better to kick the chavs, the gypos, psg, the spaniards etc out of the game and make everything cheaper across the board? Bigger prices are mostly going to fund bigger margins for fewer individuals. Stupid wages, stupid transfer fees, for players that aren't fit to lace the boots of the guys who played for a tenner. Everyone says you can't go back, but it will have to after it collapses. In 20 years there may be 20-30 clubs across Europe all playing in some shitty league with tickets £500 each and all the other clubs bust. That's the way it's going. Pumping more cash into it, or dragging it out of the fans, will just accelerate the crash.

[Letters]

We've got the 2nd biggest squad in Europe apparently, maybe we should trim it (get rid of players who maybe aren't really up to it) and also lose the players who are injury prone in our squad.

This may help a bit at least.

We had a massive clear out in the summer, we have all, you included, been lamenting how thin our squad is

[Letters]

Do we really want all that? Or would it be better to kick the chavs, the gypos, psg, the spaniards etc out of the game and make everything cheaper across the board? Bigger prices are mostly going to fund bigger margins for fewer individuals. Stupid wages, stupid transfer fees, for players that aren't fit to lace the boots of the guys who played for a tenner. Everyone says you can't go back, but it will have to after it collapses. In 20 years there may be 20-30 clubs across Europe all playing in some shitty league with tickets £500 each and all the other clubs bust. That's the way it's going. Pumping more cash into it, or dragging it out of the fans, will just accelerate the crash.

Well, obviously the ideal is a more equitable distribution of money in the game and it to be brought down to less obscene amounts all round but I don't see what will make that happen. Will the bubble burst? We've just been through a massive recession and people kept on going so I'm not sure what would make that happen.

[Ollie the Optimist]

read on twitter that making this a category B fixture only helps about 7000 Arsenal fans and the liverpool fans which frankly is a load of bollocks. The cup credit system means that this is the 7th credit, and the club have made Bayern a Cat A fixture meaning they get full price from all season ticket holders while the liverpool away fans get cheaper tickets for an away game.

While any time Arsenal lowering prices is a good gesture, what they should have done is made this the "8th" cup credit as it was drawn after Bayern was announced. seems to have left a lot of ST holders not wanting to go to Bayern as it could be an extra 100 quid at renewal time on top of an already hugely expensive ticket