is that even a surprise? who was it that said he would be in ligue 2 within 3 years?Originally Posted by IBK
he was the boss man here because he grew up here. it was his home. he had a manager who believed in him and fans that loved him. at barca he's instantly their worse player and by some margin too. their fans will never accept him because he's automatically seen as a B grade player. hopefully it puts barca off in the future when it comes to taking our players.
That isn't their fans fault though, is it. And their own tickets are cheaper, despite.
Fair play to them.
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
City and Chelsea don't need to raise prices to fund their infinite money cheat, they have sugar-daddies to do that.
They wouldn't break even if they charged a million pounds a ticket* so they don't deserve any credit (and that sentence could end right there) for not raising prices.
* - not actually true.
That wasn't my main point. More a side issue...and I take your own point on the matter.
It ain't the Citeh fans fault, however retarded they may be.
£62 is a fucking rip off.
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
No, it's not City's fans fault.
We deserve criticism for upping our prices so much, City and Chelsea don't deserve any credit for not doing the same. They don't need to.
We do need to although when my hard ( well, sort of) earned money is going into the pockets of players like Gerhinho and Chammakh, it does grate somewhat.
Going to suggest to dad we don't renew next year, that £1500 a year could go on a very nice holiday and we can still go here and there with red memberships and via various contacts. I'd pay £1500 a year to watch Bergkamp and Henry. This lot, not so much.
Giroud's face alone is worth the entry fee
It's misleading to assume that our prices are so exorbitant purely because of City's spending. We've had high ticket prices for a very long time, well before the Sheikh took over. And in any case, it's not as if our wage bill is actually low is it? Dross gets paid so much that we're unable to off-load them. You can argue we're only paying these players such wages because of City distorting the market, but like I said in the Match thread we did pay Sol Campbell £100K back in 2001, so no club is whiter than white.
City's owners have played a part yes, but the people who own our club know that football fans' loyalty makes it very easy to raise prices without a significant fall in demand, especially given our supporters in general are more affluent than those in the North and Midlands (however this then prices out the less well off). If City and Chelsea didn't get taken over, we'd still see ticket price inflation significantly above general inflation.
Sol's wage was artificially high because of the huge signing-on fee. We don't even pay anyone that much now.
Realistically though the owners still want money back on their investment so they're basically charging what they think is a fair price, unlike us so they do deserve some credit....they could just rip off the fans as well (and would have a better case to do so than us).
I don't think they do. Abramovic is NEVER going to get his money back, nor are the people who own City.
I don't think they care. They've got more money than God, they're playing a real-life game of fantasy football, having a bit of fun.
'Cos they can.
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