So I've seen a lot of things mainly on here about how 'financial experts' say prem clubs don't need the fans to still run a profitable business. I for one think it's absolute bullsh1t. For one instance say we sell 50,000 tickets every other week for our home games and we sell at £10 per ticket (just for example) that would be £500,000 every other week 1million a month. So we can cope with empty stadiums can we? Thats a huge amount of money for a club who can't even break an ageing transfer record to loose regularly. I've seen someone put on here about instead of a proper boycott to just boycott the stadium and gather outside for games. I think this would be a great idea and the noise we could still generate from outside the ground would be a quite surreal for the players knowing we are 100% behind them but at the same time 100% against the regime that runs our club. And I really do think it'd hit Ashley hard loosing our money every other week. Not a chance would our club still run smoothly without us at games IMO.
Yeah I know that's a massive problem at the minute. I'm not sure how many season tickets have been sold and those with them it would be hard to boycott after already paying but then again it'd be easier than watching the football we are playing. Also even though he already has that money he would be loosing a hell of a lot on the in ground sales of food, drink and merchandise.
It comes down to the Sky money.
What clubs get from it dwarfs what we as fans would pay, plus as said season ticket money is already in.
Of course the flip side is that if we had an empty stadium then sky wouldn't pick us meaning the extra sky money wouldn't go to the club.
there was an article about this very subject somewhere but apparently there are clubs who could survive without fans trouble is its only small clubs ( ground size) like bournemouth that could do it
Talking of Bournemouth, when Ashley took over they were 21st in League 2.
10 years on and we can't compete with them.
Shameful
Brighton and Huddersfield were way down the league's as well.