Scott Hogan

[rodcurrie]

You can pay higher rates and get the quality required. Thats good business. Not everyone has to be a gamble. Sometimes they just simply cost more. We need to break the barrier if we are going to progress. Simple. We can’t get over the finish line otherwise. Last season proved that.

All transfer are gambles,look at some of the talent Chelski have let go for relative peanuts and where they are nar ie; DeBruyne,Salah etc;Even gr8 managers like Sir Alex Ferguson dint get it r8 all the time. Some moves work out some dunt. UTCB

[shorehamoldboy]

we need an inbetween compromise on salaries no were not going to pay stupid money as the pigs and other clubs have done and failed but we do have to up our pay scale if we want to bring the players in to give us that final push towards the premier league and the other players in the squad are going to have to accept that this has to happen if we are to progress and it may well have to apply to us fans as well we might have to pay more at the gates to help the club in this process utb ftp

[FatherKnowsBest]

.... it may well have to apply to us fans as well we might have to pay more at the gates to help the club in this process utb ftp

I don't see this argument, although the Tunaman has brainwashed the oinkers with it.

If we imagine that just a couple of average quality players for say £5m each plus wages of £25k a week, thats £2.6m a year. Put it all together over 3 years and its £18m give or take.

If you take an average (round numbers) crowd of 25,000, for 23 home games, thats 575,000 individual game attendances per season or 1.7m over 3 years. Divide one into the other and you get an increase in ticket prices of £10.58 per person, £240 on a season ticket. I know theres always the huge amount of profit from the extra pies and bovrils to consider , but do you think this is sustainable, and thats just for two average Championship players.

I know clubs do it, but the amount that squeezing the fans generates doesn't make a significant difference and eventually makes the clubs too elitist. The future of the club is kids and families, not the old crusties with index linked pensions who can afford to spend more. Short term thinking rarely does a business any favours. The oinkers will find this out in due course.

From my point of view, owning a football club is the Chairmans vanity project and money pit. Like buying a Rolls Royce, you can't bitch about the service cost and the mpg. If they bought it they did so knowing that it came with an ongoing requirement for more funds, and they shouldn't try to rinse the fans for £59 shirts made in some blokes garage, and squeeze it all out of the poor bloody supporter.

[shorehamoldboy]

well fkb doesnt look like our 2 chuckle brothers are going to help us in the financial department does it

[FatherKnowsBest]

well fkb doesnt look like our 2 chuckle brothers are going to help us in the financial department does it

...and we wont pay £45 to go to a game, so we're knackered either way.

[Ayamonteblade]

its as you say FKB - the attendance price isn't going to have a massive effect on our overall finances, so would suggest its kept low to keep fans on board - who will then spend money in incrementals......eg I'm thinking of purchasing a new Blades car sticker as current only starting to wilt in the heat

[rodcurrie]

its as you say FKB - the attendance price isn't going to have a massive effect on our overall finances, so would suggest its kept low to keep fans on board - who will then spend money in incrementals......eg I'm thinking of purchasing a new Blades car sticker as current only starting to wilt in the heat

Chuffin Incrementals? UTCB

[FatherKnowsBest]

its as you say FKB - the attendance price isn't going to have a massive effect on our overall finances, so would suggest its kept low to keep fans on board - who will then spend money in incrementals......eg I'm thinking of purchasing a new Blades car sticker as current only starting to wilt in the heat

Not just car stickers! Think of all those extra Bovrils and Pies...!

[shorehamoldboy]

we wouldnt put prices up to that level fkb just a point that i expect the club to come out with sooner rather than later our prices must be amongst the cheapest in the championship particulary cat b games and its a big thumbs up to king kev for keeping them affordable to normal working class people

[Carpe_diem]

The rather obvious fact that not all transfers work out really shouldn't be used as an excuse for us never to take a risk, but I'm as sure that it will as I am that certain fans will think that this is savvy business rather than self-defeating unwillingness to compromise.