£100 million pounds bid by Chelsea

Curryman said:
Absolutely ridiculous the way football is going.

People , probably a number of them chelsea fans using food banks, suffering due to inflation and yet the football magic roundabout continues to break all records. Absolutely horrendous in my book.
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It's left me behind at that level. Not interested in it one bit. It's for the billionaires to play around with and show off their wealth.
 
Lobpob said:
How on earth have this lot never been investigated for FFP ?
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Well they had a transfer embargo last season so something must have gone on.

Once more they seem to have gone berserk on spending over inflated prices on average players, the agents must love the club.
 
rikanio said:
Brighton definitely hit the jackpot in the last few years!
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Whoever has been involved in their recruitment over the last 4/5 years should get a huge pay rise, I hope they're on a percentage of future sales. It just seems like they've got a conveyorbelt of talent, sell someone for huge money and his replacement is already there.
 
Curryman said:
Absolutely ridiculous the way football is going.

People , probably a number of them chelsea fans using food banks, suffering due to inflation and yet the football magic roundabout continues to break all records. Absolutely horrendous in my book.
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Agree 100%. Football, for me, now starts with the Championship down. And the sooner they get rid of the ridiculous parachute payments the better.
 
Anyone else find it bizarre that Liverpool refused to pay £100m for Jude Bellingham who would also have helped towards their home grown player quota in Europe but are now spending more on Caicedo? Paying the price of leaving things late and being held to ransom?
 
HighfieldSeasider said:
Anyone else find it bizarre that Liverpool refused to pay £100m for Jude Bellingham who would also have helped towards their home grown player quota in Europe but are now spending more on Caicedo? Paying the price of leaving things late and being held to ransom?
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Maybe Bellingham wanted to go to Madrid and not the Premiership? Not many players turn down Madrid.
Even Man Utd couldn't keep Ronaldo when Madrid came knocking.
Plus they've had an unexpected £52m windfall since then with the sale of Henderson and Fabinho to the Saudis
 
20togo said:
don't blame the clubs. It's the tv companies who are piling the money into the game and it's that which allows teams to spend huge sums of money on players. I certainly wish Blackpool were back in the PL.
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KOKOs biggest mistake not spending £5m on Ohara in the Jan window to help Charlie in the 2nd half of the season to ensure Prem survival. It was a flat £36m before crowds, tickets, sponsorships etc.

To a lesser extent £8m drop in TV £ from Championship to Lge 1. Chuck in selling away tickets averaging about 2300 last season as a guesstimate to half that this season and its not really a case of speculative spending but clearly the Championship does require investments on the pitch to reap the £rewards that come with that status.
 
GrahamwantshisOates said:
To think that not many years ago Brighton were in the cack.
Remember “ Save the Seagulls” begging to keep the clup afloat.
Losing Goldstone Ground and having to play at Gillingham.
10 minutes from relegation to non league.

The fans are in dreamland now with a great stadium and cash rich.
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But if they keep selling their best players,they'll eventually pay the price on the pitch. Even their great scouting set up
can't keep producing gems for ever.
 
GrahamwantshisOates said:
To think that not many years ago Brighton were in the cack.
Remember “ Save the Seagulls” begging to keep the clup afloat.
Losing Goldstone Ground and having to play at Gillingham.
10 minutes from relegation to non league.

The fans are in dreamland now with a great stadium and cash rich.
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Don't forget the Withdean, which had to be turned back in to an athletics stadium with an hour or do after the football finished.
 
HighfieldSeasider said:
Anyone else find it bizarre that Liverpool refused to pay £100m for Jude Bellingham who would also have helped towards their home grown player quota in Europe but are now spending more on Caicedo? Paying the price of leaving things late and being held to ransom?
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JB supposedly on 400k a week + a big payment to his old man so more like 130m +
 
Curryman said:
Absolutely ridiculous the way football is going.

People , probably a number of them chelsea fans using food banks, suffering due to inflation and yet the football magic roundabout continues to break all records. Absolutely horrendous in my book.
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Tin hat on but I can't resist.
People using food banks has nothing to do with football clubs paying stupid amounts of money . You might want to look more at who you vote for every time.
 
Chelsea's season tickets range from £750-900 for an adult, cheapest works out just shy of £40 per league game (excl. family stand).

I don't mind the transfer fees, or the wages tbh, good for them. It's pricing out fans to help fund it that pisses me off. They get enough TV money, put a price cap on tickets. Owners should know they are buying an institution and community asset and the fans should be protected.
 
Sven said:
Chelsea's season tickets range from £750-900 for an adult, cheapest works out just shy of £40 per league game (excl. family stand).

I don't mind the transfer fees, or the wages tbh, good for them. It's pricing out fans to help fund it that pisses me off. They get enough TV money, put a price cap on tickets. Owners should know they are buying an institution and community asset and the fans should be protected.
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But the same fans demand their clubs spend to keep them at the top table. You can't expect a club to operate as a business when it comes to matching their competitor's investments, but act like a charity when it comes to pricing for their customers.
 
straightatthewall said:
But the same fans demand their clubs spend to keep them at the top table. You can't expect a club to operate as a business when it comes to matching their competitor's investments, but act like a charity when it comes to pricing for their customers.
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Fair comment although I never suggested they should act like a charity. I just don’t think local people should be priced out of watching their team and we should have a league-wide mechanism that protects real fans from price hikes.

I’m a Blackpool fan and happy with our pricing but I know United fans (proper ones from Manchester) who got priced out years ago and had to give up their season tickets.
 
Sven said:
Fair comment although I never suggested they should act like a charity. I just don’t think local people should be priced out of watching their team and we should have a league-wide mechanism that protects real fans from price hikes.

I’m a Blackpool fan and happy with our pricing but I know United fans (proper ones from Manchester) who got priced out years ago and had to give up their season tickets.
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I'm going to pretend that I'm happy with the scenario you're describing Sven, but the issue for fans of a lot of PL clubs is that the pricing is a function of pure supply and demand. These clubs have long waiting lists for ST's and loads of 'members' who have to be members just so they have a chance of picking up a ticket for 'smaller' games like the League Cup or (ironic) Champions League group games. The problem I see, is that as long as fans turn up, pricing won't change. Remember when Bayern (or possibly Dortmund) fans wanted to protest at the price of CL tickets at Arsenal. They sold out and then turned up 10 mins late or something. As if Arsenal cared about them being late in once they'd all paid top whack for the ticket.
 
straightatthewall said:
I'm going to pretend that I'm happy with the scenario you're describing Sven, but the issue for fans of a lot of PL clubs is that the pricing is a function of pure supply and demand. These clubs have long waiting lists for ST's and loads of 'members' who have to be members just so they have a chance of picking up a ticket for 'smaller' games like the League Cup or (ironic) Champions League group games. The problem I see, is that as long as fans turn up, pricing won't change. Remember when Bayern (or possibly Dortmund) fans wanted to protest at the price of CL tickets at Arsenal. They sold out and then turned up 10 mins late or something. As if Arsenal cared about them being late in once they'd all paid top whack for the ticket.
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I agree with what you're saying and whilst I would like there to be changes I think we're past that point.
 
straightatthewall said:
I'm going to pretend that I'm happy with the scenario you're describing Sven, but the issue for fans of a lot of PL clubs is that the pricing is a function of pure supply and demand. These clubs have long waiting lists for ST's and loads of 'members' who have to be members just so they have a chance of picking up a ticket for 'smaller' games like the League Cup or (ironic) Champions League group games. The problem I see, is that as long as fans turn up, pricing won't change. Remember when Bayern (or possibly Dortmund) fans wanted to protest at the price of CL tickets at Arsenal. They sold out and then turned up 10 mins late or something. As if Arsenal cared about them being late in once they'd all paid top whack for the ticket.
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exactly straiters. Here you go

www.dailymail.co.uk

Shocking number of United and City fans on season-ticket waiting lists

IN THE MONEY: United recently appointed Populous, the planners behind Tottenham's stadium, to consider options for an expansion of Old Trafford to increase the capacity.
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk
 
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