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The price of football..

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I know if our games were 20 quid a match Id take the kids much more often and Id make the effort to go myself more..

Plus we'd sell out more often, and/or fill a 50 thousand seat stadium. As would most clubs.
 

Tramps_mate said:
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Well, I had an idea to fund a stadium, that would be fan owned, with no need for anyone to stump up cash. Would take a lot of time and hassle to get over the regulatory requirements, but boiled down to the basics, it would work.

But as a club, without a sugar daddy, the idea of competing financially with the usual suspects would not be feasible. So that would be the trade off. In Germany, it seems the entire league went down that route. Sadly, in England, we are wedded to the system we currently have.
 
roydo said:
Well, I had an idea to fund a stadium, that would be fan owned, with no need for anyone to stump up cash. Would take a lot of time and hassle to get over the regulatory requirements, but boiled down to the basics, it would work.

But as a club, without a sugar daddy, the idea of competing financially with the usual suspects would not be feasible. So that would be the trade off. In Germany, it seems the entire league went down that route. Sadly, in England, we are wedded to the system we currently have.
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Any more details? A fan owned stadium, run by fans, prices set by fans. Let he club play in it?
 

Tramps_mate said:
Any more details? A fan owned stadium, run by fans, prices set by fans. Let he club play in it?
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Yep. The same way most shopping centres are funded. Pension funds.

Someone with a £10k pension pot isnt going to enjoy much of a retirement. So get 25000 blues with £10k in their pensions. Lob them together, that makes £250m. Use that to build and own the stadium. All rental, income, etc goes back into the club, and when someone wants their money back, or dies, they get the original £10k, plus a share of the profit/value of ground at the time.

Quite a few hoops to jump through, but it could be done, legally and that.
 
The Dortmund match day experience sounds ace.

I remember going to the Nuremberg game and cacking it that I wouldn't be able to get a ticket; got off the train from Berlin and was offered a £10 ticket from a tout straight out the station. It was ace fair play.

There's no way in hell that prices in this country will ever be lowered. Football is well and truly a business now here.
 

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