United

[Bruce Wayne]

Incredible isn't it? For all the talk of us getting a sugar daddy, I'd much prefer we took the United approach and grew our own revenue.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Incredible isn't it? For all the talk of us getting a sugar daddy, I'd much prefer we took the United approach and grew our own revenue.

Globalisation of a brand Bruce, we can't even stock our kits in a local sport shops.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Globalisation of a brand Bruce, we can't even stock our kits in a local sport shops.

Kinda sad isn't it? I studied United a lot during the early PL years, and they did an awful lot right during that period off the pitch. They built a new training ground, expanded Old Trafford, did an awful lot to improve their merchandising revenue.

They're far more of a role model than Chelsea or Man City imo.

 

[Allezfan]

Incredible isn't it? For all the talk of us getting a sugar daddy, I'd much prefer we took the United approach and grew our own revenue.

So so so hard to do.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Kinda sad isn't it? I studied United a lot during the early PL years, and they did an awful lot right during that period off the pitch. They built a new training ground, expanded Old Trafford, did an awful lot to improve their merchandising revenue.

They're far more of a role model than Chelsea or Man City imo.

I think for all the criticism, arsenal appear to have done very well.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I think for all the criticism, arsenal appear to have done very well.

Yes, they do. I kinda discount them though as they have the London advantage so can charge so much more for tickets than we can.

 

[Baines' left foot]

I think for all the criticism, arsenal appear to have done very well.

Agreed. They spent a huge amount of money on a new stadium and have managed to stay in the Champions League positions whilst they're paying for it. I think they'll be right back up there again within the next 5 years and eventually overtake Chelsea, as they have a much more sustainable model. A very well run club.

 

[Allezfan]

Agreed. They spent a huge amount of money on a new stadium and have managed to stay in the Champions League positions whilst they're paying for it. I think they'll be right back up there again within the next 5 years and eventually overtake Chelsea, as they have a much more sustainable model. A very well run club.

They spend so much money on wages though. Insane ammounts.

Guys like almunia and bendtner and denilson get similar to guys like van persie and fabregas because they have a very small variation in wages.

 

[Baines' left foot]

They spend so much money on wages though. Insane ammounts.

Guys like almunia and bendtner and denilson get similar to guys like van persie and fabregas because they have a very small variation in wages.

They seem to be able to afford to do so though whilst still making large profits. £100 a ticket probably helps a fair bit with that, mind.

I'm sure their wages aren't disproportionate to the wages that United, Chelsea and City are paying for players of similar ability though, and they have a much higher ceiling. I'd say United's top earner will be on possibly twice what Arsenal's is.

 

[micknick]

Ive said it a lot but the Emirates makes them literally £10's of millions in additional revenue too. Im talking hospitality and events at the venue. Something that we will be sadly lacking until something for our stadium changes.

 

[Allezfan]

They seem to be able to afford to do so though whilst still making large profits. £100 a ticket probably helps a fair bit with that, mind.

I'm sure their wages aren't disproportionate to the wages that United, Chelsea and City are paying for players of similar ability though, and they have a much higher ceiling. I'd say United's top earner will be on possibly twice what Arsenal's is.

Last year they had the 5th highest wage bill after man u, man city, chelsea and liverpool.

And not coincidentally they're the 5th highest spender over the last ten years after those 4, too. It's easy to say oh spurs have spent 120 odd million on transfers in that time and arsenal have made 20 million profit. But arsenal have spent 952 million on wages during that time, compared to spurs 550 million or our 443 million or villa's 534. It's an immense ammount of money and it's what they're ridiculously overpriced match tickets are needed to fund.

Costs more to watch than any other football club in the world doesn't it? You can get a season ticket at bayern for less then one CL match at the emirates.

And it hampers them because they have loads of squad players they can't sell because of the wages while because of that they can't keep their star players because of the lower wage ceiling.

Don't get me wrong they're much better run than our basket case of a club but pricing out every single fan we currently have is not a model I want to follow.