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Originally Posted by cashman
Whatever it is, no price is worth selling yer soul for.  |
While I would agree with you, I doubt the money men at clubs agree.
Take the Accy example, TV money of £233,333 per season is just over £10,000 per home game based on 23 home games compared to in the region of £20,000 per game based on a crowd of 1700 paying from £20 down to £5. This shows that at our level the fans are important but so is TV money to a lesser extent.
However last time Burnley were in the Premiership they made a net profit of 40 million euros or roughly £35m. If we assume a crowd of 20,000 paying £30 each is £600,000 x 19 home games = £11.4m. So even if no fans went they would still have a net profit over £20m.
I know there are other things to factor in such as profit from merchandise and catering but it shows the total imbalance in football and how the higher up you go the less fans matter to the money men.