Ticket price scandal - enough is enough

[TightEnd]

good article

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/12144970/Ticket-price-scandal-enough-is-enough-English-football-should-hang-its-head-in-shame.html

[Karabiner]

By far the most shocking item on there is that Gordon Taylor receives £3.4M pa.

[TheDazzler]

By far the most shocking item on there is that Gordon Taylor receives £3.4M pa.

Wow, that is amazing. Up from £1.4m. Because he does such a tremendous job. Yeah, right.

[horseplayer]

By far the most shocking item on there is that Gordon Taylor receives £3.4M pa.

[RickBFA]

By far the most shocking item on there is that Gordon Taylor receives £3.4M pa.

Yep £3.4m is a real joke.

I wonder what bullshit he will come up with to justify that?

[tikay]

How do we know he is not worth it, & why does he have to justify it to anyone other than his Shareholders - the very people, who, I would assume, awarded him that salary?

The Premier League has, unless I am mistaken, 20 Shareholders, being the current EPL. There is no way he could have awarded himself an increased salary, it must have been put forward by his masters - the 20 Clubs.  So if they proposed it, on what basis can we say it's wrong?

It's very successful indeed, financially. And that's why it exists - for financial gain.

I don't know who negotiated the new TV Deal, but if he had a hand in it, why would he not be entitled to a bit of extra salary?  

EDIT - ignore all that, wrong bloke.

Scandalous salary, scandalous.

[TheDazzler]

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jul/28/gordon-taylor-pfa-chief-executive-premier-league-pay-rise

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jul/29/gordon-taylor-time-for-pfa-chief-executive-to-step-down

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/aug/29/gordon-taylor-support-pfa-gambling

[hhyftrftdr]

''The Premier League executives of whom the top seven from 20 clubs blocked a proposal to cap the cost of away tickets to £30 bury their heads''

Big thing on Blue Moon about this. Needs 14/20 to be approved. Apparently, the clubs that said no were City, united, Liverpool, Everton, Arsenal, Chelsea and West Ham.

[RickBFA]

The PFA buying a painting for £1.9m. I missed that one.

Weird priorities don't you think?

[TightEnd]

each Premier league side gets from the PL £400,000 per season to subsidise away game costs for their fans

leicester, only because i know what they do, use it for free travel, food etc for members of their "fox travel" scheme. i'd prefer it was used to cut ticket costs for all fans, but understand why they do it

swansea capped tickets to £20 for some games for travelling fans

what do other clubs do?

[Skippy]

At the risk of seeming like Tikay (a ruthless capitalist :-) ),  as long as the stadiums are full, what's the problem? You can't get a Liverpool home ticket for a Premier League game. Liverpool's stadiums is too small, and they should do something about it, but I don't see why the clubs shouldn't charge whatever they can.

It's all very well saying "Football is nothing without the Fans", but there are fans- too many fans- they could sell out the stadium many times over.

[hhyftrftdr]

each Premier league side gets from the PL £400,000 per season to subsidise away game costs for their fans

leicester, only because i know what they do, use it for free travel, food etc for members of their "fox travel" scheme. i'd prefer it was used to cut ticket costs for all fans, but understand why they do it

swansea capped tickets to £20 for some games for travelling fans

what do other clubs do?

City tend to use it to subsidise long distance away games around busy periods, I know we've done it previously for games like Arsenal, Spuds, Saints etc, usually around Christmas or if there is a fixture congestion on the horizon, they just halve the ticket price. Means we only pay £91 per ticket when we go to the Emirates

[TightEnd]

At the risk of seeming like Tikay (a ruthless capitalist :-) ),  as long as the stadiums are full, what's the problem? You can't get a Liverpool home ticket for a Premier League game. Liverpool's stadiums is too small, and they should do something about it, but I don't see why the clubs shouldn't charge whatever they can.

It's all very well saying "Football is nothing without the Fans", but there are fans- too many fans- they could sell out the stadium many times over.

that's obviously a fair point, but there comes a price. £77 for a Liverpool fan? of course though the price can be very elastic becuase up to this poin tfans havent stopped going....

in the championship, i note, on saturday no ground was at more than 80% of capacity. now of course the product isn't as strong as the PL.

[Skippy]

At the risk of seeming like Tikay (a ruthless capitalist :-) ),  as long as the stadiums are full, what's the problem? You can't get a Liverpool home ticket for a Premier League game. Liverpool's stadiums is too small, and they should do something about it, but I don't see why the clubs shouldn't charge whatever they can.

It's all very well saying "Football is nothing without the Fans", but there are fans- too many fans- they could sell out the stadium many times over.

that's obviously a fair point, but there comes a price. £77 for a Liverpool fan? of course though the price can be very elastic becuase up to this poin tfans havent stopped going....

in the championship, i note, on saturday no ground was at more than 80% of capacity. now of course the product isn't as strong as the PL.

Those prices are obviously too high :-)

[nirvana]

How do we know he is not worth it, & why does he have to justify it to anyone other than his Shareholders - the very people, who, I would assume, awarded him that salary?

The Premier League has, unless I am mistaken, 20 Shareholders, being the current EPL. There is no way he could have awarded himself an increased salary, it must have been put forward by his masters - the 20 Clubs.  So if they proposed it, on what basis can we say it's wrong?

It's very successful indeed, financially. And that's why it exists - for financial gain.

I don't know who negotiated the new TV Deal, but if he had a hand in it, why would he not be entitled to a bit of extra salary?  

EDIT - ignore all that, wrong bloke.

Scandalous salary, scandalous.

Oh man, I was thinking

Good point,
Yup
That's right that is
Well put
Didn't know that

Er...roffle