>>Do you think it'll ever happen though?
I don't see how it could be avoided or stopped?
Fundamentally the physical fans that actually live in the city with a team are of no huge value in the world of football going forward.
Business Challenge 1: Risk management; We were screwed over by the removal of fans. How do we mitigate this in the future? Ensure that physical presence of fans is not on our critical path.
Business Challenge 2: Revenue recognition; We need to increase our revenue. Can we get any more revenue out of our existing physical fan base? No. So where can we recognise more revenue? International televised audiences, branding, advertising and merchandising.
Business Challenge 3: Advertising revenue; will an advertiser pay more for an advert seen by a global audience or a physical bunch of "fans". Would an advertiser prefer to be associated with a bunch of ground-wrecking knuckle draggers or a nice sterile TV audience?
Business Challenge 4: Cost management; Where are we spending most of our money in non-revenue producing areas - ground maintenance, seating, knuckle-dragger control, etc. etc.
I guess there are some entirely love oriented, genies, but the majority of investors are not.
How can it not happen?
Of course you could make it an unattractive investment proposition. So there goes most of your money. Remember the pitches and stadiums of the 70s? There goes your ability to bring in the really big names. So down goes your TV, marketing and branding revenue. And immediately the knuckle draggers with their appreciation of high finance would despise the FA or the Government or someone else.
And did they make a ham-fisted mess of it? Or did they chuck it out there as the worst that it could be, breach a taboo subject, and now invite conversation on something slightly more palatable that 3 months ago would have been reviled?
I love all this flat cap, down the ground with my dad, grass-root supports, tradition of football shtie. It's a pity it's irrelevant b*******. Look at how well various gobby pub locals have been able to protect their pubs against the influx of gastro pubs by threatening to buy their bottle of brown ale somewhere else. Nobody cares, they don't want them anyway.
Genuinely, how will it be stopped? And in whose interest is it to stop it? And what sway do thos einterested parties have anyway?
[MU = Manchester United FC]
MU Revenue 2005 €240m Euros
MU Revenue 2019 €712m Euros
MU Transfer spending 2010 - 2020 €1.26bn
MU Revenue split 2009
Matchday Revenue £115m
Commercial £66m
Broadcasting £98m
MU Revenue split 2019
Matchday Revenue £111m [essentially unchanged despite price increases]
Commercial £275m [x4 growth]
Broadcasting £241m [x2.7 growth]
Surely a real "wake up and smell the coffee" moment?
Oh yes, those pesky Glazers. They have no idea what they're doing and the knuckle-draggers would do so much of a better job.
My a***.
It wasn't their fault when the small minority were rioting in the 70s and 80s and it's not their fault the ground is being attacked today.
Like it or not, even the genuine, decent, valuable physical, in-presence supporters need to understand their value to their own clubs. And financially it's low.
And arguably their behaviour becomes a negative as their scarf covered, firework burning thuggery starts to tarnish the fairy tale image sold on TV.
Last edited by: No FM2R on Mon 3 May 21 at 19:59
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