Score again I’m late to the game reading your second piece but this 100% makes sense to me and is aligned to my own thinking. I have thought for sometime the Liverpool are probably the best run club when you take into account all aspects and your evidence proves this to me anyway. Let’s hope our ownership wakes up and follows that path.
A bigger stadium is necessary to compete in todays premiership otherwise your fighting avoidance relegation because you can’t compete with the teams that have bigger stadiums and thus more money to spend.
Stadium capacity May be 11th now which sounds pretty high but puts us just below average.
What wouldn’t Fulham give to make Stamford Bridge their home as opposed to their current ground.
We simply can’t afford to stand still with stadium capacity least we fall behind on many fronts.
I’m 65 and I don’t think Liverpool have ever been a club that excepts egos. We are full of them on and particularly off the pitch and this won’t end well. The club seems to be working against itself rather than with itself and that has to change.
Great comparison. When Boehly and co first came in I thought they would try to follow Liverpool’s model. It seemed sustainable and successful. The style of football has similarities to Chelsea of old. We’ve created a mess but it can be fixed with the right adjustments. It’s important to restore the winning culture at the club. The stadium is the most complicated to re-develop in the world but we need to get moving with that as it could be at least a decade until anything can be built.
sorry but this whole argument that we need a bigger stadium to afford bigger stars and pay higher wages is flawed. Matchday revenue is not the biggest driver of overall revenue. Its TV deals and CL participation. Also bigger stadiums lead to higher costs of hosting football matches... and in alot of cases you will see that the match day revenue and match day costs run close to each other.
A successful team is what drives the revenue.. and it needs big players like Osimhen or Olise to make it a successful teams. Their wage demands were not as outrageous as it was briefed. For Olise it was around 225K which is okay for a top player. Instead we signed 2 bums in Felix and Neto and both of them combined cost more then Olise ... both in wages and fee.
Got this from an article here by Danny ''Neto Cost Chelsea £51m and Olise cost Bayern £50m, so they cost the exact same but what was the difference? The wages!!!!!!!!! I have used Capology who are usually pretty spot on, and I have used it for both players for fairness! Olise is on £216k per week, Pedro Neto is £160k per week. Are you telling me that Micheal Olise is not worth £56k more per week?''
We are paying similar wages to Felix as well. We didnt even need him and could have signed a top player instead of him and Neto. This is how dumb these SDs / decision makers are.
Also Capology has us as having the 4th highest wage bill... i know its not accurate but still its something to look into. In any case the accounts will be out soon so we will have a better idea.
And Liverpool do play high wages too to their top stars like Alisson, Van Djik and Salah.
On the whole your article is spot on. We need to make exceptions for players who raise our ceiling. Signing a top player for higher wage is better then signing 2 average players for the same or more wage!
I absolutely agree apart from the stadium which is becoming not fit for purpose. I love Stamford Bridge my dad and his dad went so it holds many special memories for me.
I hear you on your first point, but moving to a bigger stadium will give us at least £50-60m more a year in revenue, that's just a statement of fact. Spurs have shown it gives you big revenues even without CL football and gives you extra revenue from events which can be hosted there, which all go into the club. Womens' games can be hosted there too.
Yeah its not absolutely necessary but if we don't do it, we're losing out on a lot of revenue every year which can be invested in the squad and ensure we're always PSR compliant, and don't need to sell as urgently.
Score again I’m late to the game reading your second piece but this 100% makes sense to me and is aligned to my own thinking. I have thought for sometime the Liverpool are probably the best run club when you take into account all aspects and your evidence proves this to me anyway. Let’s hope our ownership wakes up and follows that path.
A bigger stadium is necessary to compete in todays premiership otherwise your fighting avoidance relegation because you can’t compete with the teams that have bigger stadiums and thus more money to spend.
Stadium capacity May be 11th now which sounds pretty high but puts us just below average.
What wouldn’t Fulham give to make Stamford Bridge their home as opposed to their current ground.
We simply can’t afford to stand still with stadium capacity least we fall behind on many fronts.
I’m 65 and I don’t think Liverpool have ever been a club that excepts egos. We are full of them on and particularly off the pitch and this won’t end well. The club seems to be working against itself rather than with itself and that has to change.
Great comparison. When Boehly and co first came in I thought they would try to follow Liverpool’s model. It seemed sustainable and successful. The style of football has similarities to Chelsea of old. We’ve created a mess but it can be fixed with the right adjustments. It’s important to restore the winning culture at the club. The stadium is the most complicated to re-develop in the world but we need to get moving with that as it could be at least a decade until anything can be built.
sorry but this whole argument that we need a bigger stadium to afford bigger stars and pay higher wages is flawed. Matchday revenue is not the biggest driver of overall revenue. Its TV deals and CL participation. Also bigger stadiums lead to higher costs of hosting football matches... and in alot of cases you will see that the match day revenue and match day costs run close to each other.
A successful team is what drives the revenue.. and it needs big players like Osimhen or Olise to make it a successful teams. Their wage demands were not as outrageous as it was briefed. For Olise it was around 225K which is okay for a top player. Instead we signed 2 bums in Felix and Neto and both of them combined cost more then Olise ... both in wages and fee.
Got this from an article here by Danny ''Neto Cost Chelsea £51m and Olise cost Bayern £50m, so they cost the exact same but what was the difference? The wages!!!!!!!!! I have used Capology who are usually pretty spot on, and I have used it for both players for fairness! Olise is on £216k per week, Pedro Neto is £160k per week. Are you telling me that Micheal Olise is not worth £56k more per week?''
We are paying similar wages to Felix as well. We didnt even need him and could have signed a top player instead of him and Neto. This is how dumb these SDs / decision makers are.
Also Capology has us as having the 4th highest wage bill... i know its not accurate but still its something to look into. In any case the accounts will be out soon so we will have a better idea.
And Liverpool do play high wages too to their top stars like Alisson, Van Djik and Salah.
On the whole your article is spot on. We need to make exceptions for players who raise our ceiling. Signing a top player for higher wage is better then signing 2 average players for the same or more wage!
I absolutely agree apart from the stadium which is becoming not fit for purpose. I love Stamford Bridge my dad and his dad went so it holds many special memories for me.
i agree that we need a bigger stadium... but we should not be using it as an excuse to not sign top talent.
I hear you on your first point, but moving to a bigger stadium will give us at least £50-60m more a year in revenue, that's just a statement of fact. Spurs have shown it gives you big revenues even without CL football and gives you extra revenue from events which can be hosted there, which all go into the club. Womens' games can be hosted there too.
Yeah its not absolutely necessary but if we don't do it, we're losing out on a lot of revenue every year which can be invested in the squad and ensure we're always PSR compliant, and don't need to sell as urgently.