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1000 seats to be handed over to corporates

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DJS

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1,000 seats at Anfield, the home of English soccer club Liverpool, will be converted into a corporate area as the club's owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett, seek to maximise revenues from the stadium while they remain unable to finance a move to a new ground.

 

The plans, first reported in The Guardian newspaper, would significantly increase the club's matchday revenues, one of the key targets of the club's management. The club's matchday revenues totalled £39.2 million last season, according to Deloitte, while, by comparison, Manchester United earned £101.5 million and Arsenal £94.6 million. Even Chelsea, like Liverpool seeking a move to a new stadium, earned £74.5 million.

Zoob

Zoob

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This is taken from the powerpoint presentation circulated earlier in the year to try to encourage investment in the club (someone posted it on RAWK and then on here last week).

 

It also included increasing ticket prices by 8%, but thankfully this hasn't happened yet, so no guarantee that the above will happen either.

Zoob

Zoob

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The whole document seemed another clear indication that it really doesn't matter how much they piss off the fans by taking away seats, or / and putting up ticket prices.... it's all about grimly holding on, exploiting the 'brand', keeping outgoings low (hence Purslow's new set of rules to calculate net spend...). Nothing about actually making us a success on the pitch, let alone building a new stadium

Sion

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I sometimes spawn a couple of these tickets for nout. I can understand people buying boxes, but the ones I get...anyone who knowingly pays however much, 3/4/5 times the general admission for these is a few sandwiches short. Massive waste of money and the atmosphere is crap.

GWistooshort

GWistooshort

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This was in the Mirror last Saturday..................

 

Liverpool fans' fury at being moved to make way for sponsors' guests

Published 23:00 19/09/09 By Derick Allsop

 

The curse of the prawn sandwich has struck again – and left Liverpool fans choking with anger.

 

Hundreds of Anfield season ticket holders turned up for the Champions League against Debreceni on Wednesday to find they had been moved to accommodate sponsors’ guests.

 

Former Manchester United skipper Roy Keane was so incensed with corporate guests on one occasion, he dubbed them the “Prawn Sandwich Brigade”.

 

Keith Ross, from Caernarvon, a season ticket holder in the Lower Centenary Stand, said: “I was given a seat in the corner at the Anfield Road end and couldn’t see a thing. Lots of us were moved and we were all unhappy.

 

“There were a few angry scenes with the stewards.

 

“It’s the first time I’ve been moved and I had no idea I’d end up there.

 

“It was a restricted view and just not good enough.

 

“What made it worse was that there were a lot of empty seats in the corporate area.

 

“They were obviously more interested in the hospitality than the football.

 

“I’ve been a season ticket holder for nine years.

 

“I have two tickets that cost me £1,400-a-season.

 

“I go to every match home and away and follow the club all around the world.

 

“If this is what it’s going to be like from now on, I won’t be going to any more home games in the Champions League. In fact, I’m thinking of cancelling my season ticket for next season.”

 

Liverpool, in common with all Champions League clubs, have to provide seating and hospitality lounges for sponsors and their guests.

 

This season their demands have increased, forcing Liverpool to move 2,000 fans from their regular seats.

 

A club spokesperson said: “It’s the first time Mr Ross has been allocated another seat because UEFA have extended the number of seats they require this season.

 

“It’s a requirement of all clubs participating in the Champions League, as set out in the UEFA charter.”

 

Liverpool officials admit they are unlikely to find a satisfactory solution until they have a new stadium.

 

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Liver...icle164791.html

allez les rouges

allez les rouges

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I think so yeah, in the Upper Centenary.

my mate has a ST in the kemlyn on the halfway line. whenever we play in the Champs league he gets moved so that a block of corporate types can sit there. This was before hicks an gillete as well

Mr Makaveli

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Won't the extra revenue from 1,000 corporate seats cover the 8% ticket rise?

 

by making less seats available (corporate boxes are far more valuable), the seats will then be desired more so I wouldnt at all be suprised to see them raise the ticket prices then... 8% sounds a bit high though.

 

this is all part of the Americans way of paying for the club which isn't really fair on the fans but if i were to take some kind of positive from this, it may mean that Rafa will get money to spend as a resault of this kind of venture plus the new sponsership deal.

 

whatever about the first subject, you have to hand it to them for getting in a new sponser... As nice as Carlsberg looks on our shirts, we're now going to be getting almost 3 times more per year... Now i had always wondered over the years why we seemed to be lagging heavily behind the other top teams when it came to shirt sponser revenue... Now I don't.

 

by this time next year the global recession will be under control (I hope) and we will have a much stronger financial ground to base another loan (yes sorry but its true) for the new stadium.

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