villa4europe Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 Just now, bobzy said: But the point isn’t about getting less prize money, it’s about having a full allocation of fans (both sets of supporters). To go off on that tangent is bizarre - of course a football club isn’t going to say “nah you’re alright UEFA, keep that money”. If anything that would just make the situation worse! But they won't have a full allocation of fans because UEFA have effectively sold those tickets to the executives of Sony, mastercard, Nissan et Al as well as their rich mates as part of their corporate gang Its part of what makes the CL such a lucrative competition Liverpool want that money but they don't want the payers of that money to attend the final, that's not how UEFA work, that's not how any competition on football works Genuine question because I don't know the answer - have SoS had a moan to the FA about the FA cup final because that will be exactly the same, I think percentage wise it might actually be worse 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulberto21 Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 33 minutes ago, bobzy said: But the point isn’t about getting less prize money, it’s about having a full allocation of fans (both sets of supporters). To go off on that tangent is bizarre - of course a football club isn’t going to say “nah you’re alright UEFA, keep that money”. If anything that would just make the situation worse! More allocation to fans = less corporate seats taken by sponsors etc = less prize money available. I’ve probably missed a step or two but that’s the point villa4europe is making. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted May 9, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted May 9, 2022 On 07/05/2022 at 18:45, villa4europe said: No But yes when the same clubs, managers and player then shamelessly take the money from those sponsors If klopp doesn't want Sony executives and pals to get tickets to the final then don't take the £80m prize money it must be frustrating when so few tickets go to the clubs. we'd be raging too, just like we were about the 25k allocation for the FA cup final. would sony, heineken, etc really take their proverbial balls and go home if they got a few less tickets for the final? course they wouldn't...and if they did, they'd be another sponsor ready to come in and take their place. love em or hate em, maybe it does need a whingy big club like liverpool to kick up a stink for something to be done. if it was villareal in the final, no one would give a **** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hornso Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 Lack of fans at major sporting events isn't a football problem. It's just the world in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 On 09/05/2022 at 16:26, tomav84 said: it must be frustrating when so few tickets go to the clubs. we'd be raging too, just like we were about the 25k allocation for the FA cup final. would sony, heineken, etc really take their proverbial balls and go home if they got a few less tickets for the final? course they wouldn't...and if they did, they'd be another sponsor ready to come in and take their place. love em or hate em, mNwaybe it does need a whingy big club like liverpool to kick up a stink for something to be done. if it was villareal in the final, no one would give a **** Nearly all finals have been like this since the 1970s - its highly unlikely to change now with football itself a multi million pound business - Klopp isn't daft he know that - he was probably told to say it by his PR agent. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 At least it's not as much of a farce as the conference league final. Just in case people were mistaking it for a serious tournament, UEFA decided to let Albania host the final, in some stadium with 21k capacity. About 3k tickets each for Roma and Feyenoord. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 (edited) On 07/05/2022 at 18:39, ferguson1 said: It’s been like this for years, especially since everything was revamped for TV and corporate. FA Cup Final is no different. You get well over 5,000 extra allocation per team for the league cup final as they don't have the allocate the FA 'family' members- who then sell on the tickets anyway. Edited May 11, 2022 by The Fun Factory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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