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No

If memory serves, there was a bit of unrest amongst Inter fans, I think related to their ownership, and there was a sort of boycott, but not really a boycott (we’ve all been there…) going on, so they were happy to more or less give us as many tickets as we wanted.

Actually, I’m saying this but now I’m doubting myself as whether I’m getting confused with the initial time we were in the CL under KD? I had a ST then and went to all three games, but under BR I didn’t have a ST and just bought tickets on a match-by-match basis (think I went to all of them except Kyiv). So not sure whether that 3-match thing was in place for ST holders then? Maybe that was just to guarantee your own seat or something? Is there a standard pricing policy for CL games now, or can you charge what you want as long as you charge away fans the same for equivalent seats?

For the group stage you had to commit to buying a ticket for all three games. So minimum outlay of about £100. Different times now though. Even if they did that again (obviously they wouldn’t), they’d still sell out no bother

https://youtu.be/Gt1K7RPeFYw

https://www.nufc.co.uk/nufc-tv/archive/pardew-on-cabella-capture/

Could absolutely see this. Within range on both (presumed) price and wages, and playing style/attributes would appear to fit our system.

It’s actually illegal to sell UK football tickets for more than FV. The reselling sites somehow get round it by breaking the extortionate price they charge into added extras like booking/admin fee etc (if anyone fully understands how they get away with it, I’d be interested to hear an informed explanation).

The club doesn’t have the final say over where away fans are put (although I’m sure they have an input). Ultimately it’s down to the local SAG.

Take your point, but there’s no way the majority of ST holders choose to pay the extra membership fee if you make it optional.

I think most would agree that seems fair enough. Or at the very least make it optional (paying the extra for member privileges) rather than mandatory.

Something nice for @Heronto hear around the 18 min mark

I’m not sure that was ever confirmed? People just made assumptions to suit whichever point they were arguing. Regardless, I’m sure it was done to death on here at the time, so let’s not start it off again.

I’m not sure that was same ballot mind?

And the manner it which it came made it all the more grand.

Yeah, I don’t think many would argue against that principle, but in the grand scheme of things to argue about in terms of how the tickets were allocated, it’s probably fairly low down the priority list.

There was very, very few people ‘who’d been to one cup game’ that got a ticket for the final (through legitimate means) mind.

Szoboszlai certainly fits the Bruno/Botman mould in terms of wages. Could probably double what he currently gets and still be comfortably inside our structure.

We’re actually the shorter price with bookies, which says something about how far we’ve come.

Think most opposition fans would rather have seen Everton drop before Leeds. Reckon this will probably have reversed that.

First game, Man City away. Get battered 7-0. Yes please.

For context we took 11 out of the last 15 points available in 95/96. There was no great collapse at the end, despite the narrative that tends to be pushed.

That’s completely the wrong mentality to take with transfers. It’s why Man Utd in particular have been so so poor with recruitment in the last ~10 years. Internally, you have to place an upper limit on a player you want, if you can’t get him within that limit, move on. Regardless of any external factors.

It will be interesting to see what they do in the summer. I know we all joke about FFP not applying to them, but it still does, and despite the all the ridiculously long contracts, they’ve got to be pretty much at the limit. That’s before you factor in the fact that their pressing squad need is an actual proper CF, so signing Maddison, or anyone of is ilk, is surely secondary.

If Man Utd or anyone else are paying £60m for James Maddison with one year left on his contract, that’s utter lunacy.