Whitley mag

8 million to Southampton and 32 to Chelsea more like it.

Jesus christ hope his knee is fixed at that price, markets gone fucking crazy.

Definitely some steep increases in match day ticket prices from last season, probably comparable to other top 6 clubs but could maybe have been done more gradually in the current economic climate. From .com And while much furore was generated by the lack of choice over tickets, the increased prices charged for seeing Aston Villa at SJP are worthy of note: Season 2022/23: Family £25 Cat 3 £35 Cat 2 £35 Cat 1 £tbc Platinum £58 Season 2023/24: Family £31 Cat 3 £44 Cat 2 £44 Cat 1 £56 Platinum £74

It’s almost as if they planned it this way.

Would hope where in the mix here.

Interesting to see how quickly they were able to implement a change to the ballot system overnight. Almost as if they expected a bad reaction to the whole thing, but had a remedy on standby waiting to go ? I’m no IT whizz but how likely is it that they could implement a change that quickly and introduce an option to select price categories almost immediately ?

The only people who look daft after this fiasco are the twats on Twitter who sharply turned on the club in a very aggressive way, instead of raising concerns in a civil manner. Some fucking cunts in our support who deserve the previous regime being re- instated.

ToonDawg absolutely nails it in this exchange with Burnsie. The biggest gripe with club pre takeover was that they didn’t listen, they’ve made a cock up here undoubtedly, let’s hope they put it right which I’m confident they will.

Nobody ever wants the bad things just the good. The authorities would have us believe FFP is there to protect clubs and fans, in a strange way in our quest to compete its fucking the fans over, as this is clearly driven by New Execs like Eales being tasked with increasing revenue streams.

He’s fucking bipolar and the fact the likes of him might have had any input is frightening.

Got to say there’s been a bit of overreaction on Twitter from the likes of that Burnsie wanker, think he called them scum earlier. Folk need to be able to choose their own seats and not be forced to pay for a ticket they don’t want. It’s a simple fix and apart from that I can live with the pricing and ballot, as they both seem in keeping with other top 6 clubs, and at the end of the day that’s what the majority of folk want, to compete with the big 6.

Clearly not a clever decision and wouldn’t be surprised if Staveley isn’t to impressed with this. They’ve employed expensive new execs to run the show and as with many new execs they’ll want to make changes. Wouldn’t be surprised that whoever’s idea this was is hauled in front of the owners, as it’s clearly a PR disaster. I’m certainly not convinced this is a decision made by the owners, but clearly they’ve employed people who think this is acceptable, hopefully they’re savvy enough to step in put a few remedies quickly in place.

PIF have always stated they want to develop sport at home, what better way to get the young population interested than bringing in superstars. They will use this to get interest building then hope to develop their own players. I doubt they even consider it a long term thing spending these sums on players. As for us the Chairman has already explained clearly what the aim is to be number 1. Nothing I have seen so far would make me doubt this, they know they have to comply and build us up sustainably which they’re doing a brilliant job of so far. We’ve only seen a small part of the investment in infrastructure so far, just wait until the new training ground and stadium plans are announced. The best part though is not worrying this summer about Spurs or Liverpool taking Anderson or Miley from us. Not even Villa can say their players are untouchable just look at Grealish, I think with PIF behind us we need fear nobody domestically signing our players anymore.

If he’s earning considerably more than he can get here fair enough, but I’m not sure German league titles will cement his legacy especially at a dominant domestic club like Bayern.

Been some great Danish centre forwards to grace the top flight over the years, Frank Pingel and Jon Dahl Tomasson to name two. Here’s hoping this lad is just as prolific.

A top drawer left back takes us up another notch and is a clear upgrade to be made. Either of the Milanese left backs would transform us.

He’s been complaining about airport staff touching his arse, just wait to the Italians stick a knife in his cheeks.

Ffs

Huge influx of Saudi International members apparently, none of them are real though so shouldn’t impact ticket chances thankfully.

Be interesting if they reveal figures at some point.

It’s to be hoped Papa New Guinea isn’t under threat from global warming, their home support already has to contend with the North Sea.

I hope we’re lobbying the PL for the fit and proper persons test to be applied to these corrupt cunts now.

Maybe not, but even if 40k we’re in queue I bet there’s a fair proportion buying 2 or more memberships. It’s not unreasonable to think they’ve flogged 80k memberships today and the likes of me haven’t even bothered yet.

Has to be the most awkward footballer i’ve ever seen in possession, he’s fucking painful to watch and his first instinct is to turn back on himself every time. Absolutely criminal there must be lads playing non-league who have more about them.

Levy lobbying Masters right now on how Maxi has no French caps and is a perma crock.