LOGiK
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- Nov 14, 2007
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All of my football and budget / income / expenditures knowledge comes from playing FIFA games... Honestly it's a good tutorial for showing how little a piece of pie traditional ticket sales are.You have to remember the EPL isn't a gate receipts driven league. Yes, West Hams match day revenue will be bigger than say Brighton or Wolves, but a far bigger chunk of change comes from the TV money, and all 20 teams get £100m +
Even the prize money only goes up by ~£2m per position.
Plus they're not in the Champions League. They'll get a bit of money for their run in the Europa League, but it's not UCL money.
Finally they don't have the national and international fanbase of the teams above them. Merchandise sales and marketing deals will be dwarfed by those above.
So, they've got enough money that they don't need to sell Rice and Bowen....yet. They can even afford to offer them really good money....but they're unlikely to sign because they know the big boys are sniffing round them.
add: I just thought of football manager. (if that is also good... and if anyone plays that)