Yeah I get the maths. Apart from the fact you forget it’s subject to VAT so the 300k is 240k before you start. I’m just saying the logical place for me to start if you need that 240k a year so badly is to reduce your CEO’s salary from 2m to 1.76m still leaving him in the top six or seven of the country and not to force people in a cost of living crisis to pay for two games they had no intention of going to.
Or you get your coach to try harder and not experiment in the last four games and get at least 1m which is worth four years of that ticket increase.
Or you decide you didn’t need the money that badly and do neither because let’s face it, we don’t.
Im loving watching a small section of doff capping fans happy to support a CEO’s excess by dipping in their own pocket though. Hilarious!
If you want to start talking specifics, it's not 240k or 300k, it's closer to 600k, less that VAT so 500k because I think we can expect the ticket price increases to carry across to all tickets, not just season tickets.
Having said that, if we'd have finished 17th, which we can't, with less prize money these ticket prices would still have come in.
If we'd have won the last three and ended up in 11th with that extra prize money, these ticket price increases would still have come in.
If we'd have had a much better season and finished 7th, qualified for Europe and got a hell of a lot more prize money, these ticket prices would still have come in.
Whether you like it or not, the two things are not connected. Frevola will have been given a brief to grow revenue in every department and will have targets there. No matter what happens in one, he'll still need to hit his target in another. The thing that you've overlooked with your position example is ticket revenue is predicatable and repeatable. Prize money isn't.
Guess what? No matter what happened on the pitch, these ticket price increases were coming.
As for the CEO salary, I'm not sure why you seem to imply I think it's ok. I can't be bothered to go check but IIRC I was the one that posted the PL CEO comparison table and pointed out how outrageous it is compared to some of the others. I think it's ridiculous.
Having said that, if Blake was binned tomorrow and we somehow recruited a top notch replacement who was happy to work for 250k (we wouldn't but let's go with it), saving us £1.75m then guess what? The ticket price increases would still come in.
There is definitely a saving that can be made on the CEO but it's unconnected to the ticket price increases as they were coming anyway. And they'll be coming again in future seasons as well.
A lot of people in commercial positions at the club are going to be looking over their shoulders. The sponsorship sales team suddenly know they have to sell out everything but at double the fees they used to charge. And that's just this season, expect them to go up more in the future. If they don't do it, I'd imagine Jim will hire someone that can. Even if they do manage to double our sponsorship revenue, guess what? The ticket prices increases were still coming. Even if they tripled it. The two things aren't connected.
Meanwhile, Blake will be under review by Jim who will be giving Bill his assessment whether he is value for money. Its even possible that Jim doesn't rate him but they decide the connections and relationships he has built up at the planning office mean they want to keep him in place until after the stadium is approved or even built. Who knows.
It seems clear Blake is overpaid but even if they got him to agree to a 50% pay cut, the ticket prices would still increase.
That's not cap doffing. That's the reality of having a hard nosed businessman in charge. They probably look at that lot up the road and their season ticket price of £1k and think, if they can do it so can we. I don't have to like it to recognise it.