There's so much almost senseless waste when it comes to spending in football, it annoys me that fans often have to bare the brunt of some of that excess. Over two summers, United spent 170million on two wingers in Antony and Sancho. Both players could feasibly be sold in the summer for a combined fee of around (if we're lucky) 100million. A potential loss of 70million (plus the spending on their wages) on two 'assets' that ultimately contributed very little.
We spent 65million on Casemiro, a player that we all agree will need replacing less than two years after he signed.
Similar with Varane, even if he lasted a year longer.
The 5.5 million you make from increasing prices and annoying the loyal 'customers' who turn up every week, doesn't look particularly high when you take all that account.
Imo, two points here.
1. You are correct on the number of season tickets everywhere being too high. That is ultimately making it difficult for fans who can't find £700 in a summer, to attend a reasonable number of matches. The time to fight against that vanished in the mid 90s sadly.
2. However, in the modern game anyway, those same season ticket holders have become the lifeblood of a teams support. There's not a chance Man United, as an example, would sell an extra 10/15,000 individual tickets for next week's match v Sheffield United if the number of ST renewals had been reduced by that same number last summer.
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