The Cost of Loyalty & Another Club At Risk Of Charges? | Price of Football Fan Debate
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The Overlap
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🗓️ 7 January 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to The Overlap Fan Debate, brought to you by Sky Bet.
Jamie Carragher is joined by Paul Scholes and special guest and Financial Expert Kieran Maguire, as well as some of the biggest fan channels across the country.
This week’s episode is all about the Price of Football!
We kick things off with Kieran Maguire giving us a run down on the financial situation at Premier League clubs, including clubs trying to make money out of fans by raising ticket prices.
We'll get views on Manchester United under INEOS, American ownership, plus, is the disconnection between fans and clubs in the Premier League at its worst?
Finally, Kieran Maguire answers club questions, including what will happen with the Manchester City charges?
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00:00 - Promo
00:44 - Introduction
01:05 - Kieran Maguire on the financial situation at Premier League clubs
05:00 - Paul Scholes on ticket prices at Salford
06:21 - Liverpool Fan Gareth Roberts on the exploitation of football fans
13:50 - Adam McKola on INEOS at Manchester United
20:15 - Everton fan Baz on Everton’s new stadium and ticket prices
25:14 - Crystal Palace fan Dan Cook (HLTCO) on Palace not upping ticket prices
26:22 - Nieve Petruzziello (StuntPegg) on the disconnection from fans and their clubs
30:53 - Manchester City v Salford in the FA Cup
38:10 - Kieran Maguire on the finances of the FA Cup and where the money goes
40:30 - Debate on the FA Cup replays being scrapped
50:04 - Kieran Maguire answers club questions
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| 0:00.0 | You talk about people wanting to take the kids with them. |
| 0:02.2 | But you take one kid, you look at 120 quid. |
| 0:04.5 | Do the owners actually understand the game? The minute we allowed that to happen, next season it will be my season ticket. I think extra time should be out of football. I think exercise bored. The semi-finals are at Wembley still. Yeah, that's the league. I hate nonsense. I do think it's quite a Premier League-centric view to remove replays |
| 0:22.5 | because it doesn't benefit Premier League clubs whatsoever. |
| 0:25.8 | There's one club in particular in the Premier League who is at high risk of a charge from the Premier League. |
| 0:31.6 | I'll be honest, I can take or leave Anthony being at Manchester United if it means ticket prices say the same. |
| 0:36.3 | If Manchester City are found guilty, the whole board of directors has to resign. |
| 0:44.8 | Hello and welcome to the fan debate brought to you by Skybet, and this week we are joined by |
| 0:50.5 | Football Finance Expert, Kear McGuire, who's going to give us the full lowdown |
| 0:55.1 | on basically where we are financially |
| 0:56.9 | in football right now. |
| 0:58.9 | So off you go. |
| 1:01.9 | Go on. |
| 1:03.5 | Enlighten us. |
| 1:04.3 | I mean, there's been a lot of talk, |
| 1:06.4 | certainly on this show |
| 1:07.3 | in the last couple of years as well, |
| 1:08.7 | and different things that were all involved in. You know, PSR teams getting punch deductions. Is it fair? Is it not? Who's sailing close to the wind? I mean, can you just give us a gauge of where we are right now? |
| 1:20.6 | Well, if you take a look at the Premier League, 19 clubs out of 20 are actually losing money and having to rely on player sales and having to rely on |
| 1:27.8 | selling other things and having to rely on being subsidised by the owners. The only club |
| 1:33.1 | that's making a profit is West Ham and that's because they're being subsidised by the government |
| 1:37.5 | because everybody in this room is paying for that stadium. So it's a really tough industry. |
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