Tinrib
Thought you said 'potential for adding extra revenue earning facilities' - stadium expansion is exactly that - .
Fair point ! My original post was badly worded to convey what I meant to say ! I would say that anyone assuming a 40% growth in ticket revenue based on the extra seats is taking a very, very bullish stance. I think we're a million miles away from filling 38,000 seats for every game, especially if we think they would all be at £35 a seat...
Tinrib Significant investment in anything is very rarely based on what we know now, its more generally based on assumed potential - thats why we have so many non supporting foreigners owning English Football teams. They're hedging large cash outlays vs. potential growth.
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Again, fair point. There are people taking a gamble which given the growth over the last decade does look a reasonable one. I think the gamble must be less attractive for clubs like us, Wigan, Fulham, Boro, Derby, Bolton (ie the ones no one has bought yet !) becasue our future in the PL is less secure and we just aren;t as big a name.
Perhaps someone will see us as a 'cheap' way of getting in the bandwagon but I'm not sure that is the sort of buyer JM wants to talk to.
