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How long can the board continue spending at the rate they are spending?
If you read enough of my posts you'll know I'm grateful for some of the squad improvements and am glad to still have a team to support but I also can't understand why the club continue to waste money.
We average a little under 13,500 fans per home game, which over the course of 23 home match is just over 300,000 people through the turnstile. On top of the average ticket price most fans will only spend a few pounds around the ground either buying a programme, having a pint or once in a while investing in some memorabilia. So for argument sake lets say that each fan spends £35 in total (£35 x 300,000) that's £10.8m in revenue at the ground a year. Rougly £210k a week in income. Of course there is expenditure from fans buying the club magazine, QPR Player, shirt sales etc but that is unlikely to be another £10m is it? Let's say half of that and that comes to £15m from us the fans? Is that a fair figure - Pete? Nodge?
We currently have 32 players add backroom staff, press officers, tea lady and all the other people that work at the club (does Briatore and the board take a salary?) who all have to be paid in some way.
Forgetting the non-playing staff for a moment - £210k a week is just £6500 per player per week. Even if the actual income from us the fans is double this how can the club sustain its expenditure?
Arsenal FC make just over £3m per home game, they have a 7 year waiting list for seats at the Emirates and have a world wide support. Yes they probably have debts to pay off the new stadium but week in and week out they generate huge amounts of money. How can we ever compete with this? What is the answer?
I'm becoming more and more confused as to what the "project" actually is any more and where this club is heading. The maths doesn't seem to add so how do we move forward?
If you read enough of my posts you'll know I'm grateful for some of the squad improvements and am glad to still have a team to support but I also can't understand why the club continue to waste money.
We average a little under 13,500 fans per home game, which over the course of 23 home match is just over 300,000 people through the turnstile. On top of the average ticket price most fans will only spend a few pounds around the ground either buying a programme, having a pint or once in a while investing in some memorabilia. So for argument sake lets say that each fan spends £35 in total (£35 x 300,000) that's £10.8m in revenue at the ground a year. Rougly £210k a week in income. Of course there is expenditure from fans buying the club magazine, QPR Player, shirt sales etc but that is unlikely to be another £10m is it? Let's say half of that and that comes to £15m from us the fans? Is that a fair figure - Pete? Nodge?
We currently have 32 players add backroom staff, press officers, tea lady and all the other people that work at the club (does Briatore and the board take a salary?) who all have to be paid in some way.
Forgetting the non-playing staff for a moment - £210k a week is just £6500 per player per week. Even if the actual income from us the fans is double this how can the club sustain its expenditure?
Arsenal FC make just over £3m per home game, they have a 7 year waiting list for seats at the Emirates and have a world wide support. Yes they probably have debts to pay off the new stadium but week in and week out they generate huge amounts of money. How can we ever compete with this? What is the answer?
I'm becoming more and more confused as to what the "project" actually is any more and where this club is heading. The maths doesn't seem to add so how do we move forward?
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