QUOTE(ettan28 @ Nov 23 2009, 09:42 AM)

oh
i tot u like to tell history....

Ok ET, since my meeting just finish and you wanna hear an old man tell you some LFC history... here you are...
My personal reasons/views why we are so poor financialy..
1)
Stadium capacity: We have the smallest stadium amongst the so call big 4. Our capacity is less than 45k.. how to generate
enough matchday tickets? All the other big 4 have minimum 60k and above capacity.. You do the maths.. minimum ticket value 50pounds x
20k seats = 1m pound extra per match day. Have to wait another 2 more years (2011) for this new stadium to be ready, I hope this time it's for real..
2)
Marketing : We use to have lousy marketing dept.. not enough pulicity, merchandise sold to generate funds as compared to
the other big 4's marketeers.. We depended on the older generation fans and did not generate new fans globally.. Complacency just like the
case of Carlsberg vs GAB in Malaysia (For those who are in FMCG industry and know about the market share/distribution..)
3)
Sponsorship recruitment team: we had lousy sponsorship value with our shirt sponsors for more than a decade with carlsberg
that paid us peanuts.. Some stupid decision to go to Reebok and now back to Adidas again.. IIRC.. at least we're getting 20m per season
from Std Chart.. That's an increase of 285% per season from 2010/11 onwards.. Now, we have increased our funds..
4)
Stupid Yankee owners: in 2006/7, The greedy yankee mustards took over the club from David Moores for about 220m pounds
and immediately took huge loans and in term, cause the club to be seriously in debt.. Imagine an interest rate of more than 30M p/year..
Which club wouldn't bleed internally.. These yankee mustard owners bought the club to make huge profits and not interest.. Imagine they
wanted to sell off the club for 500m? I mean WTF? Greedy mustards.. Even the two stupid yankees Gillet and Hicks patnership fell apart and
cause the club into further bickering..At least the Malcom family MU yankee owners don't interfere with the club's administration..
5)
Transfer Funds: The useless yankee owners always promised funds.. It never really came as requested.. Whatever little funds
that came.. rafa did squander some of them away.. (I hate to admit it but our gaffer really made lot's of blunder signings.. even our youth
squad scout is lousy..) A lot of those purchases are duds.. Only a few signings were gem like Torres, Reina, Benayoun, Kuyt, Alonso,
Maschereno and etc.. So, some money lost here.. Sigh..