Chelsea sold out to Joe Public

[CB Fry]

If we were 6th, it would likely be because we had a team packed full of internationals, playing good football, regularly winning and a very positive atmosphere about the fanbase. It would also mean we'd be more likely to go on better cup runs and possibly win something. All things that would contribute to growing the fanbase and having larger attendances, something a 32k St Mary's would hamper us from doing. Every sellout this season in a relegation fight means the club can't meet the demand of the fanbase and people are missing out, which is why Cortese commissioned AFL to come up with those designs.

 

Aston Villa finished sixth three seasons in a row a couple of years back. And their attendances grew and grew and gr...oh hang on.

 

It went down season on season on season those three years.

 

I think there is overegging on how much our base support will grow to. Lots of mid table finishes really won't make that much difference. Not enough to plough millions into infrastructure.

 

Until we get season ticket waiting lists, forget it.

[Turkish]

MLG is right. When i took Burnley from the championship to consecutive champions league winners on FM12 with a team packed full of internationals playing good football, winning stuff and a positve feel about the place our attendances went from 13,000 to 22,000 then when i extended the stadium up to 30000 in 2017 we were selling that out too week in week out. If Burnley can do it with their tiny catchment area then i'm sure we can go on to even greater things.

[Tokyo-Saint]

MLG can you confirm this is possible with Burnley? You see I am currently managing Freiburg in the Bundesliga and their ground is pretty small and I am therefore thinking of moving on. I thought teams have a maximum attendance they can reach. Is this correct, if so what is Saint's? This would solve all the arguments.

[Junction 9]

Do you think Chelsea would get 42,000 at Stamford Bridge if they were in a relegation fight? When Chelsea were a mid table Premier League team in the mid 90's before the Harding/Bates/Abramovich money they averaged similar to what Saints did in League One.

 

What a ridicuous comparison. Do you honestly think that Cortese is going to get the green light to assemble a squad similar to Chelsea's over the last 5 years?

Of course they would lose fans if they were in the bottom three. My point is the St Mary's crowd average between our relegation year, and our top half FA cup final year is negligible, and didn't affect crowd levels much at all.

[Turkish]

Do you think Chelsea would get 42,000 at Stamford Bridge if they were in a relegation fight? When Chelsea were a mid table Premier League team in the mid 90's before the Harding/Bates/Abramovich money they averaged similar to what Saints did in League One.

 

are you saying we are bigger and have more match going fans than Chelsea then?

[Bearsy]

MLG can you confirm this is possible with Burnley? You see I am currently managing Freiburg in the Bundesliga and their ground is pretty small and I am therefore thinking of moving on. I thought teams have a maximum attendance they can reach. Is this correct, if so what is Saint's? This would solve all the arguments.

 

We're enjoying life in the 50K cortesedome in my game. Also we just won back to back champions league. Also Jay Rodriguez gets 40 goals a season and is England centre forward.

[Tokyo-Saint]

Yeah but that's on the phone bear. That doesn't count, even MLG said so.

[Turkish]

We're enjoying life in the 50K cortesedome in my game. Also we just won back to back champions league. Also Jay Rodriguez gets 40 goals a season and is England centre forward.

 

He was quality for me at Burnley too. I sold him after my first champions league win and brought a russian forward called Ali Seminov who was quality. This was in about 2019 though So Jay was getting close to 30, good time to sell.