Gareth Roberts on talkSPORT | Ticket price inflation is out of control

[@redpaolo]

Thanks Gareth. You are a great ambassador for not only LFC, but fans throughout the Premier League. We will not let FSG take the game away from the working class fans.

[@np4080]

I like Gareth and fully agree with his concern. However, what's the solution? If a club owner doesn't take dividends or extract from a club, which is what LFC do, how does a club generate more revenue? If revenue lines are maxing out on sponsorships, tv deals etc, and the players salaries are increasing way beyond inflation, how does the club finance this??? Tickets are targeted as the ticket prices aren't driven by the market which, for LFC, would sell at a much higher price, albeit to day trippers, not core fans. The same people complaining are often the same as those shouting to give Mo whatever he wants pw as he's so important. They don't understand how the club is being financially balanced and the challenges. Also, Gareth doesn't recognise the closed shop of season tickets at LFC where nobody new can hold of one for love nor money Why do these TS not push Gareth for a solution?

[@smash284]

Liverpool annual player salary is at about 120m per year (minus any lones going on) compared to a turnover of 600m plus the prize money they get depending on performance in different comps. Implying the couple of million made from increasing the ticket prices is necessary for Salah to have a 5-10% bump on top of his annual 18m pay is shilling for billionaires and is not born from this reality. But I agree season tickets need reworking across football.

[@TheLoveHealingCompany]

They took it yonks ago ask a real scouser with a purple bin who gets told show me 9000 previous United stubs just to see Preston north end in a friendly and for 50 quid. As wefs 2030 agreements state none masons or the working class won't be allowed to watch the super leage live 😂 enjoy consenting and not researching

[@KevinMannix-sf5zk]

@@np4080 You don't own a public institution created by the people for the people for profit There was nothing there, then some people played a game, then people watched the game, then a Rich person bought the players and the name and sold tickets to the game No one came, they made the tickets a fair price for the local community and everyone came Then TV bought Football, Scripted the outcome , the players demanded a fair cut of the profits and the owners are trying to pretend the bit where no one came, never happened, And they will get away with it because of tourists with no morality But then the crowd will not be the crowd, it will be spectators And the people will all go elsewhere With players under no pressure performing to a non involved crowd the game will become sterile There is not a single case where the desire for money , did not cause that thing they profited from to become the opposite of what it was and die out

[@benh7551]

Gareth needs to be on national radio so much more. He represents all fans so well.

[@SuperSmegs]

Keep up the great work Gareth. i'm supporting you from afar. Give the Late Challenge a try, a good laugh every week,

[@anthonybrady2779]

Gareth speaks very eloquently on this topic. You can see that he cares, and it’s an important issue that needs to be addressed. I’m glad someone is talking about it. Late challenge Podcast is boss too that gareth and his mate do every week.

[@garrettwhite1695]

Gareth and cope are the dogs love the podcast TLC. This man talks so much sence love listening to him talk. Been a Liverpool fan for years but have to go abroad too watch them play. YNWA

[@mymemories925]

Top lad don't see big Steve saying much

[@DC.15]

Gareth and his wee mate... :P haha

[@np4080]

I like Gareth and fully agree with his concern. However, what's the solution? If a club owner doesn't take dividends or extract from a club, which is what LFC do, how does a club generate more revenue? If revenue lines are maxing out on sponsorships, tv deals etc, and the players salaries are increasing way beyond inflation, how does the club finance this??? Tickets are targeted as the ticket prices aren't driven by the market which, for LFC, would sell at a much higher price, albeit to day trippers, not core fans. The same people complaining are often the same as those shouting to give Mo whatever he wants pw as he's so important. They don't understand how the club is being financially balanced and the challenges. Also, Gareth doesn't recognise the closed shop of season tickets at LFC where nobody new can hold of one for love nor money Why do these TS not push Gareth for a solution?

[@anthonybrady2779]

@np4080 good comment.

[@paulgamble8531]

Definately need more of Gareth on TalkSport 👌👍

[@johnharrison1966]

If u want to see more of Gareth Roberts tune into the late challenge on You tube Monday night's him and paul cope do a podcast every week it's boss YNWA

[@Sid-Cannon]

The problem is Robbo for every fan that gets priced out there's dozens waiting in the wings. Hopefully they do something for home tickets similar to what they've got going on for away tickets, or if not that at least freeze prices for a few years.

[@ashleymcnally6172]

3 of the main reasons for the ticket prices... 1) Stadiums costs - Some clubs have new stadiums/stands that need to be paid for and clubs see ticket prices as an easy way to do that as they know somebody will buy them regardless. 2) Player wages - They are constantly increasing. You're seeing bang average mid-table quality players getting £150k-250k a week at Man United, Chelsea (the latter on 7-9 year contracts) etc. You can't have certain people saying we should pay Mo Salah pretty much whatever he wants and then turn round and complain when ticket prices go up by a few quid. For ticket prizes to be frozen or even reduced, players in Mo Salah's situation would either need to be sold sooner or be told to leave at the end of their contract. Then those same fans complain again. 3) Owners - They don't have an emotional connection to the club or area. Their connection is money based. If a local guy owned a club, you wouldn't see this level of increase.

[@johnsabisabidavis171]

Together fans can change this price Madness Don't go stand outside don't pay

[@PedroVonWorzelburger]

I'm a Liverpool fan living in Adelaide. I pay $10 a month add on to my phone plan to watch every EPL game each week. Its an absolute bargain compared to what UK viewers pay. Afterall without UK fans we wouldn't have a EPL. The CEO's and owners of the clubs have no respect for the fans.

[@Shroft112]

@@PedroVonWorzelburger your conflating 2 different things, it's ridiculous that fans abroad can watch every game, never mind a lot cheaper than here however the ticket price thing is a load of rubbish, paying between £37 and £55 quid to watch a live event in todays world is good value

[@PedroVonWorzelburger]

@@Shroft112 If your a loyal fan attending every home game thats 37/55 x eighteen home games plus some parents may want to take a family member or friend , times that by 2 or 3! that well over 2000/3000 a season.

[@Shroft112]

@@PedroVonWorzelburger well maybe they don't pay for their friend or family member if they can't afford to it's pretty simple, 800 quid for 19 live events is better than any like for like entertainment, if you're goin to 19 concert or plays you're paying 2 grand for yourself

[@derred723]

Because that there is no demand in Adelaide for more than $10 a month. The price in based on the demand in the country and what the market will bear. Hi demand low supply in england for epl on tv the prices will go up cause that's what happens in economics. In Canada you'd have low demand and high supply and prices will fall. Same in the US and almost any country with a lower interest in the EPL.

[@PedroVonWorzelburger]

@@derred723 EPL is massive in Australia. Many Europeans live here especially Brits. Clubs are packed at 2am in the morning to watch EPL games. When Liverpool played in Melbourne for a friendly, attendance was over 100,000. But anyway slightly getting away from my point of view that people who attend games in the UK are getting ripped off and have every right to challenge the owners about ticket prices. And again most revenue is coming from TV rights so why inflate tickets and hurt the pockets of the local fans?

[@andyjames9]

Gareth speaks so well, especially on this topic. He’s so passionate about doing the right thing for the next generation of footy fans. The work he does for and with SOS is a credit to him, also, his podcast “The Late Challenge” where he and Paul Cope cover this and other hot topics is well worth a listen and look in. Credit talk sport for the platform and raising awareness on an important topic!

[@paulmckernan7518]

Brilliant Gareth as always mate 👏

[@diamonddave2622]

Just looked at one of my old tickets for the Kop [late 80s] It's priced at £3 and that's for Liverpool v Man Utd With inflation that's £9 today.

[@jonnybigpants]

1.75 I paid on 3 quid pocket money

[@taykitrleevitt4314]

A lot of Premier League players are paid £100,000+ a week... that's the governing factor behind ticket prices.

[@TheLoveHealingCompany]

A kids ticket to see the bogs costs more than that yet consenting are at fault

[@KevinMannix-sf5zk]

@@taykitrleevitt4314 Nonsense, the TV companies bought football, And earn millions through advertising and betting The players know this and demand a fair cut of that pie that they are the centre of The owners don't matter, if they don't like owning a place of worship, created by the people for the people , then sell it

[@paulamurphy2385]

Brilliant this Gareth, got your point across really well! 👏🏼👏🏼

[@Jay-wm2im]

Agree with everything the scouser said. As a City fan we’re in our glory years yet a little bit of me has died as a fan. It’s now an American corporate bowl and we’re no longer part of the ‘family club’

[@jakehowie442]

£39 is cheap in the Kop, the rest of Anfield’s normal prices are from £50 to £65 around the stadium. Hence why the most passionate and loyal local fans are in the Kop, he has a point to an extent. But it’s not just about the Kop where Gareth stands, the rest of stands should have safe standing and lower ticket prices accessible to locals and some tourists

[@paulmckernan7518]

Charlton Cole added absolutely nothing to this debate 😂

[@Paul-xu7ve]

Because he's a moron on radio nearly midnight.

[@realtalk8665]

What a load of Nonsense 😂

[@rickywilcox7358]

Its great seeing gareth roberts representing liverpool on these kind of platforms. He's sound

[@lewistaylor4112]

Brilliant spokesperson for the fans, the world needs more people like him

[@michaeldavies6440]

Get In Gareth!!!!!

[@Oldgit60]

I gave up any thought of being a regular at the Bridge 5 years ago, this after being a home, away and Europe regular since 1971, when it cost 15p to get in the Shed via the boy’s gate. I just can’t justify the outlay anymore.

[@madrid6times990]

Well in Gareth!

[@Liverpo01.51.]

Well said brother 👍

[@darkoanton5]

Don't go. Don't pay for the TV subscriptions. Dont buy the overpriced merchandise. It is as simple as that.

[@mickyredeyes6220]

Locals need to be in Anfield for a decent price.

[@mymemories925]

Loyal British fans should get the priority over tourists! Clubs like city need the tourists

[@mickyredeyes6220]

@@mymemories925 we welcome tourists but they need to only be allocated a certain number of seats each game and not be allowed to price out the locals by inflating the prices.

[@Shroft112]

@@mickyredeyes6220 was you for brexit?

[@mickyredeyes6220]

@Shroft112 definitely not I voted remain.

[@Shroft112]

@@mickyredeyes6220 so let me get this right you want to restrict foreign fans at the match, but you're happy for uncontrolled migration into the UK hahaha can't make it up

[@sherifkaiser7539]

Gareth good job, you know me I come from the US to Anfield twice a year would love to come more if I can I pay $ 600 for me and my son each tickets alone, we generate money to the economy of Liverpool. Would love to buy seasons tickets but I cannot. I probably get my ticket from a Liverpool season holder who makes a very high profit that the club and myself lose on. See you tomorrow go REDS

[@Shroft112]

@@sherifkaiser7539 mate these sos don't represent most scousers feelings on the subject, Liverpool fans who travel across the world are far more dedicated than these so call local lifeblood 1000s of local fans get off after 85 minutes get off early to beat the traffic with their 3 mile journey home

[@davidmichael4433]

Gareth is the man 🙌

[@lambo2747]

Most of tv money goes toward wages. So people need to remember this when to tell your club to give a player what he wants.

[@paulboyne8786]

Exactly mo salah says he “ loves” the fans and then on the other hand wants 400k a week 😂😂😂😂 plus you have season ticket holders selling there ticket outside the ground for £100-200

[@geztaylor]

Very true, great comment, I'm fed up with people saying "okay him what he wants" when he's already on 4yrs if my salary a year in a single week

[@streaky81]

Yup same ticket holders complaining that the club aren't just giving him whatever he wants.

[@derred723]

Most EPL teams are not very profitable. They burn through their money because they lose a ton on bad player contracts and transfer fees.

[@johncambridge5221]

Sadly football is no longer the working man's game

[@spendover]

Yes ticket prices are out of control and it's because their beloved players are being paid way way too much money🤷‍♂️... its not difficult

[@taykitrleevitt4314]

Fans ain't gonna admit the fact because it would mean admitting their favourite players are the problem.

[@darrenshore5853]

Not true, the money is in the game and players (staff) get paid the going rates like any trade. If the staff are not paid the owners would still charge as much as they can and keep all the profits. They won't reduce prices because wages come down. Like fuel, food, interest rates etc all go up but never come back down. Owner/ shareholders/ investor greed is killing everything

[@craigshackleton1652]

It’s short sighted of the clubs. My Grandad took my uncles to the match then in later years he took me and my cousins. Think of the generations of fans that creates. As this gent says they will lost forever.

[@nealpalmer3841]

Blame the players earning 300k a week for kicking a football around for 90 minutes

[@JamesWho1]

have you seen how much the tv deals are worth now sure that covers a lot of it

[@JCrack1986]

That’s a stupid take. Footballers have looked at the money coming from tv and stated (fairly) that they are the contributing factor. This argument is stating that stadium cost is not the coming from the match going fans. So why should we have to give billionaires more of our cash

[@richardlewis7498]

And who pays for the tv companies the fans the merchandise the fans.

[@richardlewis7498]

You dont have to give any cash to the billionaires its your choice

[@Shroft112]

@@JCrack1986 what billionaires are getting more cash, club owners outside of the glaziers don't take dividends it all goes to the players

[@paukconuk]

You only have to look at the prices in Europe, even a huge club like Bayern Munich charge €15-€19 for a standard ticket, and the Bundesliga clubs don’t get a share of £12b prem clubs do, it costs me £42 for a prem ticket in the kop, then you have fuel money, £10 to park and £5 for a chippy, so about £70 to go the game. I feel for the people who have two kids and just can’t afford to go. And don’t get me started on the price of football it’s 🤬😔

[@Shroft112]

@@paukconuk it was 40 quid 10 years ago though so I'd say that's not bad in todays prices, also whether u pay parking or get a chippy is nothing to do with lfc

[@paukconuk]

@ weird, I used to pay £32 about 10 years ago, I know I don’t pay the club for my chippy or fuel, it has to be factored in.

[@Shroft112]

@@paukconuk well ticket prices went up 2 percent this year and have been frozen for like 10 years..

[@Shroft112]

​@@paukconukcheapest ticket in 2014 was 37 quid haha

[@purpleaki06]

Old people don’t need concessions. The young absolutely do. I’d love it if a minimum of 5k tickets were reserved for 18-30 year olds. Plus another allocation for young kids accompanying an adult.

[@paulporteous4190]

Spot on! I don’t understand how fans can afford to have a season ticket and travel to the away games and the European games! Crazy and hats of to them!

[@somenobody8599]

Old Trafford where the roof leaks and the rats lay dead. How much for a season ticket there?

[@Rickyj82]

A game should be £20-30 max it’s 90 minutes of football ffs

[@gazmo71]

Excellent from Gareth, one of the reasons though not the sole reason for price hikes at every club is down to PSR. They have to maximise every penny out of the fans as it goes towards the final calculations. Clubs dont care about 'Legacy' fans anymore and are targeting tourist fans more and more as like Gareth says they spend more at the Club shop/ground etc

[@psychedelicbadger4092]

It's not hard to work out. This money that's supposedly "swimming around the Premier League"... Where's it going? Well, it's going into players' pockets, that's where. Its alright comparing beer prices from 30 or 40 years ago. How about comparing player wages. It's absurd. The ironic thing is ...some of those people being priced out if the game will be the same ones shouting " Give Mo what he wants" Can't have it both ways.

[@IWTBF]

Well said

[@mikee7406]

Well done Gareth

[@philipdavison3862]

not once was it mentioned about players wages,maybe if they stopped paying players £300,000 a week,some clubs are spending 90% of the money coming in on players wages.

[@derekw26x]

Agents have the game ruined

[@kylefraser8360]

Brilliant 👏

[@harbottle8580]

I've been going to Anfield since the 1970's I've had a season ticket on the Kop since 1988. You could get them very easily at that time. When i can't go, i loan it to a my young nephew at no cost. I want him to experience Anfield and sing along as a local scouser should do. Just as i did from the 70's onwards. So far he's been to numerous finals home and abroad. These kids are our life blood. Liverpool and ALL premier league clubs shouldn't be stopping that generation from seeing what is rightfully theirs. I see people coming to Anfield to be entertained by the Kop. It's like we on the Kop are now expected to be performers. How has it come to this?

[@yardgrid]

Because you keep sharing your season ticket with your nephew (or whoever that person you just invented) so the availability is reduced. It's entirely your fault

[@shugaroony]

@@yardgrid For Yanks raising prices unnecessarily? Rubbish.

[@Shroft112]

@@yardgrid hahhaah Absolutely nailed it

[@harbottle8580]

​@@yardgrid so i'm personally responsible for the entire situation with ticket availability? Wow! I didn't know i had that much power. Now i'm annoyed they didn't mention me in the radio broadcast. Btw, i didn't invent anyone.

[@townsjim]

Haven't been to a PL match for 5 years now, I refuse to be ripped off.

[@ferrarihodnett]

They will always get as much as they can. And people will always pay the demand. Until people make a stand which they never will

[@jamesfoley4832]

Poor old Carlton. I know what he’s trying to say. He just struggles with articulating his point.

[@BrianEllis-qw8ek]

Well done you come over amazing big up Liverpool

[@georgeknox1822]

If this was the case in the 70’s my dad, a coal miner , wouldn’t be able to have taken me . I wouldn’t be supporting Newcastle now . This applies to millions. Now 16:13 clubs with no morals whatsoever are slowly destroying the sport we love . If this continues, in 5 years there will be no atmosphere whatsoever in grounds . They forget that football is always, at the root, a working man’s / women’s sport .

[@malcolmwain3451]

Brilliant Robbo!!

[@yesthestone9392]

If the tickets are selling out at that price, they will sell out at a lower price too. If they did lower prices, would they have to have a lottery for who got tickets that week? Interesting to think how allocation would work.

[@Bigmo1980pat]

I agree with this , I last went to Arsenal last season all told for the game against Luton bed and board and train travel cost over 200£ for one game , the way the clubs and the premier league they both to Blame go is scandalous , when I hear testimonies from fans who went when I was a kid in the 80s when I couldn’t go and the price of things , the greed to me reeks rather bad I’m sad to say 😢

[@jj-oc2sy]

Early 90s if i sorted a ticket for lpool games mate never paid me just brought me a couple of pints,them days well and truly over

[@IWTBF]

Prem football is just a tourists day out 😢

[@tomleigh7478]

Gareth hit the nail on the head - 'Apathy' We have the people power. We fuckin well outnumber them Cue Primal Scream 'come together' I just dropped the mic 😁💙👊🏽

[@mickyredeyes6220]

They are just rinsin the fans end of! So the fans need to sort that.

[@derred723]

Inflation period is out of control. I'm not surprised ticket prices go up. Housing is up, food is up, gas prices are up. Everything is up. And nobody is swallowing the cost. So i'm not remotely surprised. I just don't spend on things I used to . I don't see live sports, most movies, any concerts anymore. I never eat out at sit down places now. I pass on fast food. It's the way of the world.

[@Neil_A]

I used to pay 60p to get in the kop

[@AJ-Themes-for-Great-Cities]

Well in Gareth

[@deathofcommonsense]

The reality is that football has been for some time now, a global, multi billion dollar business.The reality of this means, PROFIT COMES FIRST, that's the way of big business & if you expect anything different, you are a fool or extremely naive! I watched my first game as a 10yo in 1960. Football was basically considered to be a working man's game, I still feel that way about it, but that has long gone. Like pretty much everything else in today's world, money rules....everything!

[@IWTBF]

Football fans need to look at themselves and organise a mass protest across the board. The pundits always bang on about how boring football was during covid as there was no crowd, well let’s boycott one weekend and make a stance!!

[@SmilingScorpion-gi5lx]

Tickets have gone from £4 to £3200 since he started going to watch Liverpool. If nothing else he is a fantastic representative for the Liverpool educational system

[@malcolmfisher2806]

Huge fan of Robbo. The man talks sense. Late Challenge Podcast if you want more.

[@jejmoss11]

If there’s people still prepared to pay, and average attendances have never been higher, then what’s going to change?

[@ntc3337]

From Ireland, to get a single ticket to an Arsenal game through one of the travel agents like Champions Travel, average is €700! Absolute rip off

[@koppite68]

Sadly - football has become THE business for wealthy individuals or countries (!). What’s truly insulting is that you can pay a min of £499 for a match ticket with a meal and a match programme - yet a Kop ticket is £39 - THATS wrong.

[@barrygrundy9667]

We need to follow German clubs it's between 15/20 euroes a ticket and that includes bus train tram fare There needs to be a fan base for each team who can be shareholders and be asked or can offer opinions for club decisions German grounds even the rubbish teams get full capacity every week because it's affordable

[@denzel1989]

Its not that cheap mate

[@rossco3603]

Throw in top of that these silly memberships you have to buy before you can even buy a ticket. Rinsed at every stage!

[@leebenson4188]

Without fans the Clubs are nothing. Stop the extortion of loyalty.

[@derred723]

I also think. if gas goes up everything goes up because any good you buy costs fuel to ship. It's not simply "exploitation" it's economics. Costs will go up. the food costs more to ship, the workers demand more money to pay for their higher rent and higher gas. All that stuff has gone up.

[@derred723]

food for thought on other sports leagues. Average price to an NFL match San Francisco 49ers is 161.25£. The average season ticket price in 2024 for the San Fancisco 49ers the US's biggest sport, is 1829.14£ and that's only about 7 or 8 home games. And one of your home matches might be lost to London, Mexico City, etc.

[@stevegambrell8332]

Footballers wage demands are out of control. How many premier league clubs actually make a profit..

[@Paul-xu7ve]

Talksport effectively The Sun on radio although Gareth's point is 💯 spot on.

[@realtalk8665]

In surprise he went on their because of the distance sun links but the Anfield wrap have done content in their in the past and it great exposure for campaign

[@David-xy2ly]

Players wages take 85 % revenue, Liverpool made 6 million in 1989/90 season and best player was on 250,000 a year yes a year lol

[@denzel1989]

Yeah wages got out of hand starting with city tho

[@cah05431]

Repeats itself like the previous season,don't expect a champion at the end of the season.it's that simple 🙂

[@garygalt4146]

There is no premier league without the fans. I was sat on my dad’s shoulder hearing YNWA sung for the first time on the kop I’m now disabled [incurable brain disease] £107 a week. I will never be able to stand on the kop again. My young nephew is at school He takes the train over to watch Chester. Because his part time job can afford that. Manages once or twice a season at Anfield. It’s wrong. I would happily stand in the changing room and tell the players management owners, all millionaires they are too greedy. And it’s us that make them famous Because without the fans they would be kicking a ball playing Sunday league

[@darrenshore5853]

The whole having to buy rip off hospitality tickets. I don't want a restaurant etc etc. I just want a reasonably priced match ticket to games. It's ridiculous now. FSG and co milking fans dry

[@np4080]

I like Gareth and fully agree with his concern. However, what's the solution? If a club owner doesn't take dividends or extract from a club, which is what LFC do, how does a club generate more revenue? If revenue lines are maxing out on sponsorships, tv deals etc, and the players salaries are increasing way beyond inflation, how does the club finance this??? Tickets are targeted as the ticket prices aren't driven by the market which, for LFC, would sell at a much higher price, albeit to day trippers, not core fans. The same people complaining are often the same as those shouting to give Mo whatever he wants pw as he's so important. They don't understand how the club is being financially balanced and the challenges. Also, Gareth doesn't recognise the closed shop of season tickets at LFC where nobody new can hold of one for love nor money Why do these TS not push Gareth for a solution?

[@seansines]

And they tell us screening 3pm games would damage crowds…

[@joelgibbs4449]

Gareth love your work, however i dont agree with the comment about the tourists buying the 10 pound pint etc and the clubs loving them whilst exploiting the locals. As someone who tries to get across to Liverpool once a year to watch as many games as i can in a 3 weeks period, i find it slightly ironic that the season tickets holders reselling to the "tourist" fans for 20X the face value of the ticket...... I have been a subscriber to TAW to try and get as close to the match going fan as possible from the other side of the world. It frustrates me when i hear comments about non locals. I agree that the clubs are exploiting ticket prices, but same could be said for season ticket holders reselling.......

[@gillie-monger3394]

The vast majority of club income is to pay players - many of whom are overpaid journeymen btw.

[@SteviG9]

im astonished how these guys are surprised how much us that do not live in the UK and support UK teams have to pay just to watch a game... plane tickets, accommodation tickets, game tickets... and just to have a ticket for a game is more than £2500... so yeah. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@Shroft112]

Mate honestly I'm embarrassed iistening to all this rubbish, especially when fans like you pay more for a game than Gareth is paying for 20

[@MASO204]

@@Shroft112it’s not rubbish at all

[@MASO204]

There pricing out young local lads, lads who bring the atmosphere, who know every song, get rowdy when things go wrong or right for the team. Not tourists who come for the day out and blow £100’s on merch. he’s talking about local working class people.

[@SteviG9]

@MASO204 was I disputing that? Or was I just mentioning that the two talksports presenters did noy know how much tourist pay to come and watch a game live? Gareth Roberts knows. Are you clear now, do you understand what I said, or do you want to watch the video again and read my comment again?

[@MASO204]

@@SteviG9 you’re not the demographic this whole campaign is about. It’s out pricing young people who are local and still can’t afford to go

[@TheNjackets]

Agree completely with what's being said, but it's all a bit emperors new clothes, there will probably be people protesting tomorrow who are demanding the club pay Salah, VVD and Trent what they want! Not totally single them players out, but when they're all demanding 100ks plus a week, why are they getting off the hook?

[@ksingh4528]

Gareth is a good representative of the Liverpool support. Respect 🫡

[@gusmlie]

And football wages are a barometer of sanity.

[@simonmccullagh1830]

call it out for what it is the players wages, my team villa one weeks wages for the club covers 6 sold out home games, man u its 11 sold out home games and am sure there others with similar numbers, so if players took one weeks less wages tickets could be so far cheaper.

[@ghosttown2173]

Emotional blackmail it is and nothing less

[@mergendy]

Gareth debating Simon bleedin Jordan on this...give the people what they want!

[@timbo0151]

Had a paper round when I was 13, got paid about £3 a week. Got to watch the reds in the Kop for £2 with that 'wage'. Not sure what a paper round would pay now (and I know paperounds are non existent now) but let's say at best, and taking inflation into consideration, a paperboy would earn £15 a week now? Whatever. A kid nowadays, like I was, would need a paper round job paying at least £50 a week to be able to get into the game. The financial sacrifices the supporters make are way beyond my remit. And, that young paperboy who never missed a game in the late 80's and early 90's has not been able to get to Anfield since, because he's been cynically priced out. Well in Gareth and everyone else, no matter which club they support, for trying to do something about this.

[@wrighthartlane99]

🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@Ash-fy2mn]

So are players wages…business costs incurred keeping high salaried players and agents costs the fan it’s that simple…what do you want?…don’t go if you disagree with the prices!! Banners saying give Mo the dough to keep him ups your ticket prices!!…it’s a business.

[@mmbking9218]

Cap footballers wages first then ticket prices will come down

[@streaky81]

So don't buy tickets, give the rest of us a chance to go to matches. In fact, give up your season ticket so I can have one. We have a much bigger problem with the 3pm blackout than stadium ticket prices. "Lets just stop putting them up" - nice, lets not pay for things, go bust and have the reform in the conference - you're right, that'll definitely fix ticket prices. Same fans complaining about LFC not paying Salah "whatever he wants" by the way.

[@malcolmprice9545]

I remember going through the turnstiles paying on the day to see top division football now I can’t see one game that’s the difference

[@marcuscazenave6968]

Gerrin Robbo!

[@kld5617]

Isn't the bundesliga tickets dead cheap like 10 euros a game ?

[@danielstrachan6544]

50+1 rule can't come quick enough

[@philmarsden9594]

i went for years, 80s into the 00s. i got priced out when it was costing me £50 to go the game. ticket, travel, a pie and a coffee at half time. i was taking home £60 a day back then. today that same match day exp costs £100 and the average person in the nw is taking home £80 a day.

[@Shroft112]

Mate I'm sure u can bring a pack lunch and a flask, Gareth is going on about something that happened 15 years ago.. ticket prices have gone up 2 percent in aba 12 years

[@derred723]

I mean where i live there are no sports that you can go to for as low as 30£. I mean on average a ticket price in my country is the equivalent of 80£ minimum. British honestly don't realize how cheap their biggest sport actually is.

[@SimonFretwell]

There will be. More empty seats no atmosphere

[@georgesinger9227]

Go Robbo ..