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i am in a similar situation. the prices in recent seasons have remained stable so at least the 10%+ per year has stopped. We must bare in mind though that tickets were always the same price as going to the Cinema(8.50), the prem league and introduction of seating has changed all this.
The problem is not just an LFC problem but a football one. If LFC reduced their prices we cannot pay the wages of the players we have, remember some of these are on 3/4 year contracts. It will also hamper any chance of attracting the best players as we would be the poor payers in the market. Currently clubs and players have no intention of taking a cut -regardless of team.

a unified protest might make them all standup. one game at one weekend during the season where fans would turn up and support the chippies and boozers but not go into the ground. Just imagine 20 grounds empty on one weekend.The sponsers would flip their lid.

We all every year expect a pro-rata rise but this rise is not like the cinema , we might have 3games in one week and who buys an £800 season ticket for the pics , but this unfair price will not bring better players it to make profit for FSG they did it Boston , I can't believe reds can't see this is unfair

Faz - you misunderstood my mail. Damn right it is unfair. But its unfair across english football not just LFC. One club cannot make a lone stand otherwise they will suffer terribly. The air is coming out of the balloOn albeit very slowly.
My cinema analogy was to show how ridiculous prices have risen over the last 20yrs. I do not see a quick fix though - more chance of Turkeys voting for christmas than players and agents taking 40% salary cuts to pass onto fans.

Just to understand. Your frustration/anger is that your family and friends won't be together because some of you will be able to afford the new price while others won't, else you could all decide to buy the cheaper tickets and still be together at a different place of the stadium, isn't it?

'Occupying' that same place for years doesn't look fair to me though, especially, if somebody else would like to pay more to be there and the club needs that money to progress. Isn't this a bit selfish, with all due respect?

With some prices going up (presumably the best seats) and others going dowm, I just feel that it is an exercise of segmenting the market based on demand and limited supply. You still have a lot of options I think, change place alone, change place with your family, stop going, watch on TV or pay the value of the seat (value is always as perceived by the market based on demand)

Vish I sit with the same people in the lower centenary for 25 years I will likely be dropping out they will stay (one is a millionaire so he does not care what price it is) so I am on my own. In any case I dont think you can swap no one from the kop is going to swap with LC and pay another £150.

Soon the only fans left at Anfield will be multi millonaires.

air slowly coming out of the baloon love that analogy and its so true in 5 years that balloon will have no air in it.

In 5 years Anfield will still be filled to capacity. Mark my words.

Just not with ordinary working class people who made the club what it is today.

Some fans have an over inflated sense of importance. Yes, the fans have played a part but they have regularly changed in the past and will continue to do so in the future. It's the players that make the club.
We will always be full, and well supported. If in 5 years time the ground is full of millionaires, then great - we can put the prices up again and become one of the richest clubs in the world with their support. Their friends and family will get used to paying £1500 for a ticket so there won't be an issue anymore - and the club will go from strength to strength.
One thing's for sure, clubs don't get rich by by having poor fans or by subsidising tickets.

Yep, can't help thinking the 'football bubble bursting' won't happen anytime soon... still lots of money in the world.

The times they are a changin'. FSG are billionaires for a reason - they'll squeeze every avenue they can for as much as they can for as long as they can. Merchandise, Sponsors..... Fans.

It's not fair on working class people and I'd be pretty p*ssed myself, but I didn't happen to be born in Liverpool and have never had the money for more than a couple games per season (which I'm fine with, makes the games very special for me).

Until people stop going, it won't change. If you can't afford the rise, I feel for you, but you've had 25-30 years of the watching the team I love, week in week out - through the glory years no less - so you've been very fortunate to have the opportunity and I assume have some of the best memories of your lives that will never leave you. Us OOT's don't have that but we still want the team to be competitive and unfortuantely that means maximising turnover.

Tickets cost me £80 at times. If I thought there were empty seats, I'd go much more often, despite the long trip.

I don't think you can blame some posters for not showing the same passion at the season ticket holders, especially when they're called 2nd rate fans. Nothing lasts forever.