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If it's demand and supply as you say vish the lower overseas price would indicate lower demand than the uk consumer, Agreed ?

If that's not the case and consumer demand for premiership football overseas is equal or greater than the uk vish then should not the price be similar ?

Many of the overseas fans are as dedicated as their uk counterparts and we are all fans together supporting Liverpool FC so is it not right we share the burden equally ?

Surely you can't believe that is a bad thing ?

Actually you could twist that and look at it in another way. What if we were to say the overseas fans are actually contributing to the local fans? You see, i don't pay anything for the local Serbian league on TV,which means i am contributing in no way financially to the Serbian league when i don't go to matches. However i am contributing to the premier league financially and helping to keep it sustainable. So i am actually contributing to the English economy.

Its a percentage game as far as the pricing structure of subscriptions is concerned though. Percentage wise, of course the uk has the highest percentage of paying customers. A lower percentage demand regulates the price overseas. With the popularisation of the league worldwide though, i fully expect the subscriptions to go up worldwide.

I said the exact same earlier today you are making a contribution. That contribution goes to higher profits for the TV companies some of this finds it's way to the clubs where it ends up in the players bank accounts. I don't see you as a worse fan than me marko you may well be a better one. So rather than pay a contribution why not join the full club. To do otherwise is almost an insult to overseas fans saying you are not worthy to pay the full subscription. As you have said many times we are all fans and we are all equal the English fans are being hammered and many cannot afford to watch live premiershio football whereas if they lived in another country they could. That can't in any way be fair

I take your point marko but not everyone in the uk is paid the same and although the wages are higher you try buying bad running a house in the uk we are not as rich as you think we are. I have purchased many products from Liverpool FC over the years they have never yet asked to see my wage slip in order to offer me a discount, The price is the price and although Serbia might not be wealthy Germany is and that's a quarter of the uk likewise Italy and Spain and many of the Far East countries are on a par with the uk including Australia

Unfortunately, that is pretty much how it works in a capitalist system, which is why I preferred socialism and even communism to an extent, but people wanted capitalism. The west brought us capitalism, now we have to live in the world we created.

Marko I am pretty sure if you went to the ticket office at anfield to be presented with the price £52 and you said you were from Serbia or your country had, had a recession and you think the price should be £12 I think we know what the answer would be. I don't see why television should be subject to different rules especially as one day we will move to pay per view, You are always telling me the world wide fan base is the future why then not get into the real world let's have a level playing field. And by the way we had a pretty good recession here in the uk too almost all towns including my own have foodbanks especially in the north of England where there is a lot of poverty.