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Riverside development all forgotten.

Started by fcfulham55, May 18, 2017, 01:12:47 PM

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AlexW132

The fact of the matter is, if you're a big club in the Prem then redevelopment is never really a risk as you're never going to be in danger on the field, or in financial difficulties off it. Whereas for a club that is a) either a Prem side at risk of relegation or b) a C'ship side fighting for promotion, it's a big risk to take allocating a large amount of money to something that isn't ultimately going to improve your on the field performance. If you're at any risk of relegation, if it does happen and you're doing developing, all of a sudden you have a much lower disposable income due to lower revenues, partly due to less TV money and partly due to lower gates, a large portion of which must be allocated to investing in the squad. If you're fighting for promotion, yes a bigger capacity would pay off if you got to the Prem. However, if you failed to go up and you'd already started pumping money into this new development, which could require a reduced capacity while it's built therefore less ticket revenue, and your best players leave and require replacing, suddenly you're in the financial mire. So it's a moderate risk to take at this stage, when, let's face it, we're not averaging much more than 20000 a game, part of which is away fans.