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You've been saying all along the richest clubs can only win the title. The very clubs you say are the richest haven't won the title for decades between them.
There is more than one title to win and Arsenal have won plenty and Liverpool their fair share too.
It hasn't even been a decade that we have been talking about a big 6. In the noughties it was the big 4. Before that it was Man U and Liverpool. The group continues to expand. I've got no fears about who is 7th. Hell, the 7th placed club right now on the table is Leicester and they won the thing. There are some bloody big clubs outside the top 6 and one or two of them will be in next decade's big 8. If Man City did it then I think a good 10 clubs are candidates to step up. Some memories are short. Man City really was a joke.
You may be "completely oblivious" to Everton's new 500 million pound 60k seat stadium project being funded by club funds and government loans.
The stats quoted from Deloitte's Football Money League were for 2016-17. I can only talk about them, not a new stadium in its first season where the season has not been completed and the figures haven't been revealed.
Dortmund is a throwback to the olden days. Like most German clubs(and perhaps because they are mostly member-based in Germany), they offer very cheap tickets. It is why, despite their high average attendance, their game day revenue is probably lower than others.
You were talking about them playing in a 68k stadium so of course one would think you were talking about this year's crowds, because this is the only season they have played at wanda metropolitano. For 50 years prior they were playing at the Vicente Calderon stadium. They're filling the new stadium in league and UCL matches. They've never averaged "low to mid 40k" in a 68k stadium.
West Ham indeed offers the lowest season ticket prices in London if not the EPL. It's not to "fill" the stadium, but rather to get fans to warm to the place (because it's a s**t hole). The issue of "filling" the stadium is complex because the actual capacity is based on regulations - not the actual number of seats. It has a 66k capacity but they're only allowed to sell 57k seats. West Ham has big problems getting approval to use all the seats. It's bizarre and essentially boils down to the council saying "only if the fans sit down". Personally, I'd love to see a scarf wearer from the council to go to a West Ham game and tell people to sit. Would be better action than what the club is serving on the pitch.
Ok my bad I got the stadium wrong they played in 55k stadium in 2016-17. But in 2016-17 their average crowd for La Liga games were as follows for the big 3 http://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn.htm
Another big factor in match day revenues is the corporate allocation. Certainly the main issue for the Anfield expansion is that the additional 6-8k seats planned for the Annie end are chump change compared to getting more corporate suites in. The cheapest executive box for 10 people is 3,5k pound per game at Anfield. They could probably demolish the Centenary and replace it with 2 rows of boxes and make more.
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I read years ago in one of the annual Deloitte Football Money League reports that corporate stuff was included in commercial income rather than match day, but I don't know if that has changed as those stadium super boxes and more hospitality corporate type income has grown.
Yeah it's a bit of a hazy area for me too. I follow the stadium developments in England fairly closely and all of that discussion firmly puts hospitality in the match day category. I think there's enough overlap between the two that they should just be combined because ultimately it's income that comes from a bum on a seat, but the Deloittes of this world would have a different take on it.
It will depend on what they charged for and how many season tickets they sold.
