Idea (5 Viewers)

[Briles]

Maybe someone with a legal background could answer this, but is there anything legally that would stop Coventry city setting up a seperate transfer kitty, comprising of £10 a month incentivised payments from fans? I would happily sign up to a transfer fund where we could track the "pot" so to speak. Sounds simple but I'm assuming there is a reason they don't do it. Would it be simply the owners wouldn't want their transfer budget publicly available?

 

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[Skyblueweeman]

I'm not sure you'd get a large take up on that. Not only is it tough times but people give to the club with ticket money, TV money and merchandise as well as potentially sponsoring.

What would they do with the money if they only raised, say, £10k? Pay a decent players wages for a fornight?

I do like the idea...just don't think it would make much of a difference/impact on current transfer budget.

 

[skybluesam66]

so would be used instead of not in addition to the current budget
if 2000 people signed up to this - it is still only £240k per year -
if you get a good free transfer at this level, it wouldnt cover their wages

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Reminds me of the ‘buy your club a player’ competition in the mid 2000s, but unlike then £250k gets you nothing at this level.

 

[Briles]

so would be used instead of not in addition to the current budget
if 2000 people signed up to this - it is still only £240k per year -
if you get a good free transfer at this level, it wouldnt cover their wages

I was thinking we would get about 10k ever the optimist

 

[TomS91]

Reminds me of the ‘buy your club a player’ competition in the mid 2000s, but unlike then £250k gets you nothing at this level.

Was that the Coca-Cola thing? Think somebody signed Colin Kazim-Richards with the money.

 

[Briles]

so would be used instead of not in addition to the current budget
if 2000 people signed up to this - it is still only £240k per year -
if you get a good free transfer at this level, it wouldnt cover their wages

Yeah would be on top of whatever the owners set aside from tickets and memberships etc.

 

[scottccfc]

maybe not transfers but it could be used to give the ricoh a bit of a city feeling on matchdays

 

[kg82]

Was that the Coca-Cola thing? Think somebody signed Colin Kazim-Richards with the money.

Yeah, it was Brighton, wasn’t it?

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Was that the Coca-Cola thing? Think somebody signed Colin Kazim-Richards with the money.

Southampton signed Bradley Wright Phillips with it too I think

 

[better days]

Richard Overson does something similar to pay for training facilities refurb, youth kits and so on I believe

 

[mark82]

@shmmeee had an idea a while back about a tiered membership which sounded good. Because of the model the club run I feel they need to be more innovative with looking for alternative schemes to increase revenue. If anyone has any good ideas happy to pitch them to the club.

 

[Deleted member 2477]

They could put in behind the bar for the next sky blues cruise down the Thames

 

[Briles]

Buy shares in players for a percentage of a sell on fee

 

[Colin Steins Smile]

Rather than money towards transfer fees .... some businesses and supporters clubs sponsor players boots etc

 

[robbiethemole]

how about a shares issue the fans could buy into?? much like the scheme we had years ago, before SISU and Ransom said give us your shares or we don't buy the Club!!! How that could have turned out. hindsight eh?

 

[Hadji's_Goatee]

Imagine a concert or music festival weekend at the Ricoh (The Specials, The Enemy, etc)

Elton John did it for Watford, they bought Troy Deeney with the proceeds – the rest is history.

Troy Deeney doc details how Elton John concert financed captain's transfer

The first episode of Watford’s documentary on club captain Troy Deeney premiered on Youtube last night.

www.watfordobserver.co.uk

 

[SBT]

We could get Chris Badlan a YouTube Premium account.

 

[kg82]

Southampton signed Bradley Wright Phillips with it too I think

Coca-Cola loves double barrelled names

 

[Wyken Sky Blue]

What would they do with the money if they only raised, say, £10k? Pay a decent average players wages for a fornight week?

Corrected, we are in the Championship now m8

 

[Mcbean]

still got to get my padded seat back - Im out until then

 

[shmmeee]

@shmmeee had an idea a while back about a tiered membership which sounded good. Because of the model the club run I feel they need to be more innovative with looking for alternative schemes to increase revenue. If anyone has any good ideas happy to pitch them to the club.

They need to be more proactive full stop. I never see adverts or marketing, they don’t seem to sweat their contacts list.

The fundamental issue IMO is they see themselves as an events business and not a brand. Look at modern influencers and how they build a brand and give as many opportunities for people to send them money for small rewards and build loyalty.

Access, (good quality) merchandise, exclusive content, subscriber tiers, all that jazz is how brands are monetised these days. Being at a match should be the pinnacle, but supporting a club is so much more than that.

On merchandise: I have very little stuff at home from the CCFC shop, but do have stuff like Badly Drawn Pannini posters. The club needs to either hire someone or make partnerships with the independents making better stuff than they are so some of that money comes their way as well.

 

[Old Warwickshire lad]

Maybe someone with a legal background could answer this, but is there anything legally that would stop Coventry city setting up a seperate transfer kitty, comprising of £10 a month incentivised payments from fans? I would happily sign up to a transfer fund where we could track the "pot" so to speak. Sounds simple but I'm assuming there is a reason they don't do it. Would it be simply the owners wouldn't want their transfer budget publicly available?

We can’t get people to buy season tickets, never mind contribute to a transfer fund.

 

[shmmeee]

We can’t get people to buy season tickets, never mind contribute to a transfer fund.

STs have sold out?

 

[Old Warwickshire lad]

STs have sold out?

For the time being. When crowds are allowed back there will be more available . Let’s see how many we can sell eh.

 

[robbiekeane]

STs have sold out?

Yeh but that wouldn't work for a jab at the club!

 

[robbiekeane]

For the time being. When crowds are allowed back there will be more available . Let’s see how many we can sell eh.

That doesn't really make sense. You just said we have trouble selling season tickets, but we've sold out 8,000 which is the max available at the minute and the highest in 10 years.

You then say there will be more in the future...so you're disappointed we haven't sold tickets that aren't yet available? Interesting

 

[Magwitch1]

Heard today on the radio there is a proposal from joint fan groups who are looking to form a group and build up funds to enable individual supporter groups to buy their clubs not quiet the same as what the OP has put on here but similar and interesting if it happens.

 

[chiefdave]

Heard today on the radio there is a proposal from joint fan groups who are looking to form a group and build up funds to enable individual supporter groups to buy their clubs not quiet the same as what the OP has put on here but similar and interesting if it happens.

Isn't the asking price for Man Utd something like £3bn? Thats a lot of buckets full of pound coins!

 

[Johhny Blue]

Maybe someone with a legal background could answer this, but is there anything legally that would stop Coventry city setting up a seperate transfer kitty, comprising of £10 a month incentivised payments from fans? I would happily sign up to a transfer fund where we could track the "pot" so to speak. Sounds simple but I'm assuming there is a reason they don't do it. Would it be simply the owners wouldn't want their transfer budget publicly available?

It will work. But we all have to agree on who to buy

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

@shmmeee had an idea a while back about a tiered membership which sounded good. Because of the model the club run I feel they need to be more innovative with looking for alternative schemes to increase revenue. If anyone has any good ideas happy to pitch them to the club.

I thought a while ago it would be relatively easy to create more partnerships with local businesses whereby STs or match day tickets could be used for discounted services. Mutually beneficial and restores more local goodwill to the club.

 

[Magwitch1]

Isn't the asking price for Man Utd something like £3bn? Thats a lot of buckets full of pound coins!

I didn’t catch the nitty gritty but I got the opinion it was mainly EFL clubs and lower some perhaps saddled with dodge pot owners I expect there will be more to come on this.

 

[stevefloyd]

It will work. But we all have to agree on who to buy

We have to agree who to get rid of first

 

[fatso]

I certainly think that once attendance level restrictions are lifted, that the club needs to massively ramp up its marketing efforts.

The club is pretty much anonymous within the city, and that should change now we are back where we belong.

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Club and especially Tynan scope interested in any ideas around marketing especially if any of you have professional experience that you are willing to offer voluntarily