People like
@stw2022 really don't seem to get that German clubs are actually that - clubs, consisting of people who love it and who would never accept pricing themselves out of visiting it.
It's not like the PL where no clubs exist, just entertainment corporations. People hated Woodward for his "Disneyland proposal" to Klopp, but he was quite right about it. The PL is just that.
Yeah and look at where that got Manchester United. It isn't about "Disney" it's about financial manipulation that makes the league uncompetitive as it starves clubs of essential revenues.
Tomorrow if City, Newcastle, United (if Qatari bid is successful) decides replica shirts would be sold for £1- because they could afford to take the hit - they wouldn't technically be setting the price for every other club. What they would be doing is making it far, far more difficult for other clubs to set the prices of their replica shirts at the level they needed to I order to obtain the level of financial income from it that they needed to.
It's fine for the state- backed clubs. How many £65 home shirts are Luton Town going on sell if Man United are selling theirs for a fraction of the price?
Yet the sarcastic charge of "Oh so United are setting replica shirt prices for other clubs now then?" would be just as valid
Low ticket prices are starving clubs in Germany of the possibility of being competitive. If Bayern tomorrow had a situation where they do in other leagues where teams had to compete and they found themselves having to fight to get into the CL on a regular basis do you think they'd seek further financial advantage by looking at increasing match day revenue or do you think they'd accept their new fate and morally pontificate how it isn't the "German way" to charge comparable prices that other top clubs across the continent charge?
It's the "fan culture " because it suits the dominant financial power in that league for the current state of affairs to exist. Pretending otherwise really is some Disney bollocks. Other club's inability to compete financially still being seen as an asset of German football is why it's being left behind.