The Allianz holds about 70,000.
I wonder how other club's (within the Bundesliga) spending compares over the same time; Dortmund, for example? Their ground hold something like 80,000. I'll maybe have a better look later.
I wouldn't be just as sure of that Bier.
I'm certain we have been told recently (again I'll have to check) that a new L.F.C. Stadium wouldn't bring that much revenue in. Then again a big, empty, stadium ain't worth a f**k; you need a successful team to put bums on seats.
Either way Bayern haven't been afraid to spend and it's showing.
It's not even so much those 70.000, their previous stadium had over 60.000 too. And ticket prices are extremely low in Germany(season ticket for a little over a 100 pounds at Bayern), their match day income is a weak point in comparison to other European top clubs, and even now barely higher than ours. But there's no doubt that the new stadium has greatly improved their commercial income.
When I'm saying it has really improved Bayern's income and spending, I'm not implying that would be the exact same in our case. Bayern were in a completely different situation than us when they got a new stadium, they always have been and will continue to be the biggest club in Germany and have major German sponsors behind them like Adidas, Telekom, Allianz, Audi, Lufthansa and Siemens, sponsors that are loyal and invested into that club.
Dortmund's spending should be much less, they were in massive debt a decade ago and were forced to fall back on good youth development and good overall policy to get out of it. Ofcourse they've always had a massive support to fall back on, and their stadium which has gradually expanded over the years.
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