Chris Heck - President of Business Operations

[Chip Butty 111]

In the Dave Woodhall article 'Falling in love again' he mentions ticket price increases for the CL knockout stage.
How far will he push this Heck-onomics??
At what price do you say not for me?
£100
£120
£140
For people taking kids it's ridiculous

Depends on the opposition, Barca Real or Inter I’d pay over what we’re paying now, anyone else, not more than now.

Out of interest how much?

[LeeB]

Somewhere up there Doug is looking down on Heck, wiping away a tear, and no doubt boring someone like Franz Beckenbauer about how "he's like son to me"

[PeterWithe]

We already pay way too much to watch the best teams in the world, they are all in the PL.

I'm right up at the edge of what I'm prepared to pay, I wont watch the Celtic game unless the price comes down to something reasonable, and for me thats £50ish

[London Villan]

Somewhere up there Doug is looking down on Heck, wiping away a tear, and no doubt boring someone like Franz Beckenbauer about how "he's like son to me"

Even down to covering the claret and blue balconies with advertising.

[Stu82]

Somewhere up there Doug is looking down on Heck, wiping away a tear, and no doubt boring someone like Franz Beckenbauer about how "he's like son to me"

Bravo, he would love Heck.

[eamonn]

Somewhere up there Doug is looking down on Heck, wiping away a tear, and no doubt boring someone like Franz Beckenbauer about how "he's like son to me"

While Gary Shaw rolls his eyes, has a chuckle and a pint.

[andyh]

A very interesting short vid about our rise and ticket prices.

https://youtu.be/_XLC4LVbzEk?si=Kf83GZbeTNOGXDk6

[dave.woodhall]

Somewhere up there Doug is looking down on Heck, wiping away a tear, and no doubt boring someone like Franz Beckenbauer about how "he's like son to me"

Bravo, he would love Heck.

All those money-making scams and rules to stop him spending it. Doug will be spinning in his urn.

[Percy McCarthy]

The thousand quid seats in Lower Witton Lane were sparsely populated!

Heck had to give them away. See Thogden's video below in The Aston.

It looked soulless in there and a bit like the Tory conference after party.

Well his father either was or still is a Tory councillor.

Knock me down with a feather.

[john e]

I was surprised to see how few season ticket fans around me hadn’t taken up their seats for the Munich game
These are long-standing Villa fans go to every home game so it must be biting ( they could be sitting elsewhere, obviously, but I doubt it)

I’ve already had the emails this morning from Villa trying to flog the ‘last remaining’  tickets for the Man United game tomorrow, I haven’t checked but I presume they are hospitality
If you can’t flog the tickets now when we’re at the very top of our game watching the most successful team for decades you know that somethings not working out

I had my say on Heck earlier when the price increases were announced and it’s pointless banging on about it
Needless to say I haven’t change my mind I think he’s got it wrong
The biggest question is whether he’s doing it with the full blessing of the owners, if that’s the case then it’s very disappointing as they’ve not put a foot wrong so far, when they’ve made mistakes they’ve rectified it i.e. Steven Gerrard, they need to rectify this one

We’ve probably earned more money out of the two wins in the Champions League than we will out of all the price increases, the revenue will be up this year mainly because of Unai Emery he’s doing his job Heck can’t even sell the stadium out for the best team a lot of people have ever seen

He needs to go imo

[Ads]

We probably earned closed to £3.5m in gate money onto the £1.75m in prize money. £7m in 2 games. It's insanely lucrative.

Take it further, if we win all 4 home games, we'll make £21m. The turnover of those minnows down the road from an entire year, earned in 4 games. Levels and gaps.

[Gareth]

I’ve already had the emails this morning from Villa trying to flog the ‘last remaining’  tickets for the Man United game tomorrow, I haven’t checked but I presume they are hospitality
If you can’t flog the tickets now when we’re at the very top of our game watching the most successful team for decades you know that somethings not working out

He needs to go imo

I clicked that link John and had a look through….some of the prices and packages are almost comical

[Brend'Watkins]

Who dreamed up the £1000 figure to watch a game? What’s the justification apart from, there are mugs who will pay it. Clearly there aren’t many of them.

[VillaTim]

Who dreamed up the £1000 figure to watch a game? What’s the justification apart from, there are mugs who will pay it. Clearly there aren’t many of them.

largely taken up by corporates and expense accounts i'd imagine

[Gareth]

Who dreamed up the £1000 figure to watch a game? What’s the justification apart from, there are mugs who will pay it. Clearly there aren’t many of them.

largely taken up by corporates and expense accounts i'd imagine

Or given away as ‘freebies’ to entice people to take up other games hospitality packages would be my guess