Jamie Carragher challenges FSG over controversial Liverpool ticket price rises - 'That's nonsense'

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"No owners of any club are ever popular but they have been absolutely fantastic for us, I'd argue that with the staunchest Red who goes home and away."But I don't understand the ticket price thing in terms of how much they are bringing in from sponsorship and the revenue from the Premier League and when you look at wage bills, Liverpool's is right up there with the best. And this idea that they need to up ticket prices to pay for these players, it's absolute nonsense."The supporters are not daft, there's enough out there, the intelligent ones can put the numbers together and say well you're only going to gain an extra [small amount].

Unfortunately, they live in London, they can put their prices up and you can't do it here."You get it back in different ways at Liverpool, because we are a bigger club than them. We get more sponsorships than them, from whoever it is."And when you read about the wages players get, and I am not complaining, I got great wages, footballers deserve what they get, as long as they do their business on the pitch and in the main our players do."But no, I just don't think you need the fight with the supporters over it.

There's no gain [from it]."Carragher, who played 737 times for the Reds, believes Liverpool are even in a financial position to be able to actually lower prices to earn themselves widespread praise at a time when football supporters across the land are being asked to pay more.He added: "Listen, you want everything [as a fan]: we want cheap season tickets, tickets to the match, and £30 for an away ticket - that's a great initiative. A few million quid and it wouldn't make any difference whatsoever [to Liverpool's finances] when you think of what they have spent so far this season."