Jamie Carragher urges Liverpool owners to complete immediate U-turn after fan backlash

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Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher has called on FSG to reverse plans to raise ticket prices at Anfield over the next three years, dismissing the club's justification as 'absolute nonsense'Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher has called on club owners Fenway Sports Group to scrap proposals to increase ticket prices, insisting the financial gain is outweighed by the fan backlash.It was announced last month that the club were intending to raise the cost of tickets in line with inflation over the next three years with match-day running expenses said to have climbed by 85 per cent over the last decade at Anfield.Liverpool are using the UK's CPI (Customer Price Index) inflation from January of each year to establish the foundation of their pricing. "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. 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."Join our new WhatsApp community and receive your daily dose of Mirror Football content.