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On average, the club says, season ticket holders return between 5,000 and 7,500 tickets per game for "repurposing".

This season, Farke's self-stated remit was to collect 38 points, or a point per game, a total that has proven enough to retain top-flight status every season since 2011-12.

Instead of Farke's target of a point per game, Leeds currently have a ratio of 0.92 points per game which, over a 38-game season, would give them a total of 35 points.

"Obviously there was an incentive to see as many people as possible because of the per capita payment," says Prof Ian Fentiman, emeritus professor of surgical oncology at King's College London.

The yen remains under pressure against the greenback amid concerns about Japan's fiscal outlook and pledges for more borrowing, but it has pulled back from the levels near 158 per dollar seen earlier this week.