sport in its death throes? Two or three financially doped clubs are now hoovering up all the best players, and pushing wages and transfer fees to ever unsustainable levels for 99 per cent of clubs.
With Grealish going to Man City for £100 million and possibly Kane going as well for £160 million, what is the real point of football now, if only two or three clubs have such a massive financial advantage over the competition? As soon as Messi said he was leaving Barcelona, only three clubs as a possible destination were mentioned City, PSG and Chelsea, the three financially doped clubs that are ruining the game.
When the ESL was mooted the whole football world rose as one and blocked it. Yet not a single word about two or three clubs doing exactly what the Super League may have done, and that is exclude all other competition from the equation.
Not sure now what the authorities can do, but if fans were to voice their disproval of the ever rising cost of players and wages, then surely something like wage caps and transfer caps would have to come in at some time.
I have loved the game and particularly going to WHL for close to 65 years now, but I can definitely see the time when I will go no more, not because I do not want to go to WHL, but because the financial doped clubs will have sucked the life out of the game. Sport of any kind has to be on a reasonable level playing field, otherwise it ceases to become relevant.
It cannot be right that two or three clubs will ruin the game we all love, just because they have a bottomless pit of money. FFP is a complete joke, and the authorities should be ashamed to say that it is still in place, it clearly is not.
Come on fellas, now is the time to voice your disproval of the ever increasing financial muscle of just two or three clubs.
Is football as a serious competitive
posted on 6/8/21
Spurs have been to the same number of CL finals as Man City, one is a club run within it means, with British owners, and is one of the first really big British football clubs.
The other is bankrolled by middle eastern oil money and is run with a money is no object approach to spending, with dodgy sponsorship deals around every corner and clear breaches of FFP regulations that have conveniently had a blind eye turned to.
Guess which one picks up trophies.
posted on 6/8/21
£2,000 season tickets and a fekin Cheese Room
I wonder how that would go down at Turf Moor
posted on 6/8/21
comment by ● Billy The Yidd ● 2020* 2021* ENIC OUT! (U3924)
posted 2 minutes ago
Spurs have been to the same number of CL finals as Man City, one is a club run within it means, with British owners, and is one of the first really big British football clubs.
The other is bankrolled by middle eastern oil money and is run with a money is no object approach to spending, with dodgy sponsorship deals around every corner and clear breaches of FFP regulations that have conveniently had a blind eye turned to.
Guess which one picks up trophies.
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One of your ‘British Owners’ is a traitorous tax dodger who deliberately trashed the National economy to increase his own greedy wealth.
Give me the ‘Sand Dogs’ any day of the week
posted on 6/8/21
comment by For Fox Sake (U4263)
posted 5 hours, 21 minutes ago
I understand where you are coming from Sandy. I'm not sure it will push the rest of the PL clubs to compete and try and offer the same wages. It maybe that Man City and Chelsea hoover up the very top players and pay them ludicrous wages, and the rest of us pay more reasonable wages to those players that are simply very good.
and then every now and then one of the 'other' clubs will have a special season and win the PL (2016?) or the FA Cup (2021?) etc.
Not saying it's right, but I do think this has been the way for years. It used to be a Big 4 of Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs and Man Utd.
Then Chelsea and Man City joined the pack when they got some money and it became the Big Six.
Leicester are now nipping at the heels of the Big Six although still miles away from realistically being able to challenge on a financial footing. Who is to say Villa won't also be challenging soon? Or Leeds?
I still think there is an interesting competitiveness to the PL.
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😂 😂
posted on 6/8/21
The Big 6 of the 1970’s was City, United, Liverpool, Everton, Arsenal and Spurs.
Before that you had Wolves and the a Lancashire Giants.
Status in football ebbs and flows
posted on 6/8/21
Excellent post Sandy.
posted on 6/8/21
comment by KingKenny (U1961)
posted 7 hours, 41 minutes ago
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 14 seconds ago
How exactly are City ‘blowing you out of the water’?
Grealish was £75m + add-ons, Sancho was £73m + add-ons.
City have sold more than £50m worth of squad players, United have spent £50m on Varane.
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Ye. Your whole financial structure is unfair and embarrassing but you aren't blowing United away at all. Just in a more soulless way
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Clearly would have been better to survive through selling green meat to school kids. That is the mark of a truly great club obviously.
posted on 6/8/21
comment by sandy, golden boot winner fa cup 1901 (U20567)
posted 14 hours, 36 minutes ago
comment by JustCallMeTed (U21528)
posted 21 minutes ago
We complain mightily, don't we, Sandy?
But then...we still go and watch the game, don't we Sandy?
We put the money into the game, don't we, Sandy?
If we stopped watching the game, what would happen, Sandy?
The TV money, the sponsorships would all disappear.
And it would be back to the good old amateur days.
And we would all like that, wouldn't we, Sandy?
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Yes Ted, I am doing what every football fan has done since the game has invented, put money over the turnstile in order to gain entry into the ground to watch the football.
What I am not doing is putting money into an oil rich state to run British football.
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where do you think your turnstile money goes, if not to the owners?
posted on 7/8/21
comment by JustCallMeTed (U21528)
posted 8 hours, 23 minutes ago
comment by sandy, golden boot winner fa cup 1901 (U20567)
posted 14 hours, 36 minutes ago
comment by JustCallMeTed (U21528)
posted 21 minutes ago
We complain mightily, don't we, Sandy?
But then...we still go and watch the game, don't we Sandy?
We put the money into the game, don't we, Sandy?
If we stopped watching the game, what would happen, Sandy?
The TV money, the sponsorships would all disappear.
And it would be back to the good old amateur days.
And we would all like that, wouldn't we, Sandy?
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Yes Ted, I am doing what every football fan has done since the game has invented, put money over the turnstile in order to gain entry into the ground to watch the football.
What I am not doing is putting money into an oil rich state to run British football.
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where do you think your turnstile money goes, if not to the owners?
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Well that has happened since 1860 Ted, so what`s your point? In nobody went through the turnstiles, then there would be no football.
posted on 7/8/21
comment by sandy, golden boot winner fa cup 1901 (U20567)
posted 43 minutes ago
comment by JustCallMeTed (U21528)
posted 8 hours, 23 minutes ago
comment by sandy, golden boot winner fa cup 1901 (U20567)
posted 14 hours, 36 minutes ago
comment by JustCallMeTed (U21528)
posted 21 minutes ago
We complain mightily, don't we, Sandy?
But then...we still go and watch the game, don't we Sandy?
We put the money into the game, don't we, Sandy?
If we stopped watching the game, what would happen, Sandy?
The TV money, the sponsorships would all disappear.
And it would be back to the good old amateur days.
And we would all like that, wouldn't we, Sandy?
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Yes Ted, I am doing what every football fan has done since the game has invented, put money over the turnstile in order to gain entry into the ground to watch the football.
What I am not doing is putting money into an oil rich state to run British football.
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where do you think your turnstile money goes, if not to the owners?
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Well that has happened since 1860 Ted, so what`s your point? In nobody went through the turnstiles, then there would be no football.
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Do I have to spell it out for you in one syllable words?
YOU a e paying the owners.