There's two types of people now the rich and the facked.
E.E.H (filthy rich and catflap was my favourite)
It's just stupid, even West Ham top three earners could have got together, put a weeks wages aside and saved an entire club.
comment by Sanity is overrated (U21166)
posted 57 seconds ago
E.E.H (filthy rich and catflap was my favourite)
It's just stupid, even West Ham top three earners could have got together, put a weeks wages aside and saved an entire club.
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I posted the other day saying about Covid saying it will keep fans out of the grounds and the effect I will have on smaller clubs. Even the big boys wills struggle with out fans.. You should start a petition get 50,000 people to donate a quid club saved.
E.E.H, don't be silly I'll just tut, sigh and raise my eyebrows. I'm just an armchair revolutionary.
We really do live in a society
comment by Sanity is overrated (U21166)
posted 4 minutes ago
E.E.H, don't be silly I'll just tut, sigh and raise my eyebrows. I'm just an armchair revolutionary.
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Fack em I can't be arsssed either.
i am afraid the gap between the rich and the poor is projected to only grow over the next 5 yrs or so
Chelsea don’t pay anywhere near that amount for wages
Nickasaurus
Maybe not for a single player, but a tiny proportion of your clubs wages could have saved a team and supported it's fans.
Once again, not anti Chelsea, anti the stupid and unsustainable wealth gap.
Can’t speak for others but no player at City is on anything like £600k a week.
Boris
See my previous comment.
What a mess of an article.
Macclesfield are £0.5m in debt due to bad management of their finances.
Industries, different sectors have different levels within them which provide a different experience, so you can compare the local independent coffee shop to Starbucks or a boutique fashion shop to Primark.
They may be in the same sector but they offer very different things and both need to be run extremely well to survive in a competitive market. If one fails it is not necessarily the fault of the other.
If Macclesfield have folded because they have been badly run it has absolutely nothing to do with the EPL or the big clubs or players. It has nothing to do with the rich vs the poor.
comment by Sanity is overrated (U21166)
posted 25 minutes ago
Nickasaurus
Maybe not for a single player, but a tiny proportion of your clubs wages could have saved a team and supported it's fans.
Once again, not anti Chelsea, anti the stupid and unsustainable wealth gap.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yeah I agree. Just thought i'd point out.
Tragic whats happening and something needs to be done.
A lot of the big teams do lots for charity. Maybe something needs to also be added to support the football league. A rule where money doesn't go towards transfers but goes towards maintenance, groundskeeping etc so clubs can focus on paying their staff. Just 0.1% from the PL teams to the lower leagues would help.
I hate it when fans lose their team through mismanagement but see succesful businesses contributing to failing businesses in other industries.
The league should ensure this cannot happen. It shouldn't be down to we'll run teams to compensate for bad leadership in my view.
Why not get a fan consortium and a go fund me?
I'm sure 500k people can drop a quid and take ownership of their club in the same way fans have in several other countries.
Unfortunately with coronary Its inevitable more teams will follow suit. Doesn't the league have cash reserves to aid these scenarios, in the lower leagues? I've no idea
feel bad about the situation but the business was mis managed....
comment by Tottenham Chronic (U3423)
posted 24 seconds ago
feel bad about the situation but the business was mis managed....
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but but big footballer earn lots of money. Something about what does that say about our society 😔
Is the gap between the rich and the poor a bad thing so long as the poor are getting richer and more and more people are climbing out of poverty?
comment by FootyMcfootfoot (U21853)
posted 21 minutes ago
I hate it when fans lose their team through mismanagement but see succesful businesses contributing to failing businesses in other industries.
The league should ensure this cannot happen. It shouldn't be down to we'll run teams to compensate for bad leadership in my view.
Why not get a fan consortium and a go fund me?
I'm sure 500k people can drop a quid and take ownership of their club in the same way fans have in several other countries.
Unfortunately with coronary Its inevitable more teams will follow suit. Doesn't the league have cash reserves to aid these scenarios, in the lower leagues? I've no idea
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yup, it's a regulatory failure. The FA, UEFA, FIFA need to do more to help the smaller clubs but there's a conflict of interest as these organisations make their money from the bigger clubs. Hence we end up in this situation.
You let capitalism run free the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. There needs to be strong regulation to keep the playing field level.
If Macclesfield doesn't have a couple of thousand fans willing to chip in 250 quid each, then is the club really worth saving in the first place?
Agreed about the ridiculous salaries, but Macclesfield have been a basket case of a club for a long while, and have been run appallingly - same goes for Charlton, Bury, Bolton, Sunderland etc, who have either lived beyond their means, been incredibly wasteful or have had very dodgy owners who have taken too much from the football clubs they are supposed to finance.
In the latter case, it is the fans you have to feel sorry for. We've seen how bad it's been for Blackpool, Sunderland and Newcastle in recent years, although at least Ashley is not a total rogue (he just sucks all joy and decency out of a club).
It is entirely possible to be well-run and sustainable at a lower level, even without a rich benefactor, as long as you live sustainability within your means (as Spurs and Arsenal have done for so long, although the need to keep up and build world-class stadiums) has made that more difficult.
Anyone getting paid £600k a week is not deserving of that, and I find it absurd. I personally wouldn't be happy with Spurs paying Bale that wage. But I don't think the two are related. I think Macclesfield were guilty of financial mismanagement even before the pandemic, like Wigan and Forest and many others.
There are just two many bad owners making a mockery of the fit and proper persons test.
comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted 1 hour, 20 minutes ago
comment by Sanity is overrated (U21166)
posted 25 minutes ago
Nickasaurus
Maybe not for a single player, but a tiny proportion of your clubs wages could have saved a team and supported it's fans.
Once again, not anti Chelsea, anti the stupid and unsustainable wealth gap.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yeah I agree. Just thought i'd point out.
Tragic whats happening and something needs to be done.
A lot of the big teams do lots for charity. Maybe something needs to also be added to support the football league. A rule where money doesn't go towards transfers but goes towards maintenance, groundskeeping etc so clubs can focus on paying their staff. Just 0.1% from the PL teams to the lower leagues would help.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I think that's a great idea. There needs to be more innovation.
comment by add912 (U9189)
posted 43 minutes ago
Is the gap between the rich and the poor a bad thing so long as the poor are getting richer and more and more people are climbing out of poverty?
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Maybe not, but I don't think that is the case. I think the extremes are going the other way - the very rich are getting much richer, and the poorer are getting much poorer. Covid won't help this, neither will a no-deal Brexit which will have the disaster capitalists licking their lips in anticipation.
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posted on 17/9/20
There's two types of people now the rich and the facked.
posted on 17/9/20
E.E.H (filthy rich and catflap was my favourite)
It's just stupid, even West Ham top three earners could have got together, put a weeks wages aside and saved an entire club.
posted on 17/9/20
comment by Sanity is overrated (U21166)
posted 57 seconds ago
E.E.H (filthy rich and catflap was my favourite)
It's just stupid, even West Ham top three earners could have got together, put a weeks wages aside and saved an entire club.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I posted the other day saying about Covid saying it will keep fans out of the grounds and the effect I will have on smaller clubs. Even the big boys wills struggle with out fans.. You should start a petition get 50,000 people to donate a quid club saved.
posted on 17/9/20
E.E.H, don't be silly I'll just tut, sigh and raise my eyebrows. I'm just an armchair revolutionary.
posted on 17/9/20
We really do live in a society
posted on 17/9/20
comment by Sanity is overrated (U21166)
posted 4 minutes ago
E.E.H, don't be silly I'll just tut, sigh and raise my eyebrows. I'm just an armchair revolutionary.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Fack em I can't be arsssed either.
posted on 17/9/20
i am afraid the gap between the rich and the poor is projected to only grow over the next 5 yrs or so
posted on 17/9/20
Chelsea don’t pay anywhere near that amount for wages
posted on 17/9/20
Nickasaurus
Maybe not for a single player, but a tiny proportion of your clubs wages could have saved a team and supported it's fans.
Once again, not anti Chelsea, anti the stupid and unsustainable wealth gap.
posted on 17/9/20
Can’t speak for others but no player at City is on anything like £600k a week.
posted on 17/9/20
Boris
See my previous comment.
posted on 17/9/20
What a mess of an article.
Macclesfield are £0.5m in debt due to bad management of their finances.
Industries, different sectors have different levels within them which provide a different experience, so you can compare the local independent coffee shop to Starbucks or a boutique fashion shop to Primark.
They may be in the same sector but they offer very different things and both need to be run extremely well to survive in a competitive market. If one fails it is not necessarily the fault of the other.
If Macclesfield have folded because they have been badly run it has absolutely nothing to do with the EPL or the big clubs or players. It has nothing to do with the rich vs the poor.
posted on 17/9/20
comment by Sanity is overrated (U21166)
posted 25 minutes ago
Nickasaurus
Maybe not for a single player, but a tiny proportion of your clubs wages could have saved a team and supported it's fans.
Once again, not anti Chelsea, anti the stupid and unsustainable wealth gap.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yeah I agree. Just thought i'd point out.
Tragic whats happening and something needs to be done.
A lot of the big teams do lots for charity. Maybe something needs to also be added to support the football league. A rule where money doesn't go towards transfers but goes towards maintenance, groundskeeping etc so clubs can focus on paying their staff. Just 0.1% from the PL teams to the lower leagues would help.
posted on 17/9/20
I hate it when fans lose their team through mismanagement but see succesful businesses contributing to failing businesses in other industries.
The league should ensure this cannot happen. It shouldn't be down to we'll run teams to compensate for bad leadership in my view.
Why not get a fan consortium and a go fund me?
I'm sure 500k people can drop a quid and take ownership of their club in the same way fans have in several other countries.
Unfortunately with coronary Its inevitable more teams will follow suit. Doesn't the league have cash reserves to aid these scenarios, in the lower leagues? I've no idea
posted on 17/9/20
feel bad about the situation but the business was mis managed....
posted on 17/9/20
comment by Tottenham Chronic (U3423)
posted 24 seconds ago
feel bad about the situation but the business was mis managed....
----------------------------------------------------------------------
but but big footballer earn lots of money. Something about what does that say about our society 😔
posted on 17/9/20
Is the gap between the rich and the poor a bad thing so long as the poor are getting richer and more and more people are climbing out of poverty?
posted on 17/9/20
comment by FootyMcfootfoot (U21853)
posted 21 minutes ago
I hate it when fans lose their team through mismanagement but see succesful businesses contributing to failing businesses in other industries.
The league should ensure this cannot happen. It shouldn't be down to we'll run teams to compensate for bad leadership in my view.
Why not get a fan consortium and a go fund me?
I'm sure 500k people can drop a quid and take ownership of their club in the same way fans have in several other countries.
Unfortunately with coronary Its inevitable more teams will follow suit. Doesn't the league have cash reserves to aid these scenarios, in the lower leagues? I've no idea
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yup, it's a regulatory failure. The FA, UEFA, FIFA need to do more to help the smaller clubs but there's a conflict of interest as these organisations make their money from the bigger clubs. Hence we end up in this situation.
You let capitalism run free the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. There needs to be strong regulation to keep the playing field level.
posted on 17/9/20
If Macclesfield doesn't have a couple of thousand fans willing to chip in 250 quid each, then is the club really worth saving in the first place?
posted on 17/9/20
Agreed about the ridiculous salaries, but Macclesfield have been a basket case of a club for a long while, and have been run appallingly - same goes for Charlton, Bury, Bolton, Sunderland etc, who have either lived beyond their means, been incredibly wasteful or have had very dodgy owners who have taken too much from the football clubs they are supposed to finance.
In the latter case, it is the fans you have to feel sorry for. We've seen how bad it's been for Blackpool, Sunderland and Newcastle in recent years, although at least Ashley is not a total rogue (he just sucks all joy and decency out of a club).
It is entirely possible to be well-run and sustainable at a lower level, even without a rich benefactor, as long as you live sustainability within your means (as Spurs and Arsenal have done for so long, although the need to keep up and build world-class stadiums) has made that more difficult.
Anyone getting paid £600k a week is not deserving of that, and I find it absurd. I personally wouldn't be happy with Spurs paying Bale that wage. But I don't think the two are related. I think Macclesfield were guilty of financial mismanagement even before the pandemic, like Wigan and Forest and many others.
There are just two many bad owners making a mockery of the fit and proper persons test.
posted on 17/9/20
comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted 1 hour, 20 minutes ago
comment by Sanity is overrated (U21166)
posted 25 minutes ago
Nickasaurus
Maybe not for a single player, but a tiny proportion of your clubs wages could have saved a team and supported it's fans.
Once again, not anti Chelsea, anti the stupid and unsustainable wealth gap.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yeah I agree. Just thought i'd point out.
Tragic whats happening and something needs to be done.
A lot of the big teams do lots for charity. Maybe something needs to also be added to support the football league. A rule where money doesn't go towards transfers but goes towards maintenance, groundskeeping etc so clubs can focus on paying their staff. Just 0.1% from the PL teams to the lower leagues would help.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I think that's a great idea. There needs to be more innovation.
posted on 17/9/20
comment by add912 (U9189)
posted 43 minutes ago
Is the gap between the rich and the poor a bad thing so long as the poor are getting richer and more and more people are climbing out of poverty?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Maybe not, but I don't think that is the case. I think the extremes are going the other way - the very rich are getting much richer, and the poorer are getting much poorer. Covid won't help this, neither will a no-deal Brexit which will have the disaster capitalists licking their lips in anticipation.
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