Neymar transfer rumour

Today's media are reporting that Man Utd are willing to meet the £173 million release clause from his Barcelona contract & are willing to pay him £416.000 per week to secure his transfer in the summer.

This isn't me having a go at Man Utd but if this obscene use of money is true then its time for all sensible minded football fans to pack in attending football altogether in protest at this outrageous deal.

Yes I know all about shirt sales and sponsorship but surely this crazy situation has to be stopped, no one can justify this type of business in sport when there are so many clubs in football and other sports in general are struggling to make ends meet.

Yes its only a media report but for the sake of our sport this cannot happen.

Thoughts anyone.

 

I've decided not to attend any Premier League matches next season . . . . partly because of this (obviously) but also 'cos of other reasons (that may also be obvious)

p.s. the money that is 'hoyed about' these days is disgusting, but it won't stop, no matter how it affects football at other levels, or other sports . . . . there's bugger all that we can do about it

 

Could be the difference between finishing top or fourth i suppose,i think this highlights why many fans were happy that Leicester won the title imo

 

United must not be fulfilling their diving quota. Seriously though it's beyond ridiculous for someone to get paid anything like that to play a sport regardless of other factors.

 

That's football nowadays.

Just look at the Pogba deal - £90m and he's not even been worth a third of that on the pitch.

 

The amount of money in football is obscene these days. But at least in Europe's major leagues its (fairly) out in the open and above board and the game itself isn't suffering. About 10 days ago I went to see Slavia Sofia play Lokomotiv Gorna Oryahovitsa. The game was good, the players were technically good, and the standard was decent but there were less than 300 people in a 43,000 seater stadium. A few years ago, the Bulgarian league was getting good crowds so this seemed odd. Talking to a taxi a driver later, he said the game was riddled with corruption so no one is interested anymore. So things could be worse in the UK. I'd still like to see someone get hold of the whole thing and shake it up, making it more of a level playing field for teams across Europe. The new head of UEFA seems to have his head screwed on in that regard.

 

I don;t get the "money is ruining the game" thing - we are now watching better players (admittedly against us most of the time - except for our keeper and the lad who plays as far away from him as possible!) than we ever have in England because of the money - there is money in football and none of us would turn down the cash if offered.

Like you say Norton, at least (as far as we all know) there is no corruption in our game

 

Cant stop anybody paying what they want. If you dont like football the way it is, or hate that fact that contributing towards the insanity by going to grounds, watching it on Sky or buying merchandise, just dont. I stopped going to matches first, then stopped buying merchandise then stopped paying for Sky, gradually over the years. Still cant fully shake Sunderland off my back but it doesnt rule my life nowhere near as much as what it used to. I'm at peace with football now, rather an interest than a passion nowadays. In 10 years time i'll possibly stop caring totally.

 

The two Spanish 'giants' have form with this sort of thing, we are the only club in the world who could pull players away from their two teams so their agents use United as a way to get their players the best deals, I have no delusions that Neymar is turning up at Old Trafford this summer, it's highly unlikely.

The deal most likely to happen is Griezmann and I can't see Jose splashing out much more on goalscorer positions after that, I've a feeling he'll go for Matic/Willian or both, plus a centre half and left back, and a keeper if DDG decides to leave/is told to go.

We're the richest club in the world, building a brand year on year, we're going to spend big.

 

It's more of a moral objection that I have than a practical one as if a team spends that much on a player but recoups it and more besides then you can't argue with that.

However with players being paid so much and being such valuable commodities I think it's gradually pushing the sport to being more and more non contact and I don't want to see that. You see perfectly fine slide tackles from the front that win the ball cleanly given cards because the ref reckons they "looked a bit nasty". Heaven forbid you lay a fingernail on Sterling around the box because the little **** will dive every time.

I think if they weren't being paid so much we'd have a more honest game still but it gets further away from that every season.

 

Lucky ****er.

 

Its not so much the amount of money in football that bothers me, but the accumulation of it in a small number of places. Competitions like the Champions League and the Premier League were designed to make a small number of clubs richer and its not been beneficial to football as a whole. I think European competions would be much more interesting if they were more competitive and I think its a bit sad that famous old clubs that have been important in the history of the game, such as Honved, Austria Vienna, and even Ajax or Anderlecht, have no chance of winning a major European tournament because they, or the leagues that they play in, missed the gravy train.

 

Safc. Prem 10 years

All that money.

Spunked it all. Gone backwards.

 

JD will more than likely be available for a fraction of the cost.

 

A lot of folk think money has killed football, which is understandable, but I don't think football is dead, I don't think it's in bad condition.

To be honest, I'm sick of hearing about 'the good old days', when 'men were men', it's all ****ing ratshit, because those 'men' are now in dole queues, or rattling on bitter as hell about how they had to run to work every day.

I don't long for the old days, my mum used to walk to work, 7 miles there and 7 miles back, in her first job, rain, snow, shine, walk. I'm happy my mum can drive to the supermarket and not have to walk back with 7 bags in each hand now, the world has moved on and football is no different.

**** the stupid old days, I bet they used to get up to just as much off the pitch, shagging around and spunking money in casinos, taking drugs etc, it just wasn't in the spotlight, no social media, no whining public who cry at footballers every time they don't act like a model pro. Football is a working class sport and the kids who play it are not from privileged backgrounds, they're kids from some of the roughest areas in the world, often brought up in poverty, I'd be disappointed in them if they didn't have fun with the big money they earn.

 

Possibly mate, I think one pensioner is enough for the time being, but I wouldn't cry if JM decides to go for him.

 

Yep.

 

It's ridiculous, people are desperate for football to be like rugby, all handshakes and 'yes sir', acting like it's life and death ****, "Oh look how he dived, what a bad person", "Oh he never shook his hand, what a bad sport"... ****ing boring.

For me, footy is a few pints with the lads/family, cheer the 11 tossers on the pitch on for 90 mins, then a few more pints, argue about some stupid stuff that makes no odds to your life, then go home and have a **** cos the wife hates you.

Some people chat so much ****, like they're owed something from these people. It's weird.

 

You say pensioner and at 34 years old he's no spring chicken mate, but he is fit and if he can score in our team which is ****e, imagine what he could do in a decent team with decent supply to him.

I still believe that with a decent supply, JD is still a 20+ goals a season player.

 

Id love to be a footy player. Dont think id last very long. Media would have a field day. ****ers.