Trouble with football is players and fans talk like paying £75 000 per week plus bonuses, plus sponsorship money and interviews is **** all. It's how ****ers like Rose get away with mouthing off in the Sun claiming he is underpaid. Football has lost its mind and no matter how many clubs spend what they do not have it just carries on. Last season 19 of the Championship clubs made a loss! Everyone remembers Leeds and Portsmouth but tend to forget about the rest like Leicester, Southampton, Charlton, Sheffield United, Bradford, Sheffield Wednesday, Forest, Ipswich, Villa, QPR, Blackburn, Birmingham, Wigan, Coventry, Hull, Reading, Bolton, Sunderland, Wimbledon, Forest and Blackpool. All have played in the premier league but all ****ed up financially by spending what they can not afford. Out of those 20 teams only 2 were not either established prem teams or yo yo clubs. And only Southampton and Leicester have recovered. yes in the Oldham, Luton, Notts County and Crewe have not been premier league clubs but were well established but have all imploded in their own way. Yet the media persist in slagging off clubs who refuse spend what they can not afford. They then act shocked when clubs **** up. Banter on here about Spurs being too tight to compete is one thing but listening yo sky and talksport pundits doing the same is ****ing unreal. sooner or later one of the big clubs will **** up and only then will sense prevail imho.
I'm not asking you to take sides - God forbid! I'm merely observing your piss taking. And it's very good. It's great to have a bro on this forum, by the way. I have several, as you know, yeah?
imo Chelsea and City ****ed the premier league with their obscene spending. From that point the other 'big' clubs had to try and match them or at least massively increase their own budgets just to keep pace. There is an argument for those clubs who spend within their means, as that is good financial management and I would include Arsenal, Spurs and Utd in that list. But yes too many clubs have borrowed to spend and then when results on the pitch haven't worked out they have sunk quicker than a stone. I'll never forget Leeds Utd going from Champions League Semi Finalists to relegation fodder and then getting stuck in the Championship. Okay they are knocking on the door of the PL again, but as you say plenty of big clubs like Sheff Weds, Villa, Blackburn, Coventry and Sunderland have all fallen out of the PL and haven't recovered.
Brilliant post mate, you're right in that we all take the piss on here and towards the bigger clubs mainly but the smaller clubs are as a big a part of the problem as any really. We've got a third choice keeper on 80 odd grand ffs. Us and Leicester were very lucky in the owners we got and you're right to say that most other clubs aren't that lucky. This season will mark ten years since relegation to league one and admin for us and I remember it all too well. Dread to think where we would be now without Markus. I mean we were nearly bought by SISU who ended up at Coventry...
Trouble is, that you have been open about wanting a sugar daddy to come in and take over Spurs, so it's a bit ironic you applauding RCL's point.
In an ideal world, Spurs wouldn't need a sugar daddy in order to compete for top honours on a perpetual basis, but it does. I'm hopeful that the new stadium will give us the revenue we need to remain permanently ahead of Arsenal, now, but I am sceptical that it will enable us to keep up with the likes of Chavs and City.
