30 years ago Premier Leauge = Millonaire owners The rest = Business men owners 25 years ago Premier League = Multi Millonaire owners The rest the odd millionaire - Business owners. 20 years ago Premier League =Billionaire owners The rest = Millonaire/Multi millionaire owners Present State Owned unlimited wealth owners The rest Billionaire owners. No matter what happens, the top of the shop will always be 10 steps ahead and the rest (baring lucky or unlucky twats like the mags) will never ever catch up. Part of me is finding the players going to Saudi quite funny because the Premier leauge think they own football, they don't and for the first time probably ever, they could be ruined in a few years time because the powers that be, will get their super leauge. The point of this post in this thread is because Everton had a go, now look at them.
Fancied Everton to get relegated this season and absolutely nothing so far has changed my mind. They are 100% on the same trajectory as we were.
Due to my location, the majority of my staff and colleagues are supporter of the North Western based Premier League teams and I find it quite amusing to hear how the Saudi league has "killed football" or that it's "got ridiculous now". Most of them are unaware of the impact the Premier League has had on the rest of world football. Clubs like Bournemouth having the financial muscle to get players from Roma and Lyon, plus taking players from the top of Eredivisie. West Ham have beaten Dortmund to the signings of 2 players in the last year. Clubs like Southampton and Brighton are raiding the markets outside of Europe and out muscling the likes of Benfica and Ajax for those types of players. That's without mentioning the ability of about 8-10 clubs having the ability to drop £50m on a transfer, which only about 6 clubs in the rest of Europe can realistically do. I guess people don't see the problem until it adversely affects them.
Re Caicedo Commentators "judge the talent not the price" And "remember he is a human being", at 115 million quid for a human being I will in fact be judging the **** out of him.
